hank i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the reason you didn't list which "science videos" regularly went viral was because they mostly involved giraffes and the thumbnails mostly involved them reproducing
I run a homeless shelter for children in the Ozarks and I deeply feel the statement "Helps a lot of people, but there's no way to monetize it effectively.. We just do what we do and we spend all the money that we make"
You brushed over it but I like that grant/loan setup. It mitigates RUclips's risk by letting them collect 100% of the ad revenue the first year but they're willing to "forgive" the shortfall knowing they'll continue to get their share of ad revenue going forward. And for the creator they get the initial influx of cash to get things started and a year of ad analytics to know how/what they should be budgeting for going forward. It's just a win all around!
@@hankschannelThat honestly sometimes works in the favor of the person making the pitch. It’s put together and cohesive enough to show the earnestness behind the person making the pitch but not so polished as to make a person question who actually put the presentation together. At least, that’s what I’ve observed watching the success of grant proposals friends/relatives have done. Those institutions at least want to see people with passion & an idea succeed… not just people already good at making money, make more money.
Sci-show kids is absolutely one of my favorite things you all do. I so so so appreciate that you are willing to lose money on something so important. My kids (and soooooooo many other kids I know) have learned so much from that effort. It truly is a gift.
@@hankschannelmaybe it's a long term investment that eventually boosts your other channels that make money? Probably very difficult to account for accurstely, but it might not be the money sink you think it is!
I wouldn't say it is a loss leader... but it does round out the content you make... and it is a good basis to lead into the main content with some understanding.
@@hankschannel These things don't lose money, they cost money. It's a public service. You're just paying the world's largest subscription fee and letting your freeloader mates (all of humanity) log in on your account.
Hank, I am sure you have heard this a million times. but sci show really did change my life and my entire direction as a person when I was young. I watched tons of scishow as a kid, and it fostered such a deep love of learning and knowledge in me that schooling would never have been able to do. It has deeply shaped my outlook on the world, and I know I am not alone in this. I hope you are very proud of all the good you have been able to do for my generation especially. I hope some day I can create something as inspiring as scishow.
"2011! People still made powerpoint presentations in 4 by 3!" As someone who goes to academic conferences, I can tell you that people still make 4:3 powerpoint presentations in 2024
As a college A/V tech who removed the last of the 4:3 projectors from service around 2015-2016, thus standardizing the campus on 16:9, I am forever baffled by this.
They 100% do, I forget which version it changed but these days, 16:9 is the default! It takes extra steps to create a presentation in any other aspect ratio
Haha "all of those are John." I've been a little sister my whole life, and "all of those are "Jessica" has been my thought pattern for a long time. I love my sister. ❤
I just want you to know that I just got a notification from RUclips that cut off the title to "How I Convinced RUclips to Give me $4..." Which I found hilarious. Convinced me to watch the video right away 😂
Okay, I watched the video and am now wondering where the amount of nostalgic videos come from recently. Is complexly the cause of all this? I love it, but am slightly confused.
longtime viewer here (8ish years), i feel like they just do that sometimes. hope this helps! no but jokes aside, I do notice waves of nostalgia on vlogbrothers randomly, and they're personally my favorite kind of videos. I love it when they reflect on their lives and offer up their perspectives, I feel like I learn a lot as a young person myself!
Back in Google's very early days, they paid people to put their search bar on their websites to promote this ~new search engine~, so I DID actually get Google to send me a check for like $20.
@@asdfrozenI was confused for a moment when he said that because that aspect ratio looked normal to me. I'm an academic and use 4:3. I didn't even realize the rest of the world stopped.
I work in a national park, where our media viewing spaces were optimized for slide projectors 50+ years ago. The 4:3 setting is my best friend and I have to train new staff that it exists.
Thank you for still making SciShow kids even though it isn't a money maker for the company. My kids absolutely love it and learn so much. It also makes my husband very happy to see our next generation of SciShow fans. He's been watching SciShow since the very beginning. I still remember him excitedly showing it to me for the first time in college. =)
Oh I was waiting for you to go through this deck! Putting this together in 3 days is super impressive, it showed what a strong vision you had for what you wanted to do and just how well you understood youtube, the internet and its potential. If you think about it, you already thought about making shorts/tik toks in 2011! And look how long it took for short form content to actually catch on. Also, when you put the date on a slide deck you KNOW it's serious! :D
As someone who joined this community in about 2011, I have been following complexly since the start!! I went back and watched the 2007-2011 vlogbrothers I missed but I haven't missed a moment of the science fun!! I'm so excited for my kids to get just a little bigger so they can watch Scishow Kids with me. At 3months the youngest isn't quite ready for it yet lol but the 2year old is almost there. :) DFTBA Love this community so much!
