I do this every. single. tuesday.

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  • @vlogbrothers
    @vlogbrothers  3 роки тому +2627

    This shirt gets like 1.2x the views of other shirts, in case you're curious why the shirt. And I will keep wearing it until you prove me wrong. -John

  • @chanlizzie
    @chanlizzie 3 роки тому +2016

    John, That Carnegie Hall livestream saved me. I sang "I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me" at the top of my lungs in my unsafe home while you all sang it there. I made it. Thank you for all the hope you've sent me over the years.

    • @vlogbrothers
      @vlogbrothers  3 роки тому +683

      You made it through that year!!! YES! -John

    • @ThisIsReMarkable
      @ThisIsReMarkable 3 роки тому +39

      +
      You made it! Year after year!

    • @caitlin329
      @caitlin329 3 роки тому +17

      + ❤️

    • @2201rafaela
      @2201rafaela 3 роки тому +40

      This comment gave me chills. So glad you made it! ❤️

    • @N3rdfightermom
      @N3rdfightermom 3 роки тому +24

      Here is to many more, and having a song to sing when times are tough!

  • @jobriq5
    @jobriq5 3 роки тому +3294

    Amazing that Henry is in 6th grade as a 5-year old

    • @acelandak
      @acelandak 3 роки тому +20

      😂

    • @caitlin329
      @caitlin329 3 роки тому +136

      He's always been very advanced. Remember that excellent pun he made?

    • @heystaceykay
      @heystaceykay 3 роки тому +148

      And Alice is also definitely a toddler, so I’m incredibly excited to find out what she’s been up to lately.

    • @erinpennington19
      @erinpennington19 3 роки тому +217

      Five? That’s way too old, he’s only a baby. John uploaded that video singing lullabies to him like last week, right?

    • @keeperofthekeys84
      @keeperofthekeys84 3 роки тому +99

      No I'm pretty sure he just turned 3. I saw the big 3 balloon in the video where John's making him dinner that one time. That was from earlier this year, right? Grade 6 is very impressive for a 3 year old.

  • @kanalet8460
    @kanalet8460 3 роки тому +1509

    just based in the title alone so far: oh no. he’s becoming self aware.

  • @mephostopheles3752
    @mephostopheles3752 3 роки тому +1596

    Henry is in *what grade??*
    Oh god. That’s about how old I was when I STARTED watching vlogbrothers. I am now a 21-year-old university student. And time is, as it always has been, an incomprehensible curse.

    • @e-stah
      @e-stah 3 роки тому +14

      Ditto

    • @clairelin5058
      @clairelin5058 3 роки тому +4

      Same here!

    • @TheLaughingPanda
      @TheLaughingPanda 3 роки тому +6

      Me too! Just one year older! The passage of time is inexorable!

    • @michelle_m_m
      @michelle_m_m 3 роки тому +13

      When he said that, I almost choked. SIXTH GRADE?!

    • @davidjeindl446
      @davidjeindl446 3 роки тому +4

      What even is UA-cam?? I don't get it. It's evolving and dynamic, but still every vlogbrothers video is conserved and can be watched exactly as it was watched 5 or 15 years ago (although the context will impact the viewing experience).
      I'm close to 30 and feel old, and vlogbrothers has been going on for more than half of that time. This is completely ridiculous and I just can't wrap my head around it!

  • @Wyndtail
    @Wyndtail 3 роки тому +332

    "If I hold on to my ideas, I never get new ones."
    That might have been a throwaway line, but it resonated deeply with me. It was something I didn't know I needed to hear. It made me realize that I have been in a much similar place with my own creative endeavors. Thank you John!

  • @DiamondDogVenomSnake1984
    @DiamondDogVenomSnake1984 3 роки тому +58

    "I don't labor under the illusion that Vlogbrothers is particularly important"
    I mean, you permanently changed my life for the better and spent my teenage years teaching me how to be a kinder and more thoughtful and more generous human being. And idk, I think that's important.

    • @aphrog649
      @aphrog649 3 роки тому +1

      exactly what i was thinking

  • @mariavictoriagelvez7193
    @mariavictoriagelvez7193 3 роки тому +803

    During the last 18 months of the pandemic, knowing that it is Tuesday or Friday through their videos has been a necessary constant, especially in weeks that each day felt the same as the previous one, knowing that time was advancing through the videos was of great help to be connected to the outside world

    • @JulieHerrick
      @JulieHerrick 3 роки тому +5

      I second this.

    • @qtip6736
      @qtip6736 3 роки тому

      +

    • @coletakkish4389
      @coletakkish4389 3 роки тому

      +

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 3 роки тому

      Not to ruin the mood... _BUT_ ... I think you can know when it's Tuesday or Friday, other ways... like googling the date.

