Embarrassing moments are content creation gold. You know this if you've ever wondered why people bother posting vidoes of themselves doing things you would never want anyone else to see you doing -- falling off of things, tripping, accidentally greeting the wrong person in a crowd in a far too affectionate manner. But they do it because it gets views. Humans love to watch other humans suffer -- it's kind of just how we're wired at this point. This could be why today's video is a common favorite among Nerdfighters.
Welcome back to Vlogbrothers Rewatch! This is an ongoing series of articles in which I document my journey through the entire back catalog of videos on the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel. Using this playlist, I'm making my way through every video in chronological order starting from the very beginning. Normally I don't love so-called punishment videos, but this might be the best punishment either brother has ever had to endure.
Hank's sock puppet theater is always on point, and pairing that with reenactments of his most embarrassing moments somehow created the perfect four minutes of video entertainment. Hank's actual face doesn't even appear once in this entire video, but that puppet work is so good that you almost feel like he's right there in front of you ... instead of, you know. A sock.
Embarrassing moments stick with us. They are always the moments that sit on the edges of our beds in the middle of the night when we should be sleeping, reminding us at the most inconvenient moments of how silly we were when we did that one thing that one time. But when we put them into sock puppet form, suddenly they don't seem so bad. Suddenly they feel more like things that happened to other people instead of to us. That makes them feel okay.