Something Very Strange Has Been Happening to Me 

“One time I found a person in the trash with a wallet still in it” is the most unhinged mishearing I’ve suffered in a long long time.

The purse image was so absolutely necessary because without it I definitely would’ve thought you said “person” O.o

now, right up to "the book had instructions for me" I DID expect it to be a Death Note. however it would seem that instead it was a Life Note

Is the purse pic there just for people not to mishear “person”?

Oh my god Hank is doing the format!

Book in a trash can? A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor vibes. Edit: A SENTIENT book?! I thought I was joking 😂

The purse photo helped, I can imagine during the edit you were like WAIT

Thank you for validating my Stardew Valley habits.

Hank Format key take aways: - More dynamic and mobile than John Format (orchestra conductor hands excluded). - Hank is doing TFIOS film close ups on grass. - Lack of Weather updates from Hank Format All in all, same format, different Green.

"Hey this sounds familiar. Hey this sounds *really* familiar." I feel like I read a book about this or something.

2:10 I thought you were about to say "I started to be a bit more BOOK" and the book was secretly trying to trade places with you

I can't tell how much of this backstory is real but I'm into it anyway

I'm currently reading _A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor_ and so yes I would like my own mystical book that tells me exactly and precisely what to do. I do appreciate that we don't have to get it out of a park trash can, too.

THE FORMAT? HECK YES

i think hanks new marketing strategy might be to distribute a book that convinces you it knows who you are before telling you to buy sock subscriptions lest the chance of humanity surviving goes below 50%

Hank are you actually April May??

So you're saying I should buy some of these and go stash them in trash cans around town, gotcha.

I get that in reality, this is an activity book made by Hank but while I was watching the video, I was invested in the story of the video so toward the end I got upset with Hank for reproducing a book authored by someone he didn't know since he just found it in a trash can. All while he was talking about making different versions of it for sale, I got more and more upset. How do you get part of the proceeds to the person who made the original book?! Are we going to end up with thousands of sentient books around the world? These are all terrible ideas and acts! ... after the video ended and I went to the kickstarter and it looks like something Hank made and then I read the other comments on this video and I guess it's a thing from the book Hank wrote, like a macguffin in that book that he's made into a real life book? I'm intellectually aware of what is happening now and I'm sure it's all fine but there's a part of me that still feels like Hank's a plagiarist book thief now. Sorry, the video was too convincing with no disclaimers.

"I've got kind of a thing for trash" Hank? I mean I know you've dumpster dived before but a thing?

Wait, are you releasing The Book of Good Times?? (I’m halfway through the vid) Edit: YESSSSSSS

Isn’t this how _Death Note_ started? 😅

college Hank fishing textbooks out of trash and selling them on ebay is the most Hank thing I never knew was a Hank thing

The Format outdoors is everything I didn't know I needed

So I’m a little confused, he found a book. Liked the book, and is now creating copies of the book to distribute. Isn’t that plagiarism?

As a teen, I went to a music festival with my sister. We fished the cutlery out of every trash can, because you got money back for returning them and people got too drunk to care. We made the tickets back, and more! 😂

I’ll be honest, for most of this video I thought the book was just a metaphor for something else and you were gonna explain that near the end of the video but then you said you can buy the book and I was legitimately confused

0:44 *peak* format

Color me intrigued. And color the book whatever pencil I find first.

hank this is probably the weirdest video i've seen from you (yes i've read ABFE i have context) also, reset the counter

Skip to 0:20. Turn off your sound, and watch for 15 seconds. It's an indie rock cover from 2005

As someone who loves A Beautifully Foolish Endevour and felt a strong connection to the idea of "The Book of Good Times"... yeah. This is an instant yes.

As a fan of Hank Green: Yes! This sounds lovely!! As a fan of The Magnus Archives: _Sheer unadultrrated dread fills my body_

*A:* "Hey, wouldn't the original author of the book be mad about copyright??" *B:* "The story of the trash can isn't literal. It's a metaphor." *A:* "Oh, really?" *B:* "I don't know, man. Just trust that Hank wouldn't do a bad."

could you say the book was a bit of a beautifully foolish endeavour?