    • @Pingviinimursu
      @Pingviinimursu 3 роки тому +15

      @@alex.g7317 That way you can certainly know in your brain, but you won't know in your heart, so to speak. The comfort comes from days that are distinct enough to feel different, not just 24 hour periods with different labels. During the worst of the pandemic my studies didn't care at all about weekdays and suddenly "I hate Mondays" of "thank God it's Friday" meant nothing. Even though they had for around 20 years of my life. If the days are functionally similar, they blend together and the safety and comfort of a familiar cycle is lost.

  • @scootmoondog
    @scootmoondog 3 роки тому +382

    John, I gotta say-- I've never once watched one of your videos and thought "huh, that was a bad one." We don't come here for stellar, perfectly executed content. We come here for the relatively raw and intimate thoughts and experiences you're willing to share, and it resonates all the more for your humanity.

  • @CG-tx2io
    @CG-tx2io 3 роки тому +461

    So glad for this one consistency every Tuesday. It brings comfort for all of us. Especially now. Thank you John.

    • @IrisGlowingBlue
      @IrisGlowingBlue 3 роки тому

      +++

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 3 роки тому

      WOAH WOAH WOAH!!! Let me get this perfectly straight: You comment something that is completely unrelated to the fact that I have two HAZARDOUSLY HANDSOME girlfriends? Considering that I am the unprettiest UA-camr worldwide, it is really incredible. Yet you did not mention it at all. I am VERY disappointed, dear ch

    • @amanatee27
      @amanatee27 3 роки тому

      +

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 роки тому +1

      We could all use a little consistency.

  • @MidnightArticuno
    @MidnightArticuno 3 роки тому +448

    Realizing Henry's in 6th grade just aged me so much, I've been watching these every single tuesday for almost as long as you've been making them

    • @acelandak
      @acelandak 3 роки тому +2

      I feel this 👆🏻

    • @josealexanderocampo3805
      @josealexanderocampo3805 3 роки тому +3

      I'm new to him and I feel happy when I watch his videos

    • @LifeEleanorDeathNell
      @LifeEleanorDeathNell 3 роки тому +8

      Big same. I was in early high school when vlogbrothers started and I started watching, I remember the absolute glee of finding out there would be a tiny new addition to the Green family and the first video of Henry as a babbu. Now I'm starting to consider whether or not I want to have my own children.

    • @N3rdfightermom
      @N3rdfightermom 3 роки тому +3

      Me too! Since my youngest was in kindergarten. She is a senior in high school now

    • @josealexanderocampo3805
      @josealexanderocampo3805 3 роки тому

      @@LifeEleanorDeathNell it's your decision to have children if I were you I would want to have children maybe 2-4 maybe more

  • @2201rafaela
    @2201rafaela 3 роки тому +229

    My Tuesdays and Fridays are better because of this channel. Thanks for being here every week - you, Hank and Nerdfighteria.

  • @sethhowell2278
    @sethhowell2278 3 роки тому +73

    'i dont labor under the delusion that vlogbrothers is particularly important...' you can labor under that a little bit, because vlogbrothers has been among the most important media i partake in for the better part of my adult life. i exited highschool during Brotherhood2.0 and this has been a very important upload for me each and every time, sometimes just for the laugh, sometimes for the tears. but almost always important to me at least.

  • @anWeepingAngel
    @anWeepingAngel 3 роки тому +218

    This consistency of one person (well two people in this case), is definitely something which help build a sense of consistency in the lives of myself and others. These videos have been with me when I left everything I knew behind to go to university in a new country 4 years ago, and you are with me now as I have once again set out for a new terrifying country alone in the search for my master's degree. My life often feels like it has no consistency and things just keep happening, the type of small covert consistency from videos like yours has definitely helped me feel connected and grounded over the years. Thank you for keeping it up!

  • @twojuiceman
    @twojuiceman 3 роки тому +78

    John is grateful for vlogbrothers for his regularity and consistency, and Hank is grateful for Metamucil for his "regularity" and "consistency"

  • @jessicaduncan2909
    @jessicaduncan2909 3 роки тому +116

    The strange part about this is that I was a child when you started this and now I’m a fully grown adult with responsibilities. I remember the happy meal moment in a stage of my life where I couldn’t even buy one with my “own” money. Thankful every week for the consistency that this channel has brought to my life too.

  • @abbyncisreid
    @abbyncisreid 3 роки тому +79

    Although I haven’t consistently watched them every Tuesday for the past 10 years since I watched my first one, it’s nice knowing I can always find my way back to them and they’ll always be there when I need them to be

  • @afroceltduck
    @afroceltduck 3 роки тому +16

    Usually in the annual Nerdfighteria census/survey, there's a question about whether the channel should upload more, or have longer videos. And it's like.....no. No. Tuesdays and Fridays, around 4 minutes unless it's educational. That's the way it works. You can depend on it like a good watch. It would feel wrong to have an additional day.

