About
Vlogbrothers are a pair of popular Youtube celebrities and video bloggers, composed of brothers John and Hank Green[1][2]. After their successful video blogging project Brotherhood 2.0, the brothers gained a large fan following, known as Nerdfighters, leading them to create a variety of further videos.
Online History
On January 1, 2007, John and Hank Green first launched their Brotherhood 2.0 project, in which the two bloggers ceased all text based contact for one year, instead keeping contact through a series of video blogs, which they released publicly via Youtube and through their Brotherhood 2.0 website[3]. Despite the series ending on December 31 2007, the Vlogbrothers continued to post videos, due to their new found online following.
After the end of Brotherhood 2.0, a new website was set up to act as the Vlogbrother main website, named Nerdfighters[4]. As well as their normal series of blogs, a number of side series have also been created, such as Sci-Show[5], a series of Science-based videos, Crash Course[6], a series of educational courses, and Hankgames[7], a series of video game playthroughs. As of March 5, 2013, the channel has over 1 million subscribers.
Reputation
Nerdfighters
[w.i.p.]
Notable sub-memes
Don’t Forget To Be Awesome / DFTBA
Don’t Forget To Be Awesome (often abbreviated to DFTBA) is the catchphrase of the Vlogbrothers, which they usually use to close of their vlogs. The phrase eventually gained spread within the Nerdfighter fandom, spawning a variety of different parodies.
Humpy Hank
“Humpy Hank”: refers to a series of photoshops, showing Hank Green humping a number of various objects. The meme originates from a video in which Hank humps a Google sign while at Google’s HQ. A number of parodies can be found at the Humpy Hank single topic blog[8].
