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2007

2008

  • 2008-01-21 · A Short History of the PUPPY SIZED ELEPHANT — John says that, under this system, the stunning success of the first annual Project for Awesome would have earned nerdfighters a punishment. — 00:02:29
  • 2008-05-07 · From the Airport: And some Nerdfighterlike — Hank says he has seen viewers' videos and thinks they are 'so jokes' (cool). (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-08-06 · Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) — John: Asked whether there will be another Project for Awesome, John answers that Secret Brother Tom did not call it the "first annual" Project for Awesome for nothing. (playful) — 00:03:07
  • 2008-11-06 · Funny Noises from Tennessee — Hank: The printers of Hank's album misread So Jokes as 50 Jokes on the order form; the album itself is unaffected. — 00:01:38
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank introduces the Project for Awesome, which he believes is the largest YouTube community-inspired event ever. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank defines the Project for Awesome as a day when the YouTube community takes over YouTube to promote people who do things because they are right, not for money: charity. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank says they promote charity one day a year in the holiday season, then go back to silly songs, cat videos and being profane. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank officially announces that this year's (2008) Project for Awesome will take place on December 17, 2008, organised from projectforawesome.com. — 00:00:41
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — ask: Hank's first way to take part: make a Project for Awesome video about your favourite charity (e.g. Toys for Tots, the Nature Conservancy, Save Darfur) and why you give to it. — 00:00:41
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — ask: Hank's further steps: use the P4A image as thumbnail, put 'Project for Awesome' and the charity in tags and title, link the charity in the sidebar, and submit the video on projectforawesome.com. — 00:01:10
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — ask: Hank's second way to take part: become a Project for Awesome supporter by signing up for the mailing list on projectforawesome.com. — 00:01:10
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank promises the mailing list will be used only for the Project for Awesome, send no email after December 20, and never be given to anyone else. — 00:01:39
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank explains the plan: the mailing list will feature videos that supporters rate, comment on and favourite so they reach YouTube's big lists, until P4A videos are everywhere and everyone knows YouTube is awesome. — 00:01:39
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank says editable Photoshop and Fireworks thumbnail files are at projectforawesome.com and can be customised as long as the video stays recognisably P4A. — 00:02:08
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank announces that he and John have both decided to put up a thousand dollars to donate to a P4A charity, chosen on the quality of the charity and its video. — 00:02:38
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank says the Project for Awesome is not just about talking about charities but about giving to them. — 00:02:38
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — ask: Hank encourages anyone else who wants to award money to P4A charities in the same way to do so. — 00:03:07
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank says YouTube changed how it picks thumbnails; after talking with YouTube and testing, non-partners should make the middle 10 seconds of the video the P4A image, e.g. 125 to 135 in a 3-minute video. — 00:03:07
  • 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — Hank says it is the day before the Project for Awesome and he has spent all day organising it and making his own P4A video. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — ask: Hank tells viewers who have not yet started their P4A video to start right now. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — ask: Hank hopes viewers have cleared their schedules for the next two days to watch, rate and comment on Project for Awesome videos. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — announcement: Hank says he, John and his wife will spend most of the 48 hours of the 17th and 18th on it: John on BlogTV from noon Eastern, Hank later into the night. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — Hank recalls last year's (2007) P4A as a huge YouTube-wide party: he and Katherine commented across videos and he found new YouTubers who became real-life friends. — 00:00:29
  • 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — Hank says he looks forward to feeling part of a community, hanging out with friends, meeting new people and also doing good things. — 00:01:14
  • 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — announcement: Hank apologises that the P4A thumbnail method is not working, according to reports. — 00:01:43
  • 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — announcement: Hank lists fixes: a green screen with the P4A image, picture in picture, or keeping the P4A image on screen; a printable image is linked in the sidebar. — 00:01:43
  • 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — announcement: Hank's fix for everyone: make the entire second half of the video the P4A thumbnail, then pick the last thumbnail in the edit-video settings. — 00:02:12
  • 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — announcement: Hank commits to writing a Project for Awesome song right away and posting it as a long mp3 in the sidebar for people to use. — 00:02:41
  • 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — Hank reports the song is written and the mp3 is in the sidebar; it was fun to make but is not good. — 00:03:40
  • 2008-12-17 · Project for Awesome: DonorsChoose.org — Hank says he and John, with the help of all of YouTube and some particular people, organised the Project for Awesome; this video is a tiny part of it. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-17 · Project for Awesome: DonorsChoose.org — Hank defines the Project for Awesome as a day when YouTubers talk about their favourite charities, encourage donations and talk about people doing good things. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-17 · Project for Awesome: DonorsChoose.org — Hank says a cadre of about 10,000 people will promote P4A videos so they become YouTube's most viewed and discussed videos for at least two days. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-17 · Project for Awesome: DonorsChoose.org — Hank says that as part of the P4A he phoned John the previous afternoon (16 December 2008) and told him to microwave a CD for five seconds and touch steel wool to a 9-volt battery. — 00:00:29
  • 2008-12-17 · Project for Awesome: DonorsChoose.org — John microwaves a Bridge to Terabithia soundtrack CD, panics and turns off the camera, then stands in his kitchen with steel wool and a 9-volt battery. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2008-12-17 · Project for Awesome: DonorsChoose.org — announcement: Hank thanks everyone taking part in the Project for Awesome and says he and John will be live on BlogTV. — 00:03:15
  • 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — announcement: Hank says they are here to introduce some of their favourite videos from the 2008 Project for Awesome. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — Hank describes the Project for Awesome as an annual holiday-season event in which tens of thousands of YouTubers draw attention to charities worldwide. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — recommendation: John presents Heifer International, a featured P4A charity, as a way to buy animals for someone else that actually go to people who need them. (playful) — 00:00:42
  • 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — announcement: both: The brothers say YouTube let them be guest editors of its front page for a day. — 00:01:35
  • 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — ask: both: The speaker feels guilty about amazing P4A videos left off the front page and tells viewers to search around for more Project for Awesome videos. — 00:01:35
  • 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — both: They thank the people known as Nerdfighters who helped make the project such a success. — 00:02:04
  • 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — both: The brothers thank viewers for checking out P4A videos and for considering giving time and money to people and organisations that do the right thing. — 00:02:04
  • 2008-12-22 · A Christmas Song! — Hank says the Project for Awesome was pretty freaking awesome this year (2008) and they will talk more about it soon. (hedged) — 00:03:31
  • 2008-12-26 · Skoodilypooping — John says he is still reeling from how awesome the Project for Awesome was; Nerdfighters lobbied for literally hundreds of great charities. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-12-26 · Skoodilypooping — announcement: John says that in the end he chose five P4A charities and is giving $200 to each. — 00:00:40
  • 2008-12-26 · Skoodilypooping — announcement: John's five: Save the Children of Bangladesh, the Wounded Warrior Project, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, MS research and Save Darfur. — 00:00:40
  • 2008-12-26 · Skoodilypooping — ask: John asks Hank where his money is going, and asks Nerdfighters inspired by the P4A to give to charity where their money went. — 00:00:40
  • 2008-12-26 · Skoodilypooping — John says that during the Project for Awesome Nerdfighters commented on YouTube videos more than 200,000 times. — 00:00:40

