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TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc

2013-10-11 · announcement · Hank · 3:52 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Personal life, Books & writing, Internet & YouTube) · mode: Announcements · tags: self promotion, guest or collab

Hank gives a nine-part update: TFiOS shooting is wrapping up, Subbable is paying creators about $100,000 a month, he is off to a YouTube education conference, DFTBA Records is busy, Pemberley Digital follows The Lizzie Bennet Diaries with Emma Approved, and he and John are giving perks to the HPA's Equality for the Win campaign.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Update in nine parts: TFiOS shooting wrapping up; glad John is back to explain debt ceilings

00:00:18 — Subbable's new creators and $100,000-a-month payouts; Hank in Wheezy Waiter's The Good Stuff

  • ★★ Hank says Subbable is doing amazingly, with Wheezy Waiter, Mystery Guitar Man, CGP Grey, MinutePhysics, Beer & Board Games and Woodworking for Mere Mortals now on it. — 00:00:18 · Subbable, Craig Benzine
  • ★★★ Hank says Subbable has averaged $100,000 a month paid out to partners over the last two months. — 00:00:29 · Subbable
  • ★ Hank says he has been in several recent episodes of Wheezy Waiter's The Good Stuff. — 00:00:33 · Craig Benzine

00:00:38 — Doorbell: opening Daily Grace's belated VidCon thank-you gift, a bottle of Hendrick's gin

  • ★★ A package from Daily Grace arrives as a belated thank-you for a wonderful VidCon; it is a bottle of Hendrick's gin, as Hank guessed. — 00:00:42 · Grace Helbig, VidCon

00:01:14 — Hank is going to San Francisco for an EDU conference at YouTube

  • ★★ Hank says he is going to San Francisco for an EDU conference at YouTube and is excited for good ideas. — 00:01:14 · YouTube

00:01:20 — DFTBA Records warehouse: Christmas, delayed Lizzie Bennet Kickstarter rewards, The Warehouse vlog series, signed posters

  • ★★ At the warehouse, Hank says DFTBA Records is going well and preparing for Christmas and the Lizzie Bennet Kickstarter, whose rewards he apologises have not been sent yet. — 00:01:20 · DFTBA Records, Kickstarter
  • ★★ Hank announces a new vlog series, The Warehouse, starring warehouse worker Matthew, who built 'Fort Awesome' out of overstock boxes. — 00:01:29 · DFTBA Records

00:01:44 — The Lizzie Bennet Diaries' success and the new Pemberley Digital series Emma Approved

  • ★★★ Hank recalls telling John at this spot his idea for a Jane Austen vlog series; The Lizzie Bennet Diaries did very well, with tens of millions of views and an Emmy. — 00:01:44
  • ★★★ Hank announces they are doing it again with Jane Austen's Emma: Emma Approved, on the Pemberley Digital channel. — 00:01:54 · Emma Approved
  • ★★ Hank finds telling stories in different ways fascinating and says they will keep exploring it, probably in new ways. (hedged) — 00:01:58

00:02:17 — HPA's Equality for the Win Indiegogo perks: Price of Dawn excerpt, Hank's fanfic read by Evanna Lynch

  • ★★★ Hank says he and John are helping the Harry Potter Alliance's Equality for the Win Indiegogo campaign, which has many great perks. — 00:02:17 · Indiegogo, John Green, Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ One perk is an excerpt, written by John, from The Price of Dawn, the fictional novel from The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:02:23 · The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★★ Another perk: Hank's Harry Potter fanfic 'The Womb of Requirement', an origin story for the Room of Requirement, read as an audiobook by Evanna Lynch. — 00:02:28 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ Hank says the perks are available only until midnight Pacific time on Saturday. — 00:02:39

00:02:44 — Hank takes on too many responsibilities but feels responsible to the world, John and Nerdfighteria; daily disgrace

  • ★★ Hank admits he takes on maybe more responsibilities than he should, but feels responsible to the world, John and Nerdfighteria and values the opportunities: how can you say no? (hedged) — 00:02:49 · Nerdfighteria, John Green

00:03:13 — Social networks including Google+, links in the description, sign-off

  • ★ Hank says the brothers are on whatever social network viewers prefer, newly including Google+. — 00:03:15

00:03:27 — Outtake: Katherine back from the dentist, mashed potatoes

In the description and comments

Humor (significant)

  • Unable to open the package with a staple remover, Hank decides to stab it with a pen. — 00:00:53

    “Oh my god, that's a really soft pen!”

  • After struggling with the staple remover and the pen, Hank notices the scissors. — 00:00:55

    “Scissors, they were there - they were there the whole time.”

  • Hank garbles 'there's a lot going on' while admitting he takes on too much. — 00:02:44

    “a lot going to be on?”

  • Hank thanks DailyGrace for sending him gin. — 00:03:08

    “More like, daily disgrace!”

Threads in this video

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Mentioned

Central: Emma Approved · Equality FTW · Subbable · The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Also: People: CGP Grey · Craig Benzine · Grace Helbig · Henry Reich · Joe Penna · Katherine Green · Matthew

Projects: DFTBA Records · Pemberley Digital · VidCon

Works: Beer & Board Games · Harry Potter (book series) · The Fault in Our Stars · The Fault in Our Stars (film) · The Good Stuff · The Warehouse · The Womb of Requirement · Woodworking for Mere Mortals

Organizations: Emmy Award · Google+ · Indiegogo · Kickstarter · The Harry Potter Alliance · YouTube

Places: San Francisco

Events: YouTube Education Summit

Characters: Room of Requirement · The Price of Dawn

Products: Hendrick's Gin

Policies: United States debt ceiling

Only in the description or credits: Emma (novel) · Evanna Lynch · Jane Austen

Also centred on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Introducing Lizzie Bennet · Hank is Maybe Crazy

Later videos replying to this one

  • 2013-10-15 · Thoughts for Nerdfighteria (John) — answers — “Hank, thanks for the update video, which might be even better than 12 seconds of silence” (00:03:08)

Part of an exchange of 8 videos, 2013-10-08 – 2013-11-01.