  • @MaddieMarvolo
    @MaddieMarvolo 3 роки тому +72

    I also do “this” every Tuesday. Watching 2 vlogbrothers videos a week is part of the important consistency in my life! Thanks for being consistent and bringing me happiness on my best and worst days.

  • @Razbeariez
    @Razbeariez 3 роки тому +65

    I guess in the grand scheme of things this channel isn't "important", but it's definitely important to me. Come to think of it... this is the most consistent & long-term I've been part of a community - of any kind.

  • @moiradarling97
    @moiradarling97 3 роки тому +18

    I have to say that Vlogbrothers IS particularly important. I mean, it’s impacted my life in huge ways but it on a vastly more important scale it has impacted the lives of those in Sierra Leone. That and the lives those affected by other charities that P4A has raised money for. It has prompted marriages, children being born, friendship being made, and SO much more.

  • @lailinshale
    @lailinshale 3 роки тому +7

    And long may it continue. So mote it be.
    I love this little place in time. Where physically distant brothers are emotionally close, and where vulnerability and truth are respected, this is a wonderful community that sprung up around these videos. They have become a touchstone of peace in the constant tornado that is internet media, and I am grateful it's here.

  • @eliontheinternet3298
    @eliontheinternet3298 3 роки тому +1

    This channel is the closest thing I have to church right now. Vlogbrother videos are like my sermons. Tuesday videos are like Sunday morning mass. They usually tell me something good for me, good for the rest of humanity, and help me better myself. Friday videos are like Wednesday night youth group. Lots of fun, but still help me learn how to get along with my fellow man. Thank you guys for all you do. ❤️

  • @LifeEleanorDeathNell
    @LifeEleanorDeathNell 3 роки тому +43

    Uhg, right in the nostalgia.
    (Not in a "I want to go back to those days" kind of a nostalgia, just a "I am feeling ambiguous good and other feelings thinking about how Vlogbrothers has been a part of and helped shape my life through some of my most formative years and I look forward to how that will continue to grow and evolve" kind of way.)

  • @EriqireM
    @EriqireM 3 роки тому +1

    Vlogbrothers is important to me.
    We have no way to count how many people this channel has changed.
    He who saves one life saves the world entire.

  • @gabby4558
    @gabby4558 3 роки тому +18

    And here we are, watching this. every. Tuesday!

  • @dfrank2003
    @dfrank2003 3 роки тому +1

    I was there at Carnegie Hall, and it was one of the most amazing nights of my life, thank you

  • @JosephWillingham
    @JosephWillingham 3 роки тому +11

    A Haiku:
    Oh Consistency
    Lovely sameness sings to me
    Doing it again

  • @technicaldifficultysupport
    @technicaldifficultysupport 3 роки тому +1

    "thanks for being here it means a lot to me" resonates after 3+ years of not watching vlog brothers videos but needing them.

  • @seasq
    @seasq 3 роки тому +7

    Since 2007, vlogbrothers has been a constant in my life that has always helped me to reorient my life. When I'm overwhelmed by life, my mental health issues, or just altogether stuck vlogbrothers has been my security blanket that brings me back to me. So, from this now 30 year old, security blanket needing woman, thank you John and Hank for being my security blanket since I was 16 and helping me be me through all those years. Your consistency has been more important to me than I could ever fully express.

  • @Domdrok
    @Domdrok 3 роки тому +1

    Started watching senior year of high school, now I'm 32 and entering a new career. Thank you for the stability, John.

  • @nancymandle5215
    @nancymandle5215 3 роки тому +3

    never underestimate the impact you have on others. I can’t possibly be the only peep who finds significant comfort in seeing you every tuesday and hank every friday. And please know that you have NEVER, imho, created a bad video. I love them all.

  • @mollyhernandez2385
    @mollyhernandez2385 3 роки тому +1

    Vlogbrothers has been a vital part of my life since high school. I'll never forget meeting John at a fundraising event where he read from Looking for Alaska (which he said he didn't do often, but would oblige my two friends and I since we'd driven 4 hours to Indianapolis to see him speak) and tried to give us some peeps and asked the Yeti if she had money for us to stay in a hotel instead of having to drive the 4 hours back home after the event. (We wouldn't take his money or his peeps. 😅) Love you guys so much and thank you for all you have done and continue to do for us Nerdfighters. Thank you for being awesome and making the world suck less. DFTBA!

  • @allyjay2214
    @allyjay2214 3 роки тому +8

    Vlogbrothers videos are extremely necessary :) I love them so much and look forward to them every Tuesday and Friday

  • @dcseain
    @dcseain 3 роки тому +2

    I was shocked to realize recently that i've been watching this channel from the beginning. It has been an amazing journey. Thank you.

