Hank Green is a better person than all of us: Hank green should be worth 500 million dollars. He should be the second or third richest youtuber. Instead, he has given nearly ALL of his net worth to charity. Complexly, his education company, would probably sell for $250 MILLION dollars. But just this year, he turned it into a non profit. Hank Green is a better person than me. He has raised over 30 million dollars to stop kids from dying in Sierra Leone. He gives away ALL the profits from his ecom business- good store, which has given away over 10 MILLION dollars. He hosts project for awesome, that raised 4 million dollars JUST THIS YEAR. If you add it up, Hank Green has dedicated his channel, his time, and his money to making the world a better place- to the tune of at least 50 million dollars, but probably more like 200 million. He is a better person than all of us. A week ago, Hank Green became the person of the day across the whole internet. A dogpile happened. Every single person's anxiety and confusion about AI came crashing down on Hank. Wrongly. Because Hank Green is actually thoughtful. He had an ai usage policy in place. AI was not used in his videos. He didnt edit with it, it didnt write the words he said. Disney doesnt have an ai usage policy in place. No other creator on any platform has that. But Hank does, because he tries to be thoughtful. There are very few people I respect as much as Hank Green. And I actually disagree with him on a lot of stuff. Publicly this year, we got into a disagreement about ai data centers and water usage. I accused him of spreading misinformation- ai data center water usage is meaningless and is being used as a scapegoat. (we can debate power usage, or communties having a voice in what gets built, but data centers do not use any more water than basically anything else) And I disagree with him on using ai in videos. I think it is inevitable. It will happen. It is here. The genie is out of the bottle. Creators will need to adapt or be left behind. BUT: I can disagree with someone I respect. And hank green deserves our respect. There is no one who tries to do more good, who tries to minimize their harm, more than him. He posted a video yesterday, like he has for the past 20 years, on his vlog brothers channel. He talks about what his future should be in this new world. And I feel bad. I think we, the internet, have taken Hank Green and the work he does for granted. How can someone do so much good, raise tens of millions of dollars for charity, and be consistent in who they are for two decades, yet still not get the benefit of the doubt. Hank Green is the best among us. I hope he comes back to the internet he deserves.