I explain Pizza John as "It's an inside joke from the internet. It's John Green who wrote The Fault in Our Stars but with a mustache and the word pizza. That's really it."
I still find it so weird that I know I like John and Hank as humans, and I look up to them, but they have no idea who I am. Like it makes sense, but also it’s such a strange “relationship” to have
renendarkfire that's an experiment I'd want to follow. The price sensitivity must be really unique in nerdfighteria, I would love to know what the demand curve looks like.
Alright, well I found a site with some nice traffic data. It's not google analytics, so I can't be sure of accuracy. The most recent data is November 5, so we'll have to wait a few days to see the results of the discount. Also, I'm using site traffic as a proxy for sales, which is not terrible, but still a proxy. If +vlogbrothers want to publish better data, that would be great. :) www.semrush.com/info/dftba.com+(by+organic)
Wow, great site! Shame they won't let non subscribers view the content. Though I'd really question the validity of the proxy. Discounts always generate interests, but how much of it translates into sales varies a bit too much for this proxy to work.
Yeah, this is bound to be inaccurate. First of all, the proxy has issues, as you pointed out. Second, that site doesn't (and no other sites) go deeper than dftba.com in general, meaning any spike in traffic may be distorted by noise. Third, all of these sites are estimates, not exact values. The solution here is for Hank to pull out his Google analytics and give us the deets. +vlogbrothers, please? Regardless, there is a visible spike in usage on November 7th. According to the site, traffic jumped to 83,595 from around 78,000, the running average. 83,595 is the highest daily traffic value in the past 30 days, and higher than the monthly average for the past 6 months. This is around a 7% increase in total dftba.com traffic, not an insignificant amount. Unfortunately, we don't know the proportion of dftba visitors that went for pizzamas merch, so we can't say what sort of increase this is for pizzamas traffic. We can say that it appears that around 5,000 people decided to at least look into pizzamas merch on November 7th after the discount was announced, on top of those who were already planning to visit the site. As another data point, you can look up pizzamas on google trends and see a spike on the 7th that outweighs the week before it, although I think Oct. 31, has a larger spike. Can't put them on the same graph.
On an episode of Beer and Board games hank had 1 Zima and was completely wasted, and John was just shaking his head at hank after having had like 6 beers.
I have no opinion on so many things, I think it can be a bit exhausting with how it seems as though you should always have an opinion about everything these days even if it’s completely uninformed etc!
There's something incredibly freeing about the realization that you don't actually need to have an opinion on everything. You can take a break from living in a constant state of evaluation and just accept things as they are for a moment. Why did it take a man wearing his own face on his torso in the form of a personified piece of pizza telling me that to realize it?
"hardcore anti-peanut butter M&M" "So bad!" "nope NOPE" "....but you are allowed to love them" "THERE YOU GO!" They way you two support on each other on all the things is just absolutely lovely.
"It's the guy who wrote The Fault In Our Stars" Is literally what I tell people when they ask why I've got a bright red poster of a mustachioed fella and the word PIZZA. And there is never a follow up question!!!
omfg I was about to screech that I /JUST BOUGHT/ my pizzamas haul last night and NOW YOU THROW OUT A DISCOUNT CODE??? But it’s okay I don’t mind paying the full 100% it’s for a good cause ahahaha. I hope everyone else enjoys the discount. ;p
1) I'm having a very sick day, and watching this entire playlist improved it immeasurably (vlogbrothers, CrashCourse & SciShowSpace are my 3 go-tos when ill - max nerd comfort viddage) 2) It is delightful to watch you guys getting younger and younger for over a decade Of Awesome! 3) (I'm about a decade your senior, so 'getting older' is relative, one way or another :D) 4) ...this playlist needs updating! Surely there's been several reunion videos since 2017! 5) Thanks guys!! Can't wait to see (and participate in) all the awesome in 2019!