  • @viveladecadence
    @viveladecadence 3 роки тому +14

    2:20: I don't know if you chose those words deliberately or if it was a humorous self-deprecating phrasing, but I like that you said "...and I think that's why I have been able to be _mostly_ consistent over the last 15 years". It didn't need to be "I was always on point" or "I always delivered", instead, you avoided the perfectionism and "allowed" yourself to be as good as you could be at the time, and that was good enough and perfectly (ha!) alright.

  • @exiledjouster4566
    @exiledjouster4566 3 роки тому +1

    Just about every week on Monday after school, I get home, and I think, “Oh yeah, one more day until a vlogbrothers video. Why did I think it was today?” and then on Tuesday, I am presented with a lovely little gift.

  • @abbyg
    @abbyg 3 роки тому +55

    How is Henry aging at such a rapid rate when Hank and John are still essentially the exact same age as they were in 2007?

  • @natashiagushue3889
    @natashiagushue3889 3 роки тому +2

    I started watching Vlogbrothers when I was 12 years old in 2009, after hearing about you from a friend in 7th grade. You were the first UA-camrs I watched and have greatly shaped how I see and approach the world. I'm now a 24-year-old teacher who teaches 7-12th grade, and I show your videos to my students. The constancy of the videos also helps me. Everything about me and my life has changed since 7th grade, but not this, and I love that.

  • @caitlin329
    @caitlin329 3 роки тому +8

    I'm 22 and have watched these a great deal of my Tuesdays for I think over half of my lifetime. So thank you for doing this even though you really don't have to.

    • @caitlin329
      @caitlin329 3 роки тому +1

      The people commenting who are younger than this channel make me feel strange and older but I'm so incredibly young. So that's weird.

    • @ryanl8226
      @ryanl8226 3 роки тому +1

      I am in the same boat as you where I discovered vlogbrothers around a decade ago. It feels so strange that Henry is at or nearly at the age where I started watching this channel.

  • @davetoms1
    @davetoms1 3 роки тому +2

    "I don't labor under the delusion that vlogbrothers is particularly important..."
    Oh, John. After all these years, do you still not know just how important these short videos are? I have wept. Laughed out loud. Pondered topics deeply. Sure, sometimes simply smiled. But I felt things all because you and your brother share your thoughts vulnerably and honestly. I cannot convey this strongly enough:
    vlogbrothers is particularly important,
    particularly powerful, and
    very, very much appreciated 🖖

  • @amanatee27
    @amanatee27 3 роки тому +8

    "The days were a little bit terrifying in their emptiness." When I'm working, I think of how great it would be to have all the time in the world to do whatever I want. But when I was unemployed, much of that time felt very full of empty in a depressing kind of way.

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk 3 роки тому

    Exactly that feeling - of "people are counting on me" (or maybe more like "people are waiting for this"?) - is why I have a ridiculous amount of fan fic posted on AO3. I too found a schedule because of those uploads, and so what if my stories are perhaps riddled with tropes, or terrible in one way or another? I enjoy making them, and there are OTHER PEOPLE who enjoy reading them, and that's what matters to me.
    And as an audience member rather than a creator - every Tuesday. Every single Tuesday. It's something I can look forward to, or something I might miss and go "oh dear" and then scramble to watch early on Wednesday instead. It's something that matters. Does it change the world?
    Well.... for someone it does. Maybe not for me, not today. But your videos have made me laugh, and made me cry, and made me think and think and think. I have taken comfort from walking in the woods with you, and I have wept like a child over Auld Lang Syne (it's still making me cry just thinking about it), and I have smiled right along with you about your garden and your "it's too early to be alive but here I am at the airport" videos.
    I don't fool myself: I don't "know" you, I am not your family member, and I am not trying to go over that boundary.
    But I appreciate you, and Hank, so very much. I feel entirely blessed to have discovered this channel and the many others that exist because of you.
    So thank you. Thank you for this Tuesday, and every Tuesday that came before it from the start, and every Tuesday after.

  • @pamelarojas7754
    @pamelarojas7754 3 роки тому +7

    I don't want to imagine a Tuesday without your videos. I do believe them to be quiet important for us and having listened to you and Hank for so many years every week has an inimaginable impact on the way we perceive the world and I continue to fall in love with it, even when it's hard.
    Thank you for creating this space for us✨

  • @elenaj6283
    @elenaj6283 3 роки тому +1

    As a nurse I work my 12 hour shifts every other weekend and every Tuesday and Friday. Having John and Hank be my consistent companions during my 45min break has been such a blessing

  • @marinar1380
    @marinar1380 3 роки тому +4

    Your words about finding orientation in routine feels very familiar .. I've just graduated and am yet to find a job, so my days are extremely empty. I'm finding having a consistent daily routine (for the first time since I was 16) to be very comforting.

  • @chandragreenberg9109
    @chandragreenberg9109 3 роки тому

    vlogbrothers is *incredibly* important. For its impact on the individuals in nerdfighteria, and in what the impact on those individuals allows us to do collectively

  • @arunimaphadke
    @arunimaphadke 3 роки тому +7

    Is it okay that consistent routine feels so exciting? I wake up every Tuesday so happy for your uploads. I never thought I'd say this but I'm grateful for blenderized Happy Meal punishments. Thank you for everything John!

