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A Feeling I've Never Felt Before

2023-09-22 · letter vlog · Hank · 5:04 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Global development, Internet & YouTube) · mode: Personal essay · tags: calendar ritual, self promotion, heavy topic

Hank reflects that new sensations grow rarer with age, yet cancer brought many (a tingling beard, chemo pain, painless hair loss) and the community's recent campaign was a new, good creator sensation he credits partly to John's work; he then plugs the Pizzamas app and its daily pizza dad jokes.

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 moves to his video spot, slowly

00:00:06 — Orin's squished head and how new sensations grow rarer with age

  • ★★ Hank tells how Orin was playing with bigger kids, there was some falling down and one of them squished his head; Orin popped up running and crying, and Hank knew at once he felt the instant, very bad ice-cream-headache feeling of hard pressure on the head. — 00:00:10 · Orin Green
  • ★★ Hank says at two Orin got new feelings all the time (bubble water, spicy food, dizziness), but at six new sensations come less often and unpleasant ones are surprising and scary. — 00:00:36 · Orin Green
  • ★★ Hank says that at his age you start to think the new sensations are done, a thought he legitimately had. — 00:00:57

00:01:06 — New sensations from cancer: tingling beard, chemo pain, painless hair pulling, soft hair

  • ★★★ Hank says having cancer has brought a whole bunch of new sensations, ways of feeling he had never felt before. — 00:01:08 · cancer
  • ★ Hank says having this much beard is a new sensation he did not expect: when something touches it, his face tingles. (playful) — 00:01:17
  • ★★ Hank names a bad new sensation: pain between skin and muscle all over the body at once, which chemotherapy delivers. — 00:01:29 · chemotherapy
  • ★ Hank describes otherworldly sensations, such as pulling hair out of his head without pain, and the good feeling of his now very soft hair. — 00:01:40

00:01:56 — Creator sensations: first viral video, first mean comment, sensation chasing

  • ★★ Hank says being a creator is similar: early on new sensations come often (a first viral video, the first mean comment), but after so long it feels like they have had them all. — 00:01:56
  • ★ Hank says there is some sensation chasing: some people even chase negative sensations just because they want to feel. (playful) — 00:02:16

00:02:25 — The community's recent campaign as a new sensation; John's work behind it; Hank is proud of him

  • ★★★ Hank tells John the last couple of weeks were a new sensation: the community affected the world so much, so quickly, that it is disorienting. — 00:02:25 · Nerdfighteria, John Green
  • ★★ Hank says John's calendar showed him how much time John spent on it, pushing and playing a chess game; it was a lot of work and John was freaked out. — 00:02:37 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank says it is not fun to be disliked by powerful people, and intense to work on something important that could go many different ways. — 00:03:02
  • ★★★ Hank calls it a good new creator sensation, made possible by many people's hard work, and maybe the biggest thing they have ever done, certainly in that time. (hedged) — 00:03:11
  • ★★★ Hank says persistent, polite communication resulted in literally hundreds of millions of dollars of impact. — 00:03:27
  • ★★★ Hank says it happened not only through the community's energy but because John spent much time talking to experts and thinking about his tools, so he could, with others, find an opportunity and take it. — 00:03:36 · John Green, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank says he is very proud of John, a feeling that is not new to him. — 00:04:02 · John Green

00:04:06 — Pizzamas starts Monday: the Pizzamas app, daily dad jokes, early store access, profits to Sierra Leone; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank announces Pizzamas begins Monday; a new creator sensation is finding the Pizzamas app, with John's face, in the App Store. — 00:04:06 · Pizzamas
  • ★★★ Hank asks everyone to get the Pizzamas app on Apple and Android and turn on push notifications. — 00:04:23 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ Hank says he will send a terrible pizza dad joke through the app every day as a push notification, though finding pizza jokes has not been easy. — 00:04:29
  • ★★ Hank says app users get access to the Pizzamas store a couple of hours early, and a few items are limited in quantity. — 00:04:46 · Pizzamas
  • ★★★ Hank reminds viewers that all Pizzamas profit goes to decreasing maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:04:56 · Pizzamas, Sierra Leone, maternal death, child mortality

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says Hank has a new kind of pain after radiation, unlike muscle pain he has had before, and because it is new it is hard to deal with. — video description

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Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

People: Orin Green

Projects: Pizzamas

Works: Pizzamas app

Organizations: Apple

Concepts: brain freeze · cancer · chemotherapy · child mortality · dad joke · maternal death · viral video

Places: Sierra Leone

Products: Android · App Store

Only in the description or credits: Radiation therapy

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