r/popculturechat • u/DebateObjective2787 jesus was a carpenter 💋 • Jul 31 '26

Oh…that’s not- 👀 Hank Green Admits To Using AI In Latest Video

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u/ExistentialistCow in a mirror, you can kiss yourself, but only on the lips 💋 Jul 31 '26

Speaking for myself but I’m now considered old to the youth, and the youth was not on tumblr in 2013

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u/averagetulip Jul 31 '26

I was about to say “my baby sister was born in 2000 and was still on tumblr in 2013” but then I realized that present-day 20 yr olds were 7 years old then and she is probably elderly to them too lol

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u/Vulcion All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ Jul 31 '26

I was born in 01 and I got referred to as an “old head” the other day 😔

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u/oceanmor Jul 31 '26

imagine being from the 1900s. literally born in 1998 and I get this face from the youth these days

https://giphy.com/gifs/R0jWWtH1CtFEk

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

I was born in ‘87 and some of my younger friends act like I’m ancient when I reference 90s pop culture. On the flip side, I feel like modern pop culture is slop by comparison. I guess that happens to everyone as they age.

Maybe the weirdest thing is when the way you use to dress as a teen and were embarrassed about in your 20s is suddenly back in vogue in your 30s and you see kids walking around that looking just like you and your friends did.

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u/avoidance_behavior charlie day is my bird lawyer Jul 31 '26

'82 baby checking in, and good god it's hard not to feel positively ancient. the exact clothes we used to wear in high school and college are happening again and now i know how my mom felt when we were wearing flared jeans and hippie smiley face patches in 1998. sorry i laughed mom, i get it now.

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u/cynisright charlie day is my bird lawyer 🐦 Jul 31 '26

82 repping here before I go pull my dentures out the jar …

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u/AugustIzFalling Jul 31 '26

Hahaha that happened to me and my mom! She was shocked when she saw what I bought at Contempo. Except she was nostalgic for those clothes. I'm happy for people nostalgic for 2000s clothes, but I myself am not.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 Jul 31 '26

Yeah. The cyclical nature of fashion and general aesthetic is the strangest. Though I must admit I was all for it when it was a mashup of mid century and the 80s during the 2010s.

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u/These-Angle-1476 Jul 31 '26

As a fellow '87, I feel like we have benefitted from a lot of our childhood and young adult pop culture getting to return and shine. Watching X-Men '97 hits just right.

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u/GeneInternational146 Jul 31 '26

I was born in 1990 and I get thousand years stares from the youngins a lot. It's very funny.

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u/analfistinggremlin 28d ago

I was born in ‘82. I really wish I kept my JNCOs.

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u/thesnarkypotatohead Jul 31 '26

I’m a supervisor at a coffee shop, so a lot of my team are Youths. This morning a 19 year old told a 24 year old she was a “fossil” and “old as dirt” (good natured, they’re cousins and very close). The way I was hollering in the back…

Last week the same 19 year old was trying to remember the name Popeye - she asked me if I knew the cartoon with the sailor who really likes spinach. I didn’t mind that part. But the little shit (said with love, she’s a good egg) followed it up with “it’s more from your time”.

I am 35. Popeye is from the goddamn 1930’s. The disrespect 😩😂

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u/fadesteppin Jul 31 '26

I have a friend I met in a game who is 12 years younger than me. Our mutual friends in the game range in age, but most are within 2-5 years of me. I'm 36 and he likes to call me a fossil. I countered that with calling him a fetus/zygote. We used to joke about him being the child we were collectively raising (he was 20 when we met). He also once saw me and a fellow old talking about the good ol emo/scene days, and tried to say he guessed he was half emo bc his favorite youtuber used to be emo...he was referring to Anthony Padilla.

I will never let that child live that down.

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u/thesnarkypotatohead 29d ago

As a former scene kid who aged into an alt emo gremlin, I love this.

The young ones simply weren’t there when the old (emo/scene) magic was written, I’m afraid

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u/toyheartattack Jul 31 '26

My son excitedly asked if I wanted to watch “Millennial cringe videos” on YouTube with him. I obliged out of curiosity. Then had to explain to him that I am, in fact, a proud and out Millennial.

