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Hank Green
William Henry Green II is an American YouTuber, science communicator, novelist, stand-up comedian, and entrepreneur. He produces the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers with his older brother, author John Green, and hosts the educational YouTube channels Crash Course and SciShow. He has advocated for and organized social activism, created and hosted a number of other YouTube channels and podcasts, releas…
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business · American vlogger and entrepreneur (born 1980) · YouTuber · podcaster · songwriter · businessperson · teacher · inventor · writer · novelist · environmentalist · television producer · also Hank Green, William Henry "Hank" Green, William Henry Green II, William Henry "Hank" Green II, William Henry Green, William Green
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2026· 41 entries
“s content aims to be approachable and to dispel the idea that science is an inherently difficult subject. Like Crash Course, SciShow is meant to be supplementary to the traditional educational experience, with Green”
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Published video “Field Trips Season 2 Trailer”.
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Published video “Cameroon’s Deadly Lake Bomb Has Been Defused”.
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Published video “Is it Possible to Prepare for an Earthquake?: Crash Course Geology #15”.
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Published video “That Time We Put Spiders in VR”.
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Published video “The World’s Best Diet Doesn’t Make You Lose Weight”.
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Published video “How did ocean invertebrates end up on Mt. Everest?!”.
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Published video “Can Baldness Be Reversed?”.
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“I’m so proud of this book and have been so grateful for the reception. If you haven’t, pick up a copy of #TheRealOnes for #NationalBookLoversDay and let me know what you think! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747083... #Booksky #Blacksky #Politics #Booktok #Bookstagram”
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“I’m so grateful for this wonderful, funny, motivational conversation with @hankgreen.bsky.social on his Humans podcast. Listen to the full episode here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...”
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“Astronomy Picture Of the Day - APOD Title: Rubin's COSMOS field Date: 2026-08-07 Image by: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) #APOD #NASA”
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Published video “Scientists Finally Figured Out Why This River Flows Uphill”.
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Published video “Earthquakes Explained: Crash Course Geology #14”.
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Published video “Why It's So Hard to Make Artificial Cork”.
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Published video “Where Is Love Stored in the Body?”.
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Forbes: The Anti-AI Backlash Against Hank Green, Explained
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Published video “The Ring of Fire”.
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Public attention spiked: 4,235 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 1,263, with 5 article edits. Coverage that week: “The Anti-AI Backlash Against Hank Green, Explained” (Forbes).
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Memeburn: Hank Green's AI Confession Exposes a Bad Habit Millions May Already Have
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Published video “Why People Thought "Aliens" Made These Rocks”.
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Mashable: Hank Green apologizes for relying too heavily on ChatGPT
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Gizmodo: YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use
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Insider: YouTube star Hank Green says he's relied 'too heavily' on AI in an apology to fans
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TechCrunch: YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’
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Public attention spiked: 6,795 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.4× the usual 1,263, with 5 article edits. Coverage that week: “Hank Green apologizes for relying too heavily on ChatGPT” (Mashable).
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The Express Tribune: Hank Green admits using ChatGPT after accidentally reading AI prompt feedback left in his script
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Published video “Why We Can’t Find a Legal Limit for Weed”.
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“I’ve been approaching the last 60 days or so with a real “can do” attitude that is frankly not appreciated by my current or future self.”
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“The “We must adapt more memes into movies!” people had better be coming for Spiders Georg. Spiders Georg is blockbuster material.”
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“Cancer book fact check flag: "Not sure you can claim that cancer patients pee out molecules from cancer" and I just did the MOST PANICKED LIT REVIEW OF MY LIFE. Anyway, indeed you can claim that cancer patients pee out the molecules from their cancer, thank you to K R Hande et. al.”
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“Everyone in the world who has been confused by the difficulty rankings from 4x3 for the last week or so... I created this very clever system where it updates the colors based on how difficult people actually find the puzzles, except I screwed up and assigned the colors wrong.”
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“NOT HANK GETTING THE ACTUAL BLACK AND BLUE DRESS TO ANSWER THE QUESTION. And @hankgreen.bsky.social saw white and gold. I feel betrayed. /j And I just checked. The dress was 10 FRICKING YEARS AGO? What in the ever-loving f***?”
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“Well, I mean, the framers of the Constitution didn’t /say/ that compressing the sum of human culture into high-dimensional vector space wasn’t fair use, so…”
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“Recording Delete This in 5 minutes....Piples??? Viral moments of Joy?? Questions??”
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Published video “Volcanoes Explained: Crash Course Geology #13”.
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Published video “The Deepest Point in the World: Crash Course Geology #12”.
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Published video “How Do Mountains Form?: Crash Course Geology #11”.
