#Vlogbrothers

[measureyourlifeincake]

i know people make these kinds of posts with fictional characters a lot but like. hank green truly is one of The Most Guys Ever. like. he's one of the earliest youtubers who is still on there. he's a 43-year-old tiktok star. he's a science educator. he got cancer and his response was to make a tier list of the press's coverage of his cancer announcement. the president of the united states sent him a message of support and he told the president that he was pissing out the cancer. years earlier he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and his response was to write a polka song about it. he created vidcon. he's the ceo of a company that produces a shitton of educational series (well, not acting ceo at the moment due to the aforementioned cancer). his guitar says "this machine pwns n00bs" on it. he invented 2D glasses. one of his earliest videos to get popular was about animal sex. between him and his brother, he was known as "the science one" (or "the music one") while his brother was "the writer one," and then he wrote two new york times bestselling novels. his most controversial opinion is that butt is legs. he's done so many things that there is a website dedicated to counting the number of days since he started a new thing. he and his brother use their internet following to (among other things) fight maternal/infant mortality in sierra leone. he has a baked bean furby. hes even bisexual

[asymptotic-rage]

Imagining trying to explain to my 12-year-old self that John Green is your favorite non-fiction author and Hank Green is your favorite fiction author

[aconfusedgoose]

AND DAN AND PHIL ARE BACK???

I started this year making a meme about John Green being back and I thought that would be the wildest thing to happen this year... Clearly I was wrong. I feel like the universe is just confused about what year it is... I'm in my mid 20s now and I don't need to be going through this again.

[theconceptofsummer]

Hank Green wrote a book about intimidating robot statue aliens suddenly arriving at earth and then framed Twitter as the primary villain. Iconic

[cowboybuckleys]

[weaponsofmassdisruption]

Happy Pride!

[mcb3k]

You have no chance to survive make your time

Oh wow, the nostalgia!

[i-will-sing-no-requiem]

just ordered the pizzamas sweater blanket because i am obsessed

LOOK AT IT ITS SO BEAUTIFUL

Happy Pizzamas to all who celebrate

@sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

[symphing12]

What I learned this year during the project for awesome

[saturnisfallingdown]

GOOD NEWS THROUGH THE DESTIEL FORMAT.

[ID: The Destiel confession meme from Supernatural. With teary eyes, Castiel says: "I love you." Dean, looking unruffled, replies: "Due to efforts from Nerdfighteria, Johnson & Johsnon have granted a nonprofit organization a license to produce generic versions of Bedaquiline, a drug that will undoubtedly save the lives of countless people struggling with drug-resistant tuberculosis." End ID]

[pneapple]

sobbing because it's entirely possible that someone who works on cancer research and treatment (maybe even specifically for hodgkins lymphoma) learned or reviewed biology through hank green's crash course episodes. like they are using the knowledge he presented to them to help him. maybe not directly but somewhere along the line there's reciprocity.

[olessan]

[quintin]

John and Hank Green created one of the longest enduring internet communities and still create killer content while giving their profits to charity but the Watcher boys are willing to fence off their community and only allow in the ones that can afford to contribute to them directly. that’s some bullshit

[bassproshopspyramid]

image ID: the destiel breaking news meme, but after cas says "i love you", dean replies:

cas, danaher corporation and it’s subsidiary company cepheid are still charging tuberculosis (TB) patients in low- and middle-income countries $10–$20 to access quick and accurate testing despite the fact that cepheid’s genexpert machine tests were developed with at least $252 million in taxpayer money and doctors without borders found out that the tests only cost $3–$4.50 to produce. TB is a major cause of death and disability, not to mention that the inaccessibility of these tests leads to the spread of drug resistant TB around the globe.

it’s #timefor5. find out how you can help at tbfighters.org

[hellyeahscarleteen]

Could you record a short video about your experiences with Scarleteen?

Do you currently use or have you used Scarleteen for yourself as a young person, as a peer or adult educator, healthcare provider or other supportive adult, as a parent or guardian or in some other capacity? Are you comfortable being on video? Scarleteen plans to submit a video for Project For Awesome in 2025 and we’re asking you, the people Scarleteen has actually helped, for your help and participation in the video! Project For Awesome is an annual fundraising initiative that was started in 2007 by Hank and John Green, AKA the Vlogbrothers. During Project for Awesome, a plethora of organizations and individuals post videos advocating for causes that “decrease the overall level of world suck.” During P4A, these videos are shared widely; and over the course of a 48-hour livestream, a great deal of money is raised for the most popular causes. As an organization that has been working diligently to decrease the overall level of world suck for over 25 years, and has done so for millions upon millions of people all around the world, and who also is and has always been deeply underfunded, we feel like Project for Awesome is just the right place for us. Our goal with our video is to communicate the awesomeness of Scarleteen through your stories and your voices. We're asking you to capture yourself on video talking about your experience with Scarleteen so we can hear from you in your own words. Your personal experiences with Scarleteen will help us demonstrate that our work is vital, life-changing, has long decreased and continues to decrease the overall level of world suck, and in their words, is awesome.

If this sounds like something you can and would love to do, you can check out all the details and pitch in via the following links!

Announcement (start here & bookmark):

https://www.scarleteen.com/about/announcements/P4A-2025

Video Guidelines:

https://www.scarleteen.com/about/announcements/P4A-2025/guidelines

Submission/Upload Form:

https://forms.gle/BzakAeF5Hys5CtvA7

[reasonsforhope]

The US passed the world's biggest climate bill EVER (so far!) in 2022 and most people have no idea!!!

This video digs into all of the different awesome things the Inflation Reduction Act does - and why it puts the US back on track to potentially meet our Paris Agreement commitments.

Yall, the Inflation Reduction Act changed the whole game when it comes to climate change in the US. In fact, it's in large part why climate experts (and Hank Green, in this video) say that as of 2022,

We have more reason to have hope that we can save ourselves than we have EVER had, since we started to realize the true extent of climate change

Note: If you're wondering why the biggest climate bill in US history was passed under the name "Inflation Reduction Act," the answer seems to mostly be that it's easier to actually get shit done on climate if the name of the bill doesn't tell everyone that's what you're doing. (Also like. It was designed to reduce inflation too. Just, yknow. Not only.)

Transcript here! (There is a full transcript, it just might not look like it because it's not super clear that the text scrolls at first. Ask me how I know lol.)

-via Vlogbrothers, August 12, 2022