@@Plot_twist3422 can you explain that a bit to me? i never used tiktok. I guess it's the same with facebook and instagram? i remember facebook to be awesome back in 2012 but now i think instagram is what facebook used to be
I recently moved across the country to start a PhD program as the first person in my family to graduate college so while the path to a PhD is well-trodden for many, there's almost no path from where I'm coming from. I was already in a sensitive emotional state when I clicked on the vidoe but I did not expect this to make me cry as much as it did. Life is scary right now, but thank you, Hank, for reminding me that I am breaking the mold and I am forging a new path and I should be proud of that.
Uncanny timing, my teacher asked me this morning "who inspires you professionally?" And I said John and Hank Green, because I admire all of the diffrent things they do with youtube, podcasts, books and tours, and I can really see myself going down that path. I guess you heard me.
I talked yesterday with my professor. He asked how I was inspired to go into education and want to pursue it and eventually work for an online education content company. Let me tell y’all the weird looks I got for saying I want to go into my career because two 40 year old men inspired me and reminded me loving to learn is okay were amazing.
Been thinking about this a lot lately - and it's super nice to be able to create a new path and do something where the outcome is unexpected, but it takes an enormous amount of existing stability in other areas of your life to be able to do that. If your financial wellbeing is tied to these exploits, it's waaaay harder to take these risks than if you're being supported by someone else or if you have generational wealth. Double that feeling if you have a student loan or anything like that!
And even taking that beyond only financial stability. If your mental is unpredictable or your relationships are unstable or your personality and the way you view yourself is less stable... Stability in all things.
Ngl this is my favourite “era” of vlogbrothers thus far ❤️😂. Like ever since you and John have started talking about being “on the other side of the mountain” I’ve found your content so much more thoughtful and it gives me a lot to think about as a 20 year old trynna figure it all out. DFTBA
As a disabled person I feel like I'm always carving my own paths because even if something's been done before, it's usually missing disabled people. Every day I come across something else where I'm like "If I had another lifetime I'd work in (whatever) industry to make things better for other disabled people." Also I literally paused this video a minute in to watch TikTok whew I'm addicted oops
I have an invisible disability. Most of the jobs I’ve worked in would die if they knew what I had. After I leave, I so want to be like HAHA I HAD THE THING AND IT WAS FINE! You’re a bunch of uninformed jerks! But I fear my message would be lost or twisted into “Now I know she has (the thing), now I can see she wasn’t as good as we all thought!”
Inflove Toallinfbestbeingsmyinffirst Sorry, the jerks are the people who I’ve worked with who would have fired me if they know about my invisible disability. For context, it didn’t affect my job at all. I’m sorry if it sounded like I meant you, dear internet stranger 😊
@@Efflorescentey Dear friend/s, thank you much for explaining so kindly, i agree that's terrible they should never fire unnecessarily, also i'm sorry i saw your reply now . Thank you much, wish you the best.
"You are in the perfect place. You are where you are supposed to be. Is it tumultuous and fragile and you have no idea what tomorrow will bring? Yeah." I needed to hear this today. During the onset of COVID I was laid off of my job for two months and relied on CERB (Canadian Emergency Response Benefit) through all of that I realized the job I was at wasn't what I wanted. Two months of doing literally nothing gave me the clarity I needed to go back to school to study media arts. I quoted what you said because it rings so true. Yes, things may be tumultuous and scary but for me, I feel like I truly am where I am supposed to be, and it feels good. Thanks for the insight, Hank!
I read my first John Green Book in my freshman year of high school. Last year. I had constantly stalled reading anything from him because... Well, I don't really know why. That is, until the boy I sit with on the bus learned I loved to read. He pulled a copy of Looking for Alaska out of his bag and practically shoved it into my hands. I had only read about a chapter before we got to school and my first stop was the library. I finished that book before school was out that day. About 2 weeks later I found this channel and have been following ever since. Yesterday I started reading An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. It's 1:15 am and I just finished reading it. I'm so glad wonderful people like you and John exist. People who can do these amazing things and bring people together and make young adults and the world believe in a good story again. I don't know when, or how, but I want to be an author. The only thing that's ever made sense to me is art and reading, and I want that to be my career. So basically, thank you. Thank you both for being these amazing and beautiful people who made me believe in myself, and who inevitably will always be able to get me out of a reading slump. Thank you
Good morning. I... definitely thought today was Wednesday and that this video was breaking the mold of when you post, but I am incorrect. Time in 2020 makes no sense.