I've decided I love this pecan/almond orchard. Both of your videos that took place in it were so wonderfully happy and delightful. Thank you, pecan/almond orchard. :)
My older sister asked what I wanted for Christmas so I sent her the link to a pizzamas shirt I really wanted. She then went on to ask me and I quote “what the heck is pizzamas” and I went on to say “oh don’t try to get me to explain it. It’s basically John’s face and pizza” and she said “I knew better than to ask.” 😂
3 things. (1) I love that hat! (2) The energy of this video was phenomenal. (3) Did the effort to abandon opinions end with the tour or does the Grover Cleveland opinion qualify as a really core important opinion? 😂
*Tuataria-Pizzamashunt 9* Letter: a Hhm.. Almo..eh...nuts that are definitely not pecans. Yum.😋 Now that we're hydrated and energized we can take the last step and finish this hunt. Going through all these old videos made us smile a lot. Pizzamas really is a golden age of Vlogbrothers.
I just need you to know that I watch this video whenever I have a lot of anxiety. If it doesn’t fix the anxiety it at least makes me laugh and that’s not nothing.
I'm doing the same thing! or i will be once i finish replying to your comment. my advice for essays: make a list of qualities you like about yourself, with examples from each, so that if you get stuck on how to brag about yourself you have some ideas
discarding an unnecessary opinion a day to find the core of your being is such a fantastic way to reflect and grow and I wish this was a thing people just did regularly
john looks so hansom in this video, the lighting just right and I like the gray in his hair. maybe its just because he is having lots of fun too! and hanks dancing made me smile so much!
So, if pizza john shirts are on sale should I save some Pence and Biden? I hope there's a refund option as well, I don't want to feel Cheneyed to my decision. Better get one before they're Al Gore.
ONE WHOLE PERCENT?? It is definitely time to buy my Pizzamas Merch at dftba.com. Where I could save a whole 22 cents on a $22 shirt!! (Before any tax. BUT I DID THE MATH). Time to save one penny per dollar!!
There's a whole percent off! It's not nothing! And congrats John for TAtWD being on NYT bestseller list for 3 weeks (and counting!). On a lighter note, your opinions matter (kinda!). Happy Pizzamas and DFTBA!
This was great! Thanks, Greens. :) I like their "abandoning an unimportant opinion" idea. Perhaps I should stop having an opinion on whether or not I should get some Pizzamas gear or not and just do it! Action trumps opinion. :D PS - if you're reading this, have a great day
If you don't have an opinion on the actions you're taking, you're heading down a slippery slope. Admittedly your slippery slope has led you to Pizzamas merch so you may just be skiing which is awesome.
I was going to say, I think he would be down with that. I mean, just look at him, washing his TransAm in the White House driveway, he's so dope: politics.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732
Wow, the second awesome video in this orchard :D also, you seem to have had a great time touring and spending some great quality time together. So happy for you :)
It honestly is so tiring when someone looks at my pizza john shirt and every single time they ask who it is. I tell them it is famous author John Green sporting a mustache and promoting pizza and that is all they need to know.
By far the best vlogbrothers video I've seen in a long time. Not, like, in terms of content... just in happiness. I haven't seen some good good care-free Green content in too long. It felt nice. 10/10 more deliriously goofy brother videos please. Made me feel more ready to face the world.
The algorithm showed me this in 2022 for some reason. I would like to report that people still know who Joe Biden is. The world is a strange place, and stranger than it was 5 years ago. I am not sure how to feel about that.
Watching John call Joe Biden the former vice president when Joe Biden is currently the president feels like listening to one of those married couples who say they "used to be engaged"
That will be a good trivia question for the far future fandom of the vlogbrothers. Was there ever any discount during Pizzamas? If so, how much? - cause I feel it's a one-time deal.
Yesterday I watched Hank explain Pizza John. Thank you, Hank. It took a long time and he was very patient. He also explained Pizzamas. "I think people know who Joe Biden is." If they didn't know, now they know! Also, lots of folks call him Uncle Joe.
"I'd rather have too much, I'm American" Never change Hank
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Hank for President 2020: He's Too Much. -John
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Watching this when "Uncle Joe" is actually President of the United States and it makes me so happy to look back on this
Me too 😂👍🏻👍🏻
It's a good thing he qualified him as the former VP because it makes you realize what the world was like when this was filmed.