I want you to understand how impactful this was. Scishow and Crash Course videos, and all the branching Scishow channels including but not limited PBS Eons, are so well put together they've made it into college curriculums everywhere. I started watching Vlog Brothers because my siblings showed me it and have been watching videos from you and your team ever since. You took an undereducated individial, from a rural area and ultra religious background, and gave him a passion for science and a solid education. It's been a little over a decade and I'm now on my way to becoming a Nuclear/Chemical Engineer directly because of the education I got from watching you and your teams videos. I cannot thank you enough for lifting the veil of ignorance and giving me something positive to look forward to each day.
i've been working on getting over perfectionism recently and it's very affirming/encouraging to have proof from someone i admire that something doesn't need to be great to do the thing it sets out to do effectively... and definitely waaaaay more effectively than nothing at all
Scishow is how I found you and John. It was used in my son’s high school biology class years after he introduced me to it, which I though was really cool. So glad that grant came through and y’all made what you have made from that start!
Ah man, Truth or Fail. That brings me back. That's the only reason I'm here. Never stumbled into any of the rest of it until much later, but Truth or Fail was a great time.
Hank, I just have to say I am forever grateful to you and John for starting SciShow. Your videos have been my go-to companions for over a decade now- which is strangely difficult for me to fathom! SciShow has truly transformed RUclips, paving the way for so much amazing educational content. Your impact on the platform and on so many of us is immeasurable. tHANK you :')
Hank thank you for making SciShow/CrashCourse. Watching SciShow/CrashCourse videos inspire me to produce my own videos to help lecture my students. Obviously they are on a single person budget and with a different structure. But seeing professionnally edited videos told me "oh that's how you do that". Also, I use CrashCourse computer science as "remember how this work" pre-activities in my higher division college courses and graduate courses. Quite effective!
It is inspiring to see how much has come from you having a little faith in yourself, following your dream, and putting in hard work. Thank you for sharing this.
It was really useful to see a pitch and understand how much of it changes or doesn't happen! I'm beginning to pitch for theatre shows and always feel a huge weight of responsibility to 'accurately sell' what I'll produce, but of course, no good creative project grows that way.
Just an anecdote, but a ton of my nerd friends and I had scientific american, popular science, popular mechanics, national geographic, etc. in middle school, high school, and college in the 2000s. That was basically where you went to find popsci news and stories back then instead of youtube, so its at least plausible to me that lots of young people were reading it back then.
Yeah, I regularly read them in libraries, especially my school library, that had current ones on hand during middle and high school in the 2010s. I even had a subscription to natgeo for a few years.
from a small business owner who has spent time putting together grant proposals and is looking into artist residencies, this is so great. Thanks for sharing Hank
@@SeanSMST Maybe he interviewed someone who worked at NASA for Ecogeek or something and just forgot about it. If I got an article out of it, I'd consider that "collaboration" enough if I were trying to zhuzh up my resume. 😂
The remarkable thing about your success on RUclips isn't that you've grown Complexly to be a powerhouse in science education, even though you have. It's that throughout it all, you still do what you enjoy doing, including just throwing a 12-minute video online just to talk about what's on your mind. Most of the time, when businesses succeed, people go from being a doer to a manager. And while I'm sure you do plenty of managing in your day-to-day, I'm glad you can also just be you.
Sci show has let me continue being enthusiastic about science even mid burnout, im doing a stem degree and basically just took a year out cause of burnout making everything hard and sci show was one of the few ways i was able to engage with stem things that i genuinely love without the guilt and exhaustion i had come to associate with my degree so genuinely thank you so much, im not entirely sure i would be returning to my degree without it
I find it very amusing how you keep talking about how you "shouldn't have done" various things, as if you failed and would have succeeded otherwise, when clearly you DID succeed as it was :)
I'm actually gratified to hear you say that the budget you came up with was trash. That's THE HARDEST PART of any business plan, IMO. How much is it going to cost? Well, lemme do it for a year, and then I'll show you the yearly spend. Until then, it's a shot in the dark; I think they just want to see that you've included all the basic categories of expenses and aren't too insanely off the mark.
Sci Show and Sci Show Tangents were key to me realizing I can keep learning and researching things…just because it’s fun and interesting?? Not because it’s a grade, or for work?? And now I’m someone who just KNOWS things about the most random topics, and can tell people “That’s not true, it’s actually this thing!” off the top of my head. Plus I know random fun facts related to the special interests of the autistic kids I work with lol
Hank I discovered you through sci-show and while I didn't go through stem because of health issues sci-show certainly has been a huge igniter of interest in so many things science related. Amazing that it has been so many years lmao
Oh man, I have so much nostalgia for olllld school sci show news. And sci show..... dose? The little short ones. Middle/high school me DEVOURED those. ETA: And sci show quiz show! The janky little table with buzzer setup was 10/10
It's weird looking at Hank's slideshow and seeing how RUclips was back then. I was about 11 and already into RUclips (1:10 I remember when Ryan's Nice Guys video first came out since I was watching his videos since 2008 lol). I've been watching RUclips for this long that it's weird to see a glimpse of a time BEFORE SciShow, Crash Course, and really many of the channels I watch nowadays, both educational and entertainment.