This is such a lovely video hank! Thank you for making it. Hey now, nerdfighteria! This is your self care check point: are you hydrated? have you eaten? Did you take your meds? Do you need to clean your glasses/screens? Have you moved your body today? Done something necessary? What about something fun? Whatever you need to do to look after yourself (you can just start with one!)--do that. And, after you've done that: Do you need to take a break and rest? Hang in there. Best wishes and DFTBA!
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost While Frost may not have had the same thoughts on which road to take, they still fit quite well here.
Nope. That isn't what that poem is about. In that story both paths are the same and the narrator is lieing to himself. He wants to pretend he is special, but is actually just doing the same thing as everyone else. Read more than the first sentence
Raymond Smith , This is actually the end of the Poem, I see why you misunderstood me, I didn’t make it all that clear why I disagreed with Frost. If Frost is saying: , I’m trying to say that there should be recognition that this is not really the path less travelled by, (this is the overcrowded path) and that it isn’t actually as special as it seems. This is why I disagree with Frost on which path to take, because it is already well trodden. I’ve read this poem plenty, though this line sums up Frost’s decision which is why I chose it. Thanks for trying to help though! Have a good day,
As a 19-year-old who constantly feels the need to justify myself to adults by explaining exactly what my plans for life are when really there is NO WAY I could have any idea what I'll be doing in 5 years and that's honestly REALLY COOL and the only reason that seems terrifying to us is because of societal expectations brought on the by the older generation who didn't grow up amidst the chaos we are currently beholding- thank you for this.
I remember in one of the episodes of The Anthropocene Reviewed, John talked about early explorers, and how they were journeying towards lands that they “could not have known they would find.” It struck me as a line that perfectly describes what growing up feels like. This reminded me of that - and honestly, with the way this year has gone, I need to remember that, and I also need the courage to believe it. So; thanks, Hank, because content like this helps on both those fronts.
puddlesofsunlight Hey, thanks! I’ll definetly want to revisit it, you saved me a lotta searching. :-) Edit: ... while the Gatsby episode has many a great line and in fact plays on similar themes, I went back and checked, and the quote I was thinking of actually comes from the episode on Humanity's Temporal Range: "We just keep going. We've spread across seven continents, including one that is entirely too cold for us. We've sailed across oceans towards land we could not see, and could not have known we would find." Human persistence is a powerful thing, and I've never needed the reminder more than I do right now.
The end of this video made me think of an excerpt from one of my favorite poems, by Antonio Machado. It's originally in Spanish, so this is just one of the English translations, but it's my favorite: "Traveler, your footprints are the path and nothing more. Traveler, there is no path; the path is made by walking."
I, for one, am very grateful that Hank has a Twitter where he posts all his TikTok videos. It means I can watch his stuff (which I love) without getting addicted to yet another social media platform!
thank you so much for this video. I needed this video today, and probably every day. As I break the story my parents had planned for my life and they ask where I'm going to be in a year, I just don't know. As I break away from the ideas of what love, companionship, friendship is and what is looks like in the abusive setting being all that I know, it's rocky. I know that I am not the only one (nevermind the first one) to leave this path, but it's the well paved trail I know, where healthy affections (platonic and romantic) is more like cliff and less like the easy trail to follow. Good times are ahead, but first the tears.
Sometimes the timing of your videos just rocks my world in the best way possible. I’ve spent the last few weeks brainstorming about how to make my photography business something more enjoyable for me, even if it isn’t what’s typically successful or money-making around here. I don’t want to just follow the lead of the crowd, I want to do something that excites me! Just because there isn’t a clear path for it right now doesn’t mean that it won’t work - might as well try!
Hank Green (and by extension John Green) now famous author, founder of vidcon, helped popularise vlogging, founder and presenter of like a million different science channels, produced a vlog series that was first to win an Emmy. You are one of those people that have paved that path.
I didn't know how much I NEEDED this until I saw it. Yeah, my internal disembodied voice says similar things - but they don't resonate until they're external and objective. So, thank you subjectively objective Hank. I actually really needed to hear this today for a multitude of reasons a TH-cam comment cannot contain.
Okay this is gonna sound weird but hearing “you are where you’re meant to be even if it’s tumultuous” gave me such relief that I started crying. I’m someone who struggles greatly with imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and heavily places my worth on academics /grades, and I’m taking a year away from my college due to Covid-19. This has been extremely difficult to deal with even though I know it is the safest decision I can make for myself, and hearing that I’m okay where I am from someone who I admire greatly was greatly appreciated, even though I know it was about tiktok. Lol thank you Hank for all that you do.
