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nerdfighters.com

website community · in 60 videos (2008–2026)

The Nerdfighter community website, used from 2008 for the Blurbing Book Club forum, votes and sign-ups to secret-project mailing lists. In 2010 Ningmaster Tom was called the de facto leader of its community; later the brothers pointed to nerdfighteria.com for a newsletter, events and a Discord.

Part of: Vlogbrothers, Tour de Nerdfighting

Videos by year: 2008: 32 · 2009: 14 · 2010: 6 · 2011: 4 · 2012: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2026: 1

Website: nerdfighteria.com

Threads

Also named in the threads: Hank asks Nerdfighters to sign up for the secret project email list at Brotherhood2.com (2007) · Vlogbrothers in 2008: the channel after Brotherhood 2.0 (2007) · Nerdfighter Ning: the community site launches (2008) · Hank asks Nerdfighters to buy and read 13 Little Blue Envelopes for the Blurbing Book Club (2008) · Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club (2008) · John asks Nerdfighters for regular and LOLbook blurbs of Slaughterhouse-Five by Wednesday midnight (2008) · Paper Towns Tour (2008) · Hank asks Nerdfighters to RSVP for the Paper Towns tour events (2008) · John: eat a viewer-voted fat sandwich for missing his Sunday video (2009) · Happy John Day 2010 edition: Nerdfighters' secret-project birthday video for John · John asks viewers to press Danaher and Cepheid to cut GeneXpert TB test cartridges to $5 (2023)

Often together

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

Tour de Nerdfighting (2) · Paper Towns (3) · YouTube (5) · United States (4) · Indianapolis (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2008

  • 2008-02-11 (said on 2008-02-12, implied) · Nerdfighters Blurbing Book Club! — ask: Hank asks readers to post their blurb in a blog post and send it to him; he will set up a poll, and the winner gets a free Nerdfighter t-shirt and their face saying the blurb on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:02:00
  • 2008-03-07 (said on 2008-03-08, implied) · Shawty Got Low, Tritube and Blurbing — announcement: Hank: For the 20,000th subscriber, Hank, and possibly John, will video-chat via Stickam on Nerdfighters.com's front page tomorrow night at 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific, 9 Eastern. (hedged) — 00:02:19
  • 2008-03-15 (said on 2008-03-14, implied) · Ruins, LOLBooks, and the Blurbing Book Club — announcement: John announces the winner of the first Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club: a blurb that is an anagram of Maureen Johnson's 13 Little Blue Envelopes. — 00:01:30
  • 2008-04-01 · Please Google, Take Me to Mars — ask: 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
  • 2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — announcement: John announces the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting across America and hopefully a few places in Canada, telling Nerdfighters to mark their calendars for November. (hedged) — 00:00:48
  • 2008-08-18 · This Video Comes in Threven Parts — announcement: Hank says submissions to the Nerdfighter T-shirt design contest are closing, shows the entries in rapid motion, and asks Nerdfighters to vote on them at nerdfighters.com. — 00:02:34
  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — announcement: John says several new tour events were added, details at nerdfighters.com, and lists the cities the tour is definitely going to. — 00:01:12
  • 2008-09-25 (said on 2008-09-24, implied) · Obama llama Duck — announcement: Hank says he and John have almost finished the Paper Towns tour dates; a tour list with RSVPs will soon be at sparksflyup.com (John's site) and nerdfighters.com. — 00:02:08
  • 2008-10-08 (said on 2008-10-07, implied) · Hanks actual Vlog — announcement: Hank has coloured Karen's map and put it on PaperTowns.com: each city links to its Facebook event page, and the brothers' heads to their Facebook profiles. — 00:01:33
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — announcement: Hank: The Great American Tour de Nerdfighting 2008 begins, featuring Hank, John, Katherine and a minivan. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-03 · BlogTV in St Louis! — announcement: Hank says they are driving to the St. Louis event and will upload this so viewers know it is time to join the BlogTV stream and hang out with them. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-17 · Life on Tour — John: With Hank in the next hotel room, John greets Nerdfighters and presents a day in their life on tour. — 00:00:14
  • …and 54 statements more in 2008 — all statements of 2008

