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AFC Wimbledon

team · in 99 videos (2013–2026)

Fan-owned English football club that fans started from scratch in 2002 in the ninth tier and that reached the Football League in 2011. John's livestreams now raise money for its playing fund, helping pay for three players including top scorer Marcus Browne.

Includes: John Green Stand

Videos by year: 2013: 2 · 2014: 11 · 2015: 12 · 2016: 9 · 2017: 5 · 2018: 9 · 2019: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2021: 8 · 2022: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2024: 9 · 2025: 9 · 2026: 7

Also known as: the Dons

Threads

Also named in the threads: HankGames: Hank's channel of commentated game-play videos (2010) · John's Pizza John mustache, worn on camera as a recurring bit (2011) · John asks Nerdfighters to subscribe to HankGames and watch his AFC Wimbledon FIFA videos (2013) · John points viewers to buy the posters he signed at DFTBA.com (2014) · John asks viewers to suggest what Dear Hank and John should be about, in comments (2015) · John asks viewers to judge who has the best Blue Steel, first event of Quadragocon 2015 (2015) · Dear Hank and John: the brothers' advice podcast (2015) · The Anthropocene Reviewed: John's podcast reviewing facets of the human-centered planet (2017) · Hanko de Mayo 2018 edition: John's belated birthday present for Hank (Orlando billboards and An Absolutely Remarkable Thing sponsorships) · John's 2024 depression and his month away from the internet (2024)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

London (14) · England (12) · Mars (12) · HankGames (9) · DFTBA (12) · hope (12) · Dear Hank and John (10) · Indianapolis (13) · Rosianna Halse Rojas (7) · DFTBA Records (13)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2013

  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John: The fans responded by starting a club from scratch, AFC Wimbledon, which began in 2002 in the ninth tier of English football. — 00:01:41
    • After an amazing run, nine years later in 2011, captain Danny Kedwell took one penalty kick to send Wimbledon into the Football League, and they became a League Two team you can play in FIFA. — 00:01:49
    • AFC Wimbledon is owned and run by its fans, with no big money behind it; its chairman is a retired accountant. — 00:02:32
    • AFC Wimbledon was the first club in England to show a 'Football Fans Against Homophobia' banner at a game. — 00:02:37
    • John calls AFC Wimbledon a truly extraordinary club, the most awesome football club in the world, and says he wants to help it stay in the Football League. — 00:02:42
    • John will play as AFC Wimbledon in FIFA 14 but keep his vow not to be a professional FIFA player: all ad revenue from the videos will sponsor the real club. — 00:02:44
    • The sponsorship will buy billboards in the stadium and ads in the match program, all designed by Nerdfighters. — 00:02:57
    • John hopes the sponsorship helps keep the club in the Football League so he can play them in FIFA 15, 16 and beyond, and maybe one day send them to the Premier League. (hedged) — 00:03:02
    • John says that might be dreaming, but in 2002 AFC Wimbledon played away games in front of 80 fans, and it took dreaming to imagine them in FIFA. — 00:03:13
    • John invites viewers to start designing ads together, with more information and videos of AFC Wimbledon's short but glorious history below. — 00:03:27
  • 2013-11-08 · VidCon, Punishments, Comments, and Pumpkins — Hank tells John he thinks Nerdfighteria sponsoring a professional football team is an amazing idea that just feels pretty cool. (hedged) — 00:01:46
  • …and 3 statements more in 2013 — all statements of 2013