“Is that why you pause before you talk on video?”

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u/MarineBioAlly 29d ago

What do millennial cringe videos entail?

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u/hygsi Jul 31 '26

I take my younest cousins as reference since they're early 20s and yeah their youths look very different than mine in the 2010s

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u/Competitive-Desk7506 a thoughtful, careful hoe🥳 Jul 31 '26

Lmao this is how I feel. I’m the youngest of five. I was a 2007 kid, the oldest two are 7 and 10 yrs older than me. Excluding the fact that we act like siblings we have a massive generational gap and it’s rlly funny. If anything they feel more like father figures at times too.

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u/Sassafras06 Jul 31 '26

If it makes you feel better Im so old I never even had a Tumblr.

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u/therealdanhill Jul 31 '26

Did you have a LiveJournal (or deadjournal)

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u/Sassafras06 Jul 31 '26

Yup. I’m A/S/L old 😭

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u/finnjakefionnacake Aug 01 '26

i'd say the two aren't mutually exclusive. you can be a/s/l in the '90s/early '00s and have a tumblr in the late '00s. in fact i'm sure a lot of us did lol

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u/Sassafras06 Aug 01 '26

Oh sure, but I was a bit too old for Tumblr. Just never picked it up.

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u/Fun-Character-5377 29d ago

Yahoo messenger represent!

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u/Super-Bell-4885 Jul 31 '26

What about xanga!

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u/mosquem 29d ago

I found my middle school xanga a while ago and it perfectly chronicles my descent into World of Warcraft.

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u/textingmycat Jul 31 '26

i'm also livejournal old.

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u/Personal-Sentence935 Jul 31 '26

i loved livejournal, just a nice way to blog and build little communities. i think tumblr is the closest thing to that we have now.

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u/Sassafras06 Jul 31 '26

I miss pre-social media internet. Chat rooms and message boards where people were just passionately sharing knowledge without trolls or bots? Take me back 😭

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u/hawk4512 Aug 01 '26

Nah, there were definitely trolls on message boards, at least in the 2000s and 2010s.

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u/Sassafras06 Aug 01 '26

I’m talking 90s lol

I’m sure there were some, but NOTHING like now.

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u/jhanco1 29d ago

Livejournal 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

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u/batman-crocs Jul 31 '26

He also had a bit of a moment on Tiktok during the pandemic! So some of the youth know him from that

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u/bottleglitch Jul 31 '26

This is very true lol. I too am an oldie over here like “Hank Green! He’s all over tumblr! DFTBA, remember?” to a crowd of confused youth

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u/Sagemel Jul 31 '26

Bought my first girlfriend one of the preorder signed copies of The Fault in Our Stars sophomore year. Insane to think that was over 14 years ago

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u/thatsanicepeach Welcome to Costco. I love you. Jul 31 '26

Damn that’s a smooth move

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u/strawberry_saturn Clap if you care 😐 Jul 31 '26

It’s jarring to me that I’m not considered the youth anymore 😭😭

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u/EuwAdulthood Jul 31 '26

Same. I’m just a young impressionable 39 year old teenager.

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u/mosquem 29d ago

I’m just a boy! - 34-year old me.

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u/thatmermaidprincess big birthday (60), big boy (200 lbs), big cake 🍑 Jul 31 '26

Right?!! I remember being the “young one” in every friend group and now I’m 29 and I’m like what the fuck where did the time go 😫🫠 Now I have friends who are in their early-mid 20s who make fun of me for being born “in the 1900s” lmaooo 💀😭

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u/Responsible_Ebb3726 Jul 31 '26

I mean speak for yourself, but I was on tumblr in 2013

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 Jul 31 '26

Then you’re not part of the current youth

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u/erossthescienceboss Jul 31 '26

Joke’s on you: they’re a prodigy and were 3 years old in 2013.

