John Green

John Green is an American young adult fiction author and YouTuber. He works a lot with his brother Hank Green. Together, they form Vlogbrothers channel on Youtube, and helped to create Vidcon. Fans of the Green brothers are called Nerdfighters; the fandom is Nerdfighteria.
Beside the content he has created, John Green became very notable in fandom for his use of Tumblr, URL fishingboatproceeds, and his interactions with fandom from roughly 2011–2015.
Green left tumblr after facing ongoing harrassment in June of 2015. He returned in December 2022 as sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog to promote Awesome Coffee Club.
==Presence On Tumblr==
Green maintained a Tumblr blog, fishingboatproceeds, from 2011 to 2015. He enjoyed a wide level of wholesome popularity in his early years on the site, but slowly fell victim to subsequent public scrutiny amongst rapidly shifting community attitudes and the rise of callout culture, eventually leading to his exodus.
He was prone to writing highly verbose answers to questions and criticisms from other users, as well as making personal interjections on popular posts. These quirks led to both positive and negative attention from users on the site. He attributed this behavior to his socially awkward persona. During his time on Tumblr he responded to numerous posts about himself, and became more and more infamous outside of his following.
=== 2011-2013 ===
For a few years, riding on the crest of TFiOS's explosive success, John Green was very active and a beloved presence on the site and often interacted with fans - even leading to memes like "make John Green find the thing", said when Tumblr users wanted him to see a post, or "is that John Green/yes that is John Green" when he interacted with a post. He was given the unofficial title of the "den mother" or "adult supervision" of Tumblr.
He did attract a number of small controversies and criticisms, mainly centered around his defenses of capitalism and alleged usage of the "manic pixie dream girl" trope in his books (despite his strong insistence that he was subverting and refuting the trope) as well as a number of other miscellaneous statements, including a vlogbrothers video where he facetiously said that nerd girls were "the world's greatest underutilized romantic resource".Video: "How To Make Guys Like You" (timestamp 2:54) He received criticism for defending YouTube sex educator Laci Green, who habitually made Islamophobic comments, from death threats in 2012, particularly surrounding him quoting the transphobic slur she'd used in an old video without censoring it.
====Your Fave Is Problematic Callout====
These controversies and complaints were compiled in a 2013 Your Fave Is Problematic post YFIP post , including an unfounded isolated accusation that he "stroked" a fan during a signing. At the time, however, the YFIP blog was already being criticized for its lack of nuance in defining different degrees of bigoted beliefs and behavior as generally "problematic." The original post:
On April 19, 2013, Green responded to an ask about the post: 
On the same day, he responded to another ask:
The original YFIP post was edited with the header "EDIT: John Green addressed (parts of) this post here and here" and linked his responses to some of the accusations.
=== 2014 ===
Green maintained a good reputation across the site during the following year, but met some tension as the community increasingly focused on social justice. In the fallout of an extended series of public accusations of sexual misconduct leveled toward popular YouTubers like Alex Day, him and his brother Hank Green attracted criticism for their perceived negligence in condemning the incriminated YouTubers and taking measures to prevent future abuses. At the time, however, the Green Brothers were busy putting together the Uplift coalition behind the scenes, which was dedicated to preventing sexual abuses within the YouTuber community.
John was also observed acting friendly towards disgraced former YouTube musician Ed Blann (eddplant) - who had admitted to sexually abusing his partner in 2013 - on his alternate sports twitter account, which led to accusations of being "in solidarity with an admitted rapist" ; he curtly apologized for the tweet on his tumblr.
====Perceived Egotism====
In the weeks leading up to the TFiOS film release in June of 2014, Green posted enthusiastically about the movie and praised the director and cast for their work on the film, which led some users unenthusiastic about the film and his popularity to accuse him of egotistically praising his own work. Green made clear disclaimers that his praise was directed towards the film alone.
Of note was an incident in which Green reblogged a gif from the film, calling attention to character Hazel Grace showing agency by kissing love interest Augustus Waters instead of the other way around. His exuberant praise for the sceneJUN 08, 2014 ("when was the last time the girl kissed the boy in a teen romance? Ever? I seriously think it might not have happened ever") led to intensified accusations of ego-strokingresponse by buchannybarnes, which gained much agreedmentSorry, the ‘TFIOS’ kiss isn’t as groundbreaking as you hoped by Aja Romano on The Daily Dot, 2014-06-09. "A friendly reminder about movie history." and became a small meme around the site. The GIF post and its responses accumulated over 200,000 notes. This led to Green issuing another disclaimer and apology, A Note on Yesterday’s Posts. He explained that he was praising the movie, not the book (Hazel doesn't kiss Augustus first in the book), but "All that noted, it was an incorrect thing to say, and I apologize. In my exuberance for the film, I said something that was both flatly wrong and offensive, and I appreciate being called out on it, and I’m sorry." This response didn't have the same reach as the original post, and afterwards charges of an inflated ego had permanently tarnished his community reputation.
