In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are

I kept finding this and being like, "I need to safe this for 2020." And I swear, I almost forgot about it but I was cleaning my office this week and found it and was like, "OH THANK GOD YES YES YES I DIDN'T MISS IT!"
So that was exciting. There are a couple other fun things in this package that I made videos with as well, so those will be up on Hankschannel.
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[@jackdog06]

“There will be cures for every illness” Really fucking terrible start

[@DodgeThatAttack]

There will be new illnesses for every cure more like

[@amaracea]

Actually no, he was sort of right on that one. Look at the illnesses - literally only COVID exists now. And it’s “absolutely not falsified at all you stupid conspiracy theorist” which means that while the SARS 2 virus has created a terrible pandemic it has also magically cured every single other disease with the exception of a couple cases of cancer!

[@lindayang1041]

@@amaracea I’m sorry what...please do explain how it has “magically cured every single other disease”

[@danhue2682]

@@amaracea Huuuuuhhh?

[@katgrizzle448]

@@amaracea Lmao, "literally only COVID exists right now." Ummm, no? People are still getting sick from other illnesses, the media just doesn't report on that. The media doesn't make a news report about every time someone gets strep or has a common cold.

[@swimminginhoney]

When little Hank said “Garfield turned 80” he actually meant that the stress of 2020 made Garfield feel like he’d aged twice as fast

[@hynjus001]

underrated comment here.

[@linnazhu3083]

🤣🤣🤣

[@orlock20]

I'm sure someone, other than the cat, named Garfield turned 80 last year.

[@randomcomment9984]

It was Monday every day

[@francisbacon9728]

Double that for Monday’s.

[@greenberrygk]

“Garfield turns 80” is the funniest possible sentence to put as a prediction for a year, especially when it’s incorrect.

[@AftonLin]

I just love that 10 year old Hank was already aware of global issues

[@elliewuzzup7689]

Like Garfield! That rascal of a cat! Gotta love'im.

[@cross_fire_]

I’m the same age, it was indoctrinated in us. They would terrify us about the world ending and aliens coming (several alien movies came out in our youth). I still vividly remember watching the local news saying the world would end by a meteor in 2013. Also the polar caps would melt before we were adults. The generation before us was terrified of nuclear fallout.

[@nrbmemes2414]

10 year old science nerd Hank

[@RNCHFND]

Kids of the 90s were all like that

[@genericyoutubeaccount579]

At 10 years old, Hank does not have sincerely held beliefs about global issues. He is parotting the talking points of adults. Even Baptist Churches do not baptize before the age of 9 because children below the age of 9 are not capable of understanding their own profession of faith. Any profession of faith is merely an attempt to get attention from adults. If you find a 10 year old who is deeply concerned about global issues then you are dealing either with a brainwashed cult like concern or a fake concern to get attention from adults.

[@vlogbrothers]

I for one welcome our new superior fish being overlords. -John

[@2004helloWorld]

hopefully they do a better job than we did

[@JonNargodian]

@@2004helloWorld Thats the thing , Pre 2020 an argument could be made for us still keeping our indpendence from the Superior Fish Empire, but Now in 2021 All we can do is shrug and just say, this is probably for the best...

[@Ryanhamilton012]

Is forming a connection with the fish beings how you will finally get fishing boat proceeds?

[@splugen]

So long, and thanks for all the superior fish being overlords

[@imrustyokay]

It's gotta be sharks

[@aprilflowers9661]

i love how he talks about huge historical events he thinks will happen and the finale of the entire prediction list is just garfield’s age

[@cat_person]

The fact that it's incorrect makes it even better

[@danteloparco6708]

It's like when you're nearing the end of an essay but you're so exhausted that you're like "yeah this is fine"

[@aprilflowers5920]

yooo we have almost the same username

[@chiboudah4816]

Like at the end of an exam

[@TawnyOwlWings]

Children's brain are one of the worlds greatest mysteries, and I respect that

[@liamferguson3460]

I can’t believe he glossed over “2019: Loch Ness monster found”

[@zainmudassir2964]

It was too silly

[@andyventures6574]

That nearly came true... Turned out was some gudgie from Dingwall trying some wild swimming.

[@knoxpittman2799]

the real loch ness monster was the friends we made along the way

[@spartanspeedruns8386]

There will never be a public admission of a sea "monster" aka dinosaur being found, because it would require an entire overhaul of historical science as it's taught today if they were to admit to it. Tens of thousands of sightings over hundreds of years of multiple sea monsters, it's hard to believe they're all made up. Also, you have very remote tribes in other third world countries which have admitted to seeing dinosaurs on a regular basis and they laugh at us for thinking they're extinct...just food for thought!

[@Ritaaw1]

Loch Ness is an overgrown catfish, look it up

[@manigupta2299]

The fact that he still has the paper of predictions with him 30 years later..

[@amun1040]

Sign of great parents, normally kids lose interest quickly, it's the job of a parent to collect these things and keep them for when the kid grows up.