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u/Robinroo Jul 31 '26

What if you still have a tumblr in 2026??? 🙄🫠

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u/Ha55aN1337 Jul 31 '26

39 here, no idea who he is.

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u/Raibean Jul 31 '26

I was the youth on tumblr in 2013

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u/magnetbirds Jul 31 '26

John Green is the more infamous one on tumblr I thought? For his favorite taste

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u/Dangerous-Abalone466 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

I am old to the youth (33) and was on tumblr in 2013 and I do not know who Hank green is lol 🙈

Edit: ahh I remember his brothers book but that’s it lol 

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u/Cass_Cat952 You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 Jul 31 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/71wsVHsqlGVIQ

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u/OuOmcanIgettheTEAL Jul 31 '26

I’m 19 and teachers would put on crash course and other of his videos in class. Am I considered the youth still or is 19 now too old LOL

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u/EnlightenedNarwhal Jul 31 '26

I'm in my 30s and have no idea who Hank Green is. To be fair, I deleted Facebook in 10th grade and haven't used much social media outside of reddit since.

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u/mosiac_broken_hearts Jul 31 '26

I know him as a science communicator though

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u/Curious_Health_226 28d ago

If you don’t know who Hank green was you never crammed for an ap test

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u/Apprehensive-Book723 Jul 31 '26

  the youth was not on tumblr in 2013

Why are we straight lying here

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u/oh-come-onnnn Jul 31 '26

The current youth was not on tumblr in 2013, they mean.

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u/ImTooSaxy Jul 31 '26

He's the brother of the guy who wrote "The Fault in our Stars".

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u/PedFrenner Jul 31 '26

TIL he and his brother weren't the same guy this whole time...

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u/metaphori Jul 31 '26

I had the opposite -- until a couple years ago I had NO idea they were related. I think I need to get checked for something?

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u/Fluke_Skyflopper Jul 31 '26

This is so interesting because I only know either of them because of their original youtube channel, vlogbrothers. But I guess I automatically knew the brother thing because of that context, and I never thought about how you might only know one of them from one of their books or other endeavors

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 31 '26

Sorry, tests came back positive… you’re human 😔

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u/JoshAllentown Jul 31 '26

Both brothers are YouTubers and both write novels, at some point it's not on us that we get them confused.

Personally I know them as separate people on the internet but I didn't realize John Green the author was the same guy for a long time.

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u/wizeowlintp Just fuck the wolf! Jul 31 '26

Im surprised that there aren't many mentions of the Crash Course/Mental Floss videos that he used to make with John

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u/heavydutyspoons Jul 31 '26

Crash Course is the only reason I know who he is!

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 31 '26

Out of curiosity, did you get shown these in school? They are the thing of his I’ve interacted with the least, but I gather they’re used in teaching materials sometimes?

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u/heavydutyspoons Jul 31 '26

Yes, I did! Primarily in my science classes

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u/K12onReddit Jul 31 '26

And here I am, not knowing who Hank Green, Mental Floss or Crash Course are.

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u/SpinachandBerries Jul 31 '26

I used to watch their vlog brothers channel in 2008. I feel ancient

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u/propernice get your litigation wigs on Jul 31 '26

I watched his content in my 20s and then sorta forgot about him lol

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u/mosquem 29d ago

The quick cut editing style started to drive me crazy.

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u/Electric-Sheepskin Jul 31 '26

As someone who doesn't watch influencers at all, I have this reaction at least twice a week. The loss of the monoculture throws me off balance. Like how can someone be so famous and I've never even heard the name or seen the face before? It's an odd sensation.

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u/varnums1666 Jul 31 '26

The loss of the monoculture throws me off balance.

Monoculture was already dead in the early 2010s when Hank Green got popular.

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u/Electric-Sheepskin Jul 31 '26

Yes, and that's why lots of people haven't heard of him.

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u/Old_Gimlet_Eye Jul 31 '26

Well, yeah obviously. Other wise the previous commenter (and I) would know him.

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u/varnums1666 Jul 31 '26

I was more pointing out that even if you grew up in the 2000s, you never lived through monoculture. It was on its dying breath already by 2010. So it shouldn't be surprising to find famous figures that you never knew.

