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Our Last YouTube View…

2026-09-11 · collab / interview · Hank, Craig Benzine · 4:12 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Internet & YouTube (also: Projects, Nerdfighteria) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: guest or collab, self promotion

Hank and guest Craig Benzine (WheezyWaiter), back on Vlogbrothers after years, joke about the last time anyone will watch their videos and the end of YouTube, recall Craig's one-off VidCon stage acts, and plug Something Worth Knowing, Complexly's first live fundraiser in Los Angeles.

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, Craig as a rare guest, and a clip from his last Vlogbrothers appearance

  • ★★ Hank says it has been a long time since the Vlogbrothers channel had a guest. — 00:00:00 · Vlogbrothers, Craig Benzine
  • ★ Craig Benzine: Craig says he and Hank have been YouTubers together for a very long time, but he has not been on this channel in a while. — 00:00:00 · Vlogbrothers, YouTube

00:00:30 — Craig's YouTube career; the last view of their videos and the end of YouTube

  • ★★ Hank introduces Craig Benzine, WheezyWaiter, a YouTuber from Wisconsin, and recalls watching him years ago and thinking he had it. — 00:00:30 · Craig Benzine, YouTube
  • ★★★ Hank says there will be a moment when someone watches a Hank Green or Craig Benzine video for the last time, and that is when they truly die. (playful) — 00:00:30 · Hank Green, Craig Benzine
  • ★★ Hank says there will also be a final YouTube video. — 00:01:00 · YouTube
  • ★★ Asked how long YouTube will last, Hank does not know; it could be thousands of years, and people will still watch some videos, but not on YouTube. (unsure) — 00:01:00 · YouTube
  • ★★ Hank doubts people in a hundred years will mine the archives: they will watch new stuff, as nobody watches videos from 20 years ago. (playful) — 00:01:00

00:01:29 — Craig filming a day in Hank's life; YouTubers on stage; Craig's VidCon stage acts

  • ★ Craig Benzine: Craig suggests that not people but somebody, like a historian, might look at the old videos. (hedged) — 00:01:29
  • ★★ Craig is visiting to film A Day in the Life of Hank Green for his own channel, which Craig thinks will be out by the time this video is. — 00:01:29 · Craig Benzine, Hank Green
  • ★★ Hank says the brothers started VidCon, and that he has stopped doing VidCon. — 00:01:29 · VidCon
  • ★★★ Hank says most YouTubers don't know how to do anything on a stage, because they talk to cameras by themselves and then edit for hours. — 00:01:58 · VidCon, YouTube
  • ★★ Hank says part of the appeal of video for him was pretending to be confident and know what he is doing, because he can edit it. — 00:01:58
  • ★★ Hank says Craig has stage experience as a front man in bands, Driftless Pony Club and Violet Palms; Craig says he fronts only one of them. — 00:01:58 · Craig Benzine
  • ★★ Hank recalls Craig spending each VidCon making his stage piece, a one-off only attendees saw, one-upping himself every year until he had to stop. — 00:01:58 · Craig Benzine, VidCon

00:02:30 — Something Worth Knowing: Craig's invitation, date, lineup, theme, cost; Craig's last-view answer

  • ★★★ Hank says they decided to hold Something Worth Knowing, a Complexly fundraiser in Los Angeles; Craig came up as an invitee, and Hank asked him to do something weird. — 00:02:30 · Something Worth Knowing, Complexly, Los Angeles, Craig Benzine
  • ★★★ Hank says Something Worth Knowing, Complexly's first ever live fundraiser, is happening five days from now (16 September 2026). — 00:02:59 · Something Worth Knowing, Complexly
  • ★★ The event will feature Mark Rober, Simone Giertz, Katie Mack, Abigail Thorn, Kallie Moore, Shan Boodram and Wyna Liu, who writes the Connections boards. — 00:02:59 · Something Worth Knowing
  • ★★ Hank says the event will be both thoughtful and goofy, with the theme of what is bringing us hope right now. — 00:03:28 · Something Worth Knowing, hope
  • ★★ Hank says the event is in Los Angeles and expensive because it is a fundraiser, so inaccessible to most people, but it helps make Complexly's content accessible to everyone. — 00:03:28 · Something Worth Knowing, Complexly, Los Angeles
  • ★★ Hank asks anyone who can possibly make it to check out the event via the link in the description. — 00:03:28 · Something Worth Knowing
  • ★★ Craig Benzine: Asked when his last YouTube view will be, Craig says 2500, and plans to make videos with titles and tags a historian would look up. (playful) — 00:03:28 · YouTube

00:03:57 — Craig's plan to make videos historians will look up; sign-off

In the description and comments

  • ★ In a comment, Hank explains Something Worth Knowing has no pay-per-view because first-year events are hard for a company that is not an event company, so they limit scope. — creator comment · Something Worth Knowing

Humor (significant)

  • A clip from Craig's last appearance replays the dilemma of a butt for a face or a face for a butt — 00:00:30

    “Butt face and face face.”

  • Hank marks how long they have been on YouTube — 00:00:30

    “And now it's 2026 and YouTube has been around for all of human history.”

  • Craig recalls his first-year VidCon stage act — 00:02:30

    “The first year was I had to find you for some reason and then you threw me out a window.”

  • Asked when his last YouTube view will be, Craig names a year — 00:03:28

    “2500.”

  • Asked how Vlogbrothers videos end, Craig delivers the sign-off himself — 00:03:57

    “i believe we say john see you tuesday”

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Mentioned

Central: Craig Benzine · Something Worth Knowing · YouTube

Also: People: Abigail Thorn · Kallie Moore · Katie Mack · Mark Rober · Shan Boodram · Simone Giertz · Wyna Liu

Projects: Complexly · VidCon

Works: Connections (game)

Groups: Driftless Pony Club · Violet Palms

Concepts: death anxiety · hope

Places: Los Angeles · Wisconsin

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