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@sjblack9135]

Just imagining a ten-year-old very seriously writing down, “Burt Reynolds dies of a heart condition,” is sending me

[@vlogbrothers]

And then next to it I drew a little man with a mustache and Xs for eyes!!

[@mikeysrose]

I was wondering if Hank's teachers had a delicate conversation with his parents after he submitted this.

[@AllWIllFall2Me]

I had completely forgotten that Burt Reynolds had died until he said that.

[@uilsoum875]

Death Note

[@route2070]

Must have been a fan of Smokey and the Bandit (or any of the modern stuff he was doing at the moment) at the age of 10. Seems to be the only reason to zero in on Reynolds

[@vermilanim3309]

Hank: "2012-superior fish beings" Superior fish beings: 👁👄👁

[@BoredCaterpillar]

Why is nobody else talking about the SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS!!!!!!

[@bomed3390]

Shape of Water? Actually a documentary?

[@ashbu_guitar]

Maybe this is what the Mayans were talking about...

[@onebilliontacos3405]

@@ashbu_guitar The Mayans were dyslexic, the end of the world isn’t 2012 it’s 2021... credit to if google was a guy.

[@supersmilyface1]

Walking catfish. (They're actually a thing.)

[@DerMichael]

I love how he started at 1980 with correct historical events just to mess with anyone who found it in 1995 and didn't know it was written in 1990. Genius.

[@chopperhead2012]

In the first grade, I made a "time capsule." In this time capsule was a sheet of paper with some questions on it asking about my opinions about the future, including predictions about when I would graduate high school (2011). One of the predictions: "We'll have phones but we'll be able to see each other while we talk" I fucking nailed it

[@lucidragon5260]

"There will be no more extinct animals" well, technically, there aren't any right now. They're all extinct.

[@sporty6178]

I found evidence of this here lol: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/moLaZapvjMyLmbM

[@AnyOldActor]

@@sporty6178 Nice

[@bencressman6110]

@@sporty6178 I was hoping for that

[@TheQuackinator]

@@sporty6178 haha i recognise that link

[@Sam-nd2gm]

@@sporty6178 I wonder what this link could be?

[@iNinjaBannanaz]

NOTHING absolutely nothing could have prepared me for “Garfield turns 80”

[@dig8634]

Burst out laughing at that one. Just absolutely mind blowing

[@apriln4540]

i e a t

[@bruciex4574]

I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING

[@petrinax2944]

Okay but this year has kinda been “Garfield turns 80”

[@stephanjuvik6266]

I'm more annoyed by Hank saying he could have looked it up. In 1990 looking things up was a drag.

[@coryleaver31]

"Why didn't I just look up Garfield's age?" Because the internet didn't exist in 1990, Hank.

[@AberrantAberrant]

This was my initial thought, but the term "looking it up" still existed then and just referred to instead finding that information in a book somewhere.

[@runeanonymous9760]

@@Quirky_QF what ten year old knows how to check a copyright or whatever those dates in the front of the book are called?

[@fluffysprout]

@@runeanonymous9760 many, many ten year olds. I know i would’ve been able to do that

[@creeperhunterD]

@@runeanonymous9760 Literally any ten year old. Did you just... not know what books were when you were ten?

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

​@@runeanonymous9760 Maybe today no, but 80s and 90s a 10 year old would probably do it.

[@emilyholmes207]

I love how Garfield simply says "I eat" in his speech bubble

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

I love how Hank is now 40 but he still looks and talks like he's 25.

[@adarateranroldan]

😯 he’s 40?

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

@@adarateranroldan If he was 10 in 1990

[@empathyisonlyhuman7816]

And for me it was, damn, I'm nine years older than hank? But hey at least I look as good as Garfield! ....facepalm

[@sophiefilo16]

I wouldn't say he looks 25, but he does talk like he truly sees the younger generations a equals instead of acting better than them because he's lived longer (as many tend to do)...

[@user-zu1ix3yq2w]

Math is so hard for these nerds

[@isoid]

I think "Garfield turns 80" is shorthand for "time travel is invented"

[@mr_lemonade4230]

lol

[@rachael1253]

Tell me why I read that as "Garfield is invented"

[@seansmomma2007]

That and the other time issues like election 3 years after another. Alternate timelines and time travel abound!

[@hibuddy2768]

@@seansmomma2007 no I think there’s an parallel universe where all of this happened and I’m thinking the black president was murdered by his female Vice President and then she became the first female President. BUTT the first black President was actually a VP in the 1996 election and whomever was President at the time died. Thus leaving our black President on course to be murdered Boom I made it possible

[@mjproject7072]

Dang, big brain 10 y.o

[@mmaighrd]

Im kinda jealous of that essay handwriting. U were 10 and that's neat af

[@Ben-Rogue]

I literally can't read any of my handwriting from before I left school. It's improved significantly since, while the opposite is true of my spelling and grammar

[@reeveharper6061]

A lot of places grade you on your writing so you will end up with neater writing

[@interwebzful]

"turns out there's a lot of cancers little hank, i'm sorry" hits hard in mid 2023 :'(

[@lesliemartin1520]

I love that 10-year-old Hank was concerned about equality, the environment, and space exploration. Some things never change.