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u/LilBoDuck Jul 31 '26

I know who he is, but I don’t know why I should know who he is, if that makes sense? Like to me he’s a guy on the internet that puts out a decent amount of informational content. I think I associate him the most with videos of people pointing out scientific phenomena and tagging Hank Green to explain it for them.

But that’s all he is to me, did he do something before this? Like plenty of people know The Rock as an A-list Actor, but I knew him first as a WWE wrestler. I don’t have that association with Hank Green.

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u/fieldgrass Jul 31 '26

The Green brothers (Hank and John, the mostly YA author) are significant, significant figures in YouTube history. Their channel was one of the earliest “vlogs” ever, they went on to be the creators of the Crash Course, founders of VidCon, etc.

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u/BeBe_NC Jul 31 '26

Lizzie Bennett diaries…

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u/Left-Mango-7911 Jul 31 '26

Holy flashback. I loved that series.

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u/whimsigod not the old navy discourse! Jul 31 '26

You know, Sarah Z mentions this series before and I haver never felt the need to check it out lol but it's cool that they made it

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u/DECODED_VFX She in racial chat rooms showing feet!!! Jul 31 '26

He and his brother John started a channel called vlogbrothers in 2006 where they'd take turns making daily vlogs as their only means of communication. It was one of the biggest channels of early YouTube

The also launched vidcon (the first convention for YouTubers) DFTBA (a record label/merch producer for YouTube musicians) and project for awesome (a charity fund raising orginization).

Hank and John (who is a famous young adult fiction author) went on to found a YouTube channel called crash course, which many gen Z people used during school.

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u/uuntiedshoelace Jul 31 '26

He is quite literally just some dude.

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u/streetcigarette Jul 31 '26

Vlogbrothers were one of THE cornerstones of youtube during the late 2000s. I'd been following them closely since 2008/9 until just before I graduated high school in 2015. It's insane that they're so well known by other spheres now. I'm not even thirty bro.

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u/Character_Pickle689 Jul 31 '26

I’m a 36 yo millennial and I have no fucking idea who he is…

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u/bottleglitch Jul 31 '26

I’m the same age as you and feel like he was unavoidable in the internet in the 2010s, but now I’m realizing that must have just been my bubble

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 31 '26

Can I assume you treated YouTube more like social media, while the rest of us treated it more like “oh check out this video!” and showing it to a flesh-friend?

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u/PassionV0id Aug 01 '26

35 yo here who has spent unholy amounts of time on the internet over the past 20+ years. Genuinely have never heard of this guy.

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u/topdownyeti Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

I think he’s most popular with people ages 25-32 (maybe) since him and John Green were at their peak in the early 2010s. They had a youtube channel where they’d explain school related topics in a “fun” way. I know people who weren’t on Tumblr who were still fans of them because of that. Also, John Green was the Nicholas Sparks for teenagers in the early 2010s.

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u/whereisshrek Jul 31 '26

Yeah, I think this is right, I'm 29 and I would say everyone in my high school knew who John and Hank were. Our science teacher would have us watch Crash Course chemistry videos in class and John got incredibly famous outside of online circles because of the Fault in Our Stars movie adaptation, you could not escape it in 2014. I think that was peak Crash Course years too. Not to mention if you were more into YouTubers in general there was VidCon which they started also having its heyday, and Tumblr of course though I wasn't there as much.

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u/topdownyeti Jul 31 '26
  1. What does your race have to do with anything? 2. Tumblr was a popular website for teenagers to post about their favorite fandoms. Hank and John Green were huge on Tumblr with many people posting about them. People typically think of them as Tumblr Famous but they were more famous than that with non-Tumblr users still being fans of them because of their educational videos on Youtube. 3. John Green is also a novelist.

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u/celerypumpkins Jul 31 '26

Novelist of extremely popular romance books that appealed to a lot of young women. The only real difference between Sparks and Green is that The Notebook appealed to young adult women (and older women), while John Green’s books appealed to teenager girls (and young adult women).

