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I can't believe I keep getting older and NEW THINGS KEEP HAPPENING TO ME! The vertigo is almost entirely gone though I still get little reminders, especially right when I get up in the morning.

In which John talks about his Catholic Engaged Encounter and hope as a decision.

Anyone who is out here trying to make people more comfortable with the injustice of their world by convincing them that their lives are worth more than the lives of other people should be ostracized.

In which John talks about Cheyenne, Wyoming and how his understanding of art is evolving.

In which John Green finds himself rereading a zombie apocalypse novella he wrote 16 years ago.

Oh man! I am SO SLEEPY!! Thank you to the cool people who came up to say hi to me at the airport. Very glad to be headed home and I apologize that I cannot tell you about the thing I was doing in London!!

In which John doesn't know how to effectively participate in an information distribution system that values attention over accuracy.

In which John thinks about his 35 year friendship with Sean and Daniel, and the new project that emerged from it.

In which John discusses risk-taking, who we bet on, and how that shapes the world we end up sharing.

This has been straight up BUGGING me!! Perhaps I did not do a full research review and there is better data out there somewhere, but this would be an amazing science fact and also very interesting to track across time! There's no doubt I currently know a historically humongous number of names, but then...how high? How high could it go? How many names does Ken Jennings know? I feel like I could definitely get him to take the test. THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY BE FUN!?!?

In which John is not actually here because he's actually in Washington so he reviews the contents of the bag he's kept random stuff in since middle school. Featuring early vlogbrothers lore, my childhood report cards, and much more.

I don't think people don't create when they don't feel safe, but I do think they create very differently....and often worse.

In which John visits Capitol Hill and is repeatedly asked whether his brother is running for Congress in Montana.

In which John discusses five separate issues, including the meaning of pain, the relationship between shingles and tuberculosis, the playing of video games for AFC Wimbledon's benefit, the sacral vertebrae, and Keats and Co.'s delicious coffee and tea.

Thank you very much to all of the people who have helped to develop, distribute, and support the vaccines both for chickenpox and shingles! I'm so happy that I am in the last generation for whom this will be normal.

In which John discusses how the french revolution, panda express, my chemical romance, and mountain goats are all tuberculosis.

I just think it's nice that we weren't like "Oh, good, more content" we were like "Oh, I know what to call this...it's slop."

In which John discuses his forthcoming book Hollywood, Ending, his first novel since 2017 and first novel ever for adults.

In which John celebrates a major milestone for the Maternal Center of Excellence.

I'm terrified of my new glasses. I can't even tell you what holds me back, I think a large portion is comfort, but I think another large portion is simply, "I don't think it matters that much...I will not suffer for denying myself this benefit" BUT LITERALLY I WILL!!!!

In which John visits Koidu Government Hospital and sees the Maternal Center of Excellence for the first time. Thank you to everyone who made this possible. It is the proudest day in my 19 years as a vlogbrother.

In which John Green extolls the many virtues of his brother Hank Green.

In which John discusses the way that memory lies.

Congrats to the P4A 2026 Grant Recipients!!

Watching Buzzfeed and Vox be sold this week has been kinda wild for me. I mean, not that I think either of those sales are bad. I hope lots of good things come out of them. I just...I'm glad we did it a different way so that we could focus on different things.

In which John corrects the record from Hank's clickbait.

In which John discusses Andy Warhol, the repetition of horrifying images, and the rendering of three dimensional experience into a crisp two dimensions

THE MEN'S WORLD CUP IS COMING! This video exists to introduce you to every national team participating in the 2026 FIFA World Cup and gives you one sentence about each team that you can repeat to sound relatively well-informed. Happy World Cup, despite the FIFA.

I do not know how this happened but I simply forgot to upload this video yesterday! There was a lot going on in the household!!!

In which John gets to share the cover of his new book Hollywood, Ending.