I know nothing is forever, but I really do hope that Vlogbrothers will continue on for a long, long time, because seeing a new video from y’all in my sub box has brought me joy for like a decade whaaat
I love to think about the paths I love created by others that I've embraced in how I live, and how me creating some paths has helped people around me and maybe after me. Small acts of heroism in making paths are maybe opportunties that every person gets. Rarely hugely heroic acts, more countless small ones to make happen.
really struck a cord with me, i know my attempts at and placement of goals should be something i look into often but i’ll admit i do frequently forgot and neglect but here because of this ima look again at my doings and inspiration- hank you and your brother have always inspired and because of you im seeming my own path too
One óf the better vlogbros. vids I've seen, up to now... but that was worth a like. The ”substance” of human existence is inifnitely limited by artificial constructs, yet we construct these abstracts and create subinfinities in a vain attempt to understand our reality and our place in it... The best we can do is express ourselves honestly, which you have done. Thank you.
he is, but his most unique and characteristic qualities are his courage, in always taking the effort of being so earnest and thoughtful in all the videos that he makes, and all the words that he speaks in them, he is very driven towards his thoughts and ideals, which makes him so easy to admire and respect. If someone follows hard and earnestly brings that up in themselves, they'd probably be more "hank green" than any amount of intelligence or other trait could make them.
Thanks Hank, for saying this. As a person who is trying to be a young creator, sometimes I get discouraged and confused by everything going on and where I'm suppsed to be. A lot of the time I feel mediocre in my content just because i haven't had years of experience or created my own paths yet. I'm learning its okay to do things for myself and to do things just to do them- and that's its okay for me to be confused right now, to be in this weird space that I have to grow in. Hoping things get better and a little more weird
There’s one thing I like to tell myself “ There is a comfort in familiarity, but then there is the adrenaline and excitement of the unknown and strenuous. And it is very difficult to have both.”
It's a weird place. It's perfecting The Algorithm ™. I've been experimenting on making content on it. It's driven by #trends, and you can very clearly see when/where it will and won't promote you. It's a highly carrot and stick sort of reinforcement. Most notably with how it punishes you for not pumping out content every day. If I take a three day break to gather my thoughts on what I want to put out it'll spread me out to a third of the viewers it typically would.
I'm a senior in high school trying to figure out whether I am going to take the traditional college path or take a gap year to travel and dive into my vocation. There's so much pressure on teenagers nowadays to be taking the same steps as their peers, and sometimes it feels like the choice I make now will determine my whole life. This video really helped with those feelings, while also giving me a bit more clarity. Thank you!! I needed this!!
I was watching some Jack Benny TV shows from the early 50's on DVD and I noticed some interesting things. First the format begins with Jack standing in front of a curtain talking to the audience - like the days of Vaudeville. Then although this was a TV show, at the end, viewers are reminded to watch the next show "in two weeks"; but to "Please remember to listen to our nightly radio show". And I thought to myself what a transition time this was. They hadn't quite gotten out of the idea of the live stage, they were testing out how this new media "TV" was going to pan out and of course the REAL entertainment is still the radio shows. I think this happens with all introduction of new media. What's going to be cutting edge? What's "NOW"? What's passé? Vine anyone?
Hi, it's me, your friendly local brand new college freshman. Everything is hard and stressful right now. I'm tired all the time. I'm surrounded by people who aren't like me, or who are too much like me. And that scares me. I'm reconsidering if I still want to be a teacher. I'm rethinking my decision to go to college. But this video reminded me that I am in fact where I should be. I worked hard to get here, and I'm going to have to keep working hard, but that's okay. Thank you Hank, John, and Nerdfightaria for being part of my path.
As Alan Kay (and others) said : The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Well done again, for saying the right thing in the right time, and to the right people. I'll see you next week.
Yeah,it so true.It has always been on my mind for weeks and weeks.I wanted to be an actor .I dreamt that people would go to watch movies with me in the cinema and some of them can buy a paper magazine with me on cover.But with this progress,it is different.I don't want to be an actor now.Because i have never dreamt about starring in movies on streaming services or being on cover internet magazines .And i can't accept that destiny for me.
Great video as always. On an unrelated note, by my estimates, there is only 4-5 video's worth of song lyrics left. I don't want this to end. But end it will, as all things must.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - the family-friend architect of my apartment building in Philly lol, Ralph Waldo Emerson
I understand that all of this is chaos, but I'm really excited for how this is going to look in the future. Everything looks new and shiny right now, but keep in mind that even the novel itself is only around three hundred years old. TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, all of those platforms are in many ways new forms of storytelling and I can't wait to see how they transform and what radical storytelling will come out of them.