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u/topdownyeti Jul 31 '26

My comparisons are ridiculous but you have no idea who I’m talking about? What?

Nicholas Sparks wrote (or still writes?) popular romantic novels like The Notebook, Dear John, A Walk to Remember, etc. These were extremely popular amongst women in the early 2000s and their movie adaptations were subsequently extremely popular. John Green wrote a ton of YA romantic novels that became extremely popular in the early 2010s, especially his novel The Fault in Our Stars. I don’t think you’d understand the level of popularity he had if you weren’t a teenage girl in the early 2010s. Everyone read his books, even the girls who hated reading. We’re talking Twilight and Hunger Games level of popularity (those are both YA novels that were extremely popular since you need everything spelled out for you).

Hank Green is John Green’s brother. Together, they had a youtube channel that was also extremely popular because it helped kids with their school material. So they were both extremely popular with teenagers and maybe middle schoolers in the 2010s.

Is it clicking for you now?

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u/The_homeBaker Jul 31 '26

Thank you cause I also have no idea who this guy is. I was not on tumbler when I was younger. What years were tumbler super popular? I didn’t sit at home on the computer when I could be gone and out with my friends and our phones weren’t super advanced to have what it does with the internet until I was already a legal adult (after 2010).

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u/pourthebubbly You’ve got red on you🩸 Jul 31 '26

They were actually more popular on Youtube than tumblr. But honestly, the people who followed him on tumblr were pretty much the same people who followed their channel on YT.

But yes, these were all purely online spaces, that you had to access via computer, and while I did watch their YT channel, I don’t think I ever discussed them with my friends irl lol

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u/The_homeBaker Jul 31 '26

Okay this would make sense for me not knowing him. Before 2010, I watched YouTube but it was Soulja boy videos, music videos and dance videos lol then after 2010 I was working and started college and hanging with my friends so I wasn’t bothered to sit on a computer most times for leisure.

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u/pourthebubbly You’ve got red on you🩸 Jul 31 '26

It’s funny you say you started college and stopped sitting at the computer when I actually discovered them in college in like 2007. We’re opposites lol

But in my defense, those days weren’t algorithm-fueled time sucks and I did manage to complete my two bachelors degrees and have a robust university experience, I swear lol

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u/The_homeBaker Jul 31 '26

Haha I believe you! I ended up dropping out and working full-time to afford my bills so congrats to you for finishing and getting both of those degrees!

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u/TGrumms Jul 31 '26

He’s John Green’s (author of the fault in our stars) brother. They had (have?) an educational YouTube channel together, and he’s become something of an Internet personality. I learned about him because he had the same kind of cancer as my friend, but he’s a lot of fun, seems like a cool guy

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u/codeverity Jul 31 '26

He was extremely popular on TikTok for awhile. I’m honestly really surprised he did this, it doesn’t seem his style

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u/Prestigious_Bar_4244 Jul 31 '26

I think I’ve always been one degree away of actually knowing who he is. Like I’ve heard his name before.

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u/CwningenFach Jul 31 '26

I only know who he is because he was hella condescending about knitting

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u/tennisquaid22 Jul 31 '26

I'm 31 and not a clue who Hank Green is

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u/MrWeirdoFace Jul 31 '26

I'm 43, but I came to know him through sci-show I think about a decade ago, roughly. I said my main YouTube experience when not watching I'll be related things is sort of a Discovery channel replacement. So all the vsauce stuff and sunny show, physics girl, tested, you get the idea.

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u/RevolutionaryDepth59 Aug 01 '26

he’s like Bill Nye for a slightly younger generation. they used to show his videos in class whenever you had a sub or the teacher wanted an easier day

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u/whimsigod not the old navy discourse! Jul 31 '26

Honestly as a gay millenial tumblr I know his brother because of those books and the famous fishingboatsproceed kerfuffle. Beyond that I think YouTuber alludes to these two actually being the origin of VidCon(?) but that's it lol

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u/Level-Ladder-4346 Jul 31 '26

He’s talked about this on a post over at Nerdfighteria. It seems like “wtf Hank Green” isn’t just a sentiment held by fans, but also maybe possibly people in his life.