[@SA3Future]

And Garfield

[@heathernelson3794]

@@SA3Future And Burt Reynolds

[@IrisGlowingBlue]

@@SA3Future Especially Garfield

[@jessiestorm5823]

This, and Middle East peace. How does a 10-year old know this?

[@hannaresnick362]

We’re forgetting the most important concern: superior fish beings

[@TheNewTravel]

Thanks for helping us get electric cars... but you didn't have to do Burt Reynolds like that

[@michaelmcneil5036]

What's so special about electric cars they've been around for years l

[@26nyy]

Even Mr. Rogers had an episode in the early 80s where he drove around in an electric car. It's funny how clunky they looked back then.

[@abrahamlinkin2414]

So he has a Death Note

[@flopsinator5817]

@@michaelmcneil5036 Because their range as well as their power has significantly improved over the years.

[@michaelmcneil5036]

@@flopsinator5817 😂😂😂no shit sherlock

[@xero.93.]

"turns out there's a lot of cancers little Hank i'm sorry." hits a little different now...

[@jrr-b4x]

just thought of this :(

[@Blackholefourspam]

This has been in my watch later queue for months and I am only just watching it now. Definitely had some thoughts on that line 😬 John mentioned their dad had cancer twice, I don’t know when, but I bet it’s why a cure was on young Hank’s mind.

[@ilas.not.here.]

fr:(

[@pheonixalchemist]

Came here to post this…

[@alexanderpompian5239]

the fact that hank green wrote in perfect cursive when he was ten years old does not surprise me in the least bit

[@spartanspeedruns8386]

Welcome to the USA before we were all dumbed down by "progressives".

[@FlowerTower]

You couldn’t write in cursive at 10 years old?

[@zerotwo3441]

@@spartanspeedruns8386 it's good to see nowhere on youtube is safe from people sad that life is more progressive and isn't what it was like when they were kids

[@spartanspeedruns8386]

@@zerotwo3441 There's a difference between progression and progressives. Progressives are driven by feelings rather than facts. Progression should be done based on facts.

[@sarasaeed6349]

@@spartanspeedruns8386 go outside

[@granth7332]

You should write another little essay, but this time for 2050

[@alexcameron5354]

Hank should get Orin to do 2050 predictions!

[@daboredghurl]

having read hanks books i am absolutely terrified to see what he'd come up with now and how accurate itd be

[@playlistenthusiast]

And then hope civilization, let alone open internet, still exists long enough for us to read it.

[@HypernovaBolts11]

+

[@FillingTheGap1]

We better get extraterrestrials in one of those years.

[@tiktokfan5000]

the most impressive part of this is that you kept the document the whole time

[@chrisl0081234]

$10 he didn’t save it, his parents did! Womp womp

[@muhilan8540]

Yeah I wish I had kept more of my childhood stuff, I threw a lot of stuff away as I moved around a lot

[@vlogbrothers]

That reward goes entirely to my mom.

[@daftodil589]

I remember there was a video years ago abt Hank cleaning his old office and finding a bunch of stuff from his childhood and I swear I think he featured this same paper

[@miriamrosemary9110]

@@daftodil589 I remember that video! Now I want to go find it and see if this paper appears there

[@amber2534]

"turns out there's a lot of cancers little Hank i'm sorry." the way you said that was adorableee

[@louisereads]

"I'm sorry little Hank but there are a lot of different kinds of cancer" ow.

[@sophiefilo16]

So, basically, 10-year-old Hank had two sides. One was the whimsical, hopeful, "cancer will be cured and everything's awesome!" Hank. The other is the depressing, pessimistic, "the Rainforest will be gone, and lots of fish will die from an oil spill" Hank. Edit: Can people stop commenting about the recent news on a comment from 2 years ago? We all know he has cancer...

[@MrAlRats]

Not really. Those things would have been the kinds of worries and hopes that he heard people express back then - Oil spills, loss of rainforest, violence in Middle-East, cure for Cancer, etc. A ten year old Science nerd today would predict the polar ice caps disappearing and a colony on Mars by 2050.

[@alexnielson5379]

You forgot side no. 3: weird alien/ghost magic hank

[@elseggs6504]

@@MrAlRats Kids read newspapers too. I'm not saying, I'm just saying

[@milotheangel9756]

But don’t worry, they’ll come back as superior fish beings :)

[@mosesracal6758]

_BALANCE AS ALL THINGS SHOULD BE_

[@delilahmast9225]

I was really confused why your predictions weren't more accurate and realistic, then I realized you weren't 40 in 1990.

[@Joespmama.]