It’s hilarious same here
I love how genuinely happy they are in this video. I just feel so great after watching this.
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Definitely has a great vibe. I really needed this right now.
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Nauseated bus
Hanging out with John a lot
Birds fly around me
- Hank Green
It's even more beautiful when written down.
Unexpected top comment!! 0.o
SHAMELESS PLUG: SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL.
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And it's even better if you sing it like Jacksfilms does with his haiku videos.
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Can’t believe I ordered my pizzamas merch at full price... should have waited for that amazing 1% discount code
OMG! Me too!
The Joe Biden bit aged in an unexpected way
Not unlike Joe himself... HEY-OH!!!!!
It really did
I have abandoned my opinion on Hanks dad hats.
I explain Pizza John as "It's an inside joke from the internet. It's John Green who wrote The Fault in Our Stars but with a mustache and the word pizza. That's really it."
"That's really it: The Pizza John Story"
Why mustache and pizza tho? Just looking for the origin storyy
"I think people know who Joe Biden is, you don't have to qualify him every time"
Well, if only you knew
THIS IS THE VIDEO THEY STOPPED FORRRR
Feels like I have breached space-time continuum.
That's so unfair I already ordered my pizzamas gear. I could've saved some serious cents people!
Well one cent at least...of the per variety.
I am sorry about the twenty two cents you lost by not waiting for this incredible discount, Soph! -John
Soph the pennies aren't worth it
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vlogbrothers I found a quarter on the ground today so I’m good. I’m glad everyone else gets to use this amazing discount!
“Poll in the side bar.” #throwback
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but... but there was a poll in the sidebar.
Fun fact, the poll is still there and functional. Also you should click on it btw because it's hilarious.
@@ladyalfhildrforestofvioletmist Not anymore :(
I still find it so weird that I know I like John and Hank as humans, and I look up to them, but they have no idea who I am. Like it makes sense, but also it’s such a strange “relationship” to have
Dyimnasta Danny Sexbang discussed that on a Game Grumps episode once.
agree! think about this a lot -- and kinda curious to know what they think about it
You are not alone in that thought.
Watch Knowing Better's video on Parasocial Relationships.
Is a hotdog a sandwich.... stares at the wall for hours questioning the meaning of life.
Just drop the opinion! We have too many opinions! Minimize your opinions and watch your life change dramatically for the better! -John
Same...
I'm on team sub
vlogbrothers omg lol yes
I mean, if you don't know your place on the sandwich alignment charts then you don't know enough about yourself or something
That $0,20 discount was just the push I needed to get my very first, very own, very awesome Pizza John shirt! Living the high life
Interesting psychology experiment: How many people were actually motivated to buy something with a 1% discount.
renendarkfire that's an experiment I'd want to follow. The price sensitivity must be really unique in nerdfighteria, I would love to know what the demand curve looks like.
Alright, well I found a site with some nice traffic data. It's not google analytics, so I can't be sure of accuracy. The most recent data is November 5, so we'll have to wait a few days to see the results of the discount. Also, I'm using site traffic as a proxy for sales, which is not terrible, but still a proxy. If +vlogbrothers want to publish better data, that would be great. :)
www.semrush.com/info/dftba.com+(by+organic)
Wow, great site! Shame they won't let non subscribers view the content. Though I'd really question the validity of the proxy. Discounts always generate interests, but how much of it translates into sales varies a bit too much for this proxy to work.
Yeah, this is bound to be inaccurate. First of all, the proxy has issues, as you pointed out. Second, that site doesn't (and no other sites) go deeper than dftba.com in general, meaning any spike in traffic may be distorted by noise. Third, all of these sites are estimates, not exact values. The solution here is for Hank to pull out his Google analytics and give us the deets. +vlogbrothers, please?