2014

  • 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — announcement: John announces that the Nerdfighter community is now officially a sponsor of AFC Wimbledon, a football club owned by its fans. — 00:01:34
    • John says AFC Wimbledon play Torquay in League Two this Saturday (11 January 2014), and Nerdfighter messages will be on the side of the field and in the program. — 00:01:44
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — John reports that AFC Wimbledon has played its first game as a team sponsored by Nerdfighteria. — 00:00:25
  • 2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — John: Nerdfighteria uses ad proceeds from a FIFA video series to sponsor AFC Wimbledon, a fan-owned club that fights homophobia and racism; it finished 20th, avoiding relegation from English football's fourth tier. — 00:01:18
  • 2014-06-17 · Old. — John: Celebrating a beautiful Wimbly Womblys goal, John shot his right arm in the air shouting 'AFC Wimbledon!' and seriously injured his shoulder. — 00:01:12
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John: Thanks to HankGames fans, Nerdfighteria has increased its AFC Wimbledon sponsorship: next season its design will be on the shorts of the actual AFC Wimbledon uniforms. — 00:02:59
    • John tells Hank that playing as AFC Wimbledon in FIFA 15 he will see the design on their computer shorts: Nerdfighters made it to FIFA. (playful) — 00:03:17
  • 2014-09-19 · The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out — Hank praises John Plays FIFA: fictional players both named John Green raise a child while raising real money for the real team, so Nerdfighteria's logos are now on its uniforms. — 00:00:11
  • 2014-09-26 · Gettin' Real with Hank — Hank lists their luck: he has a channel where he just plays video games, and John has a fictional soccer team that helps fund a real one. — 00:00:21
  • 2014-10-14 · A Minor Crisis — John says HankGames ad revenue sponsors the real AFC Wimbledon, a fourth-tier club formed by fans after their club was moved to Milton Keynes, and this year (2014) the sponsorship is on the team's shorts. — 00:01:58
  • 2014-11-21 (said on 2014-11-20, implied) · The Sleepiest Sleepyhead in Sleeptown — ask: John: P.S.: John tells Nerdfighters the AFC Wimbly Womblys have just played the most important games in their history, with links in the description. (playful) — 00:03:00
  • 2014-11-28 · Global Health and Human Hair: What the Vlogbrothers are Thankful For — ask: John: everything at DFTBA.com, including signed posters, his hoodie and AFC Wimbledon scarves, is 20% off through Monday; head over to DFTBA.com. — 00:03:33
  • …and 11 statements more in 2014 — all statements of 2014

2015

  • 2015-01-04 · The Best Worst Thing — John says that for the past couple of years Nerdfighteria has been sponsoring AFC Wimbledon, an actual professional soccer team in England. — 00:00:02
    • John says this year (2015) the sponsorship grew enough that Nerdfighteria is on the shorts of the AFC Wimbledon uniform. — 00:00:35
    • Nervous while watching the draw on the Paper Towns set, John shouted and ruined a take of the movie when AFC Wimbledon drew Liverpool. (playful) — 00:01:25
    • Torn between his favourite club and the club with DFTBA on its shorts, John is flying with the Yeti to London for the game, leaving in about two hours. — 00:02:00
    • John says he cares intensely and irrationally about Liverpool's community, but ultimately has to root for the team with DFTBA on their shorts: Nerdfighteria wins over Liverpool. (playful) — 00:02:33
  • 2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth — John: After an entertaining game in which he had to root against a Steven Gerrard goal, John says AFC Wimbledon did themselves proud and technically lost. — 00:02:28
    • The next morning John says it was strange to see his favourite player Steven Gerrard score two goals to beat Wimbledon, but it was the absolute time of his life. — 00:02:42
  • 2015-03-31 · Hank's Haircut and Related Existential Crises — John says the fact that imagination and work can make ideas real resolved his existential crisis; it is the most beautiful and lovely thing about life to him. — 00:02:48
  • 2015-05-05 · Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank — ask: John asks viewers to tell them what the podcast should be about, whether Sydneys and Jesses, which Sydneys and Jesses to discuss, who has the best Blue Steel, and whether AFC Wimbledon or Mars matters more. — 00:03:01
  • 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — announcement: John announces the brothers' podcast will be called Dear Hank and John (he thinks of it as 'Dear John and Hank'), answering Nerdfighters' questions with second-rate advice plus news from AFC Wimbledon and Mars. — 00:00:22
    • Nerdfighteria-sponsored AFC Wimbledon will stay in League Two after finishing the season 15th, so they remain a full-time professional team, playable in the next FIFA game. — 00:01:24
  • 2015-11-03 · Monkey Hangers — John says Nerdfighteria and he sponsor fourth-tier, fan-owned AFC Wimbledon as its back-of-shorts sponsor. — 00:00:13
  • …and 32 statements more in 2015 — all statements of 2015

Also named in: Question Tuesday: My Social Media Hiatus, My Excellent German, and Books!