😂

[@MustacheDLuffy]

If he was he’d be my dad (almost)

[@psychott6]

*The more you know*

[@MustacheDLuffy]

@@mytasteinmusicisyourface3020 yes

[@olivergregory1544]

Approximately the math skills of 1990 Hank!

[@ray_ayy]

I can’t get over the idea of little hank sitting at his desk really carefully writing out cursive and saying “i think life in 2020 will be really neat” 😭

[@reeveharper6061]

But cursive is just the way you write?? Why would you make an effort to write in print?

[@meepbeep2464]

@@reeveharper6061 Bro writing in print is easier??

[@reeveharper6061]

@@meepbeep2464 well not for me I write faster in cursive

[@courtneysokal6590]

Howling with laughter over “true ghost discovered”. 😂😂

[@mitchellpalmer782]

“And what did I put for 2020?” Me: Global pandemic??? “Garfield turns 80” Oh

[@consoleaction]

some birthday lasagna

[@tooooooooooooota]

Lol 🤣

[@juliusnepos6013]

Lmao!

[@yesno7889]

I mean he did say cute for every illnesses like a few years prior

[@automation7295]

You didn't predicted the global pandemic in 1990, nobody did. That's like you predicting you'll get hit by a truck.

[@krisnr99]

I feel like this is Death Note's lesser known cousin. Never quite hits the target, but sometimes lands in the ballpark

[@joshandrews8913]

It's a Parker Death Note.

[@bobsempletank5362]

It's "he's trying his best" note

[@YoshisaurUnderscore]

That's somehow more terrifying.

[@samwarren6008]

@@joshandrews8913 Now that's an obscure reference...

[@shinji5217]

Well, around the hole, everything is an edge... S p o o k y

[@yes-bi2rw]

I want a world where garfi3ld turning 80 will be the most important event of the year

[@beckylauer4158]

"Turns out there's a lot of different cancers," - Hank ... welp...

[@faithinthereins1222]

“I’m not right but I’m not that wrong” aka my entire academic career

[@courtneymaria56]

And this is how I got my English degree

[@luannesbestfriend7]

Memento Mori

[@borisjankovici662]

7 years off and most people die of heart conditions..

[@mjp2palmtree]

Memento mori

[@izabellaquirino1743]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[@BrandonCMaximum]

I love how both of your presidential predictions weren't even on election years

[@Rindiculousfun]

Well if they were vice presidents and the actual president was assassinated...anything can happen.

[@nathanloftus]

Why are there 1k likes and one comment or is my yt glitching

[@angel-gu8co]

@@nathanloftus that's normal

[@brandonchan5387]

We meet again, Maximum version of me. We came across each other in a Vsauce video, remember?

[@nathanloftus]

@@brandonchan5387 Hey VSauce Micheal here

[@Steeke]

"2000 Cure for cancer" aged like milk :(

[@justforfun-bm9tm]

2:19 oh that didn't age well did it

[@thewinterjule]

I can’t believe Hank cursed a man to die like that

[@Worri]

perhaps the first death note

[@thatguy7155]

@@Worri he was there before it was even though about

[@cecelia1783]

2,200th like

[@AlexG-jm7cd]

HE IS A WIZARD

[@pizzaman9859]

@@Worri real shinigami hours

[@scodaniel]

10 year-old hank: has extensive knowledge of cars, biology, and space exploration also 10 year-old hank: thinks 1999 is an election year

[@tablo1394]

Maybe 10 year old hank thought the president elected in 1996 would have a black VP and then die or resign in 1999?

[@shaynabarkan3940]

Wait... this isn’t John green?

[@thegeorgiemoore]

@@shaynabarkan3940 no it’s his brother hank green which is why in the beginning he says hi John. This channel belongs to both of them, they used to both do video blog type things to each other here (with quite regular and consistent uploads) but since John became an author it’s mostly Hank now.

[@arthand7672]

I mean, he wasn't too wrong. I'm pretty sure that show 24 started in 2000 and I think(don't quote me on that, it was on at my grandparents but I never directly watched it) had a black president. He was probably cast as president in 1999

[@sashalevinshteyn1175]

Well yeah John's the social studies one

[@simranp6138]

i love how it goes from a super close, shockingly accurate prediction like "Burt Reynolds dies of heart disease" to "superior fish beings"

[@bridgetm8122]

“2008: Oil line breaks, many animals suffer” what a weird and ominous prediction for a 10 year old to make

[@lyreparadox]

Not really, the Exxon Valdez spill was in '89 so it probably would've been on 10-year-old Hank's mind.

[@miriamrosemary9110]

Yeah, there were quite a few things that surprised me that occurred to him to predict. Interesting kid!