The book's big kiss scene, which takes place in the Anne Frank house, also began to attract criticism from people, both from social justice bloggers and in general, who thought the scene disrespectful or anti-semitic. Green's comments that Anne Frank had died of disease, which were later publicized by the YFIP callout, were criticized as insensitive and minimizing of the struggles of Jewish people and those affected by the Holocaust, and even led to accusations of Holocaust-denial. Others pointed out that while it was right to criticize those comments, he had not actually denied that the Holocaust happened and was serious.
In the uproar surrounding the Ferguson decision in November of 2014, he attracted some criticism for his public announcement that he would send signed copies of his books to the Ferguson library. He sent personal asks to the specific users who had criticized him, trying to clarify the specifics of his decision; these asks were publicly shared and heavily scorned, further cementing accusations of being narcissistic and obsessed with his own image.
=== 2015 ===
By 2015, Green had fully outstayed his welcome in a post-Dashcon tumblr landscape and failed to maintain a relevant position in the community.
====Text Post Editing Scandal====
In 2015, due to a NSFW post that would become infamous, it became popular to reblog Green's posts and edit the text to create the appearance of him saying outlandish and questionable things. This was done to mock him, to attempt to incite a defensive reaction from him, or simply as a joke.
In the most notable instance, which may have started the trend, on April 11, 2015 John Green made a Tumblr post titled "On Discourse," On Discourse byfishingboatproceeds (archived) addressing that he had been contacted about a person who had "a really hateful ask sent to them from someone identifying as a 'nerd fighter' that included racial slurs and was generally tremendously hurtful," and denouncing this type of behavior in the nerdfighter community and on the internet.
Tumblr user katara"katara", a URL based on the character Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender, was the Tumblr account of Jovan Hill, who would later launch his own career as a social media comedian and influencer off of his Tumblr origins. "Cock is one of my favorite tastes" has become an inside joke among his fans. By 2020, the "katara.tumblr.com" blog URL was being used by a different person as part of the ATLA fandom renaissance, but that blog seems to have been deleted. reblogged the post, editing it and replacing all of Green's text with a sexually graphic copypasta which began, "Cock is one of my favorite tastes. Not only that, but balls smell amazing," and described a love of oral sex with penises. @katara's edit circulated, with some expressing shock and confusion as to why Green's account had posted this and some enjoying the joke at Green's expense. On May 6, Green reblogged the edited post to respond to the edit. He did not delete the edited text, but edited the title to say "NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW" as a warning. The full response:
Some fans of Green approved of his response. However, it was was interpreted as overly "angry" or "upset" in tone by many spectators.A popular post that popularized this interpretation of and further mocked Green's response He was also mocked for interpreting the edit as making a joke of homosexuality and an act of homophobia (the user responsible for the edit was himself a gay man, and had not written it himself) and seeming sanctimonious in his assurances that there was nothing wrong with gay sex.2016-05-31 by nerdfighterfighter: "Oh my god, John. You made roughly 5 million gay jokes about being attracted to Ansel Elgort during the filming of TFiOS. Please." Somewhat predictably, Green's response was edited as well"sweetie, you are literally so out of line it’s fucking unbelievable."... and continued to circulate, becoming an even larger joke far beyond Green's typical following. By January 2016, it had over 120,000 notes.archived November 2015 As of 2019, the post had over 190,000 notes. The original post and the response on Green's account were not deleted until the majority of the blog was cleared in late 2017.
Later posts of Green's continued to be edited, sometimes with other text"My neck my back." - edit on an interaction between Green and Taylor Swift or the same same copypasta that @katara used. Users would also dig through Green's archive to find sufficiently "cringeworthy" posts, both to use for the editing meme and to spread around. 