In which John and Hank reunited in a very small room on a French barge to discuss their parents' fiftieth anniversary, the men's world cup, football songs, and Christian Pulisic scoring with his ... foot.

Happy 50th Anniversary to Mama and Papa Green!

In which John considers the role of authorial intention and biography in novels, and whether the author can ever be exorcised from the novel, in the context of Roland Barthes' famous 1967 essay "The Death of the Author."

Thanks to everyone for all of the very very very very very goofy good fun. And thanks to Tuna for editing this and, of course, all of the donors.

In which John announces his triumphant return to the road, while also regaling you with stories of his mortification.

Right...the description...what do people type in here again???

In which John thinks about Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus while signing his name over and over again.

Sometimes you don't know where they're gonna end up when you start!

In which John runs into a nerdfighter at a movie theater and makes a video about it.

In which John celebrates Esther Day for the 16th time. Join us TONIGHT for the Esther Day Virtual Party! We'll be celebrating love, friendship, and community, and I'll be joining Sarah Urist Green for a special Esther Day edition of Dear Hank & John.

Just so everyone knows, I have been hearing lots of honest critique and thoughtful perspectives on this. It has not been mostly bad-faith nonsense /or/ "I SUPPORT YOU NO MATTER WHAT"s. Mostly what I'm hearing is, that I need to make things in a way that is honest to how I enjoy creating and that makes it easy for people to know that you're only ever hearing from me.

In which John reads the first chapter of Hollywood, Ending, his new book available everywhere September 22nd. This video is the eighth part in a series going back to 2008 where Hank and I read first chapters.

My neck feels much better now, thank you.

In which John discusses his anxiety, the forthcoming publication of Hollywood, Ending, and his kerfuffle with the lieutenant governor of Indiana.

Neither difficult nor brave.

In which John extolls the single virtue of infectious disease.

There are actually good answers.

In which John catches a whiff of the past and then spends the next year trying to smell it again.

In which John explores the question of historical life expectancy, and how sometimes a misleading narrative is corrected by ... a misleading narrative.

It will happen...so I'm just getting ready.

In which John discusses the changes YouTube has made to view counts, and what they mean for the ratio and for the platform more generally. ONE WEEK until Hollywood, Ending.

In which John, on a five-hour drive to his next Hollywood, Ending tour stop, makes a video about the attention economy and who captures the value art creates.

In which John makes a video in memory of an artist who created magic for a few of us. RIP Michael Taliadoros, aka Mikey T, AFC Wimbledon legend and friend to every Wimbledon fan.

In which John limps to the finish line of Pizzamas and the Hollywood, Ending tour.

Productivity when applied to individual creativity, I think, is exactly backward. I think we all should want to make stuff...but the hard part isn't doing it as efficiently as possible...you can do whatever you want once you're making stuff...the hard part is figuring out how to get yourself making. Focusing on "productivity" in that situation is crazy talk...instead, you need to figure out what opportunities you have and what matters to you.

In which Hank rouses his deeply fatigued brother to make a reunion video that discusses everything from boats to poetry to the definition of art. Thanks to 30,000 (?!?!?!) of you I've met on tour. It's been the gift of a lifetime, and once I've gotten some sleep, I know the memories will buoy me for many years to come. This tour was just a pure joy. I didn't even get tired until like the 19th day!

OK...let's get into it...

In which John talks with a tuberculosis researcher to understand both the biomedical and the sociological challenges of curing the world's deadliest infectious disease.

In which John makes a YouTube video about the perils and joys of making YouTube videos. Also discussed: J. D. Salinger, living in public in the age of the attention economy, and Hollywood, Ending.

I just keep thinking, holy crap...we're in it...and we've been in it for a while now.

In which John makes the case that 2016 was not the last normal year for humans; 1345 was the last normal year. Look, Hank is right that there is never a normal year, but things in 1345 CE were fairly similar to things in 1345 BCE. Then everything started to get weird when almost half of humans died.