[@kimz24]

only hank jfc 😂😂

[@cubeofcheese5574]

I was thinking the same thing. And for several of these predictions

[@stifledbabsie]

Well, also in 2010, a huge oil spill happened in a Kalamazoo, Michigan, river, which was overshadowed by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. So, there's that, too. I lived in Kzoo at that time and it was horrible. We were all very scared that it would make its way into Lake Michigan. Fortunately, that was prevented, but a lot of animals did die and people suffered because they lived right on the water around the oil line break.

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

"2012: Superior Fish Beings" 2013 Sharknado. Close, so close.

[@andrecamarao543]

666th like nice

[@yeetethdeleteth3307]

Most of the ocean is still unexplored. There’s still a chance!

[@Superkirbeh]

There's a huge conspiracy that fish also evolved into humanoid sea creatures that live deep into earth. You can Google it

[@m.f.m4299]

@@Superkirbeh So, mermaids ?

[@athreyamurali1439]

Fair enough!

[@saltinodavito2135]

I hope to one day have handwriting as good as ten year old hank's.

[@anthonyb.9336]

What is disturbing to me is how much stuff that did happen that even a child writing a school essay assignment could see and yest the disasters still happened.

[@WhiteSuburbanite]

Glossing right over "2003: the Bermuda Triangle figured out."

[@AlephYobby]

Its eel sex..

[@somedudethatplayshoi4728]

@@AlephYobby sounds hot

[@AlephYobby]

@Cornelius The Wizard also no one knows how eels reproduce. All they know is that it happens in the Bermuda triangle. So..

[@dayis7721]

@@AlephYobby WHAT PLS EXPLAIN WHAT WHAT WHAT

[@ianciti]

i heard a thing about this actually. about how seaborne bacteria convert the oxygen in the water to Sulfuric oxide gas, and that most likely what's happening is large random pockets of this gas will come up under a boat causing it to sink. but that's just a theory i suppose.

[@Insipid42]

I have to defend 1990 Hank. He didn't have the internet so he couldn't "Just look it up".

[@catvalentine4317]

OMG, true, we take it for granted xD

[@Pingviinimursu]

There's other ways to look things up than the internet. Sure, it's probably the easiest for a lot, but still not always the best. Libraries hold tons of stuff you can't find online, even if they exist online.

[@Nobody-pv9jt]

@@Pingviinimursu there's nothing you can't find online, except maybe a life but we're working on that

[@Pingviinimursu]

@@Nobody-pv9jt Then by all means tell me how many holes my favorite sweatpants have and how many of them I have already fixed. Or did you mean something along the lines of "most facts that are meaningful to most people in everyday life can usually be found with a quick google search, but there is literally infinite information that can't be found online, including a lot of books that don't exist in digital form"?

[@Nobody-pv9jt]

@@Pingviinimursu you can find out how many holes your favorite sweatpants have and how many you already fixed by just posting a picture of it on r/askreddit or something. people there have enough free time to work out shit like this on a daily basis. also do the said books that don't exist in digital form also not exist on amazon or any other e-shopping website? cause that would be a wild marketing strategy in 2021 lol. edit: also have you confirmed that there's no one selling second hand copies of them on craigslist or some other website that works the same way?

[@hexamex]

turns that there are lots of kind of cancer little hank hits different now

[@upwardsofunknown7161]

it freaked me out because this is the first time i have ever seen a video by this fella and he actually predicted my name was john. then i realized he wasn't talking to me.

[@bsfatboy]

“I could have looked it up”, by which you would have had to get on your bike or your parents had to take you to the library. You proceed to ask the librarian if they have books about Garfield. The Librarian would sternly point you to the card catalogue which then you have to take those short golf pencils to write down the Dewey decimal number of the book. You then proceed to roam the library till you found the book, which you then find out the book has nothing about when Garfield was born.

[@Rebecca-ld9mu]

Ah, the good old days... 📕

[@theamandabeaty]

That or go to a bookstore. In the 80s and 90s, they had more than the one Garfield book the library had. I know this because that's where all my allowance money went. That and Scholastic book sales.

[@ZgermanGuy.]

How did we even know anything Back then?

[@ultraboard101]

@@ZgermanGuy. We didn't and life was better for it

[@southpark645]

@@ZgermanGuy. apparently you guys never learned how to spell back then either

[@zacredington4776]

"I could've just looked it up!" Man living in 2021, speaking to 10 year old in 1990.

[@TheAtomBuilds]

“Oh yeah , let’s just go to nonexistent google to search up nonexistent Wikipedia article”

[@mashedpotatoesgaming454]

You know someone doesnt have to use the internet in order to look something up

[@PtylerBeats]

@@TheAtomBuilds look it up in your funk and wagnalls

[@zacredington4776]

@@mashedpotatoesgaming454 Yep, but also being a 10 year old in the year 1990 probably isn't helping your odds of success.

[@andymorin9163]

@@TheAtomBuilds encyclopedia 😎

[@RADMAN5240]

"I think there will be cures for almost every illness", if only that were true. I wish you the best in your battle, Hank.