2009

  • 2009-06-21 · The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less — Hank says YouTube is a real community of people coming together to make the world better, citing this year's (2009) Project for Awesome, when thousands of YouTubers made videos for favourite charities. — 00:01:02
  • 2009-10-28 · We Win When Everyone Wins — Hank thinks Nerdfighteria is level four: it operates on the assumption 'we are great', which lets it do awesome things like happy dance projects and yearly charity gatherings on YouTube. (hedged) — 00:00:51
  • 2009-12-03 (said on 2009-12-04, implied) · $40,000 of Red Balloons — Hank thought $40,000 would make the Project for Awesome a little more awesome. (playful) — 00:00:30
  • 2009-12-03 (said on 2009-12-04, implied) · $40,000 of Red Balloons — announcement: Hank pledges that if they win the $40,000, all of it will go to the charities promoted in this year's (2009) best Project for Awesome videos. — 00:03:29
  • 2009-12-06 · LOSERS!!!! — John says Nerdfighteria lost the DARPA balloon challenge despite being tantalizingly close to winning $40,000 to make the Project for Awesome more awesome. — 00:00:05
  • 2009-12-06 · LOSERS!!!! — announcement: John calls the balloon challenge a way of limbering up for the Project for Awesome, coming as always on December 17th. — 00:02:54
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank says it has been long days, so the video comes in four parts: balloons, him being weird, the Project for Awesome, and punishments. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank announces the Project for Awesome on December 17th, less than 10 days away since it is December 8th. — 00:02:05
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank explains P4A: a day when YouTubers promote charities in videos with the same thumbnail, and thousands promote them, fooling YouTube's algorithms by commenting, watching, favoriting and rating. — 00:02:35
  • 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
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank promises, as always, never to send mailing-list members anything except Project for Awesome material. — 00:03:04
  • 2009-12-13 · Eyelash Malaria — announcement: John says that this year (2009) in the Project for Awesome he will make a video in support of malaria research, joking that it's because curing malaria will make him rich. — 00:02:05
  • 2009-12-13 · Eyelash Malaria — announcement: John tells Nerdfighters to get their commenting and rating fingers ready for the Project for Awesome; a thumbnail for P4A videos can now be downloaded at the Ning. — 00:02:58
  • 2009-12-13 · Eyelash Malaria — announcement: John says he will do a Question Tuesday on Tuesday, with half the questions on the Project for Awesome and half on relationship advice. — 00:02:58
  • 2009-12-13 · Eyelash Malaria — ask: John asks viewers to leave questions about the Project for Awesome and Nerdfighter-like dating in the comments. — 00:02:58
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — John: Asked how long the Project for Awesome has been going on, John says this will be its third year. — 00:00:05
  • 2009-12-15 · 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
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — ask: John tells viewers to make a video advocating for their favorite charity, upload it on Thursday (17 December 2009), ideally with the shared thumbnail linked in the doobly-doo, then rate and comment for 48 hours. — 00:00:39
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — announcement: John says P4A videos should be uploaded as close to noon Eastern time (5 p.m. GMT) as possible. — 00:01:17
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — John: Asked what to do without making a video, John says 90% of the Project for Awesome is commenting on and rating videos, not making them. — 00:01:36
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — announcement: John announces a live show from Thursday noon to Saturday morning, linked on Thursday morning, to organise going from video to video leaving comments, ratings and favorites. — 00:01:44
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — ask: John says it only works with many people and asks viewers to spend as much of Thursday and Friday as possible with Hank and him, promising it will be fun. — 00:01:58
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — John says making the shared thumbnail your video's thumbnail is hard; they think they've cracked YouTube's algorithm, but a P4A video can be great without it. (hedged) — 00:02:16
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — recommendation: John advises that a good P4A video advocates for a charity rather than just talking about it, should be creative and awesome, and can find creative ways to encourage fundraising. — 00:02:33
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — announcement: John says he will auction off his one and only pair of nerd glasses, which he wore in most 2008 Vlogbrothers videos. — 00:02:44
  • 2009-12-16 · Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy — announcement: Hank says this is his Project for Awesome video and this year (2009) his money goes to his all-time favourite environmental charity, the Nature Conservancy. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-16 · Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy — announcement: Hank says he will give a thousand dollars of his own money to the Nature Conservancy, and some of viewers' money too. — 00:01:03
  • 2009-12-16 · Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy — announcement: Hank is auctioning on eBay the original hand-drawn cover of So Jokes and the pen drawings for the CD, by the album artist and signed by both; links are in the sidebar. — 00:01:25
  • 2009-12-16 · Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy — announcement: Hank says a single John Green bobblehead signed by both brothers is also being auctioned; his auction money goes to the Nature Conservancy, and John's (glasses, bobblehead) to stopping malaria. — 00:01:25
  • 2009-12-16 · Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy — Hank says this is what the Project for Awesome is about and he is extremely excited. — 00:01:54
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — announcement: John announces that it is time for the 2009 Project for Awesome. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — John defines the P4A as an annual event where the YouTube community makes videos about charities and rates, favorites and comments on them to push them to the top of YouTube. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — ask: John asks viewers who made a Project for Awesome video to upload it as a response to this video. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — ask: John sends everyone to livestream.com/projectforawesome, the P4A headquarters for the next 48 hours, and asks them to hang out in the chat to coordinate comments, ratings and favorites. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — announcement: John explains the P4A is organised through Livestream this year (2009) because, though imperfect, it puts everyone in the same room; chatting only needs a Twitter account. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — announcement: John is auctioning his nerd glasses, worn in almost every 2008 Vlogbrothers video; the auction is linked in the sidebar and all proceeds go to Malaria No More. — 00:02:03
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — John bids farewell to his nerd glasses, sure they are going to a 'Nerdfightastic' home. — 00:02:32
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — announcement: The description lists P4A auctions (bobbleheads for Malaria No More and charity: water; So Jokes cover and disc art for the Nature Conservancy) and says Fall of Autumn Distro matches donations to Save the Music. — video description
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — ask: John asks viewers to search "Project for Awesome" on YouTube to find great nonprofit organizations and donate their time and money this holiday season. — video description
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John says the 2009 Project for Awesome was the awesomest ever, putting three years worth of awesome into 48 hours. (playful) — 00:00:27
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John says #P4A trended above the movie Avatar for most of the P4A; Avatar cost $250 million to make, the P4A zero dollars. (playful) — 00:00:27
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John says there were more than 2,000 Project for Awesome videos this year (2009) and participants commented on them more than a million times. — 00:00:27
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John says the thousands following the livestream show spent a combined three years rating, favoriting and commenting during the 48 hours. — 00:00:56
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John thanks the livestream hosts, from Maureen Johnson and Natalie Tran to several Five Awesome Girls, Liz, Karen Kavett and Alan of Fall of Autumn Distro, and the 2009 logo designer. — 00:01:22
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John thanks everyone who rated, commented and favorited, and above all everyone who made a video, from big YouTubers like Lisa Nova, Shay Carl and Kassem G to people with under 100 subscribers. — 00:01:22
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John says this year (2009) brought more comments and ratings on more P4A videos than ever, and next year (2010) 'we're gonna do even better'. — 00:01:51
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — ask: John: 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. (hedged) — 00:01:51
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — announcement: John says several P4A items are still auctioned on eBay, including a nerdfighter's bobblehead of John benefiting charity: water; links are in the doobly-doo. — 00:01:51
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John thanks Hank for inventing the idea of the Project for Awesome and for all the work he did to make it happen. — 00:02:21