Regardless, there is a visible spike in usage on November 7th. According to the site, traffic jumped to 83,595 from around 78,000, the running average. 83,595 is the highest daily traffic value in the past 30 days, and higher than the monthly average for the past 6 months. This is around a 7% increase in total dftba.com traffic, not an insignificant amount. Unfortunately, we don't know the proportion of dftba visitors that went for pizzamas merch, so we can't say what sort of increase this is for pizzamas traffic. We can say that it appears that around 5,000 people decided to at least look into pizzamas merch on November 7th after the discount was announced, on top of those who were already planning to visit the site.
As another data point, you can look up pizzamas on google trends and see a spike on the 7th that outweighs the week before it, although I think Oct. 31, has a larger spike. Can't put them on the same graph.
“Poll in the sidebar, ‘do you know who Joe Biden is?’”
Hell yeah I do, I voted for him.
Hank 'The Lightest Weight' Green
Fathima Moolla 😂😂😂
Floats like a butterfly... that is all.
On an episode of Beer and Board games hank had 1 Zima and was completely wasted, and John was just shaking his head at hank after having had like 6 beers.
This sounds like a Dear Hank and John Sponsor.
+The Road to Nerdfighteria you're right omg
I have no opinion on so many things, I think it can be a bit exhausting with how it seems as though you should always have an opinion about everything these days even if it’s completely uninformed etc!
Yes! So many opinions! Here's to keeping to your core opinions. -John
vlogbrothers Here here!
Having informed opinions is great! Having opinions based on wanting an opinion is terrible... in my opinion.
There's something incredibly freeing about the realization that you don't actually need to have an opinion on everything. You can take a break from living in a constant state of evaluation and just accept things as they are for a moment. Why did it take a man wearing his own face on his torso in the form of a personified piece of pizza telling me that to realize it?
This made me smile. I could listen to Hank and John talk all day lol
Hank's haiku creations are so awesome. I still remember the one he made about him wanting to be an oceanographer.
Hank's dancing is beautiful
Hank and John together videos make me so happy
Hank's no opinion dance is so joyous. I love you guys.
I just went to the website, and it really is one percent! Hilarious! 😂
"hardcore anti-peanut butter M&M"
"So bad!"
"nope NOPE"
"....but you are allowed to love them"
"THERE YOU GO!"
They way you two support on each other on all the things is just absolutely lovely.
I didn't realize how much I needed to feel some joy until I saw this video today. Thanks you two.
"It's the guy who wrote The Fault In Our Stars"
Is literally what I tell people when they ask why I've got a bright red poster of a mustachioed fella and the word PIZZA.
And there is never a follow up question!!!
That moment when a UA-cam video which mentions M&Ms for like 10 seconds reminds you that you have M&Ms in your bag. Thanks Hank and John
omfg I was about to screech that I /JUST BOUGHT/ my pizzamas haul last night and NOW YOU THROW OUT A DISCOUNT CODE??? But it’s okay I don’t mind paying the full 100% it’s for a good cause ahahaha. I hope everyone else enjoys the discount. ;p
Cause? What cause?
Sexy scientist supporting John and Hank when able, and my own personal happiness lol. (Apologizes! Didn’t mean donations or anything.)
Okay.👍
Well technically it can be for a good cause. The Pizza Turtle poster donates to NAMI. :)
Lexi Lou Who true! :D
Hank is such a good dancer. Fills me with emotions. Mostly relaxing.
This is delightfully wholesome icing on the cake to rewatch today.
As fun as it is to get to the comment section early, it’s also a kinda disappointing that there aren’t awesome comments to read yet!
I enjoyed your Joe Biden dance. #rebel
Vikings488 OMG you must be Joe Biden!
We’ve found Joe Biden’s secret UA-cam account #confirmed
I was only half-watching the dance, so I was about to rewind it to get a better look, but then I stopped myself: "no.... that dance was for Joe."
I have to say I love these tour videos the most! They are so much lighter and fun....probably because you're exhausted...but I'm here for it
That's President Uncle Joe to you, John.
This was the goofiest most hilarious video you guys have made in some time, and I love it.
I've ALWAYS wanted one percent off of dftba merch! Yay!
