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Bean Meme Review

2021-02-19 · review / recommendation · Hank · 13:20 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: calendar ritual, community lore

In his first meme review, Hank goes through fan memes and art from the 2021 Project for Awesome, mostly about Beanie Sanfurbs, his bean-covered Furby, then says such contributions make him feel part of a community, and that what everyone creates together is worth far more than the work put in.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Perseverance on Mars, Hank's first meme review, permission to run long, thanks to meme makers

  • ★ Hank notes that the Perseverance rover is on the surface of Mars. — 00:00:05 · Mars
  • ★★ For his first ever meme review Hank asked Nerdfighteria whether the video could be long, and they said yes. — 00:00:13 · Nerdfighteria, Four-minute rule
  • ★★ Hank tells Beanie Sanfurbs it is famous and loved, though he concedes not everybody loves it. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Beanie Sanfurbs
  • ★★ Hank saved the memes without context so doesn't know who made them; he thanks all the makers, some of whom worked for hours. — 00:00:38

00:00:58 — Normal memes: P4A donating, perks, matching, Hank's face

  • ★★ P4A perks take time to make, and Hank wants to be careful, as he has not been in the past, not to over-promise on his ability. — 00:01:35 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ Hank concedes it is harder to make sound financial decisions during the P4A. (playful) — 00:02:26 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says the Project for Awesome makes him feel better about the future and humanity. — 00:02:30 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ Hank's first name is William, so a meme dubbed him Billy Hank. (playful) — 00:03:15

00:03:42 — Bean memes: Beanie Sanfurbs versus Dave the Fish

  • ★★ Memes show Hank turning his back on Dave the Fish, a previous P4A mascot, for Beanie Sanfurbs; Hank notes he didn't even have Dave the Fish this year (2021). (playful) — 00:04:25 · Beanie Sanfurbs, Project for Awesome

00:05:49 — Just beans: bean edits of logos, photos and Hank's Obama interview; the coaster perk

  • ★★ Recalling his Barack Obama interview, Hank says he didn't cut his hair, was told to dress as usual, and on arrival was told they would take him to a store. (playful) — 00:07:52 · Barack Obama

00:08:11 — Art: bean cake, shiny bean pelican, cross stitch and other fan art

  • ★★ One bean meme became a P4A perk: a laser-etched, laser-cut Beanie Sanfurbs coaster. — 00:08:11 · Beanie Sanfurbs, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ A shiny bean pelican makes Hank like and dislike it at the same high intensity, an emotion he says is new to him at 40. (playful) — 00:10:50
  • ★★★ Hank loves being part of the P4A with people: an extraordinary opportunity they didn't know they were getting into, resulting in wonderful moments. — 00:11:24 · Project for Awesome

00:11:53 — What contributing to the community means; thanks to everyone who made the P4A

  • ★★★ Contributions to the community make Hank feel part of something, which he calls really valuable: being part of a community and of change in the world. — 00:11:53 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ The P4A will send a lot of money to many charities, but Hank thinks it also has real-world impact on participants: stitchers, donors, chat, meme makers, idea makers and singers. — 00:12:30 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says all of that is super valuable and can be hard to find these days. — 00:12:45
  • ★★ Hank thanks everyone who made things, volunteered, appeared on the livestream, the mods, the core team, designers, organizers and schedulers: it takes a ton of work. — 00:12:52 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ Everyone puts in work, but Hank says the value that comes out of creating the P4A together is far bigger than the work put in. — 00:13:05 · collective action, Project for Awesome

In the description and comments

  • ★ In a channel comment Hank points viewers who want more terrible Furbys to the artist's website. — creator comment
  • ★ John: Replying to a viewer who wants an Anthropocene Reviewed of Beanie Sanfurbs, John's comment gives it two stars. (joke) — video description · Beanie Sanfurbs

Humor (dominant)

  • Hank says viewers think the picture behind him is Perseverance's first image of Mars — 00:00:24

    “Close! The beans didn't stop!”

  • A meme shows Hank's face as a pink blob of all his other obligations — 00:01:50

    “I love that's what I look like. That is an accurate picture of my face.”

  • Relieved he didn't have to write names on his own face in a mirror — 00:03:45

    “I can't cut a single hair off my head in the mirror. I can barely shave.”

  • Speechless before a giant Beanie Sanfurbs image — 00:04:05

    “He's so big. I guess I had that to say. I just had that one thing to say.”

  • A meme captions Hank eating beans with a world-destroyer line — 00:06:55

    “Chugger of beans, destroyer of worlds. That's me. God, those were hot beans.”

  • Hank's ill-dressed Obama interview, now edited with beans — 00:07:58

    “I should have given him some beans.”

  • A shiny bean pelican he both loves and hates — 00:10:55

    “i'm new to that emotion that's a new one for me i'm 40 years old”

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Mentioned

Central: Beanie Sanfurbs · Project for Awesome

Also: People: Barack Obama · Bernie Sanders · Drake · Flula Borg · Katherine Green · Post Malone · Travis McElroy

Projects: SciShow

Works: Glee · Green Eggs and Ham · Monopoly (game) · WandaVision · We're Here Because We're Here

Concepts: collective action

Places: Cloud Gate · Mars

Events: Mars 2020

Characters: Butfartman

animal: Dave the Fish · Lollipop

Only in the description or credits: Four-minute rule · Furby

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