I'm so grateful for Scishow Kids! My 2 year old loves it and regularly asks for it. In fact, because of the episode on Trilobites, we ended up going to U-dig fossils in Delta, Utah where we were able to find Trilobite fossils ourselves. Amazing. Thanks for doing what you do!
I am extremely grateful, people like you, have the motivation and determination to just go ahead and do stuff like this. I cannot fathom a RUclips without SciShow and other incredible STEM communicators.
Hank, thank you for what you do, I love Hanks channel, SciShow and all of the shorts, and I'm glad that your health is better (I'm jealous, my chemo didn't cause my hair t fall out so I'm stuck with the dry thinning hair of my age (74)). Best to you and your crew, you all rock.
This is a great share!! What a great breakdown of a business plan and all the feedback of what worked and didn’t all these years later. Besides a great look back, what a lesson in how to develop something like this for ourselves for our own dreams. ❤❤❤
Thanks for explaining Complexy in the last couple videos. I had no idea what it was or that you were it's co-founder. I can appreciate SciShow even more now!
Scishow was really one of the first youtube things i continued to pay attention to on a consistent basis. I remember watching videos on my lunch break everyday back in like 2011 or 2012. It was a nice way to move on from print media like Discovery and Sci Am magazines.
Hank, its almost like you know I’m writing a paper about you and your career. This is very helpful and good information about your goals back then. Thank you mr.hank
I get very anxious about making pitch decks for projects I work on (mostly for public access TV, so not as much money involved), and seeing this brought me a lot of peace. This is much closer to the level of project funding and complexity I'm comfortable managing, and it makes it much easier to wrap my head around when I'm trying to put a deck together for my own projects. Thank you for this.
Watching this made me realize that I was in the first 500,000 subscribers to vlogbrothers. I wish I could see when I subbed... I think it was mid--late 2009 which would mean even first ~250k, thanks Wayback Machine! Pretty neat.
The older I get the more it seems like the key to success in getting something you want is just, asking for it? Like this is very assuring. It does not be a perfect thing beyond any standard you can imagine, it can literally just be a PowerPoint
I'm so grateful for whatever happened. I'm 32 and I took oceanography classes and became a science obsessed adult because of y'all. I'm a waitress without a degree, but I don't think that matters I'm just happy that I'm genuinely enjoying my life more because of vlogbrothers and scishow
Sci show kids was so great when my kids were younger. The episode about building stable forts was a regular at our house and the construction quality of forts went up dramatically at Chez Meeks. My kids still build them in their rooms even though they're tweens now.
It's funny you say the cross-posting wasn't a huge thing, but I found out about y'all because Slate (I think it was Slate?) shared John's video about why pricate healthcare doesn't work. Ofc I'm a sample size of one, but from my perspective the outside promo was very important!
I love this transparency and as someone with a background in programme making I am so glad you are also honest that the scishow kids just has no way of making money, but is there to help people and is funded through other channels. This video is absolutely something all programme maker students need to watch
To this day truth or fail is one of my favourite projects y’all have ever done & I appreciate that despite it not being sustainable long term you still clearly have passion for it/wish it could’ve worked
I feel like Hank and John Green need a massive thank you from the world. They're actively making people kinder, more intelligent and capable of critical/nuanced thinking. It might not always feel that way, since it's hard to quantify, but it's happening every minute. So thanks. A lot.
And we are so thankful y'all did make it and are here for the world! SciShow and y'alls companies make are proof that the internet is as bad as it can seem. 💙
To this day I still remember opening RUclips and seeing a "Wheezywaiter liked this video" notification (because apparently that was a thing then??), and it was Scishow's like 3rd video or something entitled "Climate Change", in February 2012. I watched it and loved it, then discovered this Hank guy had another channel called Vlogbrothers. I then watched almost all of the 5 year backlog. So I'm very glad you managed to start Scishow!
Hank. In case you read this: I'm a 'fan' (admire more than other ppl because of their work) people: One of them is you, for all the knowledge and laughts you give us. The other is Serj Tankian. Thanks for everything you do!
You've mentioned before that SciShow Kids and Journey to the Microcosmos aren't profitable, despite getting tons of views. Would love to hear more about why that is!
