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I Got Nothin…

2012-12-14 · letter vlog · Hank · 2:14 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Global development (also: Personal life, Philosophy & meaning) · mode: Advocacy & fundraising · tags: timely hook, heavy topic, civic or action cta, calendar ritual

On the day of a school shooting (per the description), Hank says he has nothing to say and no wish to analyse, but that it is a time to feel together as humanity; he points to the coming Project for Awesome as a way to make the world better and insists humanity is good.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Hank has nothing to say after the shooting; hugs per gunshot victim; he set aside a planned video on friends with ulcerative colitis after a personal video on his other channel

  • ★★ Hank wonders whether this counts as a video: there is nothing to say, and he thinks he will have to come back tomorrow and make a video then. (hedged) — 00:00:07
  • ★★★ Hank says he is trying to remember that the world is a good place and that the number of hugs per gunshot victim is very high. — 00:00:07
  • ★★ Hank had planned a video on having friends with ulcerative colitis and how to treat them, after just posting a very personal video on his other channel about having the disease. — 00:00:28 · hankschannel
  • ★★ Hank says he does not feel like analysis or musings, he's 'got nothing', and he thinks everybody feels about the same. (hedged) — 00:00:28

00:00:55 — Together as humanity; the Project for Awesome: projectforawesome.com, livestream, mailing list, make charity videos

  • ★★★ Hank says it is a good time to feel together as humanity, and that with the Project for Awesome coming everyone is ready to work together to make the world suck less, in little and big ways. — 00:00:55 · Project for Awesome, world suck
  • ★★ Hank says projectforawesome.com will be the central place for the P4A and the livestream will be on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:00:55 · Project for Awesome, Vlogbrothers
  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to sign up for this year's (2012) P4A mailing list, through which the project is coordinated; previous years' sign-ups do not count. — 00:00:55 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ Hank says everyone who can should make a video promoting the charities they care about most, so that on Monday (17 December 2012) they take over YouTube for good stuff. — 00:00:55 · Project for Awesome, YouTube

00:01:43 — Take over YouTube for good on Monday; humanity is good though some people are broken; a real video tomorrow

  • ★★★ Hank says humanity is good: some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good, and he believes that. — 00:01:43

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Mentioned

Central: Project for Awesome · Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

Also: hankschannel · ulcerative colitis (concept) · world suck · YouTube

Also centred on Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: The Time for Politics

Later videos replying to this one

  • 2022-05-27 · The Time for Politics (Hank) — continues — “i made a short video trying to be honest about where i was in that moment and i just went back and watched that video” (00:00:00)