  • @blindedbliss
    @blindedbliss 3 роки тому

    2:40 - Vlogbrothers and the feeling of purpose and impact it gives you is very important for YOU and your mental health.

  • @hitchikerspie
    @hitchikerspie 3 роки тому +5

    I only joined about 7 years ago, but I want to say thank-you so much for this regularity. It’s comforting being in this wonderful community you’ve cultivated 😁

  • @anyamccullough2844
    @anyamccullough2844 3 роки тому +1

    I'm glad it serves you similarly as it serves me! Having vlogbrothers videos every tuesday and friday and having that consistency has been a comfort and importance that I don't know how to put into words. It is one of the only elements of normalcy and consistency that has not been made less safe by the pandemic and has hardly been changed at all, except in the content within the videos, which often reflects current events. Having a little dose of hope and humanity and community to look forward to on the same days every week has done so much good for my heart and mental health, and I'm glad to hear that that hasn't been at your expense. ❤ the world came to a screeching halt, but the vlogbrothers kept going. And I have been thankful for that every week. ❤

  • @toribruk6653
    @toribruk6653 3 роки тому +32

    Its wierd to me that you've been making videos the same amount of time IVE BEEN ALIVE and yet i can relate to them?? Thir always so enjoyable even the half baked ones

    • @vlogbrothers
      @vlogbrothers  3 роки тому +18

      Weird for me, too! :) -John

    • @evag6916
      @evag6916 3 роки тому

      + same

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 роки тому

      @Lepetitfrosch I, as a teenager, should not be able to relate to content that people have been following along since I was too young to understand anything.

    • @lindsayf.feldman9530
      @lindsayf.feldman9530 3 роки тому

      Oh no, the children are realizing that we, too, are human!

  • @starryserenades
    @starryserenades 3 роки тому

    I have been an inconsistent consumer of vlogbrothers videos and I've missed MANY Tuesdays and Fridays, but every time I come back, it's like coming home. This community is the one I've been active in the longest and the consistent videos have been a comfort in some of the darkest times.
    Some of my best memories are from Nerdfighteria - like freaking out when Wil Wheaton said my name in a P4A livestream, donating to get a copy of "Look at Hank's Face" from the P4A after staying up almost 24 full hours livestreaming it, seeing you both at Nerdcon Stories, meeting local Nerdfighters, and many many more.
    So thank you for what you and Hank do for this community 💜

  • @ObviouslyBenHughes
    @ObviouslyBenHughes 3 роки тому +10

    I never comment. Commenting is never normal.

  • @sparklydino234
    @sparklydino234 3 роки тому

    The consistency not only of a getting a video every Tuesday and Friday, but getting it in the same 4 minute format with the same two people, has been very comforting to me as well, especially through covid and as youtube trends have shifted towards more long-form content. I also derive some comfort specifically from how vlogbrothers doesn't feel super "branded"?? Like, it IS branded because everything is branded and a personality/pattern will pretty much always emerge from a given artist's work whether they like it or not. But vlogbrothers feels different in that you're clearly not trying to make it with any goal in mind other than your own and nerdfighters' enjoyment. No shade whatsoever to creators who do pursue ads and sponsors of course! But thank you for the fact that I can feel vlogbrothers' labor-of-love-ness all the way from Texas every Tuesday and Friday!!! ❤ 🙅‍♂️

  • @IsacMH
    @IsacMH 3 роки тому +3

    This video made me realize that I've been subscibed to this channel for around 13 years and I have never once learned the schedule of uploads since every time a video shows up I go "oh neat" in slight surprise

  • @akjar15
    @akjar15 3 роки тому +1

    Good morning John! I have been to your channels and podcasts on my worst days- last year on the days after learning of a close mentor’s passing, some rough mental health days, and stressed out of my brain days. I have also been here on my best days- starting university, the bright evenings of summer, and the warmth of the holidays. Thank you for being here John, Hank, and Nerdfighteria. You have been a place of immense comfort and joy. John and Hank, I’ll see you soon. ❤️

  • @freekeefox
    @freekeefox 3 роки тому +19

    Oh man... that reference to way back when "Vlog Brothers Punishments" were a thing just sent me back in time ten years. I can't believe it's been so long.
    All the nostalgia in the world will not make me suggest you do another "punishment"

  • @k8con
    @k8con 3 роки тому

    Been here for 14ish of those 15 years!! I’ll never forget walking into my city library in 2008 or 2009, seeing a “DFTBA” sticker and asking the librarian if he watched vlogbrothers (of course he did). Instant friend and helper during my teenage years. Whenever I am anxious, I watch your videos: they soothe me and help me forget that the world sucks sometimes. I’ll never stop commenting on how much hope this channel has given me. Thank you 💗

  • @hayley6094
    @hayley6094 3 роки тому +4

    Great vid as usual John. I sometimes hear this narrative that you should ‘create art for yourself’ and not worry about social media validation. I do think that’s good advice, but I really do resonate with what you said about making art for other people. I would have burned out on my D&D campaign if I hadn’t been making it for my friends.