I imagine the time and energy required to make them as high quality and comparatively elaborate as they are just can't be covered by the ads. The format of the regular Scishow and PBS EONS videos are pretty basic, still high quality, but it's pretty much just a presenter talking to the camera with some highlighted word blocks and diagrams/pictures. Scishow kids has puppets and little animation pieces and props. Journey to the Microcosmos has hours and hours of footage of microscopic life courtesy of James Weiss that needs to be gone through carefully and a specific music track just for it by Andrew Huang and it seems like half teaching about the microcosmos, and half funding James' research into the microcosmos because he keeps discovering new creatures and I assume they are supportive of his research, etc. They also tend to go a bit more in depth into the topics sometimes and really dig into the details specifically rather than do an overview. It just seems more involved and harder to maintain.
1:00 man, I WISH more videos were in 4:3, I always have my youtube tab in the corner and it's always ~just slightly~ too wide for what I'm doing, plus it would make watching on my phone in picture-in-picture much clearer since I have the same problem AND it's slightly too small to actually see anything
Just imagine how much richer Hank would be and how much worse off we would be if he had stuck with HankGames and built on his "Five Nights with Freddy" streams to become a Twitch gaming super star. :)
i think scishow is an objectively good science show name. it tells me everything i need to know about it- it's a show, about science, and its not gonna waste my time
Crash course inspired me to go back to school and get a computer science degree. I may or may not be successful, but this slideshow has convinced me that any half-baked plan with enough driving force behind it has a chance of success. Thanks, Hank!
hank i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the reason you didn't list which "science videos" regularly went viral was because they mostly involved giraffes and the thumbnails mostly involved them reproducing
Good point
I came to the comments to say the same thing. Good call on that one, past Hank!
Push the shock pen John
OKay I need to know which one it is now :')
People love giraffes who love giraffes 😍
I run a homeless shelter for children in the Ozarks and I deeply feel the statement
"Helps a lot of people, but there's no way to monetize it effectively.. We just do what we do and we spend all the money that we make"
The fact that a homeless shelter for children is necessary is deeply upsetting.
Doing a noble work
You brushed over it but I like that grant/loan setup. It mitigates RUclips's risk by letting them collect 100% of the ad revenue the first year but they're willing to "forgive" the shortfall knowing they'll continue to get their share of ad revenue going forward. And for the creator they get the initial influx of cash to get things started and a year of ad analytics to know how/what they should be budgeting for going forward. It's just a win all around!
It's an advance, like in the book or music industry, except those industries very much do NOT forgive the advance lol
4:43 This was basically Hank referring to himself as John Greens brother. Suddenly not such a big issue when applying for $450,000
I wouldn't be embarassed of this! The pitch was objectively successful! Wildly so!!
True! I just put myself in the shoes of RUclips execs from 2011 and, like, this was not the most professional presentation they received!
@@hankschannel Well, is professionalism even relevant if the results are the same? I'm wearing a tie (only) so what's the problem, officer?
@@hankschannelbut surely not the least, either!
@@hankschannelThat honestly sometimes works in the favor of the person making the pitch. It’s put together and cohesive enough to show the earnestness behind the person making the pitch but not so polished as to make a person question who actually put the presentation together. At least, that’s what I’ve observed watching the success of grant proposals friends/relatives have done. Those institutions at least want to see people with passion & an idea succeed… not just people already good at making money, make more money.
9:30 "vidcon - 2500 attendees" in the proven youtube success track record slide really captures the moment
RIGHT!
SciShow was the reason I decided to go back into education after 8 years, and got my degree. It was an objectively good force in my life.
Sci-show kids is absolutely one of my favorite things you all do. I so so so appreciate that you are willing to lose money on something so important. My kids (and soooooooo many other kids I know) have learned so much from that effort. It truly is a gift.
Thank you so much! It has lost money every single year of its existence!!
My oldest is about to turn five and I have been waiting eagerly for her to be old enough to be interested since (before) she was born!
@@hankschannelmaybe it's a long term investment that eventually boosts your other channels that make money? Probably very difficult to account for accurstely, but it might not be the money sink you think it is!
I wouldn't say it is a loss leader... but it does round out the content you make... and it is a good basis to lead into the main content with some understanding.
@@hankschannel These things don't lose money, they cost money. It's a public service. You're just paying the world's largest subscription fee and letting your freeloader mates (all of humanity) log in on your account.
Hank, I am sure you have heard this a million times. but sci show really did change my life and my entire direction as a person when I was young. I watched tons of scishow as a kid, and it fostered such a deep love of learning and knowledge in me that schooling would never have been able to do. It has deeply shaped my outlook on the world, and I know I am not alone in this. I hope you are very proud of all the good you have been able to do for my generation especially. I hope some day I can create something as inspiring as scishow.
I second this grand opinion as my experience has been the same, getting to say we're here has done so very much to shape my outlook
@@hankschannel Hank, thank you so much for replying! It really made my day. I honestly didn't really expect you to even see this.