2010

Also named in: John and Hank: The Out-Takes

2011

  • 2011-01-07 · CONCUSSED Question Friday — announcement: John hopes to finish his zombie apocalypse novella within a week or so; he calls it terrible and wants to get back to his real book. (hedged) — 00:02:49
  • 2011-02-04 · QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition — announcement: John's zombie novella was released under a Creative Commons license and is freely available online, linked in the description. — 00:01:58
  • 2011-02-04 · QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition — ask: John: Before downloading, readers are 'ethically obligated' to comment thanking everyone who donated, without whom the 'terrible' novella would not exist. (playful) — 00:02:06
  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John reports that the Project for Awesome generated more than 600,000 comments and raised more than $150,000. — 00:01:40
  • 2011-04-22 · 500,000 Subscribers (Almost...and Thank You) — Hank: More seriously, Hank credits the community for the Project for Awesome and for his trip to Haiti to examine nonprofits' work there. — 00:02:52
  • 2011-05-02 · Osama Bin Laden is Dead — announcement: Hank says his next album will hopefully come out the month after this one, in June. (hedged) — 00:03:46
  • 2011-05-05 · IT'S HANKO DE MAYO!! — John: Hank oversaw the 2010 Project for Awesome, which John says raised more than $150,000 for charity. — 00:01:46
  • 2011-06-08 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — announcement: Hank has been working on his long-overdue album Ellen Hardcastle, with older songs (Strange Charm, What Would Captain Picard Do?, Phineas Gage) and new ones (Shake a Booty, My Phone). — 00:03:03
  • 2011-06-08 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — announcement: Hank shows the album's cover art by Alan Lastufka. — 00:03:20
  • 2011-06-08 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — announcement: Hank hopes to have the album at LeakyCon and on sale at DFTBA shortly after, around July 13. (hedged) — 00:03:30
  • 2011-06-27 · My Hairy Ball of Anxious Anxiety — Hank is about to finish his album Ellen Hardcastle; he knows people will like it, but feels everyone will hate it and call it crap in the comments. — 00:01:08
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — announcement: Hank says Ellen Hardcastle will have no pre-order, unlike John's book with its very long pre-order time; they have decided. (playful) — 00:02:54
  • 2011-07-13 · ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video — announcement: John says Hank has worked on his album Ellen Hardcastle for a year and a half and named it after a nerdfighter who won a Project for Awesome raffle. — 00:00:21
  • 2011-07-13 · ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video — announcement: Hank confirms Ellen Hardcastle is out today and available now; he has an unopened box of copies downstairs. — 00:00:41
  • 2011-07-15 · Harry Freaking Potter — announcement: Hank shows his album Ellen Hardcastle, thanks buyers and says he looks forward to making videos with their scripts. — 00:03:41
  • 2011-07-20 (said on 2011-07-21, implied) · HARDCASTLED! — announcement: Hank acts out all 15 songs of Ellen Hardcastle with the giraffes in a minute and 20 seconds, saying the words were descriptions, not lyrics, which are online. (playful) — 00:01:15
  • 2011-07-20 (said on 2011-07-21, implied) · HARDCASTLED! — announcement: Hank reports Billboard called him because Ellen Hardcastle is charting, and tells viewers they made him chart, admitting he is a little teary. — 00:03:07
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — John says Nerdfighters raised $150,000 in 48 hours during the Project for Awesome. — 00:01:08
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — John lists other Nerdfighter feats: getting Hank's album on the Billboard charts, chartering airplanes of medical supplies to Haiti, and getting Helen Hunt to hear the Helen Hunt song. — 00:01:15
  • 2011-08-03 · I Love My Brother — announcement: Hank says the signed VidCon poster will be auctioned at the Project for Awesome, but until then it's his. — 00:03:16
  • 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — announcement: 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
  • 2011-11-04 · You CAN Judge a Book by its Cover! — ask: Hank: Calling the choice too big to make alone and a chance to fill the Foundation to Decrease World Suck before P4A, Hank asks viewers to vote with dollars at fightworldsuck.org on keeping or shaving his facial hair. — 00:02:44
  • 2011-11-09 · 27 Part Video — announcement: Hank announces the Project for Awesome is happening again this year (2011) on December 17th. — 00:02:40
  • 2011-11-09 · 27 Part Video — ask: Hank tells viewers they should already be working on ideas for their videos promoting charities for the Project for Awesome. — 00:02:40
  • 2011-11-11 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: With the brothers' match, the Foundation to Decrease World Suck has already raised more than $8,000, to be distributed through the Project for Awesome. — 00:01:23
  • 2011-11-14 · T-Shirt and Jeans - A Song — ask: Hank shows his most recent album, Ellen Hardcastle, for sale via a link below; the new song isn't on it because he just wrote it. — 00:03:28
  • 2011-11-28 · Stuffed with STUFF! — ask: Hank: The Project for Awesome happens again on December 17th and 18th; Hank asks viewers to make, curate and promote videos then and clear their schedules. — 00:03:24
  • 2011-12-07 · World's Stupidest Dog — announcement: Hank: Answering viewers, Hank confirms the Project for Awesome is happening December 17th and 18th and says its website should be up very soon. (hedged) — 00:03:07
  • 2011-12-07 · World's Stupidest Dog — ask: Hank tells viewers to be thinking about and working on their videos for charitable causes before then; this dog video, he notes, is not one. — 00:03:12
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — John asks whether 'you' have started a Project for Awesome video, says he has started his and thinks he might be ahead, so 'you' should probably start. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:19
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — John explains the Project for Awesome is an annual event in which YouTubers upload videos about their favourite charities on December 17th. — 00:03:06
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — ask: John tells viewers to start making their Project for Awesome video now so they can upload it then. — 00:03:06
  • 2011-12-12 (said on 2011-12-11, implied) · Our Grandfather — Hank says nothing is changing with the Project for Awesome: it has always used the online video community, and Nerdfighteria specifically, to make great content for non-profits and to promote and curate the best videos. — 00:02:19
  • 2011-12-12 (said on 2011-12-11, implied) · Our Grandfather — ask: Hank says curating means not promoting your own or friends' videos but finding the best P4A videos and getting them in front of as many people as possible. — 00:02:19
  • 2011-12-12 (said on 2011-12-11, implied) · Our Grandfather — announcement: Hank: Videos will be submitted at projectforawesome.com, not fully working until P4A begins at noon on December 17th; people, Hank included, are already making their P4A videos. — 00:02:58
  • 2011-12-12 (said on 2011-12-11, implied) · Our Grandfather — announcement: Hank: Viewers will be able to vote for the charities in P4A videos; the most-voted charities get a piece of the money being raised for P4A, already over $10,000. — 00:03:27
