The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- In which John discusses some vlogbrothers videos he didn't make, why he abandoned them, and what he learned along the way.
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Hi. I say this in passing in the video, but I am so so grateful to everyone who has read The Anthropocene Reviewed book and shared it with friends and family. It is so cool to get emails from grandparents and the like who have no idea who I am or what a podcast is but have still enjoyed the book. SEVEN WEEKS on the nyt bestseller list is just incredible, and I am so so grateful. Also, nations are weird. -John
i made my english teacher read it because i knew he would love it and he said he wants to give his freshman an assignment next year where they read/listen to a couple chapters and then write their own reviews about whatever they want!!! i don’t know why this made me so so happy but it did. thank YOU for this amazing book :)
I sent it to my grandpa for Father's Day and he loved it! We were never that close but getting to share that book with him was something that connected us both a little more. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful and inspiring book, and for being the best history teacher in high school!
Nations are weird, but so is humanity, so being human, I can’t really judge
Can’t help but notice this video is 4m1s. . . 😉
The thought occurred that this channel is you and Hank's "third thing", like how art is you and Sarah's third thing. How precious and simple is that.
Rosianna: the hero we may not deserve, but the hero we need.
Like Batman, who is indeed a good superhero
@@TylerBevanOfficial Does Bruce pay his taxes though?
@@TylerBevanOfficial Thems fightin' words
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"I can't talk about something I don't understand" is something I ,and I think alot of the internet needs to understand deeply
The tricky thing is knowing you don't understand it. I think that's where most people get tripped up.
It is also a lesson I often need to relearn! -John
@@hjpev6469 there are cheats for that: IIRC, as I understand it, what I think it means, etc. Qualifiers let you participate while leaving yourself an honorable way to be wrong. Optimally the person you're arguing with then corrects you with better information, but it often comes with a certain amount of abuse or scorn.
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A lot of the internet and a lot of public figures on and off the internet. Amen.
Make a "Books I Never/Almost Wrote" please.
Yes!
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Good idea! I have over 40 abandoned first chapters! -John
“Butt is legs” triggered me so bad lmao let’s not go back to that
Butt is legs is the content i crave >:}
You opened a can of worms, pal.
But butts are leg.
My girls, 4.5 and 2.5, are FULLY on board with butt is legs. Last night one of them asked if “ankles are legs” and I I gave her an emphatic “NO.” :)
@@artempleman butts are definitely legs, so I agree
“undercooked hot takes” is the best phrase i’ve ever heard
That said - he and Hank have also turned that propensity into an amazing podcast. (:
Room-temperature takes
This is what happens when you microwave your takes. Hot on the outside, but still frozen in the middle.
I did a double-take: Did he say hot-cakes??
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This video is to Delete This Podcast, what Hank Reviews Everything is to The Anthropocene Reviewed.
That is lovely put.
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It's draft vids from John Green, it's vids that John didn't make, he wrote a vid and then he didn't post it's draft vids from John!
@@Ixdontxknowxanything 😂 nice, I sang the whole thing
I still have my “Batman is just a rich guy with an affinity for bats” t-shirt!
Batman is an oligarch who is clearly not being taxed enough!
We are all bat people…
@@joeybroda9167 I am going to use this
I still have the we are all bat people tee
Undercooked hot takes should be the tagline for twitter
they should make it a podcast segment
Twitter is more like overcooked undercooked hot takes
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Hot takes scraped off the bottom of the grill would be a much more appropriate description
so lukewarm takes
Recently I went to Barnes and Noble and found the section of The Anthropocene Reviewed books and began looking through them for “special” signatures. All the sudden an employee came over and I thought “oh god they are going to tell me to stop being weird and going through all the books” but to my surprise they instead said “Just so you know, it’s an incredible and lovely book!”
I then let them know that I know and that I already own it and then geeked out about nerdfighter stuff and they didn’t know about any of it. They just loved your book for what it was without the community it came from and that made me SO happy.
