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Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge

2016-06-10 · song · Hank · 3:05 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Projects) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, self promotion, timely hook

Hank takes up Ryan Higa's Roast Yourself challenge with a self-mocking rap about his persona, career and privilege, then plugs the first VidCon livestream and a DFTBA llama toy.

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; Hank's Roast Yourself diss track: Thursday filming, wanting to be remembered, privilege, money anxiety, unwritten book, Snapchat, age, teleprompter expertise, capitalism, Hillary's running mate

  • ★★ Hank joins the Roast Yourself challenge that Ryan Higa started, with lyrics roasting himself, while calling it probably a bad idea. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Hank raps that he films every Thursday morning because he is careful and boring and won't risk a punishment. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Punishment
  • ★★ Hank raps that he keeps doing things to feel he matters and wants to be remembered, though someday no humans will be left to remember anyone. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank raps that as a straight, pale male he meets society's expectations easily and sits in front of books so people think he is smart. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★ Hank raps that spending money has always given him anxiety and that he avoids cursing out of propriety. (playful) — 00:00:46
  • ★★ Hank raps that most of his audience wants him to 'feel the Bern', but he is too old for revolution and just doesn't want Donald Trump. (playful) — 00:00:46 · Donald Trump
  • ★★ Hank raps that he keeps talking about a book he'll write someday, but it's never going to be The Fault in Our Stars, so why does he try anyway. (playful) — 00:00:46 · The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★★ Hank raps that he is 36, pretends to be a punk rocker, but is a nerd who sings mostly about Harry Potter. (playful) — 00:00:46 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ Hank raps that a teleprompter lets him pretend to know everything about the Standard Model and philosophy, when mostly he is just reading. (playful) — 00:00:46
  • ★★ Hank raps that he pays people to do things and help him create: capitalism, a system he supports though his former self would hate it. (playful) — 00:01:27 · capitalism

00:01:45 — After the rap: maybe too old for this; apology to the entire world for the song challenge

  • ★ After the rap Hank muses that he may be a little old for this and should maybe focus on the educational stuff rather than rapping challenges. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:45

00:02:18 — VidCon coming up, first livestream thanks to YouTube sponsorship; thanks to Ryan Higa for the silliness

  • ★★ Hank says VidCon is coming up and, for the first time, thanks to a YouTube sponsorship, significant portions will be livestreamed for people who can't go. — 00:02:18 · VidCon, YouTube
  • ★★ Hank invites people who can't go to VidCon to check out the livestream. — 00:02:31 · VidCon
  • ★★ Hank thanks Ryan Higa for injecting some silliness into the YouTube community, saying creators take themselves too seriously sometimes. — 00:02:36 · YouTube

00:02:43 — New French llama vinyl toy for $7 at DFTBA.com; ask for ways to apologize for rapping; Tuesday sign-off

Humor (dominant)

  • Hank raps that he films every Thursday, a day early, so he never risks a late-video punishment. — 00:00:25

    “Yeah, Thursday, because I'm careful. I'm normal. I'm boring. I'm not going to risk a punishment.”

  • Hank explains how he seems so knowledgeable on his educational channels. — 00:01:20

    “thanks to a teleprompter, I get to pretend that I know everything about the standard model and philosophy. but mostly I'm just reading.”

  • Hank raps that yes, if she asked, he would be Hillary Clinton's running mate. — 00:01:39

    “But she's not gonna. Cause I'm a gangly white dude roasting myself on Youtube.”

  • After the rap, Hank thanks the entire world for bearing with him. — 00:02:05

    “Not just the people who watched, everyone. I apologize.”

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Mentioned

Central: Roast Yourself challenge

Also: People: Bernie Sanders (“fuel the burn”) · Donald Trump · Hillary Clinton · PewDiePie

Projects: DFTBA Records · VidCon

Works: French llama vinyl toy · Hank's novel in progress (2015) · Harry Potter (book series) · The Fault in Our Stars

Organizations: Snapchat · Variety · Walmart

Rituals: Punishment

Terms: French the llama

Concepts: capitalism · cultural appropriation · social privilege · Standard Model

Only in the description or credits: Lilly Singh · Ryan Higa · YouTube

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