I wrote a short, down-to-earth alternate history novel earlier this month (August) about pre-Columbian Native Americans. One of my best works so far and I'm proud of it. Niche topics or not, I don't care for trends, not one bit. I don't want to be a TH-camr, or Instagrammer, or TikToker, and I don't want to be famous, and I don't want to follow trends, paths, be a part of any subculture or group. I just want to be left alone, be a decent person and leave something decent behind on this earth.
This is great video because I'm trying to walk down the path you've created, I've been meaning to start a TH-cam channel, and this video might have just given me the final push I've needed.♥️
a parody episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed of Tiktok from Hank would be something we’d all watch
oh wow you are an actual genius. 400 IQ.
Please do this, Hank.
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Hank did make a video similar to the Anthropocene Reviewed once before on this channel!
idea: anthropocene reviewed in tiktok form. john, forget about your book--this is the future.
i can't believe hank has been on youtube for 13 years and tiktok is where he was meant to be all along. truly great content.
Well...TH-cam used to be a lot more like TikTok.
@@vlogbrothers yeah I know right! Just yesterday I saw an ad for tik tok on tv and I was like," Shame. That's what youtube used to be like."
@@Plot_twist3422 can you explain that a bit to me? i never used tiktok. I guess it's the same with facebook and instagram? i remember facebook to be awesome back in 2012 but now i think instagram is what facebook used to be
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@@vlogbrothers *reading this, installing TikTok now 😌
I recently moved across the country to start a PhD program as the first person in my family to graduate college so while the path to a PhD is well-trodden for many, there's almost no path from where I'm coming from. I was already in a sensitive emotional state when I clicked on the vidoe but I did not expect this to make me cry as much as it did. Life is scary right now, but thank you, Hank, for reminding me that I am breaking the mold and I am forging a new path and I should be proud of that.
Good luck with your PhD! I'm entering my fifth year of my program. I hope you can find supportive people, community is so important
All the very best Kristie!!🥰
Absolutely, you should be so proud. Good luck in your PhD, best wishes!🍀♥️
Uncanny timing, my teacher asked me this morning "who inspires you professionally?" And I said John and Hank Green, because I admire all of the diffrent things they do with youtube, podcasts, books and tours, and I can really see myself going down that path. I guess you heard me.
I talked yesterday with my professor. He asked how I was inspired to go into education and want to pursue it and eventually work for an online education content company. Let me tell y’all the weird looks I got for saying I want to go into my career because two 40 year old men inspired me and reminded me loving to learn is okay were amazing.
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Been thinking about this a lot lately - and it's super nice to be able to create a new path and do something where the outcome is unexpected, but it takes an enormous amount of existing stability in other areas of your life to be able to do that. If your financial wellbeing is tied to these exploits, it's waaaay harder to take these risks than if you're being supported by someone else or if you have generational wealth. Double that feeling if you have a student loan or anything like that!
This is 100% it.
And even taking that beyond only financial stability. If your mental is unpredictable or your relationships are unstable or your personality and the way you view yourself is less stable... Stability in all things.
Ngl this is my favourite “era” of vlogbrothers thus far ❤️😂. Like ever since you and John have started talking about being “on the other side of the mountain” I’ve found your content so much more thoughtful and it gives me a lot to think about as a 20 year old trynna figure it all out. DFTBA
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As a disabled person I feel like I'm always carving my own paths because even if something's been done before, it's usually missing disabled people. Every day I come across something else where I'm like "If I had another lifetime I'd work in (whatever) industry to make things better for other disabled people." Also I literally paused this video a minute in to watch TikTok whew I'm addicted oops
I have an invisible disability. Most of the jobs I’ve worked in would die if they knew what I had. After I leave, I so want to be like HAHA I HAD THE THING AND IT WAS FINE! You’re a bunch of uninformed jerks! But I fear my message would be lost or twisted into “Now I know she has (the thing), now I can see she wasn’t as good as we all thought!”
Inflove Toallinfbestbeingsmyinffirst Sorry, the jerks are the people who I’ve worked with who would have fired me if they know about my invisible disability. For context, it didn’t affect my job at all.
I’m sorry if it sounded like I meant you, dear internet stranger 😊
@@Efflorescentey Dear friend/s, thank you much for explaining so kindly, i agree that's terrible they should never fire unnecessarily, also i'm sorry i saw your reply now . Thank you much, wish you the best.
@@lovetoall6187 No worries 💕 hope life is treating you well Xx
no one:
hank: wuAAlmAAHRt?
legend moment
tbh this is an accurate representation of my reaction when I heard that news, too
I can totally see Hank coming up with "I hate tiktok" video in coming months.
Go to Hankschannel...there's already an "I'm terrified of TikTok" over there.