  • @MOO276
    @MOO276 3 роки тому

    The consistency of Vlog Brothers has been super comforting to me especially lately. The fact that you guys have been doing it since I started watching you in middle school and now continue into my adulthood, it makes me feel like I have a place to center around, and connect with younger versions of myself as you post each new video. I don't know if that makes any sense, but you guys have been a part of my life for a long time and I enjoy it. Thank you John & Hank. for being yourselves.

  • @Roll587
    @Roll587 3 роки тому +5

    My job also requires me to have ideas. When I've been "out of the game" for a while, I think I'll never have ideas again. But once I start again, I find that each idea spawns 3 more, etc. Are they all good? Certainly not. But what makes ideas good is time, attention, and care. Just like everything else.

  • @joshuasims5421
    @joshuasims5421 3 роки тому

    I have never thought of Brotherhood 2.0 as a way to structure unstructured days. Boy, have I felt that need. As someone who has watched since near the beginning, I really appreciate this video.

  • @catiec3020
    @catiec3020 3 роки тому +3

    I relate immensely to this desire for semi-arbitrary (but nonetheless meaningful) deadlines and schedules as I try to navigate independent adulthood. I like to think of it as the “homework drive” and i credit it with the longevity of my duolingo streak.

  • @untappedinkwell
    @untappedinkwell 3 роки тому +2

    I find the consistency of this community to be one of the most comforting things in all of the **gestures broadly**. So thanks for having us, John, and nerdfighteria, thanks for letting me hang out with all of you.
    Take care, be kind, and DFTBA!

  • @acelandak
    @acelandak 3 роки тому +6

    Oh my god - you saying that Henry is in 6th grade makes me feel OLD! I remember watching videos about him being born 😳

  • @protocol6
    @protocol6 3 роки тому +170

    "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. " -- Douglas Adams

    • @HeBreaksLate
      @HeBreaksLate 3 роки тому +3

      I'm glad to see someone beat to this quote.

    • @EcceJack
      @EcceJack 3 роки тому

      +

  • @StardustScribe
    @StardustScribe 3 роки тому

    Over the 15 years I am also so grateful for the consistency yet unpredictability of vlogbrothers. I know there will be a video; I have absolutely no idea what it might be about. This community is really something special.

  • @NavyHamster901
    @NavyHamster901 3 роки тому +5

    John green, Reminding everyone a consistent schedule is important Aka Good Morning Hank it’s Tuesday, Also John what is your skin routine? You haven’t aged a day in 15 years. You know It’s probably the blended happy meal.

    • @IrisGlowingBlue
      @IrisGlowingBlue 3 роки тому +3

      That or the peanut butter face! Or maybe the generous application of permanent marker just kinda all over it.

    • @NavyHamster901
      @NavyHamster901 3 роки тому

      @@IrisGlowingBlue you are so right I completely forgot about those beauty hacks he did. I’m sure it was a combination of peanut butter face and permanent market as well as the blended happy meal.

  • @marybethrodgers2464
    @marybethrodgers2464 3 роки тому

    Ive been a nerd fighter since I was in 6th grade and now I’m about to graduate college, and in those 11 years I’ve watched vlogbrothers nearly every Tuesday and Friday (plus the podcast on Mondays for 6(?) years). Nerdfighteria has been the most influential part of my adolescence and a steady force for good in adulthood, and I’m so grateful for over a decade of consistent support from the community.

  • @rileyponders3540
    @rileyponders3540 3 роки тому +61

    I was just wondering whether you or hank struggles more with the whole “deadlines for creative work that will be judged forever by thousands of people” thing? I have pretty debilitating ocd and am studying literature at uni (in melbourne, Australia) so I think about this a lot in terms of creative process.

    • @sylvy16
      @sylvy16 3 роки тому +9

      I struggle with this a lot. In english class, everyday we get assignments and sometimes it takes weeks for me to do them even though the actual work only takes about 30 minutes.
      I am also very close to the publishing date for my upcoming book and i still want to make changes since i don’t think it is very good even though others have assured me.
      I also have hundreds of videos that i have already filmed but i haven’t uploaded. I struggle with OCD so that might be the cause for this.

    • @vlogbrothers
      @vlogbrothers  3 роки тому +145

      I used to, but that is another thing consistency kind of drained out of me. (In the end, I do not think creative work exists to Build a Legacy or Last Forever or whatever. I think it exists to be useful to the people who find it.) -John

    • @I4getTings
      @I4getTings 3 роки тому +2

      @@vlogbrothers That is very helpful. Thank you !