2016

  • 2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — John: Hot black coffee from his AFC Wimbledon mug tasted almost only of coffee, but he likes coffee: three raisins. (playful) — 00:01:45
  • 2016-05-03 · No Fumar — John says he did not shave for six consecutive weeks because AFC Wimbledon, the fourth-tier English team sponsored by Nerdfighteria, kept winning. (playful) — 00:02:13 · also in: The Most Amazing Day
    • John says AFC Wimbledon lost a game, letting him shave, and then another team failed to win, so Wimbledon made the playoffs anyway. — 00:02:34
    • John says that if AFC Wimbledon make the final, he is going to Wembley Stadium to watch the game. — 00:02:43
  • 2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John says AFC Wimbledon, the fourth-tier English team Nerdfighteria sponsors, has reached the play-off final, one victory from becoming a third-tier team. — 00:02:35
    • John says that on May 30 AFC Wimbledon, wearing DFTBA on their shorts, will play a one-game playoff against Plymouth Argyle at Wembley, a 90,000-seat stadium. — 00:02:46
    • John asks Nerdfighters in or near London to come to Wembley on May 30 to cheer on the Dons, and tells those who can't afford a ticket to email him so he can try to work something out. (hedged) — 00:03:24
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — The description corrects its own 'fourth tier': AFC Wimbledon is a third-tier team. — video description
    • John reports AFC Wimbledon won, securing promotion to League One. — 00:03:09
  • 2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — John lists among the good news that AFC Wimbledon is in League One and that 'our' new advertising is up in their stadium. — 00:03:20
  • 2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices — ask: John asks viewers buying a Pizza John hoodie at DFTBA.com to also buy an AFC Wimbledon Nerdfighteria scarf; all proceeds go to the club, which might help them back to the playoffs and Wembley. — 00:01:42
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John: Answering those who ask how he can be excited about England's 82nd best football team, John says AFC Wimbledon are now actually the 55th best. (playful) — 00:01:13
  • …and 17 statements more in 2016 — all statements of 2016

2017

  • 2017-01-03 · 10 Years on YouTube (...and MORE GREAT NEWS) — ask: The description asks viewers to watch AFC Wimbledon on Saturday and find Nerdfighters to watch with. — video description
    • John says Nerdfighteria sponsors third-tier AFC Wimbledon, who play Sutton United in the FA Cup third round this Saturday (7 January 2017) at 10 a.m. Eastern, televised on Fox Sports 1. — 00:02:23
    • John notes Wimbledon players wear DFTBA on the back of their shorts, visible live in high definition on Saturday. — 00:02:41
    • Colorado Nerdfighters will watch the game at the Three Lions Pub in Denver; there may be other places to watch with Nerdfighters, and John started a Reddit thread on it. (hedged) — 00:02:47
  • 2017-10-30 · I Mustache You: A Pizzamas Reunion! — John hasn't shaved since the book came out; when Hank guesses luck or AFC Wimbledon, John answers 'That's the business!' (playful) — 00:00:15
  • 2017-12-26 · LEAVE IT IN 2017 — John: AFC Wimbledon is currently in the League One relegation zone. — 00:01:55
    • Too much of John's mental well-being depends on eleven mostly twenty-something strangers far away; he should care but not shout that all is ruined at the TV in front of his children. (playful) — 00:02:02
  • …and 2 statements more in 2017 — all statements of 2017