"2011! People still made powerpoint presentations in 4 by 3!"
As someone who goes to academic conferences, I can tell you that people still make 4:3 powerpoint presentations in 2024
As a college A/V tech who removed the last of the 4:3 projectors from service around 2015-2016, thus standardizing the campus on 16:9, I am forever baffled by this.
At my job we didn't switch in I think 2019ish (I didn't work there back then but I occasionally stumble across old rapport that use 4:3 😂)
That is heresy of the highest order
They 100% do, I forget which version it changed but these days, 16:9 is the default! It takes extra steps to create a presentation in any other aspect ratio
What is the difference between 4:3 and 16:9?? Shouldn't those be the same
Hank you have no idea how much this can inspire people to just DO THE THING
Haha "all of those are John." I've been a little sister my whole life, and "all of those are "Jessica" has been my thought pattern for a long time. I love my sister. ❤
I just want you to know that I just got a notification from RUclips that cut off the title to "How I Convinced RUclips to Give me $4..." Which I found hilarious.
Convinced me to watch the video right away 😂
Okay, I watched the video and am now wondering where the amount of nostalgic videos come from recently. Is complexly the cause of all this? I love it, but am slightly confused.
For me it cut off at "How I convinced you" and I wondered what Hank had convinced his audience of. 😂
longtime viewer here (8ish years), i feel like they just do that sometimes. hope this helps!
no but jokes aside, I do notice waves of nostalgia on vlogbrothers randomly, and they're personally my favorite kind of videos. I love it when they reflect on their lives and offer up their perspectives, I feel like I learn a lot as a young person myself!
That's the life of a small RUclipsr ($4)
Back in Google's very early days, they paid people to put their search bar on their websites to promote this ~new search engine~, so I DID actually get Google to send me a check for like $20.
4:3 powerpoints make me so nostalgic....
I have a coworker who still uses them
4:3 slideshows (not really PowerPoint since they're pdfs) are the norm in academia
@@asdfrozenyep, just made one a couple months ago
@@asdfrozenI was confused for a moment when he said that because that aspect ratio looked normal to me. I'm an academic and use 4:3. I didn't even realize the rest of the world stopped.
I work in a national park, where our media viewing spaces were optimized for slide projectors 50+ years ago. The 4:3 setting is my best friend and I have to train new staff that it exists.
Thank you for still making SciShow kids even though it isn't a money maker for the company. My kids absolutely love it and learn so much. It also makes my husband very happy to see our next generation of SciShow fans. He's been watching SciShow since the very beginning. I still remember him excitedly showing it to me for the first time in college. =)
Oh I was waiting for you to go through this deck! Putting this together in 3 days is super impressive, it showed what a strong vision you had for what you wanted to do and just how well you understood youtube, the internet and its potential. If you think about it, you already thought about making shorts/tik toks in 2011! And look how long it took for short form content to actually catch on. Also, when you put the date on a slide deck you KNOW it's serious! :D
Not me just realizing I watched a _ton_ of SciShow Kids when I was younger. That mouse brought back so many memories . . . .
Would you still love me if I was a worm, Hank?
Good question
Let's get this to the top 🤣
I bet he would!
Worms perform an essential ecological function.
For people of the future: this was posted on the same day as a worm short of Hanks.
As someone who joined this community in about 2011, I have been following complexly since the start!! I went back and watched the 2007-2011 vlogbrothers I missed but I haven't missed a moment of the science fun!! I'm so excited for my kids to get just a little bigger so they can watch Scishow Kids with me. At 3months the youngest isn't quite ready for it yet lol but the 2year old is almost there. :) DFTBA Love this community so much!
Me and Mark Zuckerberg have over 150 billion dollars of net worth
Mark Zuckerberg and I*
@@briangunn21 can't bye good english but correcting Simone is priceless
In 2012 I was 24 years old and subscribed to the print version of Scientific American. We existed Hank!!
I not far off from myself too!
I was like Hank doesn’t think we existed?
I want you to understand how impactful this was. Scishow and Crash Course videos, and all the branching Scishow channels including but not limited PBS Eons, are so well put together they've made it into college curriculums everywhere. I started watching Vlog Brothers because my siblings showed me it and have been watching videos from you and your team ever since. You took an undereducated individial, from a rural area and ultra religious background, and gave him a passion for science and a solid education. It's been a little over a decade and I'm now on my way to becoming a Nuclear/Chemical Engineer directly because of the education I got from watching you and your teams videos. I cannot thank you enough for lifting the veil of ignorance and giving me something positive to look forward to each day.
5:12 when your follower count distribution resembles the Gretzky brothers stats
I'm really glad I found these channels. PBS eons, sci show, Hanks channel.. I love them all!
