New Look! And New Obsession: Video Bloggers

This post is exactly how it sounds.

John Green looks like this right here. And this left here is Hank Green. Hank and John are both real fuckin' smart. John has a double major in English and Religious Studies. Hank has a Bachelor's in biochemistry and a Master's degree in environmental studies.





Now, these clowns in 2007 realized that they didn't talk at all except through text. They decided that they should communicate through a vlog for one year. And through this blog, Nerdfighteria was born! Basically, their blog (vlogbrothers) became super famous. These idiots then used this fame not to do stupid things but to educate! To donate to charity! To make the world better!

They do a lot of silly things like "giant squid of anger" and "peanut butter face" but they also take North Korea and Syria and  Egypt and break them down into five minute historical videos put into language that kids actually take interest in.

John Green even runs the channel Mental_Floss (for the magazine) where he teaches you things in lists (e.g. 50 common historical misconceptions).

Hank Green runs several different channels such as scishow (which explains things like tornadoes and evolution!) sexplanations (which helps people become comfortable and tolerant of both their own and other people's sexuality) and hankschannel (where he pretty much talks about whatever he wants.)

I just think it's amazing what these two people have done. They're both so intelligent and in different ways. Hank green runs the website ecogeek, and he can actually explain things like why the sky is blue. John Green taught me the difference between "less" and "fewer" which I had no idea existed, and he writes beautiful things like this (and fuck you, by the way, because I haven't even read TFIOS yet and it makes me sad):

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

 I just cannot explain how much I admire these people. They are both very wealthy in money and in knowledge and they use it to get people to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities or to set up their very own day (in honor of one of their fans who died of thyroid cancer at 16) in which they tell family and friends they love them. They're just good people. They're good, smart, silly, well-rounded people. Hank sings songs about Harry Potter and he is a biochemist! John Green teaches history via youtube and wrote a love story about two teenagers with cancer.

I just love them so much. DFTBA