When the ability to edit other users' text on Tumblr posts was removed around August 2015, many users joked that this was because of what the community had done to John Green.2017-02-26 This was after some supporters of Green had expressed anger with Tumblr staff for allowing such edits, Nov 5th, 2015 by crookedpwnguin: "@staff, this is why being able to change things in what you’re reblogging is bullshit. Way to turn a really good article about trolling and anon bullying into slander. and it seems that the joke was repeated until many believed it was the truth. The saga of the "cock is one of my favorite tastes" post, when "John Green was bullied off Tumblr," and the loss of text editing is still joked about today. In July 2018, Green responded to a comment on Twitter about the incident, saying he had never been in contact with Tumblr Staff and had no involvement in the change to text editing:
====Self-Defense & Departure from Tumblr====
Coinciding with this growing scandal, by that point Green had attracted a new wave of scrutiny - largely negative and mocking in manner - from users who had grown tired of his presence and wanted to push him out of a space they felt he no longer belonged in. In a post from June 2015, Tumblr user virjn wrote about Green:
Other users tagged Green's account in reblogs so that he would see the post. virjn received criticism for the comparison of Green to a sexual predator, even if it was an analogy rather than an accusation, and later deleted the post.
Green reblogged and responded to the post on 11 June 2015, defending himself and stating that he would be limiting his use of Tumblr.(archived)
The initial post, Green's response, and discussion surrounding it have led to more cold feelings or even active dislike of Green on Tumblr outside of his own fandom: see the "john green hate" and the "anti john green" search terms on Tumblr. Some users felt he had shown no acknowledgement of the power he held as a famous white man on the site and had not given due attention to the fact that some young women were uncomfortable with his public presence.What John Green Needs to Learn About Having a Dialogue With Female YA Readers By Teresa Jusino, Jul 2nd 2015 on The Mary Sue: "Am I supposed to just tolerate all of the older men in my life who make me uncomfortable?" - Camryn Garrett A significant number of other users, including other YA authors on Tumblr, came to his defense. Some even felt the allegations against him were the work of a smear campaign generated by hearsay; while they didn't deny that some things he'd said could annoy people, they pointed out that all he did was exist on a public social media platform usable by anyone, regardless of how many female minors and twentysomethings proclaimed it was "their" space.
By August of 2015, Green, perhaps due to the harassment and disillusionment with how the community had changed since 2011, departed Tumblr for good to work on a new book (which turned out to be his 2017 novel Turtles All the Way Down), leaving the blog to his social media manager, Rosianna Halse Rojas.
===Aftermath===
Rojas would continue to quietly maintain the blog for the years to follow, occasionally posting about new videos or news about the new book. However, posts of Green's began to gradually disappear from his archive; first to go were a number of "controversial" high-profile posts that generated the most harassment, but then the entirety of his pre-2013 posting history disappeared as well. By the end of 2017, all of his posts were gone. As of now, the only remaining post on the fishingboatproceeds blog is an embedded Vlogbrothers video of him reading the first chapter of Turtles All the Way Down.John reads the first chapter of his new novel, Turtles All the Way Down. (Sep 5th, 2017) It is unclear if it was Rojas or Green who removed the posts, nor is it known if the posts were removed outright or simply made private.
===Later Reputation on Tumblr===
By the early 2020s there was widespread re-evaluation of John Green's departure from tumblr, with the general opinion being more that Green was unfairly harrassed off the site. E.g. some posts:
*Tumblr thread (Jul 2022-Aug 2022)
* https://doubleca5t.tumblr.com/post/623267982214332416/id-say-im-sorry-about-this-but-honestly-im
* https://www.tumblr.com/contrapositive-post-posting/677798328530092032/re-laffaire-john-green-the-original-copypasta-is
* https://heritageposts.tumblr.com/post/623304139678646272/how-was-john-green-bullied-off-the-site
==Return to Tumblr==
Awesome Coffee Club in January 2023AV club article. I can definitely find tumblr posts discussing it later but that was easier to find with google
Tumblr response, some links (mostly memes): 
* https://www.tumblr.com/emometalhead/704832849895948288/welcome-sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog?source=share
* https://www.tumblr.com/starvationhexagon/704916896231915520/hey-guys-john-green-is-back-be-nice-to-him?source=share
* https://sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog.tumblr.com/post/707452728168857600
* https://www.tumblr.com/allieyourally/701228142824718336/oh-my-god-yall-get-your-coffee-at?source=share -- Green meme-ing on Twitter about it
* https://sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog.tumblr.com/post/705572080881745920/how-do-we-know-that -- Green answering user questions on the ACC tumblr.
==Resources==
*John Green Wikipedia
== See Also ==
* Pizza John
==Notes==
==References==
Category: Industry
Category:Nerdfighteria