Offline: Hank Green on Inspiring Curiosity

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🗓️ 13 February 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week, Jon is joined by the internet’s dad, Hank Green. For many people, Hank is a staple of the internet, whether on TikTok, YouTube, or in the classroom. He sat down with Jon to discuss how he attempts to inspire curiosity online, the communities he’s built, and how the internet has changed since he posted his first video in 2007. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0	Do you look back at 2007 as like the good old days of the internet and wonder what changed?
0:05.2	Like do you think it's gotten worse or is that just what people are?
0:07.4	Is that just a... or just people are people now paying attention to what genre is it always been going for?
0:12.4	I don't think any of these gotten worse.
0:13.9	Yeah.
0:14.2	Does it feel like things have gotten worse?
0:15.8	That's a good, a good, a good idea.
0:17.2	Where did you get that idea?
0:20.0	I'm John Fabro.
0:21.1	Welcome to Offline.
0:24.4	Hey everyone, my guess this week is YouTuber Hank Green.
0:27.1	For people of a certain age and by that I mean young people, Hank Green is the internet.
0:32.6	His first YouTube channel, Vlog Brothers, that he started with his brother John,
0:36.6	has about 900 million views.
0:39.0	His educational video series, called SciShow and Crash Course,
0:42.8	have been seen in probably every high school in America.
0:45.6	And today, Hank is on TikTok, where he's become sort of a father figure to the app's teenage user base,
0:50.8	answering their science questions and dispensing bits of parental advice.
0:54.6	But one of the most interesting parts of Hank's career has been his longevity.
0:58.9	On the internet, people tend to burn bright and then burn out.
1:02.5	Hank posted his first video back in 2007, 15 years ago.
1:06.9	And now, at the right age of 41, he's become one of the internet's elder statesmen.
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