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Nerdfighteria

group · in 611 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 120 · 2008: 100 · 2009: 110 · 2010: 87 · 2011: 84 · 2012: 52 · 2013: 58

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2007

2008

  • 2008-01-04 · Nerdfighting in 2008, Pakistan, and Hillary Clinton — John announces that nerdfighting will become more collaborative in 2008: a new site built on Ning where everyone can have a Nerdfighter profile, pictures, videos and blogs. (00:00:00)
  • 2008-01-09 · The Return of Question Tuesdays — John says one of the brothers will post at least one video per week, and on other days there will be pictures and videos from Nerdfighteria on the Ning. (00:01:06)
  • 2008-01-22 · A Short History of the PUPPY SIZED ELEPHANT — Because nerdfighters miss punishing the brothers, John announces projects: when viewers complete one, they earn the right to punish or challenge the brothers, with the wives keeping veto power. (00:02:29)
  • 2008-01-30 · I Am Not A Pornographer — John asks nerdfighters living in or near Depew to attend the school board meeting on February 5th to support those defending intellectual freedom. (00:03:37)
  • 2008-02-05 · Obama Says Subscribe — Hank says this is not a Nerdfighter endorsement: nerdfighters span every color, race, creed and political persuasion, Republicans included. (00:02:31)
  • 2008-02-12 · Nerdfighters Blurbing Book Club! — Hank launches the Nerdfighting Blurbing Book Club: the brothers and participating Nerdfighters read a book every two weeks and each writes a blurb of ten words or less. (00:01:31)
  • 2008-02-14 · The Puff Pwns Gravity — John asks all Nerdfighters to vote for Daniel against stiff competition; in one category he is nominated alongside John McCain, John Edwards and Mitt Romney's five sons. (00:01:36)
  • 2008-02-14 · The Puff Pwns Gravity — To recreate that feeling, John asks Nerdfighters to comment on this video at the Ning, visit each other's profiles to wish happy Valentine's Day, and maybe make new friends. (00:03:30)
  • 2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — John asks Nerdfighters to leave questions in the comments; any he doesn't answer in the video he'll try to answer in a big blog post on the Ning. (00:00:41)
  • 2008-03-22 · Twitter After School Time — Hank says Twitter followers are a new, undefined kind of relationship, probably like his with Nerdfighters: not fans, not friends, but in between; some Nerdfighters are now his friends. (00:02:12)
  • 2008-03-27 · PEEPS Eating Contest Is Peepstacular, Painful — John asks Nerdfighters to suggest in comments what the winner and/or loser of the contest should get. (00:01:09)
  • 2008-04-02 · Please Google, Take Me to Mars — Hank asks viewers who want more frequent videos to say so in comments on YouTube or nerdfighters.com; the reaction will decide, and comments make them feel appreciated. (00:03:29)
  • …and 157 more statements in 2008 (most important shown)

2009

  • 2009-01-28 · Before Looking for Alaska... — John announces that a few volunteer Ningmasters will soon feature new content on the Ning's main page, organize and moderate its forums and raise its awesomeness. (00:02:09)
  • 2009-02-03 · Five Parts — Hank shows a Hank sock made by a Nerdfighter and given to him on the Nerdfighter tour, and asks for ideas of what he and the sock could do besides embarrassing-moment sock puppet theater, which was already done. (00:01:45)
  • 2009-02-21 · Paper Towns and PUPPY — John invites European Nerdfighters to a public Nerdfighter gathering that Thursday night in Amsterdam; details are not set yet, but he asks them to sign up via the sidebar. (00:00:30)
  • 2009-03-02 · Free Will Fetish — To thank Nerdfighters, John says he and Hank will do pretty much whatever they are told, and asks for challenge ideas in the comments. (00:02:12)
  • 2009-03-15 · Lighting a candle for Rwanda — John announces Nerdfighteria and the Harry Potter Alliance will make many videos for Rwandans, posted on CandlesForRwanda.org, some played at a big ceremony in Rwanda on April 7. (00:01:23)
  • 2009-03-19 · Dr. Manhattan's Dangle and Brain Crack — Hank hopes Nerdfighteria will also free their brains of brain crack - the world needs ideas, not ideas stuck in heads - and wants them in comments and video responses. (00:03:31)
  • 2009-03-23 · John Loves Amsterdam — On Thursday night more than 100 Nerdfighters gathered in Amsterdam for an evening of fun, including John failing to read in Dutch. (00:01:34)
  • 2009-03-25 · Peeps! Prom! Puppy! — A group of Nerdfighters banded together and ate more than 200 Peeps on John's behalf, so he now has to eat only about 102. (00:00:24)
  • 2009-03-26 · Squirrel Attack! — Hank thanks six Nerdfighters for the Irish fiddling and penny whistle parts he cannot play himself, which he had them record for the song. (00:00:06)
  • 2009-03-29 · Tiny Chickens Cause Epic Fail — John says Hank has owed a Carrie Bradshaw dress-up for about six months and won't do it, and claims to speak for Nerdfighters in being mad. (00:00:35)
  • 2009-04-01 · A Few Of My Favorite Things — Hank calls Nerdfighteria his favourite thing and shows Nerdfighters' illustrations of favourite DFTBA acronyms made after John's Sunday request, thanking them. (00:02:40)
  • 2009-04-12 · The Death of Youtube?? Redesign Coming — John's favourite thing about YouTube is the comments; he admits discourse in many YouTube comments is poor, but for 'our community' comments and video responses are a huge portion of these videos. (00:03:06)
  • …and 169 more statements in 2009 (most important shown)