  • 2011-12-12 (said on 2011-12-11, implied) · Our Grandfather — announcement: Hank's own Project for Awesome video will come on Saturday, not Friday, because that is when P4A is. — 00:03:27
  • 2011-12-14 · Greek Phallic Disco Golf Balls: A Free Association Game — ask: The description reminds viewers to prepare for the Project for Awesome. — video description
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — announcement: Hank says today's video is just logistics to prepare viewers, because tomorrow's video will be his Project for Awesome video. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — announcement: Hank: The official time to upload P4A videos is noon Eastern time tomorrow, Saturday, December 17th. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — ask: Hank encourages everyone to donate at projectforawesome.com, live from noon, or before then at fightworldsuck.org; all the money goes into the P4A Fund. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — announcement: Hank: No funny business: the P4A Fund money is distributed to the charities that get the most votes at projectforawesome.com. — 00:00:47
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — announcement: Hank: ProjectForAwesome.com launches at noon for submitting videos; each video's charity goes into a database and people vote on whether they deem it worthy and like the video. — 00:00:47
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — ask: Hank: A guide shows how to vote for a charity seen in a video: search for it on the site (e.g. the Foundation to Decrease World Suck) and click vote. — 00:01:16
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — ask: Hank: Video makers should tag 'P4A' and 'P4A 2011', use the P4A thumbnail if they are partners, upload at noon, and submit the video at projectforawesome.com so its charity can get P4A Fund money. — 00:01:16
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — ask: Hank: Other ways to take part: donate to the P4A Fund or a charity you care about, and follow the live show at youtube.com/vlogbrothers, hosted by Hank, John and surprise guests. — 00:01:45
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — ask: Hank: Viewers can check out items soon to be auctioned on eBay via projectforawesome.com, including the posters from Hank's wall over the last six months, sold individually. — 00:01:45
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — Hank: Auction items also include the flip chart Chameleon Circuit used making Still Got Legs, 'a piece of history', and the VidCon poster signed by about 50 YouTubers. — 00:02:35
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — ask: Hank: Viewers can sign up for the P4A mailing list, which sends only P4A emails, about once a year. — 00:02:35
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — announcement: Hank will start off the P4A live stream at noon tomorrow and John will join shortly after. — 00:02:35
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — Hank thanks everyone making P4A videos and working on the Project for Awesome, including designer Karen Kavett and developer Sam Rudge. — 00:03:04
  • 2011-12-17 · We Built a Well in Haiti — ask: Hank asks viewers to vote for Water.org at projectforawesome.com so it gets a share of the Project for Awesome fund. — 00:01:53
  • 2011-12-17 · We Built a Well in Haiti — announcement: Hank will see John on the P4A livestream; an end-screen video explains what the Project for Awesome is and how to take part. — 00:01:53
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John: In the last 48 hours the Foundation to Decrease World Suck raised $75,000. — 00:00:03
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John: The money came from direct donations at ProjectForAwesome.com and from DFTBA.com purchases such as Hank's Hanklerfishes and John's new zombie apocalypse story, a sequel to Zombicorns. — 00:00:03
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John: Alex Day is donating the proceeds from remixes of his song Forever Yours to charity, which John says will come to $15,000. — 00:00:03
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John: Other P4A projects also succeeded, such as iJustine's project to get wells built in the developing world and Rosie raising money for the Stroke Association. — 00:00:43
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John: Added up, the Project for Awesome raised more than $100,000. — 00:00:43
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — ask: John: Viewers can still donate at projectforawesome.com, or by buying John's new zombie apocalypse story, for the next two days. — 00:00:43
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John: The Project for Awesome generated thousands of videos about charities, millions of views, tens of thousands of tweets and hundreds of thousands of comments. — 00:00:43
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John: To fulfil a P4A challenge Hank released a picture of himself as an eight-year-old, which Nerdfighteria began to remix; John shows and loves the remixes. (playful) — 00:01:13
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John's P4A highlight: he covered his face in Sharpie when donations reached $50,000, then someone rang his doorbell and he panicked and hid. (playful) — 00:01:13
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John says this was the most fun he has had at the Project for Awesome since 2007. — 00:01:13
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — announcement: John: The foundation will distribute the money according to how the community decided it should be distributed; more in the coming weeks. — 00:01:13
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — recommendation: John made a playlist of ten of his favourite Project for Awesome videos, watchable by clicking on his head. — 00:02:25
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John calls Hank's P4A video about the well Nerdfighteria built in Haiti amazing; it reminded him how lucky they are to be in the Nerdfighter community and he is to be Hank's brother. — 00:02:25
  • 2011-12-21 · 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! — ask: The description says donations are still being accepted at projectforawesome.com. — video description
  • 2011-12-21 · 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! — Hank has had a different poster on his wall every day for about a year, and auctioned them all off for the Project for Awesome, raising a bunch of money. — 00:02:33
  • 2011-12-21 · 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! — Hank thanks John for being great and for drawing Sharpie all over his face for charity. — 00:03:07
  • 2011-12-21 · 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! — announcement: Hank hopes that by Friday (23 December 2011) John will have the Project for Awesome voting results, showing which charities get the money everyone raised. (hedged) — 00:03:07
  • 2011-12-26 · Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail — Hank announces the P4A charities by votes: Kids in Need of Desks fifth (915), Kiva fourth (1,043), the Harry Potter Alliance third (1,393), Water.org second (2,000), This Star Won't Go Out first (2,224). — 00:00:00
  • 2011-12-26 · Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail — announcement: Hank: Kiva's share will be split: half to running and maintaining Kiva.org, half to loans for entrepreneurs in the developing world. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-12-26 · Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail — Hank: Each of the five charities will receive $14,269.22: the roughly $71,000 raised for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck divided by five. — 00:00:58

