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Questions (and Announcements) from VidCon

2016-06-24 (said on 2016-06-21 — implied: date said in the video; uploaded 3 days later) · Q&A · Hank · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Projects) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: recurring series, self promotion

Recording early on Tuesday during VidCon week, Hank does a quick Question Tuesday of mostly silly Twitter questions. He announces Internet Creators Guild membership, new VidCons in Melbourne and Amsterdam and a secret Saturday announcement, then thanks viewers who wrote to their governments.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Opening: VidCon week, recording early, a Question Tuesday on a Tuesday

  • ★★ Overwhelmed by VidCon, Hank records early, on Tuesday, and does a Question Tuesday because anything more complicated would destroy him. (playful) — 00:00:24 · VidCon, Question Tuesday

00:00:51 — Twitter questions: gerrymandering, USMNT, kitten names, insomnia, M&Ms, a fictional VidCon guest

  • ★★ Asked for opinions on gerrymandering, Hank suggests watching CGP Grey's video about it. (hedged) — 00:00:51
  • ★ Asked what a viewer adopting two kittens should name them, Hank suggests Asiago and Cheddar. (playful) — 00:01:13
  • ★★ Asked for insomnia tricks, Hank says he reacts to stress with sleep; his insomnia has mostly come from caffeine, so he avoids it. — 00:01:22
  • ★ Asked which fictional person he would have as a VidCon guest, Hank weighs Luna Lovegood, Galadriel and Huck Finn and says he'd have to write a fanfic. (playful) — 00:01:43 · VidCon

00:01:55 — Feelings about VidCon; ICG membership, VidCon Australia and Amsterdam, a secret Saturday announcement

  • ★★ Hank says he doesn't get to think much about VidCon and forms few memories rushing between things, and this one will be particularly intense because of three announcements. (hedged) — 00:01:55 · VidCon
  • ★★★ Hank announces the launch of membership for the Internet Creators Guild: creators on the internet can become members. — 00:02:08
  • ★★ Hank describes the ICG as basically a thing that promotes the interests of internet creators. (hedged) — 00:02:11
  • ★★★ Hank announces two new VidCons, in Melbourne, Australia, and in Amsterdam, which he calls huge and kind of shocking to see finally happening. — 00:02:19 · Amsterdam, VidCon
  • ★★ Hank says another announcement he can't reveal yet comes on Saturday at the Nerdfighter meetup, and people near or in Boston may want to pay attention. — 00:02:34 · Nerdfighteria

00:02:56 — More questions: favourite colour of the alphabet, avocados and the multiverse, socks

  • ★ Asked about avocados and the multiverse, Hank says he loves both. (playful) — 00:03:11

00:03:27 — Thanks for the letter-writing homework; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank thanks everyone who did his homework assignment: he got many letters on Snapchat, Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. — 00:03:27 · Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter
  • ★★★ Hank says the letters remind him that we still do things with people, not just at people, and that we are part of how the world creates itself. — 00:03:33

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says VidCon is going international, starting with Amsterdam in April and Australia in September. — video description · VidCon, Amsterdam
  • ★★ The description says VidCon so far has been magnificent, poignant and inspiring, all Hank hoped, and thanks the community. — video description · VidCon, Nerdfighteria

Humor (significant)

  • Asked by Sports with John why he isn't watching the USMNT, Hank doesn't know what it is; a viewer has a guess. — 00:01:08

    “the USMNT is almost certainly the United States Mutant Ninja Turtles”

  • Hank says he reacts to stress with sleep, like the animals that fall over when scared, but can't name them. — 00:01:27

    “Or those goats?”

  • Asked his favourite colour of the alphabet on a scale of 1 to 10, Hank names a made-up colour. — 00:02:59

    “Going to have to say trurpee.”

  • Hank loves avocados and the multiverse, so he combines them. — 00:03:15

    “If the multiverse theory is true, there is a universe in which I am an avocado.”

Threads in this video

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Mentioned

Central: Internet Creators Guild · VidCon

Also: People: CGP Grey

Projects: Sports with John · VidCon Australia · VidCon Europe

Works: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (“Mutant Ninja Turtles”)

Organizations: Facebook · Snapchat · Tumblr · Twitter · United States men's national soccer team

Rituals: Question Tuesday

Concepts: caffeine · fan fiction · gerrymandering · Insomnia · Multiverse

Places: Amsterdam · Boston · Melbourne

Characters: Galadriel · Huckleberry Finn · Luna Lovegood

Products: M&M's

Also centred on Internet Creators Guild: How do YouTubers Make Money?

Later videos replying to this one

Part of an exchange of 3 videos, 2016-06-17 – 2016-07-01.