2010

  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — John announces rule four: breaking any rule brings a punishment chosen by Nerdfighters and the other brother, to be completed within one week of being assigned. (00:02:39)
  • 2010-01-08 · GUS HAS NO FUZZ! — John recalls asking Nerdfighters months ago to find his favourite childhood book, which he called Gus is a Bug; they found it although that was not its real title. (00:00:58)
  • 2010-01-08 · GUS HAS NO FUZZ! — John says Nerdfighters drew their own versions of Gus is a Bug, which he likes even more than the original, and he made them into a video book that will introduce his baby to Nerdfighteria. (00:00:58)
  • 2010-01-15 · Introduction to Chemistry with Hank — Hank says Nerdfighter Shawn Ahmed, doing amazing work in Bangladesh, is one of five finalists to possibly attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, and asks everyone to vote for him via the sidebar. (00:02:55)
  • 2010-02-04 · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — Hank says the Harry Potter Alliance, the Harry Potter community and the Nerdfighter community have together raised $86,000, enough to charter two cargo planes of aid to Haiti. (00:02:15)
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Asked by a viewer afraid of sucking at writing, Maureen tells nerdfighters, who want to decrease world suck, that they should instead dare to suck. (00:00:27)
  • 2010-02-27 · Ningmaster Tom — Hank says Tom, known as NingMasterTom, a graphic-design student, is more or less the de facto leader of the community at nerdfighters.com and has done much to make Nerdfighteria better. (00:00:49)
  • 2010-03-02 · The Marriage Ref SUCKS — John reports Ningmaster Tom is conscious and has spoken to his family but has a long way to go in recovery; the community will be with him throughout. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-03-02 · The Marriage Ref SUCKS — John says unlike NBC, Nerdfighteria is not in the advertiser business but in pond sand filters, Haitian relief and the pizza shirt, and above all in taking care of each other. (00:02:14)
  • 2010-03-02 · The Marriage Ref SUCKS — John says he loves Nerdfighteria because it lets people who have felt on the outside looking in be inside something awesome and important. (00:02:14)
  • 2010-03-02 · The Marriage Ref SUCKS — John tells Jeff Zucker that Nerdfighteria may be only a YouTube-based community but is more real than all his reality shows combined. (00:02:44)
  • 2010-03-16 · Cute OVERLOAD: The Ultimate Concern Edition — John makes ultimate concern the week's theme, asking Hank and Nerdfighters whether they have one, what it is, and whether they should have one. (00:02:09)
  • …and 119 more statements in 2010 (most important shown)

2011

  • 2011-01-04 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — Thanking Nerdfighters for sticking with them, John says the vlogbrothers will continue Monday-Wednesday-Friday videos in 2011 and, having heard viewers, will make more question videos, Thoughts from Places and 'info-tational' videos. (00:02:24)
  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John sets two rules, for Nerdfighteria and for human existence generally: number one, don't be mean; number two, DFTBA. (00:01:07)
  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John argues no one can tell you whether you're a Nerdfighter, nor you anyone else: it is a chosen identity, collectively defined by living it, not by talking about it. (00:02:59)
  • 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — Guessing that partial viewing and other Nerdfighter activity average out to 3.5 minutes per view, John gets 427 million minutes; at 525,600 minutes a year (from Rent), Nerdfighteria is over 812 years old. (00:00:52)
  • 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — If Nerdfighteria, which most people have never heard of, is responsible for a million pounds of carbon, John says, it shows how huge the problem we face really is. (00:02:47)
  • 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — John still thinks YouTube and Nerdfighteria are awesome, but says we need to be aware of the price of that awesome. (00:03:05)
  • 2011-02-26 · a private person UNCOVERED! — Hank announces that with Nerdfighteria's hard work and John's detective work they have tracked down a private person. (00:00:00)
  • 2011-03-18 · TERRIBLE — John gives Nerdfighters the task of searching out everything knowable about the library, in a thread he created on Your Pants (link in the description). (00:03:23)
  • 2011-03-25 · Hank is an Adorable, Drunk Princess — Hank apologizes to Nerdfighteria but won't turn off ads, since otherwise he couldn't make the videos, and believes their entertainment outweighs the advertisers' damage to viewers' brains. (00:02:21)
  • 2011-03-28 · Participatory Geometry — John says Nerdfighteria generated more than 2,000 titles for his new book, many very good, none of which he will use. (00:01:50)
  • 2011-03-28 · Participatory Geometry — John says we choose what we care about, and caring about sports is ultimately about community, like caring about Harry Potter, Dungeons and Dragons or Nerdfighteria. (00:02:49)
  • 2011-04-06 · Tales of Nerd Love! — John says Hank's Haiti videos inspire him and Nerdfighteria and that, to thank Hank, he has made a $300 gift to Water.org. (00:03:08)
  • …and 148 more statements in 2011 (most important shown)

