History WebVideo / VlogBrothers

-->'''John''': Geese, mice...'''''and oblivion'''''.

-->'''Hank''': Loud. Uncomfortable. Hastily put together. Messy. Poorly planned. Sloppily executed. Sticky. Stinky. And the product was, more or less, er, similar to dog vomit.

-->'''Hank''': Katherine and I went and got breakfast downtown, we ran into some friends who were filming a movie, and I got to be in their movie. We went to see ''Film/WinWin'', the new Creator/PaulGiamatti m- awesome, really good movie. I read ''[[Literature/AClashOfKings Clash of Kings]]'' on my back porch, Osama bin Laden was killed in a precision military strike, Katherine and I played ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii''...

** Machinima/TheMiracleOfSwindonTown

Since then, their fanbase has grown extensively, due not only to the success of their videos, but also music, books and various charity works. Fans are known as [[FanCommunityNickname "nerdfighters"]][[note]]derived from John [[JustForFun/IReadThatAs misreading the name]] of an ''VideoGame/AeroFighters'' arcade cabinet[[/note]] (nerds who fight, not people who fight nerds), and the collective subculture surrounding the fanbase has been dubbed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerdfighteria "Nerdfighteria"]]. They even have a MemeticHandGesture (two crossed-arm tucked-thumb [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan salutes]]), a motto ("Don't forget to be awesome", or "DFTBA"), and an ongoing mission: to ''fight'' "world suck" (generally unfavorable things in the world) through social activism.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Beginning videos with "Good morning Hank/John/Nerdfighters" became a tradition even though videos are actually rarely made and not necessarily watched in the morning. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Hank.

[[caption-width-right:280:[[Creator/JohnGreen John]] and Music/HankGreen: Epic Nerdfighters!]]

* FilkSong: Many of Hank's songs. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Gt9m64LBg This Isn't Hogwarts]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlVQEFLcG6w Dead Boy's Girlfriend]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApbvchiEdTY The Man Who Throws the Tetris Piece]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbn9F32TaA0 I'm Not Edward Cullen]], and lots more.

* CatchPhrase: These are abundant.

* BrokenBase: Invoked by fans with the [[CavemenVsAstronautsDebate Zombies/Unicorns]] issue, a completely silly and non-serious break specifically because they decided there wasn't enough conflict. Serious version Defied, they make a point of avoiding topics they disagree on.
* CatchPhrase: These are abundant.

* InherentlyFunnyWords: John's travelling on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPAoaWCMabw February 1st, 2007]]. "Okay, we're gonna walk through the airport and see if we can find anything funny. The word 'choate' is funny."

* NightmareFace:
** Ladies and gentlemen, [[http://youtu.be/EfKolpFOZLk?t=3m33s demonic Hank]].
** The thumbnail to "This Video Makes No Sense", which has Hank doing an [[DissonantSerenity all too happy]] [[SlasherSmile smile]] with his face pressed up to the camera. [[http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SidZ-KctsHM/maxresdefault.jpg See here]] ('''WARNING''': The linked picture is very large).
** The thumbnail to Hank's "I'm Gonna Kill You". The eerie lighting doesn't help. [[http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Azp91hVsQHY/0.jpg See here.]]

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers Vlogbrothers]], as the name implies, is the Website/YouTube channel and vlogging project of brothers [[Music/HankGreen Hank]] and [[Creator/JohnGreen John]] Green. Vlogbrothers was originally a one-year project starting January 1, 2007 under the name Brotherhood 2.0, where the two brothers swore off textual communication with each other. They were to update one after the other every weekday of the year and each video was to be no more than 4 minutes long. After the year was up, the enthusiastic reception from their fanbase led them to continue the project.