[@natpicking]

The cancer talks are so much sadder now given the circumstances! But also - Kid Hank was clearly a genius

[@hgrxcez]

“i’m not right, but i’m not THAT wrong” is my life motto

[@eehhh636]

Every school ever xD

[@water_is_wet]

Lol

[@wolframstahl1263]

Your life motto is not good, but it's not THAT bad.

[@amiyamamoto3221]

Here’s the crazy thing: There is indeed a timeline where adult Hank is freaking out because he got everything right.

[@deadmanomegagaming4061]

In which way? Do you mean everything in the list comes true in another timeline or he writes an accurate list in another time line?

[@Purely_Andy]

@@deadmanomegagaming4061 I was about to say that.

[@SavageGreywolf]

@@deadmanomegagaming4061 both in that timeline Jim Davis writes a storyline where Garfield time travels to his 80th birthday in 2020

[@CanisMythson]

@blasphemiann But that's how multiverse theory works. No one ever said the laws of physics needed to remain true between universes; there might be universes where magic exists, for instance. Universes where the people end up being psychic and create works of fiction that are in fact, glimpses into other universes... Or perhaps *all* fiction is just a glimpse into another universe that in fact, exists.

[@benjaminlee345]

@@CanisMythson ah, i remember debating over "everything is possible due to multiverse theory" with my friend and we both decided that irl multiverse theory and fiction multiverse theory is sloghtly different. Here's why: Assuming that everything is possible in the infinite universes, then a being powerful enough to erase all universes must exist, as we are under the assumption that "everything is possible". Since we still exist, that means there cannot possibly be a being that can erase all universes. Thus debunking the "everything is possible" part of fictional multiverse. Irl multiverse is much more boring, as a quick Google search will tell you that: "The multiverse is a hypothetical group of multiple universes. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them." So yes, they do have to obey the laws of physics. Edit: didn't really mean to write so much, but this is a fun topic and i enjoy talking about it so aw well

[@arthurmichell3527]

“Superior fish beings” a real life Nostradamus

[@NuriaGuadalupe1]

this video popped up in my start page and the fact he was thinking about cure of cancer to be en 2020 😭☹ oh boy

[@nickpalmer6694]

I love how this goes from "peace in the middle east" to "superior fish beings." This is on absolutely every level imaginable, and it's fantastic.

[@sadiyahassan5812]

+

[@tamiwu0346]

It seems as though both are unachievable to this day

[@legoboy7107]

@@tamiwu0346 We have been much closer to peace in the middle east under stuff Trump has done; like, there have been so many treaties and peace agreements between Israel and other countries in the Middle East that just a few years ago we would have thought impossible. Like, say what you will about literally everything else Trump has done (or not done, depending on your perspective) but at least a lot of the stuff in the middle east has been good and really successful. Hopefully Biden continues that trend.

[@BigBazz-Clips]

Fish people are more likely

[@ayanna8622]

@@legoboy7107 lol bet your gonna get canceled by the end of the week for saying Trump did something right

[@Accyber]

“I think life in 2020 will be really neat.” Already off to a bad start

[@mbdg6810]

It was neat. Not necessarily positively.

[@davidlovesyeshua]

@@mbdg6810 I think the word you're looking for is *interesting.*

[@imsickoflifeanditstactics5063]

Expectation: There will be a cure for almost every illness and people will be living upto 200 years old. Reality: *unknown diseases shutting down the world and people dying like mosquitoes*

[@craigrobbins2463]

for how much shit there is there's also a lot of neat stuff.

[@curiousnerdkitteh]

Idk, it did become more accessible for a lot of people because remote work and events were suddenly normalised which meant a lot of people could suddenly participate in society who couldn't before.

[@Duhitzmarina1]

The fact he predicted the Wall fall, golf war, and my more things and was only like 1/2/3 years of is crazy :O

[@sharpe3698]

That cut on "I think life in 2020 will be really neat"

[@takemealivethistime]

I want to know who put the seed in little Hank's brain that grew into the prediction "Burt Reynolds dies of a heart condition". WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?

[@jobriq5]

Why does a 10 year old even think about Burt Reynolds... also his handwriting

[@vlogbrothers]

I am also very confused...

[@takemealivethistime]

@@vlogbrothers Only 10-year-old Hank knows....

[@TacticusPrime]

Steve McQueen died of heart failure, actually the result of a cancer treatment, and that's how he started his timeline.

[@xafierah]

@@vlogbrothers I mean, a heart condition isn't a bad guess overall, statistically. Apparently he was in a series called Evening Shade that started in 1990 (and won a prime time Emmy and a Golden Globe in 91), so maybe that's what brought him back to your attention? Or maybe it was just the magic of the mustache. Yeah, probably the mustache.

[@derschmiddie]

You didn't look up when Garfield was born because there was no internet to look it up and it would've been quite a quest to find Garfields age through public libraries and stuff.