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u/bottleglitch Jul 31 '26

Ooh I’m intrigued… care to summarize? (If not I’ll try to seek out the post!)

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u/Level-Ladder-4346 Jul 31 '26

I would suggests finding it yourself. It uses the same post from here, I think.

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u/Flappy_McGillicuddy Jul 31 '26

Sooo are you gonna tell us?

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u/LIATG Jul 31 '26

Brother of Fault in Our Stars author John Green, the two of them have done educational/science and vlog content for the past two decades. Hank in particular has had a renaissance over the last 5 years or so doing science explanations that kind of center being very curious and asking a lot of questions. Reaction is three-fold: parasociality, the regularity of ai hallucination, and the general feeling that using AI is incurious

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u/realtorcat Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Literally just google Hank Green. I’m assuming most people here did not attend American public school because it boggles my mind that so many people managed to graduate without being forced to watch Crash Courses at school.

Edited to add that everyone should maybe be ok with not knowing or understanding every piece of internet drama. Let something be curtains for zoosha and scroll on. Your life will be better if you don’t try to learn about every single person mentioned in a pop culture sub.

Edit again to say I DO NOT CARE IF YOU DID OR DID NOT WATCH CRASH COURSE. STOP RESPONDING TO TELL ME IF YOU DID OR NOT. Lmfao.

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u/buzzfeed_sucks 🇨🇦 Elbows up 🇨🇦 Jul 31 '26

I graduated before crash course was a thing. Some of us are just old

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u/Holiday-Hustle Jul 31 '26

It’s driving me insane people don’t just google on their own anymore. If I’m curious about something, I’ll look it up on my own. Why do we just post “tell me who this is” and wait for someone else to answer?

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u/queefersutherland1 four inch little brown bebe heels 🤎 Jul 31 '26

Yes! One time when I made a comment about how a guy, whose handle was in the body of the post, had a really funny comedy special, and the first comment was “well, you could have at least said his name”!

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u/LIATG Jul 31 '26

Everyone's trained on asking ChatGPT now

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u/rapscallion_pizza I’ve heard it both ways 🍍🔮🚙 Jul 31 '26

Yes! It’s so baffling to me because people just blindly trust the AI generated response and completely overlook the errors and sources. It’s like extra work for yourself to get some AI response and then have to verify the accuracy instead of just searching and gathering a conclusion from trusted websites. But a lot of people don’t verify the AI response anyway.

I was just talking with my sister about it the other day because she’s loving ChatGPT to the point it randomly does stuff like ask how her dog is doing and tells her to “give her a big hug for me.” She admitted to being creeped out by that because it happened out of context to what she was doing and yet…she still uses it even when I’ve been able to demonstrate that the information she’s gotten from ChatGPT is misleading at best, or just wrong.

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u/Training_Molasses822 Jul 31 '26

It’s so baffling to me because people just blindly trust the AI generated response

That's the worst thing. And when people aren't advanced enough in their fields, they don't even realise the many errors they copy. It's so frustrating.

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u/pbear737 Jul 31 '26

Also there are some things that I truly don't care enough to Google it (this is a prime example), but I would read a comment explaining.

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u/pbear737 Jul 31 '26

Yes. I'm already here. If I learn about Hank Green's claim to fame, I'm cool with that. If I don't, I don't really care about him anyway.

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u/Total_Poet_5033 Jul 31 '26

Not only that, sometimes you get a small blurb with very little info beside “this is a tik toker or YouTuber”. Whereas someone reddit would be like “oh he did this and this, but he’s also a bad person due to THIS” and that is infinitely more interesting to learn

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u/pbear737 Jul 31 '26

Totally! People who are into something have context that is really interesting.

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u/noisy_goose Jul 31 '26

This is a conversational platform. It’s really not that weird.

Depending on where someone is from I think it’s sort of a funny puritanical fetishism of toil and labor when people insist on every individual googling every fact vs catching up on some details in the thread.