2018

  • 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — John: Project for Awesome donors joined John this weekend (10–11 March 2018) in England to watch AFC Wimbledon's 2-1 win over Oxford United, and greet Hank. — 00:00:02
    • To stay in the third tier AFC Wimbledon must finish 20th or above; the win lifted them to 18th. (playful) — 00:00:09
  • 2018-04-17 · John Green Answers Your John Green Questions — John likes soccer enough to sponsor a third-tier English team, which over the weekend might have avoided relegation by coming back from two-nil down at half-time to win 3-2 on the last kick. (hedged) — 00:02:38
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John says the community sponsors the third-tier English team AFC Wimbledon, its logo sitting between the left thigh and buttock on their uniform. (playful) — 00:00:14
    • John says Wimbledon has had a difficult season, losing more than winning: with two games left they are 19th of 24, and the bottom four will be relegated to the fourth tier. — 00:00:25
    • With five games left in the season, AFC Wimbledon were 2-0 down to Walsall at halftime. — 00:01:17
    • In the final seconds Taylor was fouled in the box, Dean Parrett scored the penalty and Wimbledon won 3-2, earning three points instead of one. — 00:02:25
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — ask: John: Enjoying sponsoring AFC Wimbledon, John asks clubs, teams or organizations wanting modest sponsorship (high three to low four digits) to email sparksflyup@gmail.com with subject 'Sponsorship'. — 00:03:22
  • 2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John is very excited for AFC Wimbledon's new season; all 'our' stadium advertisements now advertise An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, reaching third-tier English football supporters. (playful) — 00:02:52
  • 2018-09-04 · The Eisenhower Matrix — recommendation: John: Things both urgent and important you do now, like a kitchen fire or, John jokes, an AFC Wimbledon match to be watched live with complete focus. (playful) — 00:01:44
  • 2018-09-11 · Surprise . . . — announcement: John reveals that his call months ago, saying sponsoring AFC Wimbledon made him want to sponsor other things, was a trick: he was buying sponsorships for An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. (playful) — 00:00:29
    • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing has ads around AFC Wimbledon's stadium and is the club's training kit sponsor, seen before its game against West Ham United. — 00:00:29
  • …and 6 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

2019

  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John loves AFC Wimbledon because they have shown him again and again that hope is 'the thing with feathers' that never stops at all. — 00:01:55
    • The urge to find and share hope is why John writes books, makes videos, gardens and sponsors AFC Wimbledon, the third-tier English team wearing DFTBA on their shorts. — 00:01:55
    • AFC Wimbledon beat West Ham 4-2: Kwesi Appiah scored in front of the John Green stand, Scott Wagstaff scored twice, and 19-year-old Toby Sibbick scored. — 00:02:54
    • John says it is never wrong to be hopeful, and anyone who says otherwise hasn't watched enough AFC Wimbledon games. — 00:02:54
    • John invites viewers to become part owners of AFC Wimbledon by joining the Dons Trust, which owns the club, for 25 pounds (about $30). — 00:03:23
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — announcement: John tells Hank he is the training kit sponsor of AFC Wimbledon, 'America's favorite third-tier English football team'. — 00:00:00
    • Many third-tier clubs have very rich owners, while AFC Wimbledon is owned by its fans, each paying about 30 dollars a year to be an owner. — 00:00:29
    • Wimbledon kept winning, losing only one of the last 11 games; after 189 days in the relegation zone they beat Wycombe 2-1 on Saturday to reach 19th with one game left. — 00:01:26
    • John says the players kept playing for each other and their community as if the situation were not hopeless, even when it was. — 00:01:55
  • 2019-05-14 · An Open Letter to Professional YouTubers — John: Last lesson, quoting Hank: diversify your identity; when friends, family, walks and Instagram all become your job, you can stop thinking of yourself as John Green the person, husband, father, AFC Wimbledon sponsor, avowed Hufflepuff, and see only John Green YouTuber. — 00:02:55
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Next favorite day: May 30, 2016, when AFC Wimbledon, with DFTBA on their shorts, played a play-off final at Wembley for promotion to the third tier. — 00:01:07
    • Lyle Taylor scored to put AFC Wimbledon into the third tier, and John partied all night with fans, friends, players and his dad. — 00:01:32
  • …and 18 statements more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

2020

  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John suggests that might be why he is so enthralled with AFC Wimbledon, the third-tier English football team 'we' sponsor. (hedged) — 00:01:27
    • John says that beginning in the 1990s Wimbledon fans suffered heartbreaks unrelated to the game itself, first losing their stadium, Plough Lane. — 00:01:36
    • John says the fans refused to accept this and reformed their club in the ninth tier of English football, owned not by a rich person but by the fans themselves. — 00:02:05
    • John says with that model AFC Wimbledon rose from the bottom rungs of amateur football to a full-time professional team now in the same division as the Milton Keynes franchise. — 00:02:46
    • John says this year (2020) AFC Wimbledon is at last coming home to a new stadium across the street from the old Plough Lane; after decades of singing a chant about the way to Plough Lane, fans are going home together. — 00:02:55
    • John contrasts the model in Milton Keynes and most sport, including his beloved Liverpool, where third things are investment vehicles of the rich, with Wimbledon's, where the third thing belongs to those whose shared attention gives it value. — 00:03:20
  • 2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John: On 5 October 2020, with some data but not enough, John guesses AFC Wimbledon might eke out a draw against Swindon Town based on current form. (speculative) — 00:01:27
    • What freaks John out about the future is not the things he knows he doesn't know, like the AFC Wimbledon score, but the unknown unknowns. — 00:02:55
    • In November 2019 John could never have imagined AFC Wimbledon would win no game in April 2020, not from poor play but because there was no football. — 00:03:24
  • 2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank reports AFC Wimbledon had a single shot on target against Swindon Town, and it went in. — 00:00:58
    • That was the game's only goal, so AFC Wimbledon beat Swindon Town and are now in 10th place. — 00:01:28
  • 2020-11-03 · Alaska for Looking — John says AFC Wimbledon, 31 years after their stadium was taken away, play their first game back home today at the new Plough Lane, a stadium built and owned by the fans. — 00:00:00
  • …and 8 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

2021

  • 2021-03-09 · Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing — John: 2007 John wasn't the author of The Fault in Our Stars, a resident of Indianapolis, an AFC Wimbledon supporter, Crash Course's co-founder, best friends with Chris and Marina, or a jogger. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-04-13 · My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk — John's friend Craig, a teacher and big soccer fan, texts with him a lot about his team Watford and about AFC Wimbledon's perpetual proximity to relegation. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — John: AFC Wimbledon, needing a draw to avoid relegation, scored on the last kick to tie Rochdale 3-3; John wept. — creator comment
    • Wimbledon still needs a tie or win from its last two games, but per 538 has only a 1% chance of relegation. — creator comment
  • 2021-06-29 · Sneezing is not normal. — John: Besides Vlogbrothers, John says, the brothers have a podcast, Dear Hank and John, answering listener questions with dubious advice and news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon. — 00:00:01
  • 2021-09-28 · 11 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read — recommendation: John: Admitting bias, John recommends All Together Now by longtime AFC Wimbledon CEO Erik Samuelson: the greatest underdog sports story of all time, told by one who made it happen. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-10-04 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE! — John: Asked in the comments whether he is a football fan, John says he is a big one and that they sponsor AFC Wimbledon, in the third tier of English football, which wears DFTBA on its shorts. — creator comment
  • …and 2 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

2022

  • 2022-03-22 · Motivation in Hard Times — John says someone at AFC Wimbledon, the third-tier English club 'we sponsor', asked him for a video message to the struggling team; his pep talk did not magically turn things around. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-10-18 · Terraverse Over Everything: Thoughts from London — John's family saw Plough Lane for the first time: a stadium built by its fans for AFC Wimbledon, a club owned by its fans. — 00:00:00
    • In a comment John says 'we' is the only correct pronoun for Wimbledon: supporters literally own the club, elect its leaders, own its stadium and write the players' checks. — creator comment
    • John expected his daughter to call flying all that way to watch the Dons lose a fourth-tier game a bummer; instead she said it was amazing. — 00:00:39
    • Wimbledon lost on the day, as on many recent days, but John calls Plough Lane itself an extraordinary victory. — 00:01:20
  • …and 1 statement more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

2023

  • 2023-04-04 · The Search for Real Feeling — John: When John saw AFC Wimbledon promoted to the third tier at Wembley with his dad, friends and 60,000 others, he felt pure, simple joy without dread. — 00:02:05
    • John says AFC Wimbledon have gone 1-0 up and then lost 2-1 more often over the last three seasons than any other team in professional soccer. — 00:02:26
    • John says that usually everyone you meet is having a different day, but at an AFC Wimbledon game after an infuriating loss most fans were having the same day. — 00:03:07
  • 2023-04-11 · Wrexham's Most Amazing Feeling — The description says John cannot be particularly excited about his own football club, so he decides to be excited about other people's joy. — video description
    • John recalls watching AFC Wimbledon, sponsored by them for over a decade with DFTBA on their shorts, win a play-off final against Plymouth Argyle; a crying Plymouth fan answered his condolences with 'Great day for you lot, though.' — 00:01:05
  • 2023-04-14 · The Organism that Broke Biology — Hank admires John's effort to get nerds to like sports; he long thought John was trying too hard, but weekly AFC Wimbledon news, even bad, has started to get to him. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2023-10-05 · America's Second Favorite Fourth Tier English Soccer Team — John says most of the community follows AFC Wimbledon through Dear Hank and John, which has been on cancer hiatus for several months, so most don't know the club's news. — 00:00:39
    • John and his producing partner Rosianna sponsor AFC Wimbledon: the women's team wear a Partners In Health logo on their shirts, the men's team a DFTBA logo on their shorts. — 00:00:57
    • John says Wimbledon will never be able to buy big stars, so it has to make them, and it has done a really good job of that. — 00:03:04
    • John says the argument of ten years of sponsoring Wimbledon, and of its fan reformation, is that community-held assets and communal action can work: not easily or always, but they can. — 00:03:45
    • John says lessons from Wimbledon, its local anti-poverty action group and the AFC Wimbledon Foundation, went into many community projects, including pushing down TB diagnostic and treatment prices. — 00:04:05
  • 2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Hank says some shared things can be controlled: the average nerdfighter knows much more about tuberculosis, pelicans and AFC Wimbledon than the average human. — 00:02:58
  • …and 21 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

2024

  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — In a comment, John confirms the fan-owned club is like the Green Bay Packers, but no individual can own more than one voting share however much they put in. — creator comment
    • John says Wimbledon supporters started over with a fan-owned amateur team with no stadium, kit, staff or players, climbed the amateur divisions, turned full-time professional in 2011, and now share Milton Keynes' league. — 00:00:33
    • John says he was out of his body, in a light-soaked plane where all hope is rewarded; the whole stadium was in ecstasy and breathless joy flooded him. — 00:03:07
  • 2024-07-09 · Is the Inside of Your Mouth a Soup? (a vidcon reunion video) — John shows his suit lining, which depicts the moment Lyle Taylor scored at Wembley for AFC Wimbledon to send them back to League One, and reads 'JMFG'. — 00:00:00
    • John says people, including many AFC Wimbledon fans, have been kind and generous since his video about having a hard time, reminding him he is part of many great communities. — 00:00:25
  • 2024-08-13 · The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. — John: The man asked John many questions: his mortgage, whether his AFC Wimbledon sponsorship is expensive and why he spends money on a foreign football team, his family, job and work with Hank. — 00:01:50
    • John says he told the man everything: his mortgage, the cost of his AFC Wimbledon sponsorship, his foreign tax from foreign book deals, his good marriage, every thought about the Russian government. (playful) — 00:02:33
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John says this is the 11th year of sponsoring AFC Wimbledon and he falls deeper in love with the club each year. — 00:01:27
    • John thinks of the Wimbledon fans who died, who passed the club on and fought up the leagues at tiny grounds: a community includes its ancestors. — 00:01:56
    • John says he was there for the hope that kept Wimbledon alive when the Football Association said it shouldn't exist, that brought Bromley into the league, and that kept him here in hard times. — 00:02:55
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says AFC Wimbledon's stadium was heavily flooded by unprecedented River Wandle flooding, and the fan-owned club has no secret stash of money for such crises. — 00:01:36
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — John: Carlisle United survived and are still in the Football League this year (2024); they played AFC Wimbledon a couple of weeks ago. — 00:03:40
  • …and 23 statements more in 2024 — all statements of 2024