1) I'm having a very sick day, and watching this entire playlist improved it immeasurably (vlogbrothers, CrashCourse & SciShowSpace are my 3 go-tos when ill - max nerd comfort viddage)
2) It is delightful to watch you guys getting younger and younger for over a decade Of Awesome!
3) (I'm about a decade your senior, so 'getting older' is relative, one way or another :D)
4) ...this playlist needs updating! Surely there's been several reunion videos since 2017!
5) Thanks guys!! Can't wait to see (and participate in) all the awesome in 2019!
“They’re so bad...!”
“Nope.”
“But you’re allowed to like them...?”
😂
Except maybe this is a good thing I should try!
I've decided I love this pecan/almond orchard. Both of your videos that took place in it were so wonderfully happy and delightful. Thank you, pecan/almond orchard. :)
My older sister asked what I wanted for Christmas so I sent her the link to a pizzamas shirt I really wanted. She then went on to ask me and I quote “what the heck is pizzamas” and I went on to say “oh don’t try to get me to explain it. It’s basically John’s face and pizza” and she said “I knew better than to ask.” 😂
This video cracked me up multiple times. I love the videos they are able to do together.
3 things. (1) I love that hat! (2) The energy of this video was phenomenal. (3) Did the effort to abandon opinions end with the tour or does the Grover Cleveland opinion qualify as a really core important opinion? 😂
*Tuataria-Pizzamashunt 9*
Letter: a
Hhm.. Almo..eh...nuts that are definitely not pecans. Yum.😋
Now that we're hydrated and energized we can take the last step and finish this hunt. Going through all these old videos made us smile a lot. Pizzamas really is a golden age of Vlogbrothers.
"I'm interviewing former vice president Joe Biden!" Boy how the times have *CHANGED* !
I just need you to know that I watch this video whenever I have a lot of anxiety. If it doesn’t fix the anxiety it at least makes me laugh and that’s not nothing.
I just love the two of them together ^^
Vlogbrothers videos have been SO vlogbrothers-y lately and I love it! It's so good, so good, so good.
One percent??!!! Geez and to think I was going to buy something at FULL PRICE yesterday!
Now you can have TWENTY TWO CENTS OFF your t-shirt purchase. -John
The practice of giving up an opinion because you have too many has lived rent free in my head ever since this video came out
Any advice for a sleep deprived student applying to college who currently has tiny chickens in her head?
Keep on swimming!
Hey I'm in the exact same situation, but I don't have a solution sorry :-/
look at KFC commercials until the chickens pass out from sheer terror, then go on with life.
Get some sleep. Above all else, take care of your health both physical and mental.
I'm doing the same thing! or i will be once i finish replying to your comment. my advice for essays: make a list of qualities you like about yourself, with examples from each, so that if you get stuck on how to brag about yourself you have some ideas
discarding an unnecessary opinion a day to find the core of your being is such a fantastic way to reflect and grow and I wish this was a thing people just did regularly
I'm realizing (3 years later), I don't think I ever saw this interview. I'm not immediately finding it either, what was it for?
Hank's dancing at 2:16 though. Thank God for Pizzamas.
1:25 Former Vice President and Future and Now 46th President Joe Biden!
The vlogbrothers are the awesomest vloging brothers ever.
I know pizza and I know john.........That is really how i know pizza john!
john looks so hansom in this video, the lighting just right and I like the gray in his hair. maybe its just because he is having lots of fun too! and hanks dancing made me smile so much!
1% doesn't even cover the exchange rate between US and Canadian currency but I appreciate it anyway
Well this hits different
So, if pizza john shirts are on sale should I save some Pence and Biden? I hope there's a refund option as well, I don't want to feel Cheneyed to my decision. Better get one before they're Al Gore.
Niko Chapas I see writing with puns is a vice for you.
I've been Spiro'ing out of control for some time now this isn't Agnew developmnent
Niko Chapas Maybe you should try branching out, make some Executive decisions...
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This relationship is keeping you both young at heart ☺
"I'd rather have too much. I'm an American." I lol'd.