[@vlogbrothers]

I mean, yeah. I guess you're right. I have no idea how I would have found out what age Garfield was. I think I just assumed it had existed forever. Dennis the Menace will turn 70 this year and they were all kinda the same age to me...

[@Snoopy-20111]

The compilation books were released annually though, and they were numbered, and they had the copyright year on them! Certainly not as easy but that’s how I worked out Garfield’s age when I was little

[@lyreparadox]

Nah, you could have asked the librarian. 😉

[@NathanWubs]

@@lyreparadox If I had been a librarian in the 90ties, I would have just said. Well Garfield is really old, like 60 something.

[@sergrojGrayFace]

@@Snoopy-20111 Does some book mention Garfield’s age at its present year?

[@ktv90125]

I was going to say that he waited 30 years to do this video but then I realized he didn't imagine KZbin would be invented.

[@koguma8823]

hank i love you. i'm unfortunately middle eastern and i had to pause the video at 1:56 because i couldn't stop laughing at "1993 - peace in the middle east"

[@AI-mg3hy]

I love how Burt Reynolds made such an impact on this 10 year old that his was the single death prediction.

[@mptrdt21457]

He was relevant back then...

[@primarytrainer1]

@Ash S no, he wrote the list in 1990, mcqueen died in 1980, it was just a historically significant event he recorded

[@levilukeskytrekker]

+.

[@Merjia]

I want "I'm not right - but I'm not *that* wrong" on a shirt or a mug.

[@ScottRothsroth0616]

Both

[@mjolnirsoul9214]

I love how that was immediately followed by "superior fish people"

[@gamistry2947]

I also want a "I'm not bragging, but I'm bragging"

[@caseymckenney5540]

I really want a copy of that year-by-year breakdown. Surely I"m not the only one. Thank you for sharing this with us, Hank!

[@RobCabreraCh]

I heard "first comedian on the moon". I was a little shocked at 10 year old Hank's priorities.

[@user-gz7cj3zc7x]

The “first black president” bit is pretty touching.

[@jaclynlam8203]

agreed, and the first woman president was too

[@Bacopa68]

Maybe the reason for the years not being election or inauguration years is that the aliens select our president now according to their own schedule. Pretty sure that was in the 29th Amendment.

[@jarodh-m6099]

It was surprising that he got the order right as well. I know I thought it would be the other way

[@Diamondelight92]

Except apparently he died during his first term. Cool that he had a woman VP tho!

[@TheSkyCrystals]

@@Diamondelight92 ...wait... thAT ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE OH NO

[@aharder5765]

Hank reading something he wrote: That was a twist I wasn't expecting Me as a fellow writer nodding along

[@yaelmorin9017]

not the same part of the video, but "superior fish beings" will now be my go-to phrase for finding something inexplicable in something i wrote

[@tylergreene9123]

OMG YESSS!!!! We want a new timeline!!!!!!

[@aharder5765]

@@tylergreene9123 I feel like there was a slight canon divergence after the 1980s.

[@c.w.r.794]

I CAN RELATE!

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

It would make for an incredible work of literature.

[@moneyblue8466]

Why did every decade think we would be over 200 years old starting with a newspaper article in 1920s about 2020s

[@flunkytown]

Burt Reynolds dies of a heart condition. “Yes, but actually *No* “

[@elisabethmiller2822]

Can we take a second to appreciate how good 10 year-old Hank's cursive was?!

[@PearlAlex]

Yes! Exactly!

[@jjc5475]

teachers still beat you up if it wasn't.

[@mauve9266]

I was gonna say he has lovely penmanship 😂

[@vbm8992]

I feel like every person took cursive strangely serious when they were younger and tried perfecting it😫

[@pvic6959]

RIGHT?! my handwriting now as a 23 year old is so shit lol

[@jennrodriguezdaluz]

"I'm not right but I'm not that wrong" are words to live by

[@jasmeenmalhotra2225]

Underrated comment.

[@JosephDavies]

Especially for psychics making predictions, and other similar con-men!

[@TMthe33rd]

"You may be right, I may be crazy, Oh, but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for"

[@connorrothgeb]

“2012: Superior Fish Beings” has me wheezing for some reason

[@sehranicole9635]

This video was amazing. Thanks little Hank!

[@erinmckenna605]

little hank: "I think in 2020 there will be cures for every illness" a pandemic being the defining feature of 2020:

[@eliesh3833]

On the bright side, we developed a vaccine faster than we usually do. Most vaccines take decades, but this one took a year. Granted, it's a prototype vaccine. But still, pretty significant improvement for the medical community.

[@psychott6]

This is what Language/English teachers call irony.. This is what I call karma.

[@Aminangela]

@@eliesh3833 I wouldn't call it a prototype, it has very simple components and a high success rate. The only problem is that people are fear-mongering about it. Not trying to argue I just wanted to clarify

[@vkobevk]

@@eliesh3833 it took one year, because it is from the sars vaccine, it is just they stopped to develop it, because sars stopped and they cant made money with this vaccine it is only when coronavirus hit us than the sars vaccine become the core to develop coronavirus vaccine

[@eliesh3833]

@@Aminangela No, it's perfectly okay. Thank you for the clarification.

