Good Morning, John There are certain things
that you only get the chance to do once in your whole life time and if you don’t do it,
you never get to do it again and one of those things is making a tier list
of making a tier list of articles about your cancer diagnosis.
And I of course decided to do this, the moment that The New York Post
article came out but we’ll get to that one.
But, we’re gonna start with my hometown newspaper
The Missoulian, which did a fine job
except they didn’t actually do this it's just from the wire.
This is my town.
Now I said that the article is fine, but John they do mention you
in the second paragraph, which is a little early for me
and they also picked out the saddest looking frame from my video.
So this is gonna be e-tier. This is from The Decider
and I’ve never noticed this before, but most of these will be
framed as the news is that I’m revealing something,
not that the news is that something
is happening to me, which I actually quite like.
The news is that I have made this information available,
it’s heath stuff.
So the news isn’t that I have cancer, it’s that I’ve revealed that I have cancer.
Now saying this sucks so bad in the headline,
I don’t like that, cause it makes it sound bad and scary.
And they didn’t mention you John early on, but there is a whole blurb that says
More on John Green, so that’s going to put
that in the E tier for me as well.
We’re starting off weak. CBS News as you might be unsurprised
to hear did a fine job.
I’m gonna put this one in the B tier. New York Times,
I like this headline Hank Green, Novelist and YouTube Star.
Not even author, novelist. Also, no scare quotes it says treatable cancer.
Great! Love that. Now John,
you do make an early appearance in paragraph number three.
But then they go on to give me two full paragraphs about my books,
which, muah. Fantastic, love that.
I’m gonna give that an A.
The Hill’s got me in as a popular YouTuber and TikTok creator, revealing my diagnosis.
I like that. But it’s middle of the pack.
NPR here in the pop culture section. YouTube star,
that’s what I get, and I’ll allow it.
Did a good job of condensing things down real quick,
getting the point across. But then, the best part,
is that in the NPR article, the author left me some suggestions
for bummer-free media. This to me,
seems like the kind of person who’s probably in the community?
So I did check it out.
Tilda Wilson gotta They Might Be Giants Lyric in the Twitter bio and follows me on Twitter.
So we’re just gonna guess that this isn’t their first exposure to Nerdfighteria.
An NPR alone by itself in the S tier for a very nice, condensed article
that got the point across and told me to play Animal Crossing.
CNN’s gonna get a point off for just
calling me YouTuber and not YouTube star,
so woulda been an A, but it’s gonna be a B.
Los Angeles Times kicks it off with Hank Green YouTube Star and John Green’s Brother.
It’s a good article, but I did find that a little disappointing,
especially because you can actually put in, for Google purposes like the shortened version
of the headline for search results, and that one just says.
Hank Green, John Green’s brother has cancer,
it sucks. So I apologize for this LA Times, but you’re headin' in for that D Tier.
Now HuffPo took a miss on the News is the Reveal Angle,
and just said Hank Green has cancer, and instead the news is Hank Green
has cancer and instead the news is What is Hodgkin's Lymphoma?
Which I actually like.
They interviewed somebody from the leukemia lymphoma society,
they talked to an oncologist. I'm gonna put this in the S.
This was the Daily Gossip,
got some JZ and Beyoncé news here. But if you scroll down,
Hank Green has been diagnosed with cancer and live action Powerpuff Girls
dead at the CW, so that’s gonna go in the F tier.
I don’t feel like that’s the right vibe. I think you got the vibe wrong.
Variety gave me a write up. I like this write up
cause it’s more about the entertainment industry part of things, which I am a part of.
And they did a good ol job about that.
They put the fact that I’m gonna miss VidCon in the headline.
I understand that’s sort of like the most applicable news here
to Variety, but still.
But the variety article does end Green quoted VidCon’s tweet
and said this is so f*cking frustrating.
Please have so, so much fun at VidCon without me.
And including that, bonus point. USA today, with what I see as a miss author,
vlogger Hank Greens opens up about cancer diagnosis in YouTube video: Bad News.
I mean it is bad news, but like, that’s scary and I know what you’re
tryna do and I don’t like it, so I’m gonna give you a D.
But they did give a blurb to the novels, so I’m gonna bump you up to a C, ok.
The Today’s Show’s perspective I liked a lot.
Here’s what he wants his fans to know. That’s a great frame.
And I liked it, so I’m gonna put you with NPR in the S tier.
And finally we’re going to end off with our old friends The New York Post,
says Hank Green reveals cancer diagnosis, author says it sucks so bad.
I did get author in there, so that’s a bonus point,
but you’re gonna get a negative bonus point later on,
you’ll see. Again, I feel a
little bit of the scare quote vibe behind the sucks so bad part,
but most importantly later in the article it says, this sucks so bad,
but I’m already learning so much mostly about myself
he noted in the video’s description. And then used this picture.
What? What are– What?
What are you doing? Look at their tweet about it.
They put the pencil picture in the tweet. And that’s not even the strangest thing.
I was actually in the New York Post two times last week.
The other time for an article called invisible creatures are having sex
on your face as you sleep
you can find out about on Journey to the Microcosmos.
So apparently, I have some fans over there.
Anyway, yeah, that’s F tier. Which completes our tier list.
Everybody, this has obviously been a pretty touch time for me,
we’re new a week after my first chemo.
Feeling much better than I was a few days ago. Chemo has been pretty miserable already,
but I’m getting amazing care, and I have so much support and there's been
so much good vibes and I just can’t say how much I appreciate it.
It has really pushed me through some of the hard times,
and feeling not alone in a moment like this, is a fantastic privilege.
I’m really glad I was feeling up to making a video today.
John, I’ll see you on Tuesday.