Hank Green's resume is so impressive that he cant even keep it all straight
I assume he’s probably checked his own wikipedia at some point to remember what he’s done lol
And he isn't.
i've been working on getting over perfectionism recently and it's very affirming/encouraging to have proof from someone i admire that something doesn't need to be great to do the thing it sets out to do effectively... and definitely waaaaay more effectively than nothing at all
Scishow is how I found you and John. It was used in my son’s high school biology class years after he introduced me to it, which I though was really cool. So glad that grant came through and y’all made what you have made from that start!
Ah man, Truth or Fail. That brings me back. That's the only reason I'm here. Never stumbled into any of the rest of it until much later, but Truth or Fail was a great time.
Yeah, truth or fail was such fun!
Hank, I just have to say I am forever grateful to you and John for starting SciShow. Your videos have been my go-to companions for over a decade now- which is strangely difficult for me to fathom! SciShow has truly transformed RUclips, paving the way for so much amazing educational content. Your impact on the platform and on so many of us is immeasurable. tHANK you :')
Hank thank you for making SciShow/CrashCourse.
Watching SciShow/CrashCourse videos inspire me to produce my own videos to help lecture my students. Obviously they are on a single person budget and with a different structure. But seeing professionnally edited videos told me "oh that's how you do that".
Also, I use CrashCourse computer science as "remember how this work" pre-activities in my higher division college courses and graduate courses. Quite effective!
It is inspiring to see how much has come from you having a little faith in yourself, following your dream, and putting in hard work. Thank you for sharing this.
It was really useful to see a pitch and understand how much of it changes or doesn't happen! I'm beginning to pitch for theatre shows and always feel a huge weight of responsibility to 'accurately sell' what I'll produce, but of course, no good creative project grows that way.
Just an anecdote, but a ton of my nerd friends and I had scientific american, popular science, popular mechanics, national geographic, etc. in middle school, high school, and college in the 2000s. That was basically where you went to find popsci news and stories back then instead of youtube, so its at least plausible to me that lots of young people were reading it back then.
Ditto
Yeah, I regularly read them in libraries, especially my school library, that had current ones on hand during middle and high school in the 2010s. I even had a subscription to natgeo for a few years.
from a small business owner who has spent time putting together grant proposals and is looking into artist residencies, this is so great. Thanks for sharing Hank
It’s actually crazy that RUclips let you do this, especially back then. But if anyone could do it, I’m glad it was you!
kinda dying at you being fully confused about if you ever collaborated with NASA
It was so top secret that they wiped his memory afterwards. Must have been a collab on aliens.
I'm gonna guess it was having some correspondence with someone AT Nasa for Ecogeek or something, but not a collaboration.
@@SeanSMST Maybe he interviewed someone who worked at NASA for Ecogeek or something and just forgot about it. If I got an article out of it, I'd consider that "collaboration" enough if I were trying to zhuzh up my resume. 😂
@@mayaenglish5424
5:30
NASA TV probably counted for _something._
@mayaenglish5424 I've never seen "zhuzh" written, but that spelling totally nails it!
Tik tok looming in the background cracked me up
The remarkable thing about your success on RUclips isn't that you've grown Complexly to be a powerhouse in science education, even though you have. It's that throughout it all, you still do what you enjoy doing, including just throwing a 12-minute video online just to talk about what's on your mind. Most of the time, when businesses succeed, people go from being a doer to a manager. And while I'm sure you do plenty of managing in your day-to-day, I'm glad you can also just be you.
Sci show has let me continue being enthusiastic about science even mid burnout, im doing a stem degree and basically just took a year out cause of burnout making everything hard and sci show was one of the few ways i was able to engage with stem things that i genuinely love without the guilt and exhaustion i had come to associate with my degree so genuinely thank you so much, im not entirely sure i would be returning to my degree without it
RUclips: "We thought you said 450 thousand doll-hairs"
I find it very amusing how you keep talking about how you "shouldn't have done" various things, as if you failed and would have succeeded otherwise, when clearly you DID succeed as it was :)
You can always do better!
Hindsight is 20/20
@@trevinbeattie4888 Foresight was 2024?
@@hankschannel That's fair. Maybe I read too much into it, but I felt like you had a regretful tone, and I wanted to say "You're great as you are!"
I'm actually gratified to hear you say that the budget you came up with was trash. That's THE HARDEST PART of any business plan, IMO. How much is it going to cost? Well, lemme do it for a year, and then I'll show you the yearly spend. Until then, it's a shot in the dark; I think they just want to see that you've included all the basic categories of expenses and aren't too insanely off the mark.
Thank you for sharing this Hank
8:10 I see John hadn't developed his current interest yet.