It never occurred to me to go to a place where multiple copies were to get to see lots of signatures at once. Rad idea!
@@AludraEltaninAltair
One word: Costco.
They probably have 100 of each book on the shelf.
Out of nowhere my husband sang to me “You’ve got Batman totally wrong” and it brought back so many nostalgic memories.
WE ARE ALL BAT PEOPLE
wow the memories
You've got that title entirely wrong.
It is "You've got Batman entirely wrong".
@@firstlast-xn6ul lol hey, i'm just quoting my husband. I thought it was a pretty good try considering we haven't seen the video in years :D
hahaha i quoted the lines "crime is not actually caused by evil" and "crime is caused by systemic disenfranchisement and poverty and lack of access to job opportunities" from the songified batman argument *literally yesterday*
How is that he-ro-ic?
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I always find the things people choose not to do are more interesting than the things that they do.
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Rosianna: saving Nerdfighteria since 20XX
(X’s because I don’t know the real date)
Rosianna, Nerdfighteria's blue bomber.
Started as a “secret sister” in 2007, I think, so possibly then?
Rosianna: saving Nerdfighteria since [REDACTED]
Rosianna: saving Nerdfighteria since 20██
I've only been a nerdfighter for a few months but it's honestly just awesome how nice everyone is.
Welcome!
A hearty welcome and cheers to that ;)
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A poem:
Impending doom
There’s not enough room
Help me
Help me
Help me
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Pretty good. Keep writing
Reads like a Twenty One Pilots song
This impending doom
There is just not enough room
Help me, Help me, please
I haiku'd it.. ^_^'
Edited based on criticism. Thank you!
@@sehod8209 the second line misses a syllable.
Maybe write 'There is never enough room' instead :)
thank you John for the Anthropocene Reviewed, I’m reading it with my boyfriend aloud, very slowly devouring every word you wrote, greetings from shores of Portugal 🖖🏻
Lovely to hear there's a copy being shared in Portugal. I love it when a book can be a shared place of attention for people who care about each other. -John
I’ve been doing the same with my boyfriend💕
@@isabellamoraschi1705 it’s so nice to hear that!! somehow, we are all connected, in one way or another, sending positive energy to you both! 💜
"Deceive via distillation" - I know this wasn't close to the focal point of the video but man this stood out to me as a really great way of summing up some of the biggest issues with misinformation today. Well said
I would argue that the "any video that weakens the sense of community is by definition a bad video" approach can be dangerous: Sometimes a video may introduce a conflict that many people disagree on and argue about. In a sense introducing conflict to your community may qualify as "weakening" it, but some controversial topics need to be discussed and should not just be ignored to keep the peace within a certain community. What matters is if a community manages to deal with such conflict in a constructive way, and how a community rearranges itself to grow stronger again once it has been "weakened".
Yeah, I agree that one must have an expansive definition of "strength." It is not good for a community (or an individual) to never be challenged or stretched. That weakens the community. I hope we do a good job of grappling with complex issues in a way that helps us and others to stretch and consider facets of experience that they may have looked past. If we don't, the community will get weaker over time. -John
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you don't know how cathartic and therapeutic The Anthropocene Reviewed is to me, now. there's just something about the the intermingling of objectivity and you. so much love to you, man. :')
"Our mind are made out of meat, and our body contains all of our thoughts and feelings."
Welp, I'll be thinking about that for the next several weeks.
This is great! I'm literally so frustrated by all the videos I've vetoed lately. Glad that other people also dont make everything they think of
i’m reading your book right now and you never cease to amaze me. you’re literally so smart and thank you for sharing your thoughts on the human centered world.
ps, my favorite essay so far is on temporal range :)
Thanks for reading it, Emily! -John
@@vlogbrothers ok i’m literally bawling my eyes out right now i’m not even joking. i’m
a huge reader and you’re my favorite author in the world ❤️❤️❤️ tysm this made my life
same! I loveeed the episode and that chapter is just perfect. all my eschatological anxiety seems to escape into it.
