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Draw My Life + 16 Other Suggestions

2015-02-13 · list · Hank · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Science & nature, Philosophy & meaning, Pop culture) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance

Hank turns his video over to Nerdfighters' social-media suggestions and performs them in quick succession, from Valentine's puns and a parody song to a serious case against the Keystone XL pipeline and a cosmic-scale 'Draw My Life'.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Greeting; with nothing pressing, Hank hands the video to Nerdfighters' suggestions from Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Reddit

  • ★★ Hank says that, with nothing pressing to make a video about, he turned this one over to the Nerdfighters of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Reddit to decide what he would do. — 00:00:01 · Nerdfighteria, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit

00:00:17 — Rapid-fire suggestions: crab impression, Spider-Man casting, Lemon, cat and paper ball nature-documentary, juggling, nerdy Valentine's Day jokes

  • ★ Asked about Spider-Man, Hank answers 'Donald Glover, all the way'. (playful) — 00:00:23

00:01:04 — Viewer questions: Hank's book idea, the Nerdcrafteria server, refused requests, TV and little-known recommendations, lunch at Five Guys

  • ★★ Asked about his book, Hank says he is thinking about writing a fiction-y thing, for now about a girl, a robot and what it means to be human. (hedged) — 00:01:05
  • ★ Asked to play Minecraft, Hank shows the Nerdcrafteria Minecraft server, decorated for Valentine's Day. — 00:01:12
  • ★★ Asked for TV recommendations, Hank recommends Agent Carter, five times over. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • ★★ Asked for favourite things few people know, Hank names the anime Kodocha, Locke & Key comics, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Cicierega's creations, the board game Robot Ricochet and TheThirdPew. — 00:01:30
  • ★ Showing his lunch at Five Guys, Hank says he has to have his hamburgers on hot dog buns because he can't eat sesame seeds. — 00:01:43

00:01:50 — Keystone XL explained; Hank argues tar sands and other unconventional oil should stay in the ground

  • ★★ Hank explains that Keystone XL would extend the existing Keystone Pipeline from Alberta to Louisiana, carrying tar sands oil to ports for shipping worldwide. — 00:01:52
  • ★★★ Hank thinks Keystone XL is a bad idea, chiefly because tar sands are a huge carbon store and a super inefficient oil source that emits lots of CO2 before it is even burned. (hedged) — 00:02:06
  • ★★ Hank says the tar sands are the second biggest carbon sink in the world, and that turning them into usable oil takes so much energy it releases a ton of CO2 before burning. — 00:02:06
    • check: second biggest — doubtful
  • ★★★ Hank says tar sands are unconventional oil, which should ideally all stay in the ground: there is so much that burning it would be 'game over' for climate change. — 00:02:25 · climate change

00:02:39 — Staff spinning; 'Draw My Life' done as Hank's cosmic insignificance

  • ★★ Doing 'Draw My Life', Hank says he takes up a trivial amount of space in Montana, itself tiny next to the Earth, solar system, galaxy and universe, and his lifetime is unnoticeable on a universal scale. (playful) — 00:02:54 · Draw My Life, Montana, Earth

00:03:22 — Blank Space-style parody song about Hank's face; four-minute guess and sign-off

Humor (dominant)

  • Asked about cats and paper balls, Hank narrates the house cat nature-documentary style. — 00:00:40

    “It moves and skitters and makes noises like a mice, but is not juicy like a mice.”

  • Asked for nerdy Valentine's Day jokes, Hank tells a sports pun. — 00:00:51

    “I could never break up with my goalie girlfriend; she's a keeper.”

  • For 'Draw my life', Hank shrinks himself from Montana to the known universe, then shows the drawing. — 00:03:21

    “I drew it.”

  • Asked for a cover or parody, Hank sings a Blank Space-style song about his own face. — 00:03:41

    “I got a Hank face baby, and I'll write your name.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Keystone XL · oil sands · unconventional oil

Also: People: Donald Glover · Neil Cicierega · Paolo Bacigalupi

Projects: Nerdcrafteria

Works: Agent Carter · Blank Space (“I got a Hank face baby”) · Gundam · Kodocha · Locke & Key · Minecraft · Ricochet Robots · TheThirdPew

Organizations: Facebook · Five Guys · Reddit · Tumblr · Twitter

Concepts: carbon sink · cat · climate change · observable universe

Places: Alberta · Earth · Louisiana · Milky Way · Montana · Solar System

Events: Valentine's Day

Characters: Spider-Man

Memes: Draw My Life (“Draw my life!”)

animal: Lemon

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