2012

2013

  • 2013-01-04 · 53 Terrible Jokes! — announcement: In the description Hank says the Men of YouTube charity calendar is available for pre-order, benefiting next year's (2014) Project for Awesome. — video description
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says the Project for Awesome has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity and has literally saved lives around the world. — 00:59:05
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Hank says he had a crush on his junior-year high-school English teacher, who is now a Nerdfighter taking part in the Project for Awesome and the comments. — 01:53:19
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Hank: 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. (hedged) — 01:55:09
  • 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John: The P4A charities have not been announced because the total is not yet known; John expects to know in a couple more weeks, after working out PayPal and shipping costs. (hedged) — 00:01:05
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — Hank lists his day: Twitter, filming SciShow, readying P4A perks, a Hank's channel video, folding mug boxes with Katherine at the warehouse, a DFTBA Records video, editing Hank Games Live, Tumblr, a Kiva loan. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — Hank: On the day they hit 10,000 subscribers they launched the first Project for Awesome, feeling it a shame not to use their community to do good. — 00:00:58
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — announcement: Hank says the Project for Awesome has been a huge success every year, and this year (2013) raised over $400,000. — 00:00:58
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — Hank apologises for the delay in naming recipients: giving away a lot of money turns out to be legally complicated. — 00:01:27
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — announcement: Hank: The P4A money goes to the Office of Letters and Light, Not Forgotten, the Wildlife Waystation, the Alzheimer's Society, the Harry Potter Alliance, Save the Children, BGSU Dance Marathon, Uncultured Project, a charity heard as 'Taycho', and Love146 Dayton Task Force. — 00:01:27
  • 2013-03-15 · Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes — Hank says one P4A perk was choosing a Vlogbrothers video topic; many such videos will be uploaded unlisted, but one donor asked for a video on something the brothers care about, so this is it. — 00:00:58
  • 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — John says MagicTurtle643 has made videos for over five years, took part in the Project for Awesome, has fewer than 700 subscribers and is hilarious, so 'let's change that'. — 00:01:53
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig parodies more things John does: Question Tuesday with fake questions, a 'Who the eff is Hank?' answer, Sharpie face (a cracker smashed on his forehead), a Thoughts from Places about his office, an Oscar Wilde reading, and a 'not-airport'. (joke) — 00:02:07
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John: Up with Henry at 2:30 a.m., John had his very first million dollar idea. — 00:00:33
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John explains that for about six years Hank has phoned him roughly once a week opening with 'I have a million dollar idea'. (hedged) — 00:01:02
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John: some of Hank's ideas were excellent (Project for Awesome, VidCon, DFTBA Records), some seemed terrible but turned out great (2D glasses), and most are actually terrible ('Hank Games times two'). (playful) — 00:01:02
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John notes that none of Hank's million dollar ideas has ever made him a million dollars; most are about charity. (playful) — 00:01:31
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John pitches his 'million dollar idea': a phone-baby app that cries, must be soothed (feeding, pacifier, shushing), can't be muted and wakes every few hours for 12 weeks, a parody of newborn care. (playful) — 00:01:31
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John admits his idea is not that good, even worse than Hank's. (playful) — 00:02:30
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John writes that viewers can donate directly to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, which has zero overhead, so every penny goes to P4A charities the Nerdfighter community chooses. — video description
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John says the Nerdfighter community hosts YouTube's Project for Awesome every year: a 48-hour event in which thousands of people upload videos about their favorite charities. — 00:00:15
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: P4A also raises money for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck; the community then decides where to donate it, which John says teaches thoughtful philanthropy. — 00:00:29
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John says last year's (2012) P4A raised more than $400,000 for organizations fighting illiteracy, domestic violence and global poverty, among other things. — 00:00:39
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — ask: John urges anyone who has never taken part in P4A to start making videos for December 17th. — 00:00:47
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John says the Project for Awesome is within shouting distance of a million dollars in total donations. — 00:03:25
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — both: Hank appears beside John for a surprise reunion video; they point to the lending and donation links and look forward to a great P4A. — 00:03:34
  • 2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — recommendation: John says a good P4A video does not just talk to the camera about why a charity matters to you but shows the charity at work. — 00:03:16
  • 2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — recommendation: Hank says a P4A video is basically pitching a charity: explain why it is important, why it is a big deal and why it matters to you personally. — 00:03:23
  • 2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — both: John says the best P4A videos can also be used by the charities in their outreach to donors; Hank says they love that and hope it happens a lot this year (2013). — 00:03:31
  • 2013-12-06 · I Am President Snow — ask: Hank says viewers should think about what they'll do for the Project for Awesome this year (2013); he posted a video on how to make a great P4A video on the P4A YouTube channel. — 00:03:35
  • 2013-12-06 · I Am President Snow — announcement: Hank: In a closing clip from his P4A video, Hank says the Project for Awesome is in just 10 days. — 00:03:53
  • 2013-12-10 · Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: Slobber Carrots and Gross Barbecue — announcement: The description says the Project for Awesome starts in one week and points makers to P4A thumbnails. — video description
  • 2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Sydney Green: Sydney says she loves that it is time for the Project for Awesome, her favorite time of year. — 00:03:48
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — announcement: Hank announces that the Project for Awesome happens around December 17 and starts tomorrow at noon Eastern; this video explains what it means. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — announcement: Hank's description says the P4A Indiegogo campaign is live and some of the perks are already sold out. — video description
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — Hank explains that since 2007, every December 17, Nerdfighteria and the wider internet community spend one day of their internet experience on making the world a better place instead of fandom and cat gifs. — 00:00:24
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — announcement: Hank says people make videos promoting their favorite charities, upload them around noon Eastern on December 17, and submit them to projectforawesome.com, where the whole community votes. — 00:00:29
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — announcement: Hank says the Indiegogo campaign raises the actual money, with perks including a Men of YouTube and a Women of YouTube charity calendar, Nerdfighter-made art, and a George Watsky haiku with his signed CD. — 00:00:29
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — Hank says last year (2012) P4A raised $400,000, and this year (2013) an anonymous donor matches donations up to $125,000. — 00:01:41
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — announcement: Hank says the livestream also starts at noon Eastern on December 17: everyone hanging out, watching and commenting on videos, voting for favorites, and slowly degenerating into madness. (playful) — 00:01:41
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — announcement: Hank says that after voting, the charities featured in the top-voted videos split the Indiegogo money, minus processing, shipping and printing costs. — 00:02:10
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — announcement: Hank says he made a digital-only Christmas album for the Project for Awesome, six or maybe seven songs, much of it but not all recorded. (hedged) — 00:02:42
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — ask: Hank invites viewers to join the livestream on the Vlogbrothers channel and get their commenting fingers ready. — 00:02:42
  • 2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — announcement: John announces the 2013 Project for Awesome; its 48-hour livestream begins at noon Eastern today on youtube.com/vlogbrothers. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — John writes that each comment and tweet during the 48-hour livestream is worth a penny to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, which every year gives all its funds to the charities the community chooses in P4A. — video description
  • 2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — ask: John points viewers to the P4A fundraising page, whose perks include the Men of YouTube and Women of YouTube calendars and a 20-page snippet of the story he has been working on for months. — 00:00:10
  • 2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — John says 100% of the money raised goes to organizations the community chooses by voting at projectforawesome.com, so it is up to everyone to be good stewards of it. — 00:00:24
  • 2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — announcement: John says P4A videos can be found by searching YouTube for 'Project for Awesome 2013', and every comment on a P4A video or tweet with #projectforawesome is worth a penny. — 00:00:40
  • 2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — announcement: John says anonymous donors match every dollar donated for the first $125,000, so each dollar is worth two. — 00:00:49
  • 2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — ask: John asks viewers to vote at projectforawesome.com for Save the Children and other organizations fighting poverty and disease in the developing world. — 00:03:28
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — The description thanks everyone who watched the livestream, voted, made or watched videos, commented or donated, and says the day's awesome is because of them; perks can still be bought. — video description
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — The description thanks the P4A volunteers and credits volunteer support to Manar, Valerie, Katie, KT, Lindsay, Blaze, Julian, Monica, Laura, Rosianna, Kristen, Alan and Monica. — video description
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — Hank: P4A 2013 credits: web development by Sam Rudge, hosting by Fastly, design by Karen Kavett, Michael Aranda and Vondell Swain (the coin), perk fulfillment by Dave Loos, Matthew Gaydos, Katherine Green and Michael Gardner, perk development by Laura Chernikoff and Colin Hickey. — video description
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — Hank: The P4A 2013 livestream hosts included Hannah Hart, Joe Beretta, Elliott Morgan, Kristina Horner, Joe Holmes, Henry Reich, Vi Hart, Patrick Rothfuss, Wil Wheaton, Meghan Tonjes, Karen Kavett, Emily Graslie, Liam Dryden, Michael Aranda, Stefan Chin and others. — video description
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — Hank, still partly covered in Sharpie from the livestream, wonders why he did not plan how to remove it before covering his face. (playful) — 00:02:26
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — Hank: During the livestream a voice (apparently Hank) announces that P4A 2013 has just raised $525,000. — 00:02:42
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — John says P4A is his favorite time of year to be a Nerdfighter and when he is proudest of the community, because he sees the work they do together. — 00:02:46
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — announcement: Hank says the P4A Indiegogo page stays open about 36 more hours, with perks: his Christmas album, a sneak peek of John's new writing, shirts, posters, coins, the YouTube charity calendars and headshots. — 00:02:57
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — announcement: Hank says a Fault in Our Stars movie poster is available only through the P4A perks, for 25 dollars, all as a charity donation. — 00:03:15
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — Hank thanks everyone who commented, watched the livestream, made a video or donated, plus the calendar participants and the volunteer support staff who stayed up with them. — 00:03:24
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — Hank says P4A really is one of his favorite parts of his life. — 00:03:46

