Hank Green

William Henry Green II born May 5 1980 is an American YouTuber science communicator novelist standup comedian and entrepreneur He produces the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers with his older brother author John Green and hosts the educational YouTube channels Crash Course and SciShow He has advocated for and organized social activism created and hosted a number of other YouTube channels and podcasts released music albums and amassed a large following on TikTok Hank and his brother John cocreated VidCon the worlds largest conference about online videos and the Project for Awesome an annual online charity event as well as the nowdefunct conference NerdCon Stories focused on storytelling He is the cocreator of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries 20122013 an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in the style of video blogs that was the first web series to win an Emmy He is also the cofounder of merchandise company DFTBA Records crowdfunding platform Subbable acquired by Patreon game company DFTBA Games and online video production company Pemberley Digital which produces video blog adaptations of classic novels in the public domain Green is the founder of the environmental technology blog EcoGeek which evolved into Complexly an online video and audio production company of which he was the CEO until late 2023 Green also hosts the podcasts Dear Hank John and Delete This with his brother and wife respectively along with the podcast SciShow Tangents Greens debut novel An Absolutely Remarkable Thing was published on September 25 2018 its sequel A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor was published on July 7 2020 Both novels debuted as New York Times Best Sellers In response to being diagnosed and treated for Hodgkin lymphoma in 2023 Green stepped down as CEO of his companies While recovering Green began performing standup about his experience His comedy special titled Pissing Out Cancer was released on the streaming service Dropout on June 21 2024 In July 2025 Green partnered with Honey B Games to launch Focus Friend a productivity app which allows users to set a timer that temporarily blocks other apps The app reached number one on Apples App Store charts for free apps Description above from the Wikipedia article Hank Green licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia