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world suck

term · in 70 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 26 · 2008: 6 · 2009: 8 · 2010: 6 · 2011: 10 · 2012: 7 · 2013: 7

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2007

  • 2007-03-05 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 5, 2007: Hank's Punishment — John tells Hank the punishment is also a project: they are starting something important to decrease the world's suck, by an amount that depends on how many Peeps he eats. (00:02:05)
  • 2007-03-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 9, 2007: Peeptastic! — John says there is now a link at Brotherhood2.com for contributing to the Brotherhood 2.0 fund for decreasing suck levels worldwide and asks viewers to contribute. (00:02:57)
  • 2007-03-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 15: Decreasing Suck — John says the worst thing one can do is not try to decrease suck levels, which he says is what the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club book was about. (00:02:15)
  • 2007-03-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 15: Decreasing Suck — Everyone will accidentally increase suck levels at times; John says a true nerdfighter admits the mistake, apologises and changes course to decrease suck in future. (00:02:15)
  • 2007-04-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 6: Nerdfighters Never Surrender — John rejects the break: injustice, despair, global warming and suck don't take every eighth week off, and nor will the Nerdfighters, who fight all year except weekends and occasional holidays. (00:00:56)
  • 2007-04-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 10th: Role Models — John thinks all nerdfighters are role models, but not in boring ways, and that all need to remember the importance of decreasing world suck. (00:02:51)
  • 2007-04-13 · Friday the 13th: Step It Up! — In mourning it's easy to focus on rising world suck, but Hank says Brotherhood 2.0 is about decreasing suck levels, so this video is for decreasing world suck. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-04-23 · April 23rd: Celebrity — Hank says this is how the project works: he thanks viewers for the $30,000 of time and says the brothers will use it to decrease world suck, somehow. (00:01:22)
  • 2007-05-09 · My 9th: Singing and Randy — Hank announces a new Brotherhood 2.0 feature: a World Suck Index for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, built by a viewer, in the site's sidebar. (00:03:06)
  • 2007-05-26 · May 25th: FreeMonkey's Tour — To celebrate Free Monkey's day, John's happy dances in Holland and the end of the collection period for Randy's family, Hank lowers the World Suck Index to Suck Level Yellow. (00:01:57)
  • 2007-08-07 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — Needing a punishment anyway, John phones Daniel Biss to ask whether he may accept contributions given because John injures himself, so the punishment decreases world suck. (00:01:11)
  • 2007-08-14 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — Calling John a good sport, Hank offers, if John agrees, to cut the waxing to one leg; with licking a cat, John will be done. (00:03:26)
  • …and 16 more statements in 2007 (most important shown)

2008

  • 2008-05-19 · Three Things — John calls it sort of miraculous that Hank can see the actual people his money helps, and says all who donated to Sean will experience that as he distributes more of the funds. (00:01:42)
  • 2008-06-26 · Don't Suck on That Bone — Debbie is auctioning the last copies to benefit an orphanage in Lebanon; John asks viewers who want the book or want to help decrease suck to check out the video this one responds to. (00:02:16)
  • 2008-09-11 · A Video about Videos — John says September 11 is the best day to think about ways to make the world suck less, and offers a video about other videos. (00:00:00)
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — In Plano they met Sean, the man from Bangladesh who has been working with Save the Children to decrease worldsuck with Nerdfighters' money. (00:01:11)

2009

  • 2009-02-09 · All Aboard the Fail Boat — John introduces the Fail Boat, the puppy-captained vessel Nerdfighters use to travel Nerdfighteria and to sail the world learning about places experiencing world suck. (00:00:06)
  • 2009-06-21 · The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less — The brothers tell YouTube this is a chance to use video-making skills to decrease worldwide suck, and hope viewers will take it. (00:02:29)
  • 2009-06-23 · Fighting the Flame War! — Answering why someone who thinks the world sucks lives on it, Hank says one of the great things about being on the world is getting to make it suck less. (00:00:53)
  • 2009-07-15 · Sell Outs! — John says the Nerdfighter community is so tight-knit and focused on making the world suck less that he doesn't want selling-out questions pulling it apart. (00:02:37)
  • 2009-12-16 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — John defines the P4A: an annual tradition where many make videos for charities and many more rate, favorite and comment on them, so for one day YouTube's most popular videos are about decreasing world suck. (00:00:25)
  • 2009-12-21 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — Having brought attention to organizations that decrease world suck, John hopes viewers will join him in donating to some favourites; he is still choosing where his $1,000 goes. (00:01:51)
  • 2009-12-21 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John explains 'French the llama': he kept seeing 'world suck FTL' in comments; FTL means 'for the lose', but a nerdfighter told him it means 'French the llama'. (00:02:21)
  • 2009-12-28 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — Hank says Nerdfighteria is the community that sprang up around their videos, which gets together to do awesome things, have a good time and fight world suck. (00:00:26)
  • 2009-12-28 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — Hank defines world suck as exactly what it sounds like: hard to quantify, but the amount of suck in the world. (00:00:33)

2010

  • 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)
  • 2010-07-06 · With a private person — The HPA is in a big contest to potentially win $250,000 to decrease world suck, and is currently in third place. (00:02:13)
  • 2010-08-27 · Rest In Awesome, a private person — John reports that a private person, the Nerdfighter who inspired many of Nerdfighteria's recent worldsuck-decreasing projects, died earlier this week, aged 16. (00:00:01)
  • 2010-08-27 · Rest In Awesome, a private person — John says the community will continue to do projects with a private person: she will be with them most when they work to decrease worldsuck and show love for others. (00:01:14)
  • 2010-09-16 · Positive Pranking: The TP Edition — John says his friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal called him with the idea of positive pranking: using the pranking ethos to decrease world suck. (00:00:29)
  • 2010-10-27 · You Are Awesome — John calls the foundation another way to work with a private person to make the world suck less and urges viewers to get a bracelet at DFTBA.com/a private person. (00:01:11)
  • 2010-10-27 · You Are Awesome — John thanks Nerdfighteria for all it does to decrease world suck, from their own communities to Bangladesh, and for being awesome. (00:02:47)
  • 2010-12-28 · To: You - - From: The Vlogbrothers — Hank says the book is useful because he and John are now in the t-shirt business and want to be in it in a way that does not increase world suck. (00:00:27)

2011

  • 2011-02-03 · Top 5 Awesome Things About the Webb Telescope — Hank believes there are two ways to make the world a better place, decreasing the suck and increasing the awesome: not mutually exclusive, but not the same. (00:00:16)
  • 2011-02-03 · Top 5 Awesome Things About the Webb Telescope — Decreasing suck is extremely important, probably in the end more important than increasing awesome, Hank says. (00:00:30)
  • 2011-02-04 · QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition — John wears an Esther bracelet and tells viewers to get one, since they make the world suck less; link in the description. (00:02:49)
  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John announces that some Nerdfighters are building Your Pants, like the old forum My Pants but yours; hopefully live within a week at yourpants.org, for friendships and decreasing world suck. (00:02:23)
  • 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — John says Nerdfighters from Bahrain to New Zealand to Libya to Morocco face mega-worldsuck for different reasons, and asks Nerdfighteria to pay attention and help where they can; links in the description. (00:03:13)
  • 2011-03-10 · DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day — John thanks Hank for being the noble brother who goes to the front lines to decrease worldsuck, which lets John stay in his basement. (00:00:03)
  • 2011-04-01 · Many Truths, 1 Lie! — John wants to use the $26 to decrease worldsuck, preferably in a way that hurts Warner Chilcott, and asks Nerdfighters for ideas in comments. (00:01:50)
  • 2011-04-28 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — Hank just paid about $16,000 in federal taxes; most of it, he says, goes to decreasing suck: unemployment help, education and healthcare for people who could not afford them. (00:00:15)
  • 2011-04-28 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — Hank, in a line jokingly credited to his grandfather, says using government only to decrease suck, never to increase awesome, is like using the Starship Enterprise as a shipping barge. (00:00:44)
  • 2011-09-27 · Awesome Bankers? — John says he will explain credit crunches, why they are so evil, and how Nerdfighteria could dramatically decrease world suck by becoming better bankers. (00:00:00)
  • 2011-09-27 · Awesome Bankers? — John concludes that bankers can reduce world suck and that we can be bankers, facilitating sustainable economic growth in the developing world. (00:02:55)
  • 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John announces that as part of P4A 2011 the Foundation to Decrease World Suck comes back, with no stupid stuff: Nerdfighteria will pool money and choose together how to spend it to decrease the most world suck. (00:01:07)
  • …and 1 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)
  • 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John recalls Hank saying Webb is like our pyramids, a monument for everyone who comes after us, and that besides decreasing suck it is important to increase awesome. (00:01:13)
  • 2012-11-27 · Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers — For people interested in decreasing world suck, John recommends Behind the Beautiful Forevers, the most interesting and complex book about poverty he has read, and says it is great rather than merely sad. (00:00:29)
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — John introduces the sixth annual Project for Awesome: every year on December 17th the Nerdfighter and YouTube communities come together to decrease world suck. (00:01:27)
  • 2012-12-14 · I Got Nothin... — Hank says it is a good time to feel together as humanity, and that with the Project for Awesome coming everyone is ready to work together to make the world suck less, in little and big ways. (00:00:55)

2013

  • 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Asked what most decreased world suck, Hank names P4A but recalls their first-year visit to a microfinance organization in the Dominican Republic; microfinance seems to really work. (01:55:09)
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig makes a 'Nerdfighter clone' to practise talking to Nerdfighters; the clone says DFTBA and is sent to decrease worldsuck in the bathroom with a mop. (00:01:43)
  • 2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — Since we can't decrease world suck with Harry Potter spells, he says all we can do is demand more Harry Potter, which still captivates people. (00:01:52)
  • 2013-08-13 · Shailene's Hair, Unfair Monopoly, and the Just World Fallacy — John is concerned about this in his own life and wants Nerdfighteria to be an active, effective force against world suck, not just another community aiming to grow big and powerful. (00:02:17)
  • 2013-08-13 · Shailene's Hair, Unfair Monopoly, and the Just World Fallacy — John says the brothers will try to make things even more transparent so Nerdfighteria can hold them accountable and they can decrease world suck effectively together. (00:02:37)
  • 2013-10-15 · Thoughts for Nerdfighteria — For new viewers John explains: Our Pants is the forum; videos may not exceed four minutes unless educational; he likes pizza, Hank corn dogs; Nerdfighters fight to make the world suck less. (00:02:47)