2014

2015

2016

2017

  • 2017-02-28 · You Are Here — John recalls Esther Earl, a Nerdfighter who with her friends helped run the Project for Awesome behind the scenes and who died of cancer in 2010 at 16. — 00:00:18
  • 2017-02-28 · You Are Here — John: Instead John thinks about people making stuff together and using it to connect, such as the Project for Awesome and scavenger hunts. — 00:01:16
  • 2017-05-19 · Should I Have a Baby? — Hank recalls that for last year's (2016) Project for Awesome he and Travis McElroy made a one-off podcast, the DadCast, in which two brand-new dads answered questions. — 00:00:00
  • 2017-06-09 · Some Unhealthy Productivity Tips (and some Healthy ones) — announcement: Hank says they are already working on Project for Awesome 2017, which will happen right after PodCon. — 00:00:29
  • 2017-06-16 · When Will You Die? — Hank says that, after some delay, all Project for Awesome grant recipients have now been sent their checks. — 00:03:25
  • 2017-06-16 · When Will You Die? — Hank says most but not all P4A perks have been sent; he has been working hard on his own and apologizes. — 00:03:37
  • 2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John: Without the song they wouldn't have met Esther or the people behind the Project for Awesome, Hank probably wouldn't have sung before thousands, and John doubts he would be signing 200,000 copies of his new book. (hedged) — 00:03:34
  • 2017-08-03 · HAPPY ESTHER DAY!!! — John says Esther loved the Project for Awesome and Harry Potter Alliance initiatives, and thinks Project Lovely is a beautiful way for her family and friends to continue her legacy. (hedged) — 00:01:41
  • 2017-11-24 · The Bizarro History of Black Friday: (AND 2017 CENSUS!) — announcement: Hank: The usual P4A calendar and t-shirt come before P4A this year (2017): a Vlogbrothers calendar from a silly photo shoot themed 'Silly brother, serious brother', proceeds to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck. — 00:02:51
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — announcement: John says all the Foundation's money will be given away after the 11th annual Project for Awesome, a 48-hour livestreamed charity event beginning at noon Eastern on December 15th. — 00:01:13
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — announcement: John: In P4A's first half money goes to pre-selected charities: this year (2017) Save the Children, a partner for a decade, and Last Mile Health, which trains and pays community health workers in Liberia. — 00:01:26
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — announcement: John says he and Hank will match every donation in P4A's first half up to $250,000, so each dollar counts as much more than one. — 00:01:40
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — ask: John: In P4A's second half money goes to charities chosen by Nerdfighteria: John asks viewers to make a video about a charity and upload it at noon Eastern on December 15th, so people can vote at projectforawesome.com. — 00:01:52
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — John says having few subscribers is no reason not to make a video: every year charities get grants thanks to videos by creators with a few dozen or even zero subscribers. — 00:02:09
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — John says making a P4A video is also an excellent way to support a charity even if you can't afford to donate to it. — 00:02:19
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — recommendation: John highly recommends Hank's guide to making a good P4A video, linked in the description. — 00:02:24
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — John says past P4A grants have gone to organizations from the Trevor Project to the Against Malaria Foundation. — 00:02:28
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — John says the Project for Awesome has raised more than $5.8 million for charities over the past five years, and they hope to make this the best year yet. — 00:02:32
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — ask: John asks viewers to say whom they would like to see as Project for Awesome co-hosts. — 00:02:50
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — ask: John asks viewers for perk ideas that would tempt their dollars toward charity. — 00:02:54
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — ask: John asks anyone wanting to give $1,000 or more to P4A and join the matching donation fund to email him with the subject line 'matching' at hankandjohn@gmail.com. — 00:02:59
  • 2017-12-08 · I Have (a little bit) HAD IT! — Hank says everything in his personal and professional life is good: he is excited for PodCon, Project for Awesome is coming and his baby is very cute; the rest of the world is the problem. — 00:00:41
  • 2017-12-12 · 2017 is the Best? — announcement: John's fifth bit of good news: the Project for Awesome starts this Friday (15 December 2017) at noon Eastern, with more info and thumbnails at projectforawesome.com. — 00:03:08
  • 2017-12-12 · 2017 is the Best? — ask: John says noon Eastern on Friday is when viewers should upload their video about a charity they care about. — 00:03:13
  • 2017-12-12 · 2017 is the Best? — announcement: John: The P4A fundraiser begins at midnight tonight; in this first half the money raised goes to Save the Children and Last Mile Health. — 00:03:18
  • 2017-12-12 · 2017 is the Best? — announcement: John: Because of matching donations, every dollar donated will count as four dollars. — 00:03:26
  • 2017-12-12 · 2017 is the Best? — ask: John invites donations with perks such as tuatara coins, deleted scenes from Turtles All the Way Down and a personalized self-care bunny, some limited: 'no pressure, em dash, a little bit of pressure'. — 00:03:30
  • 2017-12-12 · 2017 is the Best? — announcement: John will see Hank and the rest of Nerdfighteria at noon Eastern this Friday (15 December 2017) for the 48-hour Project for Awesome livestream. — 00:03:45
  • 2017-12-15 · Why Big Solutions Fail — announcement: Hank says it is the 11th annual Project for Awesome, so he is here to explain why solving hard problems is so hard. — 00:00:00
  • 2017-12-15 · Why Big Solutions Fail — ask: Hank says that besides funding this hard work, donors get cool stuff, so viewers should go to projectforawesome.com/donate. — 00:02:31
  • 2017-12-15 · Why Big Solutions Fail — announcement: Hank: In P4A's first part all money up to $700,000 will be matched, and the first half's money is split between Last Mile Health and Save the Children. — 00:02:41
  • 2017-12-15 · Why Big Solutions Fail — announcement: Hank lists perks: smashed pennies, a commemorative coin, a digital download bundle with outtake scenes from Turtles All the Way Down, socks, bandanas and rocks he is painting. — 00:02:50
  • 2017-12-15 · Why Big Solutions Fail — announcement: Hank: Some perks are sold out or nearly so, including the P4A charity calendar with a photo, not photoshopped, of Hank splashed in the face with champagne. (playful) — 00:03:00
  • 2017-12-15 · Why Big Solutions Fail — announcement: Hank: In P4A's second half, money is split among charities voted on by the community: people make videos promoting charities and viewers vote at projectforawesome.com. — 00:03:15
  • 2017-12-15 · Why Big Solutions Fail — ask: Hank invites viewers who like the charity videos and charities to vote for them at projectforawesome.com; the top vote-getters get a portion of the second-half money. — 00:03:19
  • 2017-12-15 · Why Big Solutions Fail — ask: Hank: The 48-hour charity livestream is going on now at projectforawesome.com/live, and probably also on the Vlogbrothers channel; Hank really wants viewers to join. — 00:03:31
  • 2017-12-15 · Why Big Solutions Fail — ask: Hank says donating brings both cool things and the knowledge of helping solve some of humanity's hardest remaining problems. — 00:03:41
  • 2017-12-19 · History Is Happening — John says that powerlessness is a lie, as he was reminded when thousands of people worldwide came together for the 11th annual Project for Awesome. — 00:01:15
  • 2017-12-19 · History Is Happening — John: As John records, the 11th Project for Awesome has raised almost two million dollars for charity. — 00:01:24
  • 2017-12-19 · History Is Happening — ask: John says viewers can still donate until midnight at projectforawesome.com/donate, with perks such as New Zealand nickels, P4A socks and signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:01:28
  • 2017-12-19 · History Is Happening — ask: John says the Project for Awesome t-shirt is available at dftba.com, all proceeds to charity. — 00:01:40
  • 2017-12-19 · History Is Happening — John thanks everyone who took part in the Project for Awesome by donating, making videos, commenting or joining the livestream. — 00:01:45
  • 2017-12-19 · History Is Happening — John: In the first half of this year's (2017) Project for Awesome they raised money for Save the Children and Last Mile Health. — 00:02:27