I love Hank’s little run 🥰
ONE WHOLE PERCENT?? It is definitely time to buy my Pizzamas Merch at dftba.com. Where I could save a whole 22 cents on a $22 shirt!! (Before any tax. BUT I DID THE MATH). Time to save one penny per dollar!!
Tis the season!
Totally took advantage of that sweet discount code! Thanks VlogBrothers! Happy Pizzamas!!
There's a whole percent off! It's not nothing! And congrats John for TAtWD being on NYT bestseller list for 3 weeks (and counting!).
On a lighter note, your opinions matter (kinda!).
Happy Pizzamas and DFTBA!
I love how you just say/do whatever you wanna. I aspire to be like you in that regard.
Uncle Joe 2020
"you don't question it, you just accept it." reason #26796 of why i love john and hank
This was great! Thanks, Greens. :)
I like their "abandoning an unimportant opinion" idea. Perhaps I should stop having an opinion on whether or not I should get some Pizzamas gear or not and just do it! Action trumps opinion. :D
PS - if you're reading this, have a great day
If you don't have an opinion on the actions you're taking, you're heading down a slippery slope.
Admittedly your slippery slope has led you to Pizzamas merch so you may just be skiing which is awesome.
The latest Vlogbrothers videos put the biggest smile on my face because John and Hank seem so happy in them.
Everone calls him Uncle Joe
I was going to say, I think he would be down with that. I mean, just look at him, washing his TransAm in the White House driveway, he's so dope: politics.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732
Wow, the second awesome video in this orchard :D also, you seem to have had a great time touring and spending some great quality time together. So happy for you :)
I was starting to get upset because I ordered pizza john merch yesterday but then you said 1%
Soooo puuuurrree!!!!! I'm smiling and I needed this, never change ya'll
And now Uncle Joe is president.
this video just filled me with an immense amount of joy. love you both!
It honestly is so tiring when someone looks at my pizza john shirt and every single time they ask who it is. I tell them it is famous author John Green sporting a mustache and promoting pizza and that is all they need to know.
Just say, "You're obviously not cool enough to understand. Cast your eyes away from the glory of my Pizzamas shirt!"
By far the best vlogbrothers video I've seen in a long time. Not, like, in terms of content... just in happiness. I haven't seen some good good care-free Green content in too long. It felt nice. 10/10 more deliriously goofy brother videos please. Made me feel more ready to face the world.
The algorithm showed me this in 2022 for some reason. I would like to report that people still know who Joe Biden is. The world is a strange place, and stranger than it was 5 years ago. I am not sure how to feel about that.
Such a wonderful video to watch after a very long and tiring day at work.
I wish they were my brothers.
Oh I am super excited....
Watching John call Joe Biden the former vice president when Joe Biden is currently the president feels like listening to one of those married couples who say they "used to be engaged"
Pizza más really is the most wonderful time of the year
Very cool that I'm watching this as Uncle Joe has been elected president
I have been scrolling for this comment!
That will be a good trivia question for the far future fandom of the vlogbrothers. Was there ever any discount during Pizzamas? If so, how much? - cause I feel it's a one-time deal.
Of course I hear "discount" and perk up drop everything and listen for the code and then John says "1%". Ya know it's always the 1%.
Love you guys so much
1. Peanut Butter M&M's
2. Krispy M&M's
3. Regular
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all others: no opinion
I finished Turtles, and loved a lot!
Ooooh! This is why I keep wanting to call Joe Biden, Uncle Joe!! I thought he made it up himself at one point.
They posted this on my birthday, I feel blessed
Well, as a non USA citizen I didn't know who Joe Biden was. UNTIL HE BECAME THE FUCKING PRESIDENT
Yesterday I watched Hank explain Pizza John. Thank you, Hank. It took a long time and he was very patient. He also explained Pizzamas.
"I think people know who Joe Biden is." If they didn't know, now they know! Also, lots of folks call him Uncle Joe.
"Former Vice President Joe Biden" => "President Joe Biden"
Congrats, John, on being on top of the NYT Bestseller list for the last 3 weeks!!
I did know who President Uncle Joe Biden is.
YOU GUYS TOGETHER IS SO GOOD!