I ordered the book but it's going to take 2 weeks to arrive! The wait is not fun.
John, The Anthropocene Reviewed is the first book my father has read since high school. He is 56. Thank you.
This reminded me of how much I love the "Thoughts from Places" videos + I realized how similar that series is to some essays in The Anthropocene Reviewed. Sometimes the videos I need are the ones I'm not looking for.
I wonder If any of the thoughts from places were snuck into the anthropocene reviewed book with a rating slapped on the end? That would be cool.
@@somerandomguynumber111 I mean, those original videos were pretty similar to the modern Anthropocene Reviewed reviews. Talk about something banal, like the time John went to Brussels or went to the woods to look at Hayleighs Comet, and use that as a catalyst to discuss complex things, like mortality, wealth inequality, mortality, eschatology, mortality, and our temporary place on this world.
Hey John! So, I was diagnosed with OCD a while ago. When my psychiatrist told me, I found that I already knew a bit about it from your videos and books like Turtles All The Way Down. And he told me most of the teens that get this diagnosis there know you and it helps understanding it better and starting a conversation. Just wanted to say thanks for talking about it every now and then. Helps more than you know. DFTBA!
It's always reassuring to be told it's Tuesday, and therefore no longer Monday
This is truly one of my most favorite things I have ever heard, thank you
Nerdfighteria is, without a doubt, my favorite community on the internet. Even when I step away for a couple months, I always feel welcomed back with open arms. Nerdfighteria is my home.
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A nation? A nation is the same people living in the same place. --Or also living in different places.
I had to cut that line out of the video in order to get it under 4 minutes so I'm glad you're quoting it! Such a great line. -John
@@vlogbrothers Its ok. I believe you've quoted it in other videos anyway.
The last time I was this early Dave Green was still making videos
Just thought I’d put this out there: John and Hanks content and this community is such a safe space for me! Doesn’t matter where I am or how I am feeling- a video is uploaded and I feel instantly calm and content. Thanks for letting me be a part of nerdfighteria! I am so grateful to be able to experience this
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I missed your vision board :(
"undercooked hot takes"
*Gordon Ramsay wants to know your location*
That's also a pretty good band name, ngl
+ please someone name a band this 😂
This community has meant a lot to me over the past 10 year and today I am realizing that it also greatly impacted my sense of community and collaboration. When I think about my activist organizer self in 2011 I remember Rosianna and other CZcamsrs really inspiring me to create. Even now when I think of John and Rosianna's connection I think, that's what I want, people who get me that I can work with over time and great distance.
At about 1:20 into this, I wanted to recommend Sir Terry Pratchett's "Nation." It probably won't provide the answers you seek, but does probe the definition of the word and is a beautiful read that you can play off as "research". Love you, John. Unpause.
Edit: mucho bonus points for for wrapping this up like a formal essay, well dine.
Thankyou for sharing your vulnerable and personal thoughts when you do, John. Your videos matter so much to us
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I kept rewinding so as to read the entire footnote on Batman, and every time I did it slipped back to John saying “Butt is legs”, and I laughed each and every time he said it. There’s something joyful in the phrase “Butt is legs”. Go on, say it out loud, I defy you not to laugh.
Not sure if it's a reply to last week or a part 2 to "what's not in frame" but either way I'm here for it
I am glad this one got made! Nerdfighteria is a special place.
John, I just finished the TAR and I've never read any book that has felt more close to my vulnerable heart, but now I realise it's because of this, it's because nerdfighteria is about making connections and the fact I could talk to it's author while refering to him by his name, it's about the community, I don't know how, but you have a way of making me and other nerdfighters feel comfort and love with your words and often I find myself borrowing words from you and hank, as a teenager, that's how I make sense of the world and it just feels every ethereal to be a part of this platform for the Genuine... DFTBA!!
I finally received the signed edition of the anthropocene reviewed, can't wait to read it!
