Hank Green
Copyright and Trademark are completely different things. Copyright prevents anyone from copying this article and posting it somewhere else. Copyright happens instantaneously the moment I write something down that is unique and from my brain. Trademarks are far more restrictive.
Some people really hate the Fine Brothers and have for years.
YouTube is very culturally recognized. When we started in 2007 YouTube was very relevant, but completely unrecognized.
I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent by building a thing that most people want but can never have.
Teachers have such hard jobs and they don't get paid well. And in order to be a teacher you need a lot of education, so people aren't teachers for any other reason than they want to be, and they want to help educate the next generation of people.
I am not fragile.
I found out about Logan Paul in the traditional news.
I know that cursing isn't for everybody, but it is definitely for me.
Podcasts are a lovely corner of the Internet.
Podcasts, and the way they are distributed, are extremely simple technologically. Indeed, 'RSS,' the feed protocol that connects podcast apps to the audio files that they need, stands for 'Really Simple Syndication.'
Anyone can put up a podcast, any application can locate and download it. It's a decentralized, hacked together, open system and, as podcaster and a listener, I think it works perfectly.
Teachers are asked to do so much, and they can't be good at every single thing.
I just want people to be excited about hard stuff, that's what engineering is.
There are lots of YouTubers that no one knows about who are getting hundreds of thousands of views on content that we would be really upset to see. And no one's holding them accountable because their audience shares all the same biases.
I'm Hank, I do a bunch of stuff.
Notoriety is such a prized thing. Society suddenly wants your opinion on things - everyone from your mom to an editor at The New York Times.
Everyone talks about how the anonymity of the Internet allows people to behave badly, but I think it's the other way around, that the anonymity removes the 'self' from the people we're talking to online. Other people lose their humanity in our eyes. The system is set up to dehumanize.
We had such a dedicated and interested audience that they provided the opportunity to do cool new things - and we like doing cool new things.
The problem with educating in online video is that online video is funded by advertising almost exclusively.
No one wants to be the creator with the reputation for bad mouthing sponsors!
The landscape of professional creation continues to get more complex. Organizations and platforms of all sorts are vying for a slice of the value created by the relationship between creators and their audiences.
Gone are the days when every successful creator got their own New York Times profile. Nowadays, professional Internet creator is just another job.
I started paying my bills with YouTube money around the time I hit a million views a month.
I love iPhones. I love iPhone 6 Pluses and iPhone 6s and iPhone 5s's and iPhone 5cs. I also love iPhone 4s. I'm sure if I had been savvy enough to own one, I would've loved the original iPhone.
Don't feel bad about getting someone to click on something if the thing they're clicking on doesn't suck.
As long as we continue to invest in good content that increases excitement about and understanding of science, we're on the right side of this fight, and I have no problem at all stealing from the toolbox of the clickbaiters.
We shouldn't be ashamed of getting people to click on content that we're proud of.
There's something exceptional about watching a video and simultaneously thinking 'That was genius!' and 'I could have done that!'
There is a huge market for interesting content to be made by interesting creators.
I am a professional creator of online video and I have had that job since the moment of its existence. I'm also something of a professional advocate for, and follower of, online video.
OK, I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube in the year after it began. No one was. But its growth was remarkably rapid.
YouTube's growth exploded in 2006. Ian and Anthony of Smosh, who began uploading in late 2005, were among the platform's top native stars and they defined a lot of what it meant to be a 'YouTuber.'
Fueled by Ramen was maybe the first company to see YouTube as a place where music videos would go. The music video, which could never quite find a place on TV, has found its final form on YouTube.
Possibly the only genre that efficiently converted from TV to YouTube / Vine is sketch comedy, which has always had more to do with the skills of its creators than its budgets.
I'm a professional maker of online video and I love platform diversity of every kind.
I am somewhat surprised to have employees.
The path to success isn't through my lizard brain, it's through high quality collaboration and making good stuff and understanding difficult situations fully enough to come up with good (or even great) solutions quickly.
I am wrong all the time.
I don't want to be one of those bosses... taking credit for phenomena that are out of my control.
The online video ecosystems thrives largely on ads.
Gaming content is exactly what YouTube wants (the videos are long, the audiences are engaged, and thus people stay on the site).
The viewers of video game content on YouTube are young and savvy. They are exactly the sort of people who tend to enthusiastically install ad blocking software.
My father was the Florida state director of The Nature Conservancy.
I was and am an ardent environmentalist and I am terrified of the instability that climate change will bring.
I got my first trademark in 2005: 'EcoGeek.' It was the name of a blog that had become my job. I had a dream of turning it into a big business. After spending a huge amount of time and money attempting to 'protect' that trademark, I let it lapse. It was still 2005.
No one really knows how trademarks work. I don't mean, 'Come along with me on this journey and you will be one of the righteous few who truly understands!' I mean, no one really understands how trademarks work.
My brother and I semi-coined a phrase back in 2007, 'Don't Forget to be Awesome.'
I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.
I make and watch and think about YouTube for a living. So, when YouTube is launching a new feature I might have any emotion ranging from Christmas-morning enthusiasm to utter terror.