Also named in: The Catcher in the Rye, Part 2

2009

  • 2009-05-08 · Star Trek: The Movie, Review — ask: Hank asks Nerdfighteria for their opinions of the film in comments or longer reviews on nerdfighters.com, some of which will be featured over the weekend. — 00:03:08
  • 2009-06-05 · JOHN'S PUNISHMENT! Eating Carl's Jr John's Way — Hank says four recipes at nerdfighters.com are nutritionally and chemically very similar to the burger, each with 50 g protein, 1,000 mg sodium, 9 g sugar, 47 g carbohydrates and 54 g fat. — 00:00:58
    • Hank asks viewers to go to nerdfighters.com and vote for the most punishing recipe, deciding how John eats the constituent parts. — 00:01:30
  • 2009-06-07 · I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! — ask: John tells Nerdfighters they can still vote on his punishment. — 00:03:46
  • 2009-06-10 · WIDE ANGLE LENS! And Not Eating Fat Sandwiches — announcement: Hank announces the chosen punishment: strawberry-flavored protein powder dissolved into melted Crisco and made into a fat sandwich, like a Carl's Jr. burger eaten 'John's way'. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2009-08-12 · Vegetables that look like Penises — ask: Hank asks people interested in a secret project to sign up for the secret-project mailing list at nerdfighters.com; those who do within 24 hours will get an email about an important secret project he is excited about. — 00:02:40
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John credits their commitment and organization with putting Paper Towns on the New York Times bestseller list, thanks them for gifts, and says the tour let him meet Nerdfighters. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-09-23 · Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event! — ask: Hank offers a free mp3 of the song, with instructions at nerdfighters.com. — 00:03:45
  • 2009-12-03 (said on 2009-12-04, implied) · $40,000 of Red Balloons — ask: Hank asks Nerdfighteria and the YouTube community in the continental US, with a car and cell phone and free on Saturday, to join the Search, Discover, and Confirm team. — 00:00:58
    • To join, email DARPANERD at gmail.com titled 'Search Team' with name, city, state (optionally neighborhood and phone), and sign up in the box on nerdfighters.com. — 00:01:24
  • 2009-12-06 · LOSERS!!!! — John thanks the Ningmasters at Nerdfighters.com, who worked hard sorting leads and confirming balloons. — 00:01:54
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — ask: Hank asks viewers to pause the video, go to nerdfighters.com and put their name and email into the Project for Awesome mailing-list form. — 00:03:04
  • …and 5 statements more in 2009 — all statements of 2009

Also named in: A Few Of My Favorite Things, THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!!

2010

  • 2010-02-26 (said on 2010-02-27, implied) · 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
    • Hank says the brothers will keep viewers updated on Tom at nerdfighters.com and in video. — 00:02:46
  • 2010-03-01 · The Marriage Ref SUCKS — announcement: 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
  • 2010-06-11 · Mmmm....PARTS — John: Ningmaster Tom, comatose the last time he appeared in a video, is fine: he has problems with his left eye but is doing much better and is grateful for Nerdfighters' support. — 00:01:52
  • 2010-08-18 · Demon Four Year Old Interviewed — ask: Hank asks Nerdfighters to join by signing up for the secret project mailing list at nerdfighters.com, reading the emails, and watching the instructional videos linked at the end. — 00:02:48
  • 2010-08-24 · FRENCH THE LLAMA! John is 33! — Hank says the birthday message comes from over a thousand Nerdfighters who photographed themselves doing what Hank did in a pre-prepared video. — 00:00:00
  • …and 2 statements more in 2010 — all statements of 2010

2011

  • 2011-08-12 · The Fair: Testacular! — ask: Hank tells John to stop watching, then asks viewers curious about August 24 to sign up at nerdfighters.com within two days to learn how to join the celebrations; the description calls it a secret project for John. — 00:02:25
  • 2011-08-24 · HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN! — announcement: Hank: Nerdfighters made John a 367-day calendar, August 24, 2011 to August 24, 2012 (a leap year), each page a design, thought, idea or gift from a different Nerdfighter. — 00:00:58
    • Having enough for a second year, Hank says that in the coming months they will create enough pages for a page-a-day calendar for the rest of John's life. — 00:01:41
    • Hank made the first and last pages; the last collects extra submissions, because Nerdfighteria sent far more pages than could be used. — 00:01:41
  • …and 3 statements more in 2011 — all statements of 2011

2012

  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John, Hank and Katherine talked yesterday (30 January 2012) about how they hardly remember the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting, what it was like or how it felt. — 00:00:30

2014

  • 2014-05-23 · My Freakish Talent — ask: Hank points viewers to nerdfighteria.com to sign up for a weekly newsletter and to find a list of Nerdfighter events around the world. — 00:03:18

2023

2026

  • 2026-07-14 · On the Road Again — John recalls the 2008 Great American Tour de Nerdfighting: he, Hank and Katherine drove around the country for a month in a minivan, Hank selling CDs and John Paper Towns; exhausting but exhilarating. — 00:00:00