2025

  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John explains the streams' idea: he and Stan put all Super Chat and membership money toward AFC Wimbledon's playing fund. — 00:01:27
    • John announces that the stream money, which at first seemed ludicrous for a whole player, plus matching funds from Sarah and him, has paid for an entire AFC Wimbledon player for the rest of the season. — 00:01:56
    • John toasts Marcus, Wimbledon and ridiculous, sublime, unconquerable hope, which, as Wimbledon's advertising hoardings used to say, is the thing with feathers. — 00:04:23
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — announcement: John announces that a documentary about AFC Wimbledon, made over the last couple of years by him and Rosianna with longtime nerdfighter Jonathan Vogler, who helped make The Last Dance, premiered on YouTube last week (April 2025). — 00:01:56
    • John says football and the documentary remind him that hope is correct: not always rewarded, with as much heartbreak as joy, but correct because things might get better, especially when we orient our love together. — 00:03:23
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — announcement: John announces that this weekend he will attempt, for 'the second time in human history', the endurance feat known locally as the double. (playful) — 00:00:00
    • John reports that after a very good season AFC Wimbledon reached the play-offs and won two games to reach a Wembley final deciding promotion to the third tier. — 00:01:56
    • John thanks everyone in his FIFA livestreams on John's Channel: without them AFC Wimbledon could not have signed Marcus Browne. — 00:04:22
  • 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · The Longest (and best) Day — announcement: The description says AFC Wimbledon make magic at Wembley once again. — video description
    • The description says John completes the Double. — video description
    • John says they only made it to lap 165 before he and Stuart left, biking to the airport, which he calls bonkers. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — John says his heart wants money to go to AFC Wimbledon but his head is stronger: it should go to Partners In Health, since Wimbledon, a third-tier English team, does some good but not that much. — 00:40:05
  • …and 32 statements more in 2025 — all statements of 2025

2026

  • 2026-01-06 · Hope Is Not a Feeling — John notes Vlogbrothers turned 19 last week (week of 29 December 2025), making the project older than the iPhone or a future AFC Wimbledon superstar (name unclear). (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John recalls that Sarah found out on a livestream that he had sponsored a stand at Kingsmeadow, AFC Wimbledon's old stadium. — 07:01:28
    • John loves Liverpool, but AFC Wimbledon a little more, because he is more literally invested in AFC Wimbledon. — 07:22:25
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John reports that AFC Wimbledon are 2-0 down at Barnsley after 13 minutes. — 00:24:35
    • As AFC Wimbledon draw level, John says life is full of surprises and hope is always the correct response to consciousness: not always rewarded, but always justified. — 00:37:55
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John, who must go to New York on Friday (20 February 2026) on Complexly business, floats flying on to London to see an AFC Wimbledon game with Nerdfighters as a perk. — 00:26:17
  • 2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says his livestreams on John's Channel have raised money for AFC Wimbledon's playing fund for a couple of years, helping pay for three players, including current top scorer Marcus Browne. — 00:02:55
    • John says Wimbledon wear DFTBA on the back of their shorts between left thigh and buttocks, because when you are in love you do strange things, and he loves AFC Wimbledon. (playful) — 00:03:24
  • 2026-06-09 · Your 1-Sentence Guide to EVERY TEAM in the 2026 World Cup — John: Iraq made their first World Cup since 1986, helped by a critical qualifying goal from former AFC Wimbledon star Ali Al-Hamadi. — 00:00:58
    • If Al-Hamadi scores at the tournament, John says it will be the greatest World Cup moment in AFC Wimbledon history. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2026-10-06 · Make Your Art. — John and Mikey T supported the same third-tier English team, AFC Wimbledon, and came to know each other a little by loving it together. — 00:00:29
    • John does not know how many people listen to AFC Wimbledon radio broadcasts but suspects it is in the hundreds, certainly not millions. (hedged) — 00:02:11
  • …and 15 statements more in 2026 — all statements of 2026