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EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT!

2014-07-18 · challenge / punishment · Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: community lore, punishment or challenge, civic or action cta

Answering John's claim that he owes a punishment, Hank races through a Nerdfighter-made spreadsheet of every vlogbrothers punishment since 2007 and concludes that, after the 2012 Kiva bet, each brother owes exactly one.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — John's 'you owe us a punishment'; Valerie2776's spreadsheet of all punishments becomes a video

  • ★★ Answering John's claim that he owes a punishment, Hank says the brothers have been doing this so long, with so many punishable infractions, that it is getting confusing. (playful) — 00:00:01 · Punishment
  • ★★ Nerdfighters led by Valerie2776 made a spreadsheet of all the brothers' punishments and their reasons, which Hank turns into this video, going fast so as not to be punished. — 00:00:06 · Nerdfighteria, Punishment

00:00:21 — The channel's three founding rules of January 1, 2007

  • ★★★ Hank says the brothers created the channel on January 1, 2007 with three rules: a video on your day, no video over four minutes, and no textual communication between them. — 00:00:21 · Four-minute rule, No textual communication

00:00:31 — 2007 punishments: textual communication slips, the missed video, the first P4A

  • ★★ That same month John CCed Hank on an email, counted as textual communication, and had to wax his chin. — 00:00:31 · No textual communication
  • ★★ Hank later CCed John too and had to re-enact three of his most embarrassing moments with sock puppets. — 00:00:38
  • ★★ For once writing 'see you tomorrow' in text in a video, Hank had to give away Peeps on the streets of Missoula, which is how he met Kurt the punk-rock Nerdfighter. — 00:00:44 · Peeps, Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ When Hank IMed John in July and John replied, both were punished and dressed up like their most embarrassing high-school pictures. — 00:00:53
  • ★★ In March John missed a video while hospitalised and replied to Hank on a forum, so he ate a blenderized Happy Meal, waxed his legs and licked a cat; Hank is unsure why three, possibly Daniel Biss donations. (hedged) — 00:01:03 · Daniel Biss
  • ★★ During the first Project for Awesome in December 2007, Hank replied to John's comment and had to drink blended Peeps and Strawberry Hill wine while playing a show to six people, his first show ever; the only one there who knew him was his wife. — 00:01:15 · Project for Awesome, Peeps, Katherine Green

00:01:32 — Rule changes: textual rule abolished, schedule changes, four-minute exemptions

00:01:49 — 2008 punishments: World Wide Web Girl, the Hankroll, the lard sandwich, 15 hours in Target

  • ★★ In April 2008 Hank made a video 14 seconds too long and had to sing 'World Wide Web Girl' with pigtails in his hair. — 00:01:49 · Four-minute rule
  • ★★ In October Hank left 30 seconds of nothing at the end of a video and had to dance around his house as Carrie Bradshaw singing 'Never Gonna Give You Up': the infamous Hankroll. — 00:01:59 · Rickrolling
  • ★ In June 2008 John missed a video and had to eat a sandwich made of lard and protein meal. — 00:02:12
  • ★ That November Hank made a video two seconds too long and had to spend 15 hours in a Target. — 00:02:19 · Four-minute rule

00:02:28 — 2010-2013 punishments: VidCon 2010, Helen Hunt, Grace Helbig, slobber carrots

  • ★★ Both brothers failed to upload during VidCon 2010; the punishment videos were John's 'Fitness for Nerds' and Hank's Katniss Everdeen makeup tutorial. — 00:02:28 · VidCon, Punishment
  • ★★ In 2011 the standing deal to punish Hank if Helen Hunt saw his 'Helen Hunt' video came true: she tweeted him, and he had to hump his entire town. — 00:02:33
  • ★★ In 2013 Grace Helbig became the first non-brother punished, for a video over four minutes during John's paternity leave; though it was unclear the rules applied to her, she slapped herself. — 00:02:46 · Grace Helbig, Four-minute rule
  • ★★ In October 2013 John's over-four-minute video was ruled not educational enough, and as punishment he ate slobber carrots made by his son. — 00:02:57 · Henry Green, Four-minute rule, Punishment

00:03:06 — The 2012 Kiva bet doubled the outstanding punishments; one each remains

  • ★★★ Hank says that on October 28, 2012, with both brothers owing punishments for reasons he can't find, John bet Nerdfighteria: reach 1,000 videos before $1 million in Kiva loans and the punishments are wiped, otherwise doubled. — 00:03:17 · Nerdfighteria, Punishment
  • ★★★ Nerdfighteria loaned the million dollars, so each brother had two punishments; they cleared one by making six videos in a week, three each, leaving one punishment each. — 00:03:34 · Nerdfighteria, Punishment

00:03:48 — Hank has an idea for his punishment; asks for John's punishment ideas; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank says he got a really good idea for his own punishment from comments on John's video, and asks everyone to comment what John's punishment should be. — 00:03:48 · Nerdfighteria, Punishment

Humor (significant)

  • Hank turns the punishment spreadsheet into a video against the four-minute rule. — 00:00:16

    “because I do not wanna get punished I'm going very fast.”

  • Hank lists the time-limit exemption for videos that run 4:01. — 00:01:37

    “Why, YouTube? Why do you add a second?”

  • Hank recalls dancing as Carrie Bradshaw while singing Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' as a punishment. — 00:02:11

    “The infamous Hankroll.”

  • Nerdfighteria had to lend $1 million before the brothers reached 1,000 videos for punishments to double. — 00:03:34

    “never underestimate Nerdfighteria, a million dollars was indeed loaned.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

People: Daniel Biss · Grace Helbig · Helen Hunt (actor) · Henry Green · Katherine Green · Kurt (bystander guest)

Projects: Project for Awesome · VidCon

Works: Helen Hunt (song) · Never Gonna Give You Up · Sex and the City (tv series) · song (ToyBox, 'World Wide Web girl')

Organizations: Kiva · Target Corporation · YouTube

Rituals: Four-minute rule · No textual communication · Punishment

Places: Missoula, Montana

Characters: Carrie Bradshaw · Katniss Everdeen

Products: Boone's Farm · Happy Meal · Peeps

Memes: Rickrolling (“Hankroll”)

Only in the description or credits: Rick Astley · Valerie2776

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