2018

2019

  • 2019-01-04 · Bid Daddy Likes Pork Rinds - P4A Recap 2018! — Hank recalls that a couple of weeks ago they raised $1.6 million for charity during the Project for Awesome, with livestream guests, votes on charities and charity videos. — 00:00:03
  • 2019-01-04 · Bid Daddy Likes Pork Rinds - P4A Recap 2018! — Hank: Maybe the wonderful P4A feeling can't be had all the time, but Hank hopes the recap brings a little of it back now. (hedged) — 00:00:17
  • 2019-01-04 · Bid Daddy Likes Pork Rinds - P4A Recap 2018! — Hank thanks the P4A's donors, volunteers, video makers, guests and champions, and the nonprofits making the world better. — 00:03:40
  • 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John thanks viewers who have donated to the first half of the Project for Awesome in the last few years: they helped fund Kissy's ongoing transformation. — video description
  • 2019-08-20 · Hank and John's Smooth Airport Reunion — Hank: A texted 'million dollar idea' is offered free to the world: a novel made of a single 52,000-word YouTube comment. (playful) — 00:02:04
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: In a comment John says the Project for Awesome will not change, at least this year (2019): it keeps raising unrestricted funds for groups like PIH and Save the Children; they want, if possible, to fund this project separately, but whether they can without the P4A remains to be seen. — creator comment
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John says that as the Project for Awesome grew, the Foundation became a real charity able to accept tax-deductible donations despite its very silly name. — 00:01:05
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John says that last year (2018) the Project for Awesome raised its ten millionth dollar for charity. — 00:01:13
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John says the P4A is his favorite time of the year and he can't wait for its strange mix of exhaustion and exhilaration. — 00:01:18
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — announcement: John announces the 13th annual Project for Awesome, from noon Eastern on Friday, December 6 to noon Eastern on Sunday, December 8, with the Indiegogo launching December 3. — 00:01:24
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — announcement: John says there will be many amazing perks, with more on them next week (week of 2 December 2019). — 00:01:37
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John says the Project for Awesome is volunteer-run, so apart from credit card fees and the cost of making and shipping physical perks, all donations go to charity. — 00:01:39
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — announcement: John says the first half of the P4A raises money for pre-selected Save the Children and Partners In Health, which the community has worked with for over a decade and which reach the most vulnerable. — 00:01:48
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — announcement: John says this year's (2019) P4A fundraising is entirely separate from the brothers' project with Partners In Health Sierra Leone announced a couple of months ago. — 00:02:01
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — announcement: John says the P4A, as in past years, raises unrestricted funds that Partners In Health and Save the Children can spend wherever most needed. — 00:02:19
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — ask: John says the P4A's second half funds charities chosen by viewers: make a great video for a charity, upload it on December 6, and if people vote for it, that charity might get a grant. — 00:02:55
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — announcement: John says he and Hank will match the first $150,000 raised in this year's (2019) Project for Awesome. — 00:03:19
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — ask: John: With no pressure, John asks viewers who would like to join the matching fund ($1,000 or more, per the description) to email ftdws@complexly.com; it really helps drive donations. — 00:03:24
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — announcement: John: As a reward for reaching the end, John shows a picture of himself and Hank as reindeer, one month of the 2020 Project for Awesome calendar. (playful) — 00:03:44
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John: Ashe asked for funny faces at the end of the shoot and used them to make the 2020 Project for Awesome calendar, in which each month the brothers become animals such as lemurs and elephants. — 00:00:46
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — announcement: John says the 2020 calendar is available now at projectforawesome.com/donate with many other perks, including a P4A poster, a P4A t-shirt and a commemorative coin. — 00:01:10
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — announcement: John: A limited-edition signed vinyl of The Anthropocene Reviewed is also a P4A perk. — 00:01:26
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — announcement: John: At the DFTBA warehouse in Missoula, Montana, staff are crushing hundreds of these 'reprehensible' pennies into souvenirs as P4A perks. (playful) — 00:01:41
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John says that, less the cost of producing and shipping physical perks, 100% of the proceeds go to charity. — 00:01:50
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John says the Project for Awesome has raised over $10 million for charity in the last ten years. — 00:02:08
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John: Mabel now helps people with HIV and tuberculosis get care and reduce transmission, and her salary lets her send her kids to school: the generational change the P4A tries to support. — 00:03:15
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — announcement: John: Right now every donated dollar is matched by nerdfighters who contributed to a matching fund and by donors to PIH and Save the Children. — 00:03:28
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John: Because of the matching, every dollar donated counts as $4 to the charities. — 00:03:36
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — ask: John asks viewers to go to projectforawesome.com/donate now and donate. — 00:03:40
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — announcement: John: The P4A officially begins on Friday at noon Eastern, with a 48-hour livestream at projectforawesome.com/live. — 00:03:44
  • 2019-12-06 · It is Much Easier to Destroy than Create — The description explains the P4A: first-half money goes to PIH and Save the Children, second-half money to community-voted charities, and the company pays non-volunteer staff, so after perk costs all money goes to charity. — video description
  • 2019-12-06 · It is Much Easier to Destroy than Create — In a channel comment John calls the video oddly satisfying, maybe his favorite-ever Hank video, and invites viewers to the livestream. — creator comment
  • 2019-12-06 · It is Much Easier to Destroy than Create — Hank: During the Project for Awesome the focus is on problems that don't have the luxury of not mattering; they feel heavy but must be looked at and understood. — 00:02:20
  • 2019-12-06 · It is Much Easier to Destroy than Create — Hank says we need to support the master puzzle-solvers who understand each problem's unique shape, like the people at Partners In Health and Save the Children, the P4A's first-half charities. — 00:02:36
  • 2019-12-06 · It is Much Easier to Destroy than Create — Hank: Everyone who supports the P4A, by making a video, supporting a charity, joining the livestream or getting perks, helps put puzzle pieces where they are most needed. — 00:03:02
  • 2019-12-06 · It is Much Easier to Destroy than Create — announcement: Hank: The Project for Awesome begins shortly at noon Eastern, with 48 hours of fun, fundraising, silliness and thoughtfulness at projectforawesome.com/live. — 00:03:28
  • 2019-12-06 · It is Much Easier to Destroy than Create — ask: Hank tells viewers to go to projectforawesome.com/donate for the Indiegogo, whose many perks are available only during the P4A. — 00:03:43
  • 2019-12-10 · On Loneliness — John is exhausted and exhilarated from the Project for Awesome, which this year (2019) raised over $1.3 million for charity. — 00:00:03
  • 2019-12-10 · On Loneliness — ask: John: The fundraiser stays up another couple of days; viewers can learn more at projectforawesome.com/donate. — 00:00:10
  • 2019-12-10 · On Loneliness — John hopes viewers felt that during the P4A; for him it came when he needed reminding that what we accomplish together is truly cause for hope. — 00:03:41
  • 2019-12-13 · Is This the Cutest Animal Noise? — Hank thanks viewers for the Project for Awesome: it had over a thousand more donors than previous years and beat every previous P4A. — 00:03:43
  • 2019-12-31 · Project for Awesome 2019 Recap (BUTT IS LEGS) — The description thanks everyone who took part in this year's (2019) Project for Awesome, which raised over $1.4 million and had a lot of silly, stupid fun. — video description
  • 2019-12-31 · Project for Awesome 2019 Recap (BUTT IS LEGS) — a guest: A livestream voice opens the 13th annual Project for Awesome, noting the P4A is now a teenager. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2019-12-31 · Project for Awesome 2019 Recap (BUTT IS LEGS) — a guest: A livestream host thanks everyone who made this P4A happen and everyone who stayed with them for the last 48 hours. — 00:03:30

2020

  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank lists what that togetherness has produced: Life's Library, the Project for Awesome, the work with Partners in Health, the ideas that helped him understand the world, Dear Hank and John, SciShow and Crash Course. — 00:01:47
  • 2020-12-04 · The Christmas Creature — announcement: Hank says the Vlogbrothers Project for Awesome 2021 calendar, designed by Megan Toenyes, is available now, and he loves it. — 00:03:24
  • 2020-12-04 · The Christmas Creature — Hank says it is good to examine our aesthetics but also to indulge them, hence the Christmas Creature, the Ratatouille musical, the P4A calendar and the socks. — 00:03:33