[@jerryyan24]

Really this just shows even as a 10 year old, Hank was an overly ambitious, optimistic person interested in science and the climate.

[@DuranmanX]

And Burt Reynolds

[@asherujudo7383]

Boy was woke, looking forward to black presidents and women presidents. At that age, I didn't even fully understand racism. Then again, I'm not American.

[@mattbonaccio3522]

Had to stop and rewind at least 3 times at the "peace in the middle east" part because I was laughing so hard, that was hilarious

[@tracyh5751]

To be fair to little Hank Green, it's understandable to believe that Garfield started out as a 38 year old cat.

[@Mikadonja]

Garfield being born in the midst of WWII, always on the brink of starvation, gives us a deeper explanation for his lasagna obsession.

[@whalisten]

Explain?

[@hewhoyeet4953]

@@whalisten people are hungry during the war.

[@whalisten]

@@hewhoyeet4953 oh ok, lasagna is just so specific, I thought there was something else

[@vkobevk]

@@whalisten officiel story is he born in restaurant and the first thing he ate was lasagna, you can see it in an episode about his 9 lives

[@T1J]

i started following this channel in 2008. which is crazy to think about. thanks for inspiring me and teaching me how to be a kind and thoughtful person/creator!

[@staytuned2L337]

Found you through them. This is a fantastic community to be part of.

[@anicarol]

Same! +

[@psalmy26]

@@staytuned2L337 it really really is

[@grayonthewater]

Omg @T1J I watch your channel!

[@joyfulgirl40018]

WORLDS COLLIDE!!!!!

[@geekoftheroundtable2830]

The most pessimistic optimist I've ever seen in little hank.

[@theonetruegreg1050]

recently discovered this channel and I don't know why but I love it. you are hilarious. thank you 😅

[@urheehoo]

"turns out there's a lot of cancers little hank i'm sorry" :'(

[@emilydevry]

"Turns out there's a lot of cancers, Little Hank, I'm sorry." this made me laugh and then cry

[@melindagreer4177]

Unfortunately there are many types of cancer young Hank. 😢😢😢

[@mistertwister2000]

When you’re a Seer but you have 20/60 vision

[@mkmason7727]

I had to pause the video and laugh till I cried after “I think life in the year 2020 will be really neat” 😂😅😭

[@IrisGlowingBlue]

For a given definition,, it certainly was

[@caroline10081]

It is neat. I've cleaned and Kon Marie'd my apartment to death. I am in my second lockdown.

[@beaalmonares]

why did I think "Cool man Steve McQuin" was Lightning McQueen for a hot sec

[@razikboston3414]

Same man same 😅

[@liekes9344]

You are not the only one there xD

[@katriarchy]

Yup

[@bethanydiaz3381]

Lol same I thought of tgat

[@evandavis5223]

That's literally where they took the name from.

[@dylanlee45alien]

Predictions about new technologies, huge events, destruction of wildlife from 1991-2019 but the most important event of 2020: Garfield turns 80

[@MoshWithEzra]

"Superior Fish Beings" lives in my head rent free

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

There actually was a spill in 2008 in New Orleans. A Liberian tanker collided with a barge and it resulted in approximately 280,000 gallons of fuel oil to leak into the Mississippi. Which shut down the waterway for days

[@sammyhewitt1754]

+

[@vlogbrothers]

There's a serious oil spill every year...there's just too much oil for it to be otherwise.

[@seraaron]

And many animals suffered

[@ezekielmartin4323]

Wild. I'm from New Orleans and never heard about this. I mean, I was 8 at the time, but it's still weird.

[@caroline3235]

i swear i've seen your comments on so many different channels and videos lol!

[@FrozenShadow007]

Predictions then: Predictions now: World War, take it or leave it

[@carso1500]

@blu so like every other period of history, lets remember people through ww3 was inevitable back during the cold war and there are people today who still believe that flying cars are a good idea

[@plugshirt1684]

At some point in the future I’m sure a war will occur

[@FrozenShadow007]

There will reach a point where war will be inevitable. Almost like a Chekhov's gun type situation. I’m not saying we are at that point, I’m just saying that the balance of power in the world is very unstable right now, and soon enough even an event as small as cutting down a tree will lead to an actual full blown war.

[@rosemali3022]

Y'all do know we are in like 10 wars RIGHT NOW right?

[@FrozenShadow007]

@@rosemali3022 talking about world war

[@ThePowerRanger]

Listening to this you just realize how optimistic and nice hank was and is. 😊

[@shelbyfawn1337]

I’m comfort rewatching videos and I refuse to ever get over “superior fish beings”

[@albertjackinson]

Said starting at 1:59: "I'm not bragging, but I'm bragging!" I think we all love how enthusiastic Hank is about this.