Came here to say what hank said but just wanted to say it again. It’s on hankschannel😂
@@vlogbrothers To be fair there's also an "I'm terrified of Children" (I know that's not the actual title) so..
I'm slightly convinced youre pulling an Andy and immersed yourself as a supporter of the app so when it's time we will listen
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"You are where you're supposed to be"
I Didn't need to cry at 10a on a friday
Hah. Same. This vid hit something personal in me and got my tear ducts flowing, in the best possible way!
That feeling when you pause your audio book to watch a TH-cam video by the author of that book
"You are in the perfect place. You are where you are supposed to be. Is it tumultuous and fragile and you have no idea what tomorrow will bring? Yeah."
I needed to hear this today. During the onset of COVID I was laid off of my job for two months and relied on CERB (Canadian Emergency Response Benefit) through all of that I realized the job I was at wasn't what I wanted. Two months of doing literally nothing gave me the clarity I needed to go back to school to study media arts.
I quoted what you said because it rings so true. Yes, things may be tumultuous and scary but for me, I feel like I truly am where I am supposed to be, and it feels good.
Thanks for the insight, Hank!
I pray that it all works out for you
@@allisonavery7273 Thanks Allison, I appreciate that! ❤✊🏻
I read my first John Green Book in my freshman year of high school. Last year. I had constantly stalled reading anything from him because... Well, I don't really know why. That is, until the boy I sit with on the bus learned I loved to read. He pulled a copy of Looking for Alaska out of his bag and practically shoved it into my hands. I had only read about a chapter before we got to school and my first stop was the library. I finished that book before school was out that day. About 2 weeks later I found this channel and have been following ever since.
Yesterday I started reading An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. It's 1:15 am and I just finished reading it. I'm so glad wonderful people like you and John exist. People who can do these amazing things and bring people together and make young adults and the world believe in a good story again. I don't know when, or how, but I want to be an author. The only thing that's ever made sense to me is art and reading, and I want that to be my career. So basically, thank you. Thank you both for being these amazing and beautiful people who made me believe in myself, and who inevitably will always be able to get me out of a reading slump. Thank you
I just finished LfA on Monday and I’m still crying a little.
@@jobriq5 which is that?
Michelle Cluck looking for alaska :)
@@flashoftheflood oh! That book physically broke me. I didn't read for months. My friend read it a few months ago and hasn't read anything either
This reminded me of Andy and Atlus, which makes sense since Hank has said he used Andy to express things he feels the most.
Good morning. I... definitely thought today was Wednesday and that this video was breaking the mold of when you post, but I am incorrect. Time in 2020 makes no sense.
God, that would have been GENIUS
@@vlogbrothers I finally figured out that I thought yesterday was Tuesday because John did a livestream yesterday. Took me a while.
This is such a lovely video hank! Thank you for making it.
Hey now, nerdfighteria! This is your self care check point: are you hydrated? have you eaten? Did you take your meds? Do you need to clean your glasses/screens? Have you moved your body today? Done something necessary? What about something fun? Whatever you need to do to look after yourself (you can just start with one!)--do that. And, after you've done that: Do you need to take a break and rest?
Hang in there. Best wishes and DFTBA!
💕💕💕 thank you, untappedinkwell!
@@mirnder my pleasure!
Bless your heart. This was a kind thing to do.
"We can really only dream the things we've seen before"
If that were true, we would never have any new things created in the world.
For the longest time I was like "Why does this Hank Green fella look and sound so much like this other guy named John... Green? Oh shit."
same lol
At least you were aware that they were separate people. I spent a long time confused about "his" first name because I thought they were one guy.
Welcome to Nerdfighteria. Would you like a Diet Dr. Pepper? We might have one or two left in the fridge (there's a shortage...)
i know it's like they're brothers!!
Hahahahaha
Awesome 😂
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
- Robert Frost
While Frost may not have had the same thoughts on which road to take, they still fit quite well here.
Nope. That isn't what that poem is about. In that story both paths are the same and the narrator is lieing to himself. He wants to pretend he is special, but is actually just doing the same thing as everyone else. Read more than the first sentence
Raymond Smith ,
This is actually the end of the Poem, I see why you misunderstood me, I didn’t make it all that clear why I disagreed with Frost.
If Frost is saying:
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I’m trying to say that there should be recognition that this is not really the path less travelled by, (this is the overcrowded path) and that it isn’t actually as special as it seems. This is why I disagree with Frost on which path to take, because it is already well trodden.
I’ve read this poem plenty, though this line sums up Frost’s decision which is why I chose it.
Thanks for trying to help though! Have a good day,
"And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." -Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
Fun fact: Only shooting stars break the mold
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You’re here too!!