The book of good times is an absolutely remarkable thing for sure

Who had Hank being possessed by a book on their 2024 bingo card?

I've read something very similar to this....

Oh my gosh. My first thought when you said you found a book in the trash was it's the Book of Good Times. Pizzamas is such a wonderful and self-aware holiday that making the Book of Good Times really fits perfectly with the vibe.

The quality of the Pizzamas videos is so high that I'm earnestly worried for the effort they will take to continue -- IT'S A PIZZAMAS MIRACLE

I took Hank completely seriously and I was like "Is this how he came up with the idea for The Book of Good Times?" and then OMG IT'S LITERALLY THE BOOK OF GOOD TIMES!! Also wow this is a stunningly beautiful edition of The Format, what excellent locations

in shinto every object has spirit in it. you awoken a kami. also fun fact in Japanese "spirit/god" and "paper" is pronounced the same - kami.

That book is definetly an SCP

This is an absolutely remarkable thing!!

A video about the time Hank found Tom Riddle’s diary. 😅

Black paper notebook? Is it the death note?

I can't believe Hank is a JRPG protag...

DUDE this HAS to be the inspiration for the trash book in A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor! So cool. I never knew there was a real life example for something like that, but I gotta say how you expanded on the concept in your novel was a super dope idea.

1:15 okay wait is this on purpose. are you andy skamping. is this an ad. there's a kickstarter. oh my god. will there be a movie. you can't tell but i'm so excited i need to know

Did the original book have an author, and if so are they involved in the kickstarter in any way?

Oh. This reminds me of Wreck This Book a little.

Cthulhu commands you to journal and decompress 🤗

I'm not allowed at my local bookstore anymore after trying to do "human things with a book"

halfway through, and "The Format" colliding with "The Book of Good Times" was not on my Pizzamas bingo card. ... okay title dropped and I feel good about knowing beforehand. :D

Wow, I just watched the Kickstarter page reach its goal within 3 seconds of landing there. Woohoo! 🎉

I like the vibe of this music. Like relaxing mysterious.

hmm I'm skeptical EDIT: Oh it's a reference to Hank's books, that makes more sense. I hope someone reads this and is less confused because of it.

This sounds familiar...

Something is wrong with the shipping. For US shipping on the cheapest one shipping is $4 but $9 everywhere else. For the before Christmas one shipping is $9 US but $4 everywhere else. Seems like a mistake.

i don't like this. is it possible that you could explain what is happening in a normal way?

is this just a rouse video to sell a book he made, that does actually sound cool, or is he just copying and reselling someone else's work???? this video is so confusing?

I don't know how much of this story is made up, but I find it creepy. It's like two thirds chamber of secrets (from Jenny's perspective) and the other third reminds me of that twilight zone episode where the plant says "feed me". I'm pretty confident that at least some of this is made up because I found this book in a trashcan so now I can sell thousands of copies is not how copyright law works. It's just a weird creepy story that I think at times was trying to be heartwarming.

Hank doing the format🗣️🗣️

As a kid we found the whole set of Star Trek (TOS) action figures, bridge, and transporter left at the curb

Of all the vlogbrothers videos I've watched, I feel this has the most "cult-like" vibes

Hank I'm a little scared this is very Twilight Zone

ok, but as the designated 'mom friend' i need to tell you to wear gloves when you're exploring the trash.

Is this what inspired the book of good times in a beautifully foolish endeavor? Edit: oh never mind it's a bit

Things I love about this video. 1. The Format 2. The music and cinematography 3. The mysterious and vaguely ominous vibe 4. The fact that it takes a minute to realize the story’s not strictly true 5. The semi hidden truth that it’s all based on the book from your novels- an insider secret 🤫

How do we know this book wasn't seeded by an alien Super Intelligence? I seem to remember reading a novel where something like that happened.