Btw I live in Qatar, can't believe this book travelled all the way from John Green's basement in US to me, God transportion is kinda cool.
"the Vlogbrothers videos i didn't make" so about *punches numbers into a calculator* half of them?
hahahah I forgot about the hank part!! -John
hey bell you’re fucking hilarious i love you 💜
@@chloeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee gdsgdjk no u you're great love you too
I half expected this to be a review of paternity leave videos
HAHAH that's gold dftba you beautiful person
I'm so glad I found this little corner of the internet in my teens. You two and this community have largely shaped who I am today. I only have parents in the biological sense, so you two have always sorta been my dads. You've given me everything, from wisdom and serious life advice to dad jokes and just fun times. Thank you isn't enough here, but it'll have to do.
Me, immediately: "You've got Batman enTIREly wrong"
Luis: "Scout*, we are ALL Scout people"
*Scout is our late dog that we still talk about as if he is still here with us :')
I'm new over here and I have noticed that this might be the most positive comment section I have seen. Glad I found about this 😁❤️
Welcome. The comments section here is really great.
Hi everyone 😁🙏
It’s like jazz, it’s all about the notes you’re not playing…
All these years and this channel still brings perspective and joy to me every week 😊
Can I just say how much peace the sentences "Good morning Hank" and "Good morning John" bring me every Tuesday and Friday? Although it is nighttime here when they're uploaded, it's good to see something that I can always look forward to. Thank you, Hank and John. And thank you, nerdfighteria.
(Ps. Late to the party, but I got my copy of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing today!!)
The real message of this video, Thank God for Rosianna
John, I've really been struggling this week. I'm working on a protest against a school that tortures disabled people. Being disabled this drains me. Your book has been the quiet place in which I rest. Thank you
@Nathan James Thank you so much. I needed that today. This has been going on since the 80s. For so long these kids and the efforts to save them were treated like they didn't matter.
I’m enjoying reading TAR so much, John. I read some chapters to my Dad like the one about the Indy 500 and this morning I played the podcast episode about Jerzy Dudek’s spaghetti legs for him as he drove me to work. I told him about it when we watched the English goalie do the same in the Euros final on Sunday. So nice to share it with him and see him really enjoy and engage with it, thank you. It is such a gift ❤️
I got my signed edition of the Anthropocene Reviewed a couple days ago and reading it makes me astonishingly happy! I hope someday I am able to be as great of an author as you are!
Thanks for reading it! -John
@@vlogbrothers thanks for writing it😊
Love from Brazil
As a Nerdfighter, THANK YOU for keeping this Vlogbrothers channel about Nerdfighteria.
It is greatly appreciated.
“Sense of impending doom” can also be a symptom of allergic reaction, which of course heightens the other allergic reaction symptoms. And you can’t ever be sure right away if it’s anaphylaxis or panic…. It’s my fav
Okay, the last shot in the video of John smiling is super wholesome 💕
The elated "like this one" at the end is my favorite. And also, deepest of thank yous to Rosianna for looking out for everyone in the community.
So we're NOT doing the faction war of nerdfighteria storyline? *puts down pitchfork*
Dammit. You know how hard it is to put all these torches back in storage safely.
"Deceive via distillation" *chef's kiss*
I just got the anthropocene reviewed today! I've been a fan of you and your brother for years and have read all your books. Thank you so much for being a constant in my ever-changing life (as well as many others) You helped make my childhood more bearable by giving me characters I can relate to and I'm thankful to exist at the same time as you and Hank.
One personal view I've came up with as a hobby writer:
What tells the professional from the amateur is what each of them considers worth publishing and worth cutting.
No one can always be great, and it takes skill, intelligence, careful thinking and a humble spirit to tell the bad from the truly good from the exceptional in your own work.
Some of the greatest talents in their respective fields have scraped concepts that would have been very good from a mediocre point of view.
I'm trying to adapt this viewpoint for my own projects, and try to get slowly better with cutting stuff (which I sometimes struggle with).