@@callydecherd4086 TIL there's a shooting star emoji
As a 19-year-old who constantly feels the need to justify myself to adults by explaining exactly what my plans for life are when really there is NO WAY I could have any idea what I'll be doing in 5 years and that's honestly REALLY COOL and the only reason that seems terrifying to us is because of societal expectations brought on the by the older generation who didn't grow up amidst the chaos we are currently beholding- thank you for this.
Yeah, I’m 21, but I FEEL that.
I remember in one of the episodes of The Anthropocene Reviewed, John talked about early explorers, and how they were journeying towards lands that they “could not have known they would find.” It struck me as a line that perfectly describes what growing up feels like. This reminded me of that - and honestly, with the way this year has gone, I need to remember that, and I also need the courage to believe it. So; thanks, Hank, because content like this helps on both those fronts.
That’s the Gatsby one!! In case you or someone else wanted to find it again
puddlesofsunlight Hey, thanks! I’ll definetly want to revisit it, you saved me a lotta searching. :-)
Edit: ... while the Gatsby episode has many a great line and in fact plays on similar themes, I went back and checked, and the quote I was thinking of actually comes from the episode on Humanity's Temporal Range:
"We just keep going. We've spread across seven continents, including one that is entirely too cold for us. We've sailed across oceans towards land we could not see, and could not have known we would find."
Human persistence is a powerful thing, and I've never needed the reminder more than I do right now.
Thank you both for how much you do for the world and how much hope you give us.
The end of this video made me think of an excerpt from one of my favorite poems, by Antonio Machado. It's originally in Spanish, so this is just one of the English translations, but it's my favorite:
"Traveler, your footprints are the path and nothing more.
Traveler, there is no path; the path is made by walking."
The pre-order link for The Anthropocene Reviewed should be in the doobly-doo!
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I, for one, am very grateful that Hank has a Twitter where he posts all his TikTok videos. It means I can watch his stuff (which I love) without getting addicted to yet another social media platform!
thank you so much for this video. I needed this video today, and probably every day. As I break the story my parents had planned for my life and they ask where I'm going to be in a year, I just don't know. As I break away from the ideas of what love, companionship, friendship is and what is looks like in the abusive setting being all that I know, it's rocky. I know that I am not the only one (nevermind the first one) to leave this path, but it's the well paved trail I know, where healthy affections (platonic and romantic) is more like cliff and less like the easy trail to follow. Good times are ahead, but first the tears.
"I spend time in tik tok because I like it and it's addictive" - Hank green.
Indians are allowed to cry every time Hank says tiktok.
Sorry!!
Cryteam!
We can see all of hanks tiktoks on twitter and I don't really wanna see anymore than that.
It's nice to be able to say this and not be called anti national.. Such a safespace. lol
@@user-po1rs6nw9w exactly
Sometimes the timing of your videos just rocks my world in the best way possible. I’ve spent the last few weeks brainstorming about how to make my photography business something more enjoyable for me, even if it isn’t what’s typically successful or money-making around here. I don’t want to just follow the lead of the crowd, I want to do something that excites me! Just because there isn’t a clear path for it right now doesn’t mean that it won’t work - might as well try!
gotta say the video quality / lighting / makeup on this one was impeccable.
Hank Green (and by extension John Green) now famous author, founder of vidcon, helped popularise vlogging, founder and presenter of like a million different science channels, produced a vlog series that was first to win an Emmy. You are one of those people that have paved that path.
Thank you for the life advice given under the veil of All Star lyrics.
I lost my job recently and I’ve been looking at all of the options moving forward and I’m so overwhelmed but this was nice to hear. Thank you
I didn't know how much I NEEDED this until I saw it. Yeah, my internal disembodied voice says similar things - but they don't resonate until they're external and objective. So, thank you subjectively objective Hank. I actually really needed to hear this today for a multitude of reasons a TH-cam comment cannot contain.
Okay this is gonna sound weird but hearing “you are where you’re meant to be even if it’s tumultuous” gave me such relief that I started crying. I’m someone who struggles greatly with imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and heavily places my worth on academics /grades, and I’m taking a year away from my college due to Covid-19. This has been extremely difficult to deal with even though I know it is the safest decision I can make for myself, and hearing that I’m okay where I am from someone who I admire greatly was greatly appreciated, even though I know it was about tiktok. Lol thank you Hank for all that you do.
Going off the beaten path comes with so much anxiety
I just lost my job, I think I needed to hear this.