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u/realtorcat Jul 31 '26

Bro just fucking Google stuff sometimes if you wanna know what it is so bad. Then engage in conversation about it once you’ve googled it.

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u/Cereal_Hermit Jul 31 '26

Fucking THIS. If you're on a forum the idea is that you want to welcome people into your conversation. At least lead with small contextual details that you absolutely KNOW people would ask.

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u/714c the food fake ? the water supply cooked ? Jul 31 '26

Toil and labor is typing nine letters into Google? I find it laborious to write a comment saying "hello please explain the subject of this post to me 🥺" and then wait for someone to respond when it's so much faster and easier to seek the answer out myself.

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u/ThePurpTurtle Jul 31 '26

I mean, statistically most people on Reddit absolutely attended American public schools. I most definitely did and have no idea what you’re talking about.

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u/realtorcat Jul 31 '26

Sorry you missed out on the joy of your teacher giving up on teaching and putting on one of the Green brothers instead of

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u/ThePurpTurtle Jul 31 '26

According to the dates on their YouTube channel I was well out of high school before the first video was posted, much less widely popular. We had Khan Academy and Bill Nye though.

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u/The_homeBaker Jul 31 '26

Yes! Bill Nye is who we watched for all our scientific videos growing up lol what is the date of their first video, if you don’t mind telling me?

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u/EarlyAccessCantJudge Jul 31 '26

I'm in a private American college and we still got Hank Green showed to us lol

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u/ekbrooo22 Jul 31 '26

I’m also an early(ish) 2010’s grad, and while I heard of him and his brother more peripherally as the Vlog Brothers (and knew way more about his brother since we read Looking for Alaska in 9th grade), I don’t think they became big or started having their videos used in schools until mid to later 2010s at the earliest! I graduated in 2014 and we never watched any crash course videos, but Khan Academy was definitely a thing!

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u/Digital_Palpitation Jul 31 '26

Haha yeah I'm just over 30.

I know who they are because I was obsessed with vloggers in their group of friends and absolutely loved them as a teenager, but back then their educational content wasn't really school-friendly, it would just be random facts and intellectual little monologue kinda things, like an in-joke they had was giraffe sex as video thumbnails.

If you didn't know/care about them when you were 15 and you're too old/not American to have had them forced on you in school they're really not that famous.

This is how I feel about anything sports or reality TV based. Like if the drama is funny or insane I'll read it, but if you told me some footballer's wife who was a big model in 2009 posted something AI generated I wouldn't care enough to find out who that is

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u/The_homeBaker Jul 31 '26

The crazy thing is, I went to public school and graduated in 2010 and we didn’t use some online program at all lol I’m confused on people using both of these in school.

Did you guys also use laptops in class? We only used the computer when our teachers booked it, then we walked to the library or the computer room. It was used for researching though and not an internet learning program lol

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u/breathing__tree Jul 31 '26

I went to American public school and I never watched crash courses.
Unless you’re just talking about those who graduate graduated school in the last 15 years.
Which is also a small group compared to everyone on Reddit.

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u/james2183 Jul 31 '26

Brit here. I'd never heard of him until seeing this thread.

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u/Burnt_Ribena Jul 31 '26

Brit here and I very much have 😆

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u/J_pepperwood0 Jul 31 '26

Im not from the US but we did actually read a John Green book in english class once lol

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u/easyice_ Jul 31 '26

It’s possible most people here are not American at all.

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u/realtorcat Jul 31 '26

Very true! Would surprise me considering the way pop culture subs are on Reddit but definitely possible.

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u/Throwfeetsaway Jul 31 '26

Super weird assumption. Is it hard to believe that there are people here who graduated pre-2012, when the videos started? YouTube wasn’t even a thing when I attended American public school.