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Published video “What is Plate Tectonics: Crash Course Geology #10”.
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Published video “How Water Shapes the Land: Crash Course Geology #9”.
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Published video “Where Do Diamonds Come From?: Crash Course Geology #8”.
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2025· 1 entry
As a guest performer on the second season of their panel show Smartypants
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2024· 1 entry
“YALL ANNA DELVEY WAS ON DANCING WITH THE STARS AND THEY BEDAZZLED HER ANKLE MONITOR”
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2023· 3 entries
“It seems like, for the last 30 years of my life, we didn’t really need to spend much time struggling with what to do with the long-term future of humanity. The idea in my head has always been “what folks around me currently have, but for more people, and using less stuff.” If fusion is ever going to be a thing, if energy production keeps getting cheaper, if AI is contributing significantly to the knowledge economy…that’s just not gonna be enough of a vision anymore.”
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Green stepped down as CEO of his companies
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After his May cancer diagnosis, Green began to develop a stand-up comedy routine about the disease
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2022· 9 entries
“Alright nerds, what are you putting on your 2023 bingo cards??”
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“Anybody else feeling left out that they didn’t even have a 2022 BINGO card?”
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“People are like “these shoes are so ethical” but how could they possibly be if they’re made of all birds?”
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“Am I supposed to find out hours later?? Like my /mom/?”
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“How am I supposed to quit Twitter when an insufferable shitstain gets owned by a teenage climate activist so hard that he made a douchy reply video that led Romanian authorities to his location leading to his arrest on suspicion of human trafficking?”
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“The true test of the YIMBY is being ok with them knocking down your favorite coffee shop in order to build a mixed use apartment building and I AM DOING MY BEST.”
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“The space of time between Mendeleev’s first stab at a periodic table and Einstein’s paper on special relativity was smaller than the time between the release of Goonies and today.”
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“I injured my knee during some holiday ice skating nonsense…complete self own taking a dive to make my six year old laugh and I suspect that I’m possibly…just maybe…not as young as I once was.”
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Released album “Songs of Middle Earth”.
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2021· 1 entry
The event was moved to late February, and a record $2,368,016 was raised
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2020· 1 entry
And was on the July 26, 2020, New York Times Bestsellers list at number 6
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2018· 1 entry
Is described as "a lightly competitive knowledge showcase"
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2017· 1 entry
It documents the history of life on Earth "from the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon
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2016· 2 entries
Its patrons on Patreon chose a topic for a new channel, SciShow Psych, which launched in March 2017
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Green's LLC and production company EcoGeek was renamed Complexly (after the phrase "Imagine Others Complexly")
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2015· 1 entry
“Stories, of course, are an easy thing to love. They”
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2014· 3 entries
Lastufka announced that he had sold his entire stake in the company and resigned as president, to pursue other projects
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Released album “Incongruent”.
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Green partnered with Animal Wonders Inc, a nonprofit organization focused on animal rescue and animal-based education, to launch a new YouTube channel focused on animals
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “Talking About Christmas Songs”.
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The two co-founded Sexplanations, a YouTube channel focused on sex education
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Launched Subbable, a monthly subscription-based crowdfunding platform similar to Kickstarter that would let subscribers pledge a monthly donation to creators and receive perks in exchange by building up a pledge ban
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2012· 4 entries
Green featured Emily Graslie, a curatorial assistant at the Philip L
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Released album “2012 Tour de Nerdfighting Album”.
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Released album “The Harry Potter Songs”.
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By Green and Bernie Su and produced by Pemberley Digital
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Ellen Hardcastle”.
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Green created "2-D" glasses, which allow one to watch 3-D movies in 2-D
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2010· 1 entry
Green met Lindsey Doe, a sexologist, after Doe found Green's Vlogbrothers channel and asked him to talk at a panel in her course at the University of Montana
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “This Machine Pwns N00bs”.
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The channel's content ranges from opinion pieces to behind-the-scenes work on vlogbrothers videos and video explanations
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Released album “I'm So Bad at This: Live!”.
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “So Jokes”.
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John and Hank first met up with their fans, known as "Nerdfighters"
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And reached number 22 on the Billboard Top 25 revenue generating albums online
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2007· 1 entry
The brothers introduced an annual charity project, the Project for Awesome (P4A), in which YouTube users take two days, originally in mid-December, to create videos promoting charities or nonprofit organizations of their
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2003· 1 entry
Green was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2003.
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1994· 1 entry
Experienced minor success on the heels of the Mars Pathfinder Mission
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1980· 2 entries
To Mike and Sydney Green in Birmingham, Alabama, but his family soon moved to Orlando, Florida, where he was raised
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Born 1980-05-05.
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