I know nothing is forever, but I really do hope that Vlogbrothers will continue on for a long, long time, because seeing a new video from y’all in my sub box has brought me joy for like a decade whaaat
I'm here in youtube for this kind of content, thank you guys for inspiring me everyday to be a better version of me
I love to think about the paths I love created by others that I've embraced in how I live, and how me creating some paths has helped people around me and maybe after me. Small acts of heroism in making paths are maybe opportunties that every person gets. Rarely hugely heroic acts, more countless small ones to make happen.
thanks so much for making this video hank... it's perfect for where I'm at in life right now
really struck a cord with me, i know my attempts at and placement of goals should be something i look into often but i’ll admit i do frequently forgot and neglect but here because of this ima look again at my doings and inspiration- hank you and your brother have always inspired and because of you im seeming my own path too
So I think you're calling yourself a trailblazer, Hank. Which is definitely a thing that's needed! I certainly couldn't do what you do!
Never found myself watching a vlogbrothers video posted 45 seconds ago. What an experience.
Same
Something I have learned recently is when you avoid the obvious path you find the blackberries that haven't been pissed on.
Someone embroider this.
I REFUSE to get Tik Tok, even for Hank
Me too. Someone made a Twitter account called Hank Green's TikToks if that helps.
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. It does, thank you. lol, for 13 years I've followed Hank and John everywhere but I just can't follow them onto TikTok.
2:27 was exactly what I needed to hear today 😭
Thanks, Hank
One óf the better vlogbros. vids I've seen, up to now... but that was worth a like. The ”substance” of human existence is inifnitely limited by artificial constructs, yet we construct these abstracts and create subinfinities in a vain attempt to understand our reality and our place in it... The best we can do is express ourselves honestly, which you have done. Thank you.
Hank Green is so smart, it is intimidating, I wish I was Hank Green lol
We all want that somewhere in our hearts
he is, but his most unique and characteristic qualities are his courage, in always taking the effort of being so earnest and thoughtful in all the videos that he makes, and all the words that he speaks in them, he is very driven towards his thoughts and ideals, which makes him so easy to admire and respect.
If someone follows hard and earnestly brings that up in themselves, they'd probably be more "hank green" than any amount of intelligence or other trait could make them.
Thanks Hank, for saying this. As a person who is trying to be a young creator, sometimes I get discouraged and confused by everything going on and where I'm suppsed to be. A lot of the time I feel mediocre in my content just because i haven't had years of experience or created my own paths yet. I'm learning its okay to do things for myself and to do things just to do them- and that's its okay for me to be confused right now, to be in this weird space that I have to grow in. Hoping things get better and a little more weird
There’s one thing I like to tell myself
“ There is a comfort in familiarity, but then there is the adrenaline and excitement of the unknown and strenuous. And it is very difficult to have both.”
Ah, only one is any fun ^♡^
I’m proud of you for admitting you’re addicted to tiktok. I’m proud of myself for not going on it lol.
It's a weird place. It's perfecting The Algorithm ™.
I've been experimenting on making content on it.
It's driven by #trends, and you can very clearly see when/where it will and won't promote you.
It's a highly carrot and stick sort of reinforcement. Most notably with how it punishes you for not pumping out content every day. If I take a three day break to gather my thoughts on what I want to put out it'll spread me out to a third of the viewers it typically would.
The biggest benefit is knowing I'm looking directly into the core of how social media works once you press "upload".
It has pelicans
This is one of the best Vlogbrothers videos in a while, and they're all good.
I'm a senior in high school trying to figure out whether I am going to take the traditional college path or take a gap year to travel and dive into my vocation. There's so much pressure on teenagers nowadays to be taking the same steps as their peers, and sometimes it feels like the choice I make now will determine my whole life. This video really helped with those feelings, while also giving me a bit more clarity. Thank you!! I needed this!!
I SO needed this video today. Thank you 💛 and good luck everyone!
I’m not sure if this video made me happy or depressed or scared. There are too many emotions banging around in my head right now.
i felt the exact same thing woah
I, also, love and appreciate you.
When I saw the notification for this I was watching one of your tik toks ... the telepathy is thriving today Hank !!
I was watching some Jack Benny TV shows from the early 50's on DVD and I noticed some interesting things. First the format begins with Jack standing in front of a curtain talking to the audience - like the days of Vaudeville. Then although this was a TV show, at the end, viewers are reminded to watch the next show "in two weeks"; but to "Please remember to listen to our nightly radio show". And I thought to myself what a transition time this was. They hadn't quite gotten out of the idea of the live stage, they were testing out how this new media "TV" was going to pan out and of course the REAL entertainment is still the radio shows. I think this happens with all introduction of new media. What's going to be cutting edge? What's "NOW"? What's passé? Vine anyone?
Really didn’t expect to come here and find the exact life advice I needed right now. But in retrospect...I should have. Thanks as always, Hank.