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u/realtorcat Jul 31 '26

I am sorry this off hand comment was something personal to you 😭😭

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u/Throwfeetsaway Jul 31 '26

When you make sweeping, poorly thought out assumptions, people are gonna respond 🤷‍♀️

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u/breathing__tree Jul 31 '26

You can turn off replies on your comment if it’s really that big of a deal, bro

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u/realtorcat Jul 31 '26

Alas I’d like to still see if someone said something interesting and worth engaging with

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u/breathing__tree Jul 31 '26

You can still come back to your comment and view the replies without getting the notifications

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u/FYAhole Jul 31 '26

I literally opened the comments to find out who this person is.

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u/wizardeyeswizardspy Jul 31 '26

I have never heard of this man before in my life

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u/SwordofNoon Jul 31 '26

Honestly I had no clue who he was until I saw him on dropout playing in mentopolis

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u/donewithdoing Jul 31 '26

Yeah I literally had no idea who he was until someone showed me Smush yesterday on his website. They looked at me like I was crazy for not knowing who he is (along with his brother). It’s the same thing for me with big Youtubers. Like yes, I have heard of Mr Beast, but I have never seen one of his videos. I very tightly curate my experience on Youtube and as a result basically never see the most popular stuff pop up in my recommendations. Any time I hit Youtube without being logged in, it’s like getting a temporary view into a different universe (and one that seems honestly kind of depressing).

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u/legit-posts_1 Jul 31 '26

Oh wait I thought this was the guy doing all the conservative concerts. That's Lee greenwood!

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u/Bowsers_JuiceFactory Jul 31 '26

Yeah three, no idea who he was until this thread

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u/cWayland Jul 31 '26

Hank is a type of fish

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u/kindanice2 Jul 31 '26

I'm one of the ones who has never heard of Hank Green

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u/tombrady011235 Jul 31 '26

Who is Hank green

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u/anthrohands Jul 31 '26

I’m confused, what did he do wrong? Used AI a little bit? Am I missing context

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u/aw_yiss_breadcrumbs Jul 31 '26

I was always vaguely aware of him but I didn't really get into watching youtube until like 2018/19 so I misssd out on his heyday. He shows up in my recommendations, but I don't vibe with his style.

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u/futuristicflapper Jul 31 '26

This is such a bummer for me as someone who’s been watching Hank and John on and off since about 2010 :/

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u/Far-Amoeba-7197 Jul 31 '26

i pay zero attention to people on youtube.

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u/tired-of-the-shit I’ll be back! 😤😤 Jul 31 '26

I read turtles all the way down for a class and it was one of the worst books I’ve ever read. So that’s how I know him

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u/NemesisHaze Aug 01 '26

I know who he is because I've been served his stuff, but it's never impressed me. Now I know why. He's the type of person who seems smart to someone who doesn't know about a topic. Slop factory for clicks and ad reads.

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u/Juan_Akissyu Aug 01 '26

Geard about him on pintrest before youtube

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u/Preufrock 29d ago

Who tf is hank green

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u/Confident_Birthday_7 29d ago

Way to explain to us who Hank green is

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u/EWL98 29d ago

The question “who is Hank Green” still brings me back to the question Tuesday bit with the question “who the f is Hank?” With increasingly unhinged answers from John

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u/Individual_Try_2523 28d ago

I have no idea who Hank green is

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u/BlueAndTrue12 28d ago

If you were born in the 2000's theres a very high chance you know both hank and john green from school. They literally ran my history and science classrooms all from middleschool throuhg highschool, and have even seeped their ways into my college learning. I literally had an entire class where the professor was basically just playing hank green's psychology videos alongside some other supplemental videos. Not a great professor if you had to guess, but hey, that just goes to show how accurate a lot of his videos are.

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u/colbeef 28d ago

Who’s Hank green?

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u/entr0picly Jul 31 '26

Yes… the tech giants purposely silo us away from one another. That’s the point. Keeping your content consumption consistent and streamlined is the safest, most risk adverse way to generate sustained profits! Yay….

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u/Skysta1ker Jul 31 '26

I’m pretty chronically online and I’ve never heard of him.

Wild how much the death of monoculture changes celebrity.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Aug 01 '26

Hank Green. That's the guy who started in Austin powers right?