COMMIT TO THE BIT

In which John celebrates bit commitment, and explores how the quality of the bit can sometimes matter less than the quality of the commitment to that bit.

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[vlogbrothers]

John Green: Getting the day of the week wrong since 2007.
p.s. What bit do you want us to commit to?

[kasterborouskitten]

Reframing my PhD as "committing to the bit" has somehow just given me a lot more motivation to keep going.

[ElementHs]

I love that despite John's well-documented internal bias to every day being Friday in his novels, he still managed to get the day wrong on an actual Friday.

[miloshaymin]

Honestly, the All Star thing was so funny and iconic. Commiting to the bit is so underestimated.

[Jacefully]

My favorite example of committing to the bit is the piece "As slow as possible" by John Cage.

It is being played on an organ in Germany right now: They started playing it in 2001 and it won't be finished until 2640.
The next note will be played in 2024.

It's both hilarious and strangely hopeful/comforting.

[mariewikiwaka]

I love how the Pizza John bust really captures the crazy eyes.

[adamgordon]

Well if vlogbrothers ain't just the embodiment of committing to a bit for 15 odd years, I don't know what it.

[Draco]

Committing to the bit is a strange combination of both spontaneity and intense dedication, two things that feel almost like opposites, like they shouldn't belong together, yet somehow they do, and that is what I think makes it so utterly and beautifully human.

[mars_girl]

I can't believe the Poe bust has been with us for so long! Talking to him like a living person is another bit committal, and I'm here for it.

[VelociraptorousRex]

I like how the giant ball of paint goes unmentioned but looms massively in the minds of all who know of it as a committed bit.

[JayZeke]

A friend and I lived around the corner from each other. One day at a bar after a few drinks we decided that if we ever run into each other in the street we should walk up to each other, hug, and walk away with no words exchanged.

For the next few years everytime we'd see each other we did just that. It was always fun when someone was with us and we had to explain it after the fact.

[stevenqirkle]

There’s a guy who has climbed Mt. Fuji more than 2, 100 times. He’s 79 years old and still going as it. They call him “Mr. Fuji-san”. His bit commitment is world class.

[skylerwitherspoon]

I committed to the bit by actually 3d printing a small statue of John Peter Muhlenberg aka the original Pizza John. I left it out with pizza and cash for you 😌

[jomama]

When I legally changed my name to Jo Mama, my parents were upset and flabbergasted. They just couldn't understand. I'm glad you do John.

[sam-the-moomin]

Bit commitment is one of my favorite human things, and both Hank and John’s commitment to many many bits makes me so happy

[graemebloodworth]

When I think of the number of bits that this channel has committed to over the years, it truly does make me smile. I know this wasn't necessarily the point of the video, but it got me thinking about the penny video that brought me here way back in 2011. I truly believe that this channel has made me a kinder and more empathetic adult for having known about it in my formative college years. Thanks for committing to the best bit, which is of course, Vlogbrothers.

[KarenPuzzles]

Was there ever a Pizza John shower curtain? That is a level of bit commitment only the top tier Pizza John-ers would take on.

[Heather-vigy]

You putting the rug in random rooms reminds me of my art high school dorms where we had a random cardboard cutout of a generic butler, and it was tradition to put him in random places just to make people go '!!!'
Whoever got pranked by him was then the person whose responsibility it was to put him in the next hiding place. Truly a good school-wide bit.

[bainik]

My wife and I have an ongoing bit for 11 years now: once a year since we started dating, usually sometime around our anniversary, we take a picture together. In every picture except the first we're holding the previous years picture. We're currently 10 pictures deep and it's a reasonable chain, but can't wait to be 50 years deep and have just a massive recursive chain of pictures.

[dieselexhausted]

Are we forgetting that vlogbrothers itself is an enormous commitment to the bit?