That you John are so reflective and honest in your approach of cutting is something that makes me respect you even more as a creator!
John's excited exclamation at the end "Like THIS one! "
Love all of your Vlogs and have both a hard copy (signed of course) and audio version of the Anthopocene Reviewed!
I can imagine John going, "nope, not gonna post this" in the middle of making a video, and turning the camera off.
Thank you for this one. I've been watching you guys for many years now and always appreciate your humanity and your ability to communicate complex ideas in a down-to-earth real way. I appreciate that you have a producer that is conscious of the community you speak to. I wish I could see some of those unfinished videos. Thank you for your work.
I saw The Anthropocene Reviewed at my second hand bookstore this weekend. I think someone really wanted to share your signature with the world. I’m sure someone has already grabbed it!!
It's beautiful and inspring to see you understanding yourself and your shortcomings more and more over time.
It was such an honor meeting you at my place of work last night! Thank you for the little note!
I haven't read the physical copy of TAR, but I listened to the audio book almost three times. Once was with my mother while we were driving between family members in Indiana. It was nice to show her your reviews for Indianapolis where we flew in, and Kentucky Bluegrass which we saw everywhere. Thank you John for everything that you do, I hope to meet again someday.
Always able to take a look at the world in new ways with your help, John. Thank you
John, just wanted to thank you for writing The Anthropocene Reviewed. Its beautiful; a reminder to be in love with this world, with all its ironies and complexities.
Thanks a lot ♥️
The worth of abandoned projects, letting go of ideas that you realize are too big or not actually the good, and realizing that it's okay to just process for yourself when you were trying to explore something publicly- all things I needed to think about today, especially as I take yet another crack at writing a novel. Thanks, John. :)
Just wanted to say thank you for caring and for consciously creating such a wonderful safe space for the wanderers like myself!
This was just really pleasant to watch, very thoughtful and calming. It has left me softly contemplating the things that I start but for a myriad of reasons do not finish, I am going to try to think of them as gifts to my growth.
I am glad to be part of this community:)
love you john, you make me feel better even when nothing makes sense, thank you. I think you are the best human ever.
Hi John! My girlfriend just started a bookshop in a little medieval village square near Cheddar, Somerset and she wanted to make SURE that there were three (I think signed) copies of your new book in stock. We love you and your work and can't wait to share it with more people!
I think this is a great take on the saying "It's not about the opportunity you take, its about the opportunity you don't take". While that saying is about doing things more and taking an opportunity that you might not have taken otherwise, this is more about know what impact your choice can have on a larger community. Great video, 10/10 would watch again
It is always purely joyful seeing John smile about the goofy small things after a stressful time. Congrats on the book release, and the NYT list! It was a wonderfully insightful and special book. 🖤🖤🖤
This is incredibly profound but also a very deeply important realization to make. Thank you so much for sharing it with us today
As someone with ADHD, the worst part isn't the ADHD, it's accepting that I will have to abandon 99% of the ideas I have and allow myself to forget some thoughts bc there are simply too many. This vid has been oddly comforting in that sense
I ❤️ these videos! Tuesday and Fridays are days that I look forward to because I know that you guys will be there.
The sense of impending doom is so hard to trust for some of us folks with OCD. I’m continually grateful for John’s openness and honesty about it, as it’s truly made me feel less alone
I'm a very passionate person at times. Still learning and growing. There is a lot of wisdom in this video for myself and a lot of others I'm sure. Thanks for the reminder.
You are both very thoughtful people and it’s more than most folx can be bothered with that you even care about how the things you put out will affect the community.
I feel like your editor has god-like powers when it comes to understanding what videos/content helps or hurts yours and Hanks vision for this channel.
I find meaning in at least one comment yall make during each vlogbrothers video, even the ones that just make me laugh.
Also, I really love your book! I'm going through a life crisis right now and had to put it down, but I plan to pick it back up this year!
Much love, John!
