Watching Buzzfeed and Vox be sold this week has been kinda wild for me. I mean, not that I think either of those sales are bad. I hope lots of good things come out of them. I just...I'm glad we did it a different way so that we could focus on different things. Crash Course Coin Here: https://complexly.info/CCcoin26-1 ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! https://werehere.beehiiv.com/subscribe Preorder John's new novel Hollywood, Ending (out September 22!): https://hollywoodendingbook.com Learn more about our project to help Partners in Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone: https://www.pih.org/hankandjohn If you're able to donate $2,000 or more to this effort, please join our matching fund: https://pih.org/hankandjohnmatch If you're in Canada, you can donate here: https://pihcanada.org/hankandjohn
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Hilariously, I did not say a thing in this video that is kinda important...when I say I'm no longer an owner, it's because we converted Complexly into a non-profit organization. I don't own it because non-profits are not owned!! This is why coins are now tax deductible! I've been talking about this so much that I just assumed everyone knew?!? Which is very silly.
Real fans know this was originally on hankschannel
The new CrashCourse is good, but I'll never forget being in History and watching Hank and John talk about Silk Road, or Psychology, or anything, really the highlight of my days.
"the best idea we've ever had" hits hard considering all of the ideas Hank has had.
Wealth is a trap. Once you start living to accumulate it, that's all you'll ever do. Hank and Complexly do so much more
Imagine how the world would be if that certain 1% of the population said "no, I don't need that much money. I have a mission to make this a better place"
1:02 wild to learn Hank Green was ever jealous of Buzzfeed 😵💫 I greatly appreciate the existence of the Green brothers.
Ladynerds and Gentlenerds, we’ve come to the point of hindsighting Nerdfigtheria and, damn, it makes me feel old…
I can't BELIEVE, that Hank and John Green sold OUT (gave away) CRASH COURSE to PRIVATE EQUITY (the public) by Making it a 501(c)(3) non profit! I am OUTRAGED (I bought a coin).
Based on the thumbnail, I'm assuming Hank left Crash Course to pursue his dream of artificially de-aging himself.
Taking a break from studying (where I was watching Hank cover the Lymphatic System via Crash Course) to watch Hank cover Crash Course
Hank, did you accidentally upload this video to your channel then realized your mistake and upload it to the vlogbrothers channel?
Crash Course has accomplished what it was meant to accomplish. Making science fun! Congrats to you and your brother. The astronomy series had a profund impact on me!
Thank you for making Crash Course, Hank!
I'm 34 and couldn't afford college, had a lot going on during my upbringing, and have just realized in the last couple of years that I fucking love science. I obsess over evolutionary history and biology and zoology and the geologic timescale and this is something I literally did not know about myself for most of my life. Crash Course and other Complexly programs like PBS Eons have made my life and the way I view the world so much more interesting and fulfilling than I can articulate here. Thank you for doing it and for doing it right.
I used Crash Course when teaching Anatomy and Physiology to complementary therapists. It was sooooo useful. 10 minutes of facts at machine gun speed that learners absolutely had to concentrate on. Wonderful. Thank you
Hank so jealous of buzzfeed he had to make his own "Why I left buzzfeed" video
I grew up watching both John Green's brother, Hank Green, and last but definitely not least, Hank Green's brother, John Green, and I could not be more proud of any parasocialism I participated in while watching you guys over the years. The simple fact that you both made education accessible and entertaining years before and beyond, better than any other content out at that time, is truly remarkable. We appreciate the effort and time you guys put into that project and everything else you guys do.
I was first exposed to crash course when I learn about Alexander the great in middle school history class. Since then "Hi I'm John Green and this is crash course world history" + chair slide will forever live rent free in my head.
This is not about CrashCourse, but this feels like a good place to say thank you for talking about the fact, that different places and different people pull at different parts of you. It's come up a couple of times in different places and it's made a big enough impact on me, that I regularly talk about it with my friends. Because the idea that I actually have some control over which parts of my self I want to enhance and that I can limit or remove parts of my life that feed things I don't and that either way those are active choices I'm making (even when sometimes it doesn't feel like it) and I need to acknowledge that both for myself and for other people is so, so important for an intentional life. And sometimes that means watching people I care about turn into (from my perspective) worse versions of themselves and admitting to myself, that this isn't just passively happening to them, it is something they are choosing from the company they keep and where they focus their attention and the idea that maybe they would have become someone different if they hadn't met THAT person or gone to THAT place doesn't matter as much as the active choices they are making right now. Anyway thank you for your selfreflection and your honesty, it has really impacted how I think about personal agency and how I deal with aspects of myself, that maybe aren't my favorite version, as not something that I should be ashamed of or run away from, but as something that I can just acknowledge and try to deal with the best way I know how, because ultimately who I end up being are just the active choices I make along the way.