    • @OrWhatWeHave
      @OrWhatWeHave 3 роки тому +2

      I wonder if there's also a quantity element to the consistency that is reassuring. Like even if it's bad content (which is never is), it will be superceded within a week and there's so *much* of it that no single video (/whatever content one is producing) has too much riding on it?

  • @TenThousandDoors
    @TenThousandDoors 3 роки тому

    John, I need you to know that Vlogbrothers *is* important. At least, it's important to me.
    I've been a Nerdfighter since 2009 and it's been such a huge part of my teenage and young adult development. It gave me hope through adolescent angst and worry, through an eating disorder, through my first relationship, through heartbreak, through choosing a college and then ultimately not getting to go, through addiction, through homelessness, through the loss of my father, and now through my first pregnancy as my life has gotten exponentially brighter, healthier, and less chaotic.
    As you guys have shared your life with us, it feels as though, through comments and book tours and online community that I've shared my life with you. Something in what you say resonates with me each video, and something about each one matters; if only to enhance the collective.

  • @abundanceofellies9520
    @abundanceofellies9520 3 роки тому +6

    To be honest at the moment, I think this UA-cam channel is one thing people can rely on every week 😊 I know I do 👍🏻

  • @blazzingblue33
    @blazzingblue33 3 роки тому

    "Having people who are counting on you and trying to deliver for them"
    This is the only way I get things done. It's not about me, it's about the joy people get from me doing a thing for them.

  • @rebeccam2553
    @rebeccam2553 3 роки тому +6

    Other people's expectations is the strongest motivation.

  • @Ava-xg3sl
    @Ava-xg3sl 3 роки тому +2

    I don't think I thought about it until now but I rely on your bi weekly videos. When I'm feeling overwhelmed I know that I can come a watch your videos and have a moment of peace. During covid they were one of the only things that reminded me what day it was or that there were other people out there going through the same things. I've never thanked you in these 7 years that I've watched your videos, but sincerely thank you.

  • @cailinbary7806
    @cailinbary7806 3 роки тому +3

    First

    • @captainnakou
      @captainnakou 3 роки тому +1

      DAMNIT

    • @cailinbary7806
      @cailinbary7806 3 роки тому

      @@captainnakou I wasn't even actually first though 😅 maybe next time

    • @Neptunia98
      @Neptunia98 3 роки тому +1

      @@cailinbary7806 you were! If you sort by recent, and scroll to the bottom, it’s youuuu

    • @captainnakou
      @captainnakou 3 роки тому

      @@cailinbary7806 For me you were, and I was 2 seconds behind you x).

    • @meandmonica
      @meandmonica 3 роки тому

      all that talk about the early days made me wonder if people still did this.

  • @charlievanbeek3053
    @charlievanbeek3053 3 роки тому

    Ive been watching this channel since 2009 and oh my lord.. Henry being in 6 grade has made me realize my own mortality. Thanks for all the comfort over every Tuesday and Friday for the past 12 years, John and Hank. So much love to you both ❤

  • @MattPalka
    @MattPalka 3 роки тому

    The enrollment and commitment in watching these every Tuesday and Friday has also given me a deep sense of orientation and community, whatever mood I am in. I remember watching these and talking with my mom about videos when I had appendicitis in the hospital.

  • @KasiePwns
    @KasiePwns 3 роки тому

    I don't know why but I don't want to picture a life without the vlogbrothers videos. It's a sense of consistency in my life for well over a decade. Thank you guys for making these videos.

  • @AperioContra
    @AperioContra 3 роки тому

    “It’s not a job, but it has the contour of a job.” Is such a brilliant sentiment made so simply and quickly.

  • @chashahjohnson
    @chashahjohnson 3 роки тому

    admittedly, I had emotional therapy two hours ago, but this really got to me. because the vlogbrothers in many ways showed me what i was living for when i needed it most. vlogbrothers gets me through some of my darkest moments, convinces me to laugh when i haven't felt like smiling in days, turns up the brightness of my happiest memories. i dont know where i would be without vlogbrothers and nerdfighteria, but i know im glad to be here with all of us.

  • @ruffboimags
    @ruffboimags 3 роки тому

    It's not important on the large scale, but on the individual personal scale, to those of us who've been on this ride at any point in the last 15 years, it's very important.
    I've never been a full time nerdfighter and I've sometimes gone years without watching y'all's videos, but when I was 20 I discovered this UA-cam thing and it had a channel on it where a couple of brothers had decided to send videos to each other every weekday for a year, and it changed my life. Not in a huge way all at once but in little, incremental ways. It's in how if I have to record myself talking into a camera, I still fall into the "nerdfighter cadence". It's how sometimes I look at the night sky and think "mostly void, partially stars". It's in how much I love Pizza John without understanding it at ALL.
    This community and the things you've created are important. Thank you for them. And for the mountain goats, I'm p sure I discovered them through you 😂

  • @CharlineLikesC
    @CharlineLikesC 3 роки тому

    Vlogbrothers has been part of my life now for 10 years and still a part that I greatly enjoy. So thank you for being there every tuesday.