A long time ago, Garrison Keillor wrote an essay for an International Paper ad extoling the virtues of writing letters. The line I remember best is that writing, even writing a letter to someone else, is always a learning experience, even when you just learn something about yourself. Most vlogbrothers videos are about teaching Nerdfighteria something, but as you and Hank are also both members of the community, I think it is very appropriate for y'all to have scripts that don't ever get made into videos and published.
That paragraph ended up in a different place than I expected it to go, not unlike your comment that sometimes you don't know what you're writing until you finish it. In any case, thanks to you both, not only for the content provided but also the inspiration to write and learn something else from the video.
Wow. Thanks I needed a reminder that it's okay not to finish some things...
2:25 "And I often don't know which I'm doing until after I finish something." I NEEDED to hear that, thank you SO MUCH for saying it!
John, I think this helps me understand a little more a sense of calm and sanity I feel when watching your videos. There's some feedback loop in media feeding on divisiveness and making everyone a bit crazy. Thank you for promoting a saner world.
This idea is so fun to think about! Vlogbrothers might be very different depending on how you judged the videos you did and did not want to publish. As someone on my own “brotherhood 2.0” journey, I wonder how my decisions TODAY might influence the shape of the community we develop, and the mark of the channel on people’s lives/the internet’s SEA of content.
-Sam
This weekend I had the wonderful experience of setting up the bookshelves at my son's college apartment in Orlando for his senior year and putting his copy of The Anthropocene Reviewed on it. I love knowing that he and I have the shared book in different spaces. (He has the green J scribble and I have the purple!) Thank you for years of wonderful mother and son chats that your work has contributed to daily.
GOOD MORNING JOHN!!! Its 2am in the Philippines and finally told myself I'll sleep but then I saw you posted a new video
I thought this was going to be an out of five stars review of Hank's videos.
Going back to watch one of my all time favourite videos, We are all Bat People! Just what I needed to be reminded of today, so thank you for that John!
John, even if you don’t make all the videos you write out, know you’ve inspired and made so many people happy. Your work is always appreciated here.
I've listened to every pod of AR. But now I'm reading the paperback while working as a Hotel-Q Security Guard, and Temporal Range had a bigger impact than I expected. Also Jerzy got me right in the heart again.
Thank you John, thank you. The 12hr shifts are made easier.
You probably won’t see this since it’s been 19 hours since you posted this video, but the anthroprocene review knocked me flat! It was incredible. I live in Columbus, Ohio, where you worked as a student chancellor and I met you a few years ago.. you came to my work (good day Columbus) with the cast of paper towns. It was so nice to meet you.. you were so kind to me and signed my copy of abundance of Katherine’s! Your new book is incredible. Thank you!
All of my unfinished art has taught me a lot. Especially about how easily I can get bored and move on to the next project when I sit down to do art again.
I'm terrible. I'm working on it now though. This video was really cool John Thank you! 💕
On the feeling of "Impending Doom:" Physiologically speaking, the body reacts almost exactly the same way to intense emotional distress as it does to physical injury. The body doesn't always know what's wrong, but it knows that something's wrong -- which is why it's so important to take care of the whole body, mind included!
Beautiful thoughts. Makes me think of the fact that not every thought and opinion NEEDS to be shared.
Sometimes it isn’t necessary or productive
I often wonder how many videos could be made from the videos you’ve already made? Like how many books could be put together from all the words you have said?
Lets do the math.
Assuming a novel is 50,000 words, and humans speak at 200 words per minute (usually a little slower, but jump cuts help us out), and all vlogbrothers are 4 minutes long, and they have been making 2 videos per week since 2007 (this ignores that time they were doing 3 per week, or the weekday thing of brotherhood2.0, or pizzamas).
2 per week for 52 weeks is approximately 100 videos per year. 14 years since 2007 is 1400 total videos. 4 minutes long means there has been 5600 minutes of video, and at 200 words per minute, there have been 1,120,000 words spoken. 1 million words divided by 50,000 words per book is about 20 books worth of words.