Hank Green on the Future of the Internet

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This season, we’ve been talking about the potential dangers of social media and the amount of time we spend online. But what about the positive, educational sides of the internet? On this episode, Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to one of the YouTube’s earliest content creators, Hank Green. Sanjay and Hank discuss the state of the internet today, the responsibility of having a platform, and how to deal with harsh online comments. Plus, they ask is the future of the internet utopian? Dystopian? Or maybe both? To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm on the internet to help people learn and get curious and do well in school and understand
0:08.2	more of the knowable things of their universe and know more about the unknowable things and
0:14.0	that that's beautiful and it's fun and like I get so much joy from that.
0:18.8	You might recognize that voice.
0:21.3	Maybe you've heard one of his lectures on YouTube or seen one of his educational TikTok
0:26.0	videos.
0:27.2	So we evolved to have blood production inside of our bones that darkest place evolution
0:32.5	could find.
0:34.3	Hank Green.
0:35.3	He's an author, a science communicator and a vlogger.
0:39.7	He got a start on YouTube back in 2007.
0:43.9	Think about that.
0:44.9	That was before the term content creator was even a thing.
0:49.3	So he has seen the digital evolution play out in real time.
0:54.2	I remember it kind of happened for me back in like 2012, 2013 when the stuff that I
0:59.2	started to see getting made on YouTube was a lot of sort of cruel pranks or like manipulative
1:05.4	guys trying to get.
1:07.0	He was one of the first people to get famous from YouTube.
1:11.5	He was making vlogs with his brother who's a writer, John Green.
1:15.7	And he was also doing something that I can really relate to trying to educate people.
1:21.0	On the way, Hank got quite a following.
1:24.1	A million and a half followers on Twitter, seven million on TikTok and tens of millions
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