  • @mavrc
    @mavrc 3 роки тому

    John I genuinely can't tell you the difference that you and Hank and Vlogbrothers and nerdfighteria generally has made in my life. I am a much, much kinder, happier, and all-around better person now than I was ten years ago because of the fact that I found this channel. It also might have been the therapy. But I wouldn't have gotten that if it wasn't for this channel, so, yeah, here we are. Thank you so much.

  • @GhostsOfThings
    @GhostsOfThings 3 роки тому

    As a very inconsistent person who longs for but ultimately fails at establishing routines, the consistency of these videos over the last many years as been very important to me. And that's ignoring the content of those videos and the openness and kindness found in this community and in John and Hank. It's all kept me going so I thank you ❤️

  • @zacharywhitney6957
    @zacharywhitney6957 3 роки тому +1

    Vlogbrothers has been that important to me. So much of myself and unlearning so much anger and resentment has been informed through you and Hanks output.

  • @DinoDudeDillon
    @DinoDudeDillon 3 роки тому +1

    I've now been watching frog motors for 10 years.
    EDIT: Was using voice to text we're keeping it 👍

  • @addykruse6182
    @addykruse6182 3 роки тому +1

    I'm so glad that vlogbrothers is going through it's existential crisis phase at the same time I am. What a blessing to spend my formative years with y'all

  • @iamgerg
    @iamgerg 3 роки тому

    Vlog brother videos are a tic tock of my week. When they are there they are one sound amongst many, when one is missed, the silence is deafening...

  • @emilyscollins5204
    @emilyscollins5204 3 роки тому

    I've been watching you every single Tuesday since I was in grade school. I have my first grown-up big ol' full-time panel job interview in two hours, and I'm sobbing over my breakfast banana.
    We really made it through these years.

  • @oliveroil4986
    @oliveroil4986 3 роки тому +2

    And we thank you and appreciate you for it John, I'm glad to have been part of it for a long time

  • @roguegreyjedi
    @roguegreyjedi 3 роки тому +1

    Hey John, I've missed seeing your vision boards lately. I know you haven't been making them for 14 years or so but still love them when you have them

  • @alisalarsen9163
    @alisalarsen9163 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for vlogbrothers I think it adds more happiness, thoughtfulness and kindness to the world than the human brain will ever be able to comprehend.

  • @SingAAAAAlong
    @SingAAAAAlong 3 роки тому

    The magically thing is that to so many people, these videos are important. They’ve been important to me for years.

  • @youngmajestic
    @youngmajestic 3 роки тому

    forever grateful to my sister who brought me to the evening of awesome at carnegie hall. feels like a high water mark of nerdfighteria and i’m so glad i got to be there. 🥰

  • @bethwarn
    @bethwarn 3 роки тому

    15 years. Woah. This channel and this community are important to me in a lot of ways- and their consistency and longevity are big parts of that importance. Even though I don't participate fully (by buying merch or attending VidCon), I like being able to say I'm a part of Nerdfighteria.

  • @JenskiC
    @JenskiC 3 роки тому +1

    I can't believe it's been 15 years of vlogbrothers! I've been watching since I was 15 (started when "Accio Deathly Hallows" was on the front page) and will be turning 30 next year. I was in high school when this started and I'm getting married next year 🤯 Amazing how time flies! Thank you and Hank for bringing consistency through this time! X

  • @Sara_TheFatCultureCritic
    @Sara_TheFatCultureCritic 3 роки тому

    I don't think I can judge the importance of Vlogbrothers on a large scale, but it has been important to me. Watching you cope with your mental illness imperfectly, but coping, helped me know that I could too. My depression and undiagnosed ADHD cost me my first attempt at university and some jobs. When I came to this island of the internet I was kind of resigned to a small life. But I saw you cope, and keep going when it was hard, and I found community with other nerdfighters and we were all trying to do the same. I learned to value seeing the world complexly instead of apologizing for being unfocussed. I learned to remind myself the only way out is through and to listen for the feathered song of hope. Last week I started my final year of undergrad in Gender Studies and Film Studies, intersecting fields I am good at. Not only that but I had a video essay of my own go viral, people liked me looking at something complexly. Whenever I make a video I use Gladys, my cuddly anglerfish, to set up the shot; I focus with a little bit of what you have created in the world. And I'm just one person of the many you have touched by showing up every Tuesday to do this work. DFTBA, Sara

  • @gracethomas4167
    @gracethomas4167 3 роки тому +1

    I too am also never consistent with anything, except watching a vlogbrothers video every Tuesday and Friday since I found this channel