Very annoying that the most artful and engaging vlogbrothers video in a long time is just a commercial for something they’re selling.

so did you actually find it in the trash or is that just a frame narrative to make it seem more interesting than an adult coloring book mixed with some self-help pablum?

So I’m a little confused, he found a book. Liked the book, and is now creating copies of the book to distribute. Isn’t that plagiarism?

I hope whoever runs that "days since Hank started a new project" account is awake

the format!!!

Was waiting for him to say the book told him to sell socks

Newbie here. Let me just say what a complete %$@*&@% mind &*$% this is to watch without any context or back story, and then try to figure it out through the comments.... Um.... yea

Maybe I'm missing something. You found a book in a trashcan and then copied the book to sell. So obviously the book was written by someone; is this person being credited? I assume they aren't just ripping off an idea someone had but it sounds like that's what this is.

Why did I feel like this was Nightvale coded?

4mat4mat4mat

4 views in ten seconds? Hank… we gotta talk about these numbers…

There is something SO creepy about this yet I still kind of want one.

Who throws books on the trash??!!! Donate them!!! I feel like if they’re in the trash they could have been exposed to mold or bedbugs. 😢

this is it, right? This is the moment that vlogbrothers turns into a cult I guess. The moment where it gets als Junji Ito in here, people talking to Books who want to be humans, doing weird stuff to comply with the demands, and next thing you know abhorrent events take place, eyes start spinning 360 and the likes. I'll probably still get one anyway. Coz thats just what happens in Junji Ito stories. People feeling compelled to do the wrong thing.

Thought this was a weird metaphor for something but turns out it's just a weird pitch for a product that managed to tell me exactly nothing about it besides that it's a book

Okay weird question, but is there a way to not get early delivery, but delayed delivery. Like I feel like I'd rather forget about this book and then unexpectedly in a year, at most 2, receive the book (preferably at a date completely unknown to me ofc). The christmas/march delivery feels like it's just that long that I might still be expecting it, getting a little hyped, and then too hyped for the book to actually live up to. If I just forget about it, I won't get hyped and instead experience it as naturally and authentically as possible as if I'd found it in the trash

I think I lost the plot at some point, but yeah, I found 1 Great Ball in the trash one time, and I've checked every trash can ever since. hope your journal(?) sells well?

I am not trying to pretend that I know very much about you and John as private individuals, but after years of being a Nerdfighter, it seems so weird that you guys have habits that we don't know of. It's like, you are getting to know bits and pieces of a person you have spent so much time listening to and watching, and it is at once bizarre and wonderful. Of course, I am not sure how much of the trashcan-searching story is true lol.

Is there any way to order more then 1 copy? I would love to put a few handfuls of this kinda book at the local outdoor shared books library boxes. More opportunities for random people to get their hands on things like this book would be awesome 👌

I was so confused about this until I read the comments. I completely forgot about that part of his books.

Just make sure y'all don't get the Andy Skampt edition!

Does anything the vlogbrothers do, not have metaphorical resonance?

WARNING: This ENTIRE video is EXACTLY the way a good Doctor Who two part episode starts out! Oh! I bet it's the bloody Cybermen again!

what is the format?

Can somebody please tell me what kind of boots Hank is wearing and if they will fit women’s feet? 1:40

so you found the book in the trash? was it just made by like a random unnamed author? hand written? im confused by this story. if you didn't write the book, how are you monetizing it? i know you're not the type of person to steal content, so was the trash story just a bit?

See now I feel bad for the book and want to help it become human. Maybe even a little more than human.

A book talking to you? Make sure it's not Riddles diary

Thats why I don't trust the sandwich from the cornerstore. They supposed to come from the sandwich shop. Only the cigarette supposed to come from the cornerstore.

im only 1:30 in, but Ginny it sounds like you found Tom Riddle's diary

“I found a book in the trash” OMG CARL IS REAL