Sci Show and Sci Show Tangents were key to me realizing I can keep learning and researching things…just because it’s fun and interesting?? Not because it’s a grade, or for work?? And now I’m someone who just KNOWS things about the most random topics, and can tell people “That’s not true, it’s actually this thing!” off the top of my head. Plus I know random fun facts related to the special interests of the autistic kids I work with lol
Hank I discovered you through sci-show and while I didn't go through stem because of health issues sci-show certainly has been a huge igniter of interest in so many things science related. Amazing that it has been so many years lmao
Oh man, I have so much nostalgia for olllld school sci show news. And sci show..... dose? The little short ones. Middle/high school me DEVOURED those.
ETA: And sci show quiz show! The janky little table with buzzer setup was 10/10
Nothing better than looking at something you wrote awhile ago and saying "I, uh, disagree."
It's weird looking at Hank's slideshow and seeing how RUclips was back then. I was about 11 and already into RUclips (1:10 I remember when Ryan's Nice Guys video first came out since I was watching his videos since 2008 lol). I've been watching RUclips for this long that it's weird to see a glimpse of a time BEFORE SciShow, Crash Course, and really many of the channels I watch nowadays, both educational and entertainment.
If a person can't remember that time they collaborated with NASA, they've led a pretty full life.
I'm so grateful for Scishow Kids! My 2 year old loves it and regularly asks for it. In fact, because of the episode on Trilobites, we ended up going to U-dig fossils in Delta, Utah where we were able to find Trilobite fossils ourselves. Amazing. Thanks for doing what you do!
I am extremely grateful, people like you, have the motivation and determination to just go ahead and do stuff like this.
I cannot fathom a RUclips without SciShow and other incredible STEM communicators.
I really wish google would do this again. Give dedicated users a bunch of money and get them to produce a new channel
Hank, thank you for what you do, I love Hanks channel, SciShow and all of the shorts, and I'm glad that your health is better (I'm jealous, my chemo didn't cause my hair t fall out so I'm stuck with the dry thinning hair of my age (74)). Best to you and your crew, you all rock.
This is a great share!! What a great breakdown of a business plan and all the feedback of what worked and didn’t all these years later. Besides a great look back, what a lesson in how to develop something like this for ourselves for our own dreams. ❤❤❤
That’s a great story! Thanks for going through the presentation!
Appreciate the insights, and really appreciate all the content over the years!!!
Thanks for explaining Complexy in the last couple videos. I had no idea what it was or that you were it's co-founder. I can appreciate SciShow even more now!
Scishow was really one of the first youtube things i continued to pay attention to on a consistent basis. I remember watching videos on my lunch break everyday back in like 2011 or 2012.
It was a nice way to move on from print media like Discovery and Sci Am magazines.
It's so true that a lot of the most important moments in your life happen in the space of less than a week sometimes.
Very strong feelings of “oh so this is how any of this works”
wow it's been a long time since i've heard the name Mental Floss, thank you for that throwback
"hank and john green have" is giving "me and Wayne Gretzky have a record number of goals" (at that point in time)
Smooches to you and your brother! I love and support you.
Hank, its almost like you know I’m writing a paper about you and your career. This is very helpful and good information about your goals back then. Thank you mr.hank
I still remember watching Sci Show’s first video about Non-Newtonian fluids. I sometimes go back to that for nostalgia
I get very anxious about making pitch decks for projects I work on (mostly for public access TV, so not as much money involved), and seeing this brought me a lot of peace. This is much closer to the level of project funding and complexity I'm comfortable managing, and it makes it much easier to wrap my head around when I'm trying to put a deck together for my own projects.
Thank you for this.
Watching this made me realize that I was in the first 500,000 subscribers to vlogbrothers. I wish I could see when I subbed... I think it was mid--late 2009 which would mean even first ~250k, thanks Wayback Machine!
Pretty neat.
The older I get the more it seems like the key to success in getting something you want is just, asking for it? Like this is very assuring. It does not be a perfect thing beyond any standard you can imagine, it can literally just be a PowerPoint
Yaaaaaay! For my whole family, for all of my children, for the humor and sanity, etc., thank you. Thank you!!!!!!!
I'm so grateful for whatever happened. I'm 32 and I took oceanography classes and became a science obsessed adult because of y'all. I'm a waitress without a degree, but I don't think that matters I'm just happy that I'm genuinely enjoying my life more because of vlogbrothers and scishow
Sci show kids was so great when my kids were younger. The episode about building stable forts was a regular at our house and the construction quality of forts went up dramatically at Chez Meeks. My kids still build them in their rooms even though they're tweens now.
It's funny you say the cross-posting wasn't a huge thing, but I found out about y'all because Slate (I think it was Slate?) shared John's video about why pricate healthcare doesn't work. Ofc I'm a sample size of one, but from my perspective the outside promo was very important!