This was really nice! It's kinda comforting to know that even Hank is getting hooked on TikTok. Meanwhile it's banned in India.
Hey now Hank, it's usually your brother that makes me teary. Lovely video. Something I really needed to hear right now.
I needed to hear this today. Thank you.
Hi, it's me, your friendly local brand new college freshman. Everything is hard and stressful right now. I'm tired all the time. I'm surrounded by people who aren't like me, or who are too much like me. And that scares me. I'm reconsidering if I still want to be a teacher. I'm rethinking my decision to go to college. But this video reminded me that I am in fact where I should be. I worked hard to get here, and I'm going to have to keep working hard, but that's okay. Thank you Hank, John, and Nerdfightaria for being part of my path.
Love your new lighting btw, Hank!
hearing hank say i am in the perfect place is exactly what i needed tonight
i was watching another video on 1.75 and it stayed there and honestly had to check that it was still on, Hank is just so fast.
As always. Thank you
love the new lights, hank
This is a really sweet video that I needed to hear today. Thanks, Hank
Beautiful commentary on career and life pathways, Hank. Thank you
This video made me think of the Neil Gaiman quote “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken”
Thank you for this quote - it is new to me, I am going to ruminate on it for a while.😊
The title I’ve been looking forward to for months.
As Alan Kay (and others) said : The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Well done again, for saying the right thing in the right time, and to the right people.
I'll see you next week.
We see Hank cannot be stopped, once he starts a project he must see it out. Even if that project is as terribly fantastic as all-star lyric titles
It's a beautifully foolish endvour
as far as I know, hank and john have done 34 vids with the smash mouth lyrics
@@sidequest8518 They start coming and they don't stop coming
Talent hits a target no-one else can hit.
Genius hits a target no-one else can see.
The clear paths are already very full. Wow. That hit me.
Yeah,it so true.It has always been on my mind for weeks and weeks.I wanted to be an actor .I dreamt that people would go to watch movies with me in the cinema and some of them can buy a paper magazine with me on cover.But with this progress,it is different.I don't want to be an actor now.Because i have never dreamt about starring in movies on streaming services or being on cover internet magazines .And i can't accept that destiny for me.
Aww. I appreciated the bittersweet note of nostalgia.
As a last-year engineering student, I find sci-fi to be a really good way to dream of paths that haven't been built yet
Hank, great hair today. I appreciate how well combed your head hair is
Great video as always. On an unrelated note, by my estimates, there is only 4-5 video's worth of song lyrics left. I don't want this to end. But end it will, as all things must.
"We can really only dream the things we've seen before." WOW, that hit me square in the chest.
There is a Norwegian expression "Veien blir til mens man går" - the road comes into existence as you walk it.
You'll never know if you don't go.
Thankyou, Hank. That was a very nice video 😊
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - the family-friend architect of my apartment building in Philly lol, Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have only created a tiktok account, so I can watch hank's minivideos. So don't give up on tik tok, you brought me into this!
Who else is literally in love with Hank's TikToks?!
I’m so in love that I literally made a Twitter account so the tweoples could see them
@@janieholman2011 thank you! I just followed it. I feel like I'm missing out but refuse to download tiktok. Problem solved.
When you feel conflicted because you love Vlogbrothers videos, but you KNOW that “All Star” will be in your head for the rest of the day 🤔 #worthit
This is a really insightful video. Thank you.
Hank green alweays seems to know everything no matter what's the topic
I tune in every week at this point just to see what new lighting Hank has come up with 😂
I understand that all of this is chaos, but I'm really excited for how this is going to look in the future. Everything looks new and shiny right now, but keep in mind that even the novel itself is only around three hundred years old. TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, all of those platforms are in many ways new forms of storytelling and I can't wait to see how they transform and what radical storytelling will come out of them.
god, tiktok hank is my favorite hank
all the other hanks are cool too
ME TOOOO
I wrote a short, down-to-earth alternate history novel earlier this month (August) about pre-Columbian Native Americans. One of my best works so far and I'm proud of it. Niche topics or not, I don't care for trends, not one bit. I don't want to be a TH-camr, or Instagrammer, or TikToker, and I don't want to be famous, and I don't want to follow trends, paths, be a part of any subculture or group. I just want to be left alone, be a decent person and leave something decent behind on this earth.
Hank, I absolutely love watching your TikToks, please keep making them (especially your pelican ones)
This is great video because I'm trying to walk down the path you've created, I've been meaning to start a TH-cam channel, and this video might have just given me the final push I've needed.♥️
Is it just me or is the lighting really good in this video?
this was a really lovely video, thank you very much for this