Since then, they have developed a sizable fanbase, due not only to the success of their videos, but also music, books and various charity works. Fans are known as "nerdfighters". They are the organizers of [=VidCon=], the world's first and only convention dedicated to internet videos. Both now also host another channel ''WebVideo/CrashCourse'', where each brother gives lectures on subjects they're knowledgeable about, and Hank also hosts ''WebVideo/SciShow'', filled with various science news videos. In ''addition'', Hank produced ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'' and WebVideo/TheBrainScoop, a modern adaptation of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' and a show about museum taxidermy, respectively. John and Hank are also hosts on the [[https://www.youtube.com/user/MentalFlossVideo/featured mental_floss Youtube channel]], from the magazine mental_floss which gave John his first ever writing job, on which once a week either John gives a nerdy triviatastic list video or Hank gives a quiz video.

* CaptainObvious: In "Famous Last Words" when John is explaining the scenario around the last words of Lady Astor:
-->"When Lady Astor woke up from a stupor to find everyone she knew in her room she said, 'Am I dying or is this my birthday?' It wasn't her birthday."

* FamousLastWords: John knows the [[https://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers#p/u/384/jLm-5B7NXug last words]] of lots of famous people.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every video from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPlyf9OqsNY "hey now"]] onwards are named after lyrics of the song [[Music/SmashMouth "All Star"]].

-->"It's so rare in life that the word 'fortunately' precedes the words 'they have poisonous poop.'"

-->"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."

* ''Literature/AnAbsolutelyRemarkableThing''

* HappilyMarried: Both of them.

* JustForFun/IReadThatAs: "Nerdfighters" came from John's misreading of the logo of an old VideoGame/AeroFighters arcade game.
* ItsAllAboutMe: John.
* IUhYouToo: While this is obviously a family example rather than the usual romantic ones, John and Hank do seem to have a pretty hard time saying the words "I love you" to each other. Even when forced to do so by beloved nerdfighter Esther, it was clearly an awkward experience for them.
-->'''John:''' Isn't it enough to just show you that I love you without talking about it? I'm a boy! I don't like to talk about it!
* {{Keet}}: Both of them, but especially Hank.

* LovableNerd: Both of them.

* SpinOff: Many nerdfighters have been inspired to do other collaborative vlogs, notably shortsisters and fiveawesomegirls.

* ThatsWhatSheSaid: Used infrequently.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: INTERNET SENSATION BITCH!!
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Corn dogs and occasionally Hot Pockets for Hank, pizza and Marshmallow Peeps for John.

* WackyMarriageProposal:
** One nerdfighter asked John to propose to his girlfriend for him. John appeared to be just as nervous before the proposal (and as [[spoiler: elated and relieved]] when she said [[spoiler: yes]]) as an actual groom-to-be would be.
** In fact, this is the same way he proposed to his wife, by asking her favorite author to ask her for him.

* TheWorldIsJustAwesome

** One of Hank's "nerdy pickup lines": "Hey, does this smell like chloroform?"

* IReadThatAs: "Nerdfighters" came from John's misreading of the logo of an old VideoGame/AeroFighters arcade game.

** Skoodlypooping.

** This became a BrickJoke when someone at the Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall asked Hank what his patronus would be, and he answered "It's a corndog"...which IS a sausage covered in cornbread batter and deep fried!

* IReadThatAs: "Nerdfighters" came from John's misreading of the logo of an old AeroFighters arcade game.

* FanCommunityNickname: [[invoked]] Nerdfighters. The name came from an early video in which John encountered the game ''AeroFighters'' and, upon misreading the title as "Nerd Fighters", wondered what he could do with an army of nerds. The nickname is widely and officially acknowledged.

* TemporarySubstitute: YA author Maureen Johnson (no, not [[{{Rent}} that one]]) fills in once in a while.

'''[[http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers Vlogbrothers]]''', as the name implies, is the Website/YouTube channel and vlogging project of brothers [[Music/HankGreen Hank]] and [[Creator/JohnGreen John]] Green. Vlogbrothers (also known as Brotherhood 2.0) was originally a one-year project starting January 1, 2007, where the two brothers swore off textual communication with each other. They were to update one after the other every weekday of the year and each video was to be no more than 4 minutes long. After the year was up, the enthusiastic reception from their fanbase led them to continue the project.

* FollowTheLeader: The series as a whole stemmed from the two falling in love with the archetypal VlogSeries structure [[TropeMaker pioneered]] by Ze Frank.