Hank Green has been a knotty boy. One of the latest episode on his YouTube channel SciShow is all about knitting, and how science is elevating the lowly craft to a place of actual importance. You know who finds that take distasteful? Knitters.

Online fiber arts discourse is no place for the weak. A new drama erupts on r/crochet, KnitTok, or in the YouTube comments seemingly on the daily . If you think acrylic vs. natural yarn is an anodyne topic of conversation, you could not be further from the truth. Here’s everything we know about

What did Hank Green say?

It’s not so much what Hank Green said, but what the Hank Green-hosted SciShow on YouTube put forward. The video is framed as physicists using science to explain the art of knitting, which until now has been innovated simply “th

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