Ilove the simplicity of this powerpoint, wish that we still made such presentations without all the special designs or whatever
Oh my god truth or fail! Youve unlocked a core memory for me
I'm freaking out, omg i love your videos and have for years
I have a lot of respect for Hank's relationship with his work-life balance that he at least regards working in his home studio as being "outside"
Yeah I was surprised and amused by that word choice as well 😄
Sci Show Psych and Biology got me through some of high school and college! It is such a great channel and has taught so many.
I think I remember that slide layout from Keynote. I'm pretty sure I used it once or twice. Thanks for sharing.
This was a great watch. I enjoyed the transparency.
As the President of the board of a Montana museum, this is insanely helpful to see. Even if it's a 13 year old pitch
Not me only being able to pay attention to the herb in his tooth 👀👀👀
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Proving everybody is their own harshest critic!
I love this transparency and as someone with a background in programme making I am so glad you are also honest that the scishow kids just has no way of making money, but is there to help people and is funded through other channels. This video is absolutely something all programme maker students need to watch
To this day truth or fail is one of my favourite projects y’all have ever done & I appreciate that despite it not being sustainable long term you still clearly have passion for it/wish it could’ve worked
I loved truth or fail too. I wish it had taken off like you wanted it to. You could always give it another try...
I feel like Hank and John Green need a massive thank you from the world. They're actively making people kinder, more intelligent and capable of critical/nuanced thinking. It might not always feel that way, since it's hard to quantify, but it's happening every minute. So thanks. A lot.
And we are so thankful y'all did make it and are here for the world! SciShow and y'alls companies make are proof that the internet is as bad as it can seem. 💙
To this day I still remember opening RUclips and seeing a "Wheezywaiter liked this video" notification (because apparently that was a thing then??), and it was Scishow's like 3rd video or something entitled "Climate Change", in February 2012. I watched it and loved it, then discovered this Hank guy had another channel called Vlogbrothers. I then watched almost all of the 5 year backlog. So I'm very glad you managed to start Scishow!
Now I want to see a full on knock down drag out fight between 2011 Hank Green and 2024 Hank Green.
I would love to see them fake argue with each other 😂
Yep, a video I posted on my first day on RUclips (... ruclips.net/video/ipzR9bhei_o/видео.html ... in 2005) was 4x3.
VIDEO IDEA: How come Giraffes aren't constantly being killed by lightning?
Hank. In case you read this: I'm a 'fan' (admire more than other ppl because of their work) people: One of them is you, for all the knowledge and laughts you give us. The other is Serj Tankian.
Thanks for everything you do!
You've mentioned before that SciShow Kids and Journey to the Microcosmos aren't profitable, despite getting tons of views. Would love to hear more about why that is!
I imagine the time and energy required to make them as high quality and comparatively elaborate as they are just can't be covered by the ads. The format of the regular Scishow and PBS EONS videos are pretty basic, still high quality, but it's pretty much just a presenter talking to the camera with some highlighted word blocks and diagrams/pictures. Scishow kids has puppets and little animation pieces and props. Journey to the Microcosmos has hours and hours of footage of microscopic life courtesy of James Weiss that needs to be gone through carefully and a specific music track just for it by Andrew Huang and it seems like half teaching about the microcosmos, and half funding James' research into the microcosmos because he keeps discovering new creatures and I assume they are supportive of his research, etc. They also tend to go a bit more in depth into the topics sometimes and really dig into the details specifically rather than do an overview. It just seems more involved and harder to maintain.
1:00 man, I WISH more videos were in 4:3, I always have my youtube tab in the corner and it's always ~just slightly~ too wide for what I'm doing, plus it would make watching on my phone in picture-in-picture much clearer since I have the same problem AND it's slightly too small to actually see anything
Just imagine how much richer Hank would be and how much worse off we would be if he had stuck with HankGames and built on his "Five Nights with Freddy" streams to become a Twitch gaming super star. :)
i think scishow is an objectively good science show name. it tells me everything i need to know about it- it's a show, about science, and its not gonna waste my time
So glad you made the leap to get Sci Show started.
Crash course inspired me to go back to school and get a computer science degree. I may or may not be successful, but this slideshow has convinced me that any half-baked plan with enough driving force behind it has a chance of success. Thanks, Hank!
Scishow is terrific. You are killing it well done hank
SciShow is 100%, my favorite channel on RUclips... PBS Eons, PBS Space Time, DDoI, and Beau of the Fifth Column are all tops for me.
of that list, I don't know DDol yet. whatsit?
@@geeksdo1tbetter Daily Dose of Internet... Best clip show on RUclips, guaranteed to make you smile.
Oh!!! And Everyday Astronaut!
@@geeksdo1tbetterI'm guessing A Daily Dose of Internet