2012

  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John says the other reason is that, in trying to make three videos a week, they let slide the project-based nerdfighter work of increasing awesome and decreasing world suck. (00:01:37)
  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John asks Nerdfighters to say in the comments what they would like to see more of from the brothers, and in the community, in 2012. (00:02:06)
  • 2012-01-10 · The Fault in Our Stars — John says Nerdfighteria has shaped TFIOS in so many ways he can't list them, as readers will probably see. (00:02:46)
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — Asked how being number one feels, John calls it ridiculous, says he loves Nerdfighteria and that, much as he'd like credit, it has nothing to do with him. (00:00:51)
  • 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John says the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, a Nerdfighteria project for over five years, is finally becoming an actual charity that can take tax-deductible donations; the process is ongoing and complicated. (00:00:30)
  • 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John says more than $16,500 went to each of five charities chosen by Nerdfighteria: Kids in Need of Desks, This Star Won't Go Out, the HP Alliance, Water.org and Kiva. (00:00:59)
  • 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John explains Kiva.org lets regular people lend to developing-world entrepreneurs (he lent to a farmer in Peru and a shopkeeper in South Sudan), who repay, giving them cheap credit others take for granted. (00:01:24)
  • 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John invites Nerdfighters to join him in wishing Hank happy birthday by writing to their own elected officials; how-to information is in the description. (00:01:43)
  • 2012-05-22 · You ARE The Product — Unsure, John asks Nerdfighters whether Chrysler, super PACs and scammy online dating sites should fund Nerdfighteria and whether to be okay with being the product, to discuss in comments. (00:02:33)
  • 2012-06-12 · Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo — John was at BEA for interviews and signings and to reveal the new An Abundance of Katherines cover, designed by a 17-year-old longtime nerdfighter who then left for her prom. (00:00:29)
  • 2012-06-15 · Flinching in the Shower — Hank says Nerdfighteria has been a primary source of inspiration for him for five years, and he has become obsessed with ideas bigger than us: identify problems, think creatively about solutions, then act. (00:02:18)
  • 2012-07-31 · Nerd Olympics — John announces that Friday is Esther Day, honoring a private person, who inspired much of The Fault in Our Stars and Nerdfighteria, by telling people we love that we love them. (00:02:03)
  • …and 63 more statements in 2012 (most important shown)

2013

  • 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John says these successes happened 'because government' (also Nerdfighteria): Somalia, lacking a government, roads, public schools and telecom investment, produced no popular YouTube Pride and Prejudice adaptation. (00:02:57)
  • 2013-01-08 · Addicted to the Internet — John tells Nerdfighters without Carnegie Hall tickets that a link in the doobly-doo lists hundreds of places worldwide to gather, watch the event livestream and meet other Nerdfighters. (00:01:59)
  • 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says the show celebrates the one-year anniversary of the publication of The Fault in Our Stars and the six-year anniversary of the Nerdfighter community. (00:36:35)
  • 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says a private person, a Nerdfighter reader very sick with cancer when they met in 2009, taught him what Augustus learns: the real hero's journey goes from strength to weakness. (00:54:11)
  • 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John argues that daily collaborations, silly or serious, are what Nerdfighteria is: people working together to build meaning, which like a good book helps them feel unalone. (00:59:26)
  • 2013-01-22 · How to Be More Than Friends: Question Tuesday — John thanks Nerdfighters who were at Carnegie Hall or watched An Evening of Awesome at home: it was the highlight of his professional career; he thanks Hank for making it fun and surprisingly relaxing. (00:02:41)
  • 2013-01-29 · Across Three Continents: A Tale of Tumblr, Copyright, and Excellent Posters — Agreeing with Hank that money changes things, John would be annoyed if CBS adapted TFIOS without permission but is happy with YouTube scene adaptations even with ads; there is no good way to define the difference. (00:02:48)
  • 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — On tour the brothers met more than 6,000 Nerdfighters in ten days; many were nervous and embarrassed though, John says with authority, none had any reason to be, and John felt embarrassed too. (00:02:20)
  • 2013-03-15 · Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes — Without overstating viewers' power, Hank thinks it is "our job" to stop that happening; it won't be hard, but it won't happen on its own. (00:00:51)
  • 2013-03-15 · Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes — Hank invites Nerdfighteria to discuss, in the comments, Our Pants and the Nerdfighter subreddit, what they love, how to broaden, how content is discovered and whether there is a better way to fund it. (00:03:13)
  • 2013-03-23 · How Much is a Human Life Worth? — Hank says that besides being annoyed by pre-rolls, he and John avoid them because they undervalue this community's time; valuing it at a tenth of TV viewers' time is 'dumb'. (00:01:37)
  • 2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — John asks Nerdfighters to make one favourite video of theirs a video response; winners will be featured on Vlogbrothers and one will be a paternity-leave guest host. (00:02:55)
  • …and 76 more statements in 2013 (most important shown)