2021

  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: John: The 2021 Project for Awesome is coming soon, running from noon on February 12th to noon on February 14th. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: The description says submissions open February 3 and videos must be submitted by noon Eastern on February 10. — video description
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — John explains the P4A is a 48-hour livestream fundraiser and celebration of efforts to decrease worldwide suck. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: John: The P4A was moved from its usual time because the holiday season is crowded and 2020 was a bit of a mess. — 00:00:58
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: John apologizes that some perks from the last P4A still havent gone out: the all-volunteer operation ships slowly and COVID hurt manufacturing and shipping; he thinks they have it figured out and it will be better this year (2021). — 00:00:58
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — ask: John: Acknowledging many gave to Sierra Leone or cannot donate, John asks those who can afford $500 or more to join the P4A matching fund via a Google form or email. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — John: Matching donors help others' donations go further and are a big reason the P4A has donated over $10 million to charity over the last 10 years. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — ask: John asks viewers to make a P4A video introducing an organization they care about; votes on it at projectforawesome.com help decide second-half grants, so non-donors can raise money too. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: John: This year (2021) P4A videos must be uploaded and submitted at projectforawesome.com at least 48 hours before it starts, so the community has more time to watch and share. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: John: There will be many perks for donors, such as collages Sarah has been making from old magazines. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: John: Working with the donation platform Tiltify, the P4A can finally accept PayPal donations, after 14 years. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — John is looking forward to the P4A, always an encouragement he really needs right now. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — John: The P4A reminds John what the vlog project is ultimately about, as his 2021 vision board says: more awesome, less suck. — 00:03:24
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — announcement: Hank: The Project for Awesome, a 48-hour charity livestream with guests and goofs held every year since 2007, starts one week from today on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — announcement: Hank: P4A fundraising moves to Tiltify, a platform designed for charity livestreams; perks will be there, opening next Wednesday (10 February 2021), though not all at once. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — announcement: Hank: As a P4A perk Hank wrote a short story, Bonker Doesn't Die, in which April May goes to VidCon and must rescue a celebrity internet pig. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — announcement: Hank: Perks are available only during the P4A, and some donations will be matched: $10 given for Hank's TikTok drafts can become $30 for charity. — 00:00:58
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — ask: Hank: First way to take part: join the livestream and tell people about it, for example by changing your Twitter bio. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — ask: Hank: Second: donate, at the Tiltify for perks or simply at fightworldsuck.org. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — ask: Hank: Larger donors who want to join the matching fund should email the Foundation to Decrease World Suck at Complexly before noon Eastern on February 10. — 00:01:57
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — announcement: Hank: P4A video submissions no longer open the day it begins, a relic of gaming the YouTube algorithm; early submission gives volunteers time to choose videos to feature. — 00:01:57
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — ask: Hank: Third: make a video, made specifically for the P4A, about the impact of a charity you believe in, and submit it at projectforawesome.com by noon Eastern on February 10. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — ask: Hank: Fourth: during the livestream, vote at projectforawesome.com for favourite charities to decide who gets second-half money. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — announcement: Hank: The livestream, a very silly time, starts February 12 at noon Eastern. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-02-09 · Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love — John: Every year during the P4A John discovers new channels to love as people make videos about their favourite charities. — 00:02:23
  • 2021-02-09 · Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love — ask: John: There is still time to make a Project for Awesome video; submit it by Wednesday (10 February 2021) at noon Eastern. — 00:02:52
  • 2021-02-09 · Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love — John: As his 2021 vision board says, John wants a beautifully foolish Project for Awesome this year (2021). — 00:02:52
  • 2021-02-12 · Doing Better — announcement: Hank: The 2021 Project for Awesome starts today, Friday the 12th at noon, and runs through the 14th; the first half raises money for Save the Children and Partners In Health. — 00:02:52
  • 2021-02-12 · Doing Better — announcement: Hank: The P4A livestream runs for 48 hours on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:03:07
  • 2021-02-12 · Doing Better — announcement: Hank: P4A perks include Hanklerfish art Hank made with friends (already selling out), shirts, coins, socks, posters and Hank's short story about April May going to VidCon. — 00:03:14
  • 2021-02-12 · Doing Better — announcement: Hank will host a trivia night as a $100 perk with very good prizes. — 00:03:25
  • 2021-02-12 · Doing Better — ask: Hank invites viewers to vote at projectforawesome.com on charities that might get some of the money. — 00:03:33
  • 2021-02-12 · Doing Better — ask: Hank says projectforawesome.com/donate is the place to donate and get perks. — 00:03:40
  • 2021-02-12 · Doing Better — announcement: Hank: P4A uses Tiltify this year (2021), made for charity livestreams: perks may be a bit harder to browse but it is far easier for the team. — 00:03:45
  • 2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — The description says the 2021 P4A has now raised over $2,300,000 for charity. — video description
  • 2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John still has a mustache because of a Project for Awesome promise, and his voice is a little hoarse. — 00:00:03
  • 2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John: The 2021 P4A livestream has just ended, having raised over $2 million for charity so far: by almost any metric the most successful P4A in its 15-year history. — 00:00:16
  • 2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John is grateful to everyone who took part: donating, making P4A videos, voting for charities, and the jokes and memes shared in chat. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John: Volunteers run the P4A, but it also relies on everyone watching, from hydration reminders to perk ideas about Hank's bean Furby, now apparently known as Beanie Sandfurbs. (playful) — 00:00:38
  • 2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — ask: John: The P4A fundraiser stays live until midnight Eastern Tuesday, so John urges viewers to pick up last-second perks now. — 00:00:58
  • 2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — recommendation: John calls the digital download bundle for a $60 donation always the best P4A deal, with gifts arriving all year; perks also include the P4A shirt and commemorative coin. — 00:01:08
  • 2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John: The P4A's great joy for John was not beating its fundraising goals or the bean Furby's celebrity, but being reminded that light-soaked days, or little moments of easing each other's way, are possible amid it all. — 00:03:01
  • 2021-02-19 · Bean Meme Review — Hank: P4A perks take time to make, and Hank wants to be careful, as he has not been in the past, not to over-promise on his ability. — 00:01:35
  • 2021-02-19 · Bean Meme Review — Hank concedes it is harder to make sound financial decisions during the P4A. (playful) — 00:02:26
  • 2021-02-19 · Bean Meme Review — Hank says the Project for Awesome makes him feel better about the future and humanity. — 00:02:30
  • 2021-02-19 · Bean Meme Review — Hank: Memes show Hank turning his back on Dave the Fish, a previous P4A mascot, for Beanie Sanfurbs; Hank notes he didn't even have Dave the Fish this year (2021). (playful) — 00:04:25
  • 2021-02-19 · Bean Meme Review — Hank: One bean meme became a P4A perk: a laser-etched, laser-cut Beanie Sanfurbs coaster. — 00:08:11
  • 2021-02-19 · Bean Meme Review — Hank loves being part of the P4A with people: an extraordinary opportunity they didn't know they were getting into, resulting in wonderful moments. — 00:11:24
  • 2021-02-19 · Bean Meme Review — Hank: The P4A will send a lot of money to many charities, but Hank thinks it also has real-world impact on participants: stitchers, donors, chat, meme makers, idea makers and singers. — 00:12:30
  • 2021-02-19 · Bean Meme Review — Hank thanks everyone who made things, volunteered, appeared on the livestream, the mods, the core team, designers, organizers and schedulers: it takes a ton of work. — 00:12:52
  • 2021-02-19 · Bean Meme Review — Hank: Everyone puts in work, but Hank says the value that comes out of creating the P4A together is far bigger than the work put in. — 00:13:05
  • 2021-05-04 · What the Most-Viewed Vlogbrothers Videos Say about YouTube (and about us) — John: Since 2010, 9 of their 11 least viewed videos have been about the Project for Awesome, which raised over $12 million for charity in that time. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says Hank has an idea every 20 seconds and has called some 7,000 times saying he has a million-dollar idea; a million dollars per idea would give John about $7 billion, nearly 3% of Jeff Bezos’ wealth. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says that with ideas in general, Hank's job is to be extremely enthusiastic and his own is to be extremely dubious. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says Hank has had many wonderful ideas, from VidCon to SciShow to Subbable, and helped make amazing things. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says Hank has also had terrible ideas, such as Surprisingly Edible, a store selling only things that don't look edible, and Pelifans, an Only Fans for pelicans. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says a Hank idea that survives his anxious, dubious filter is a great one, and he has approved almost all of Hank's best ideas, almost without exception. — 00:00:58
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says he was right that 2D glasses didn't make a million dollars but wrong otherwise: they were very successful and changed both brothers' lives, because Hank realized his ideas could become things. — 00:01:46
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says the Awesome Socks Club raised over $700,000 for charity in its first year. — 00:02:45
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John hopes this is the year Hank proves him fully wrong and the club becomes a literal million-dollar idea, because it does a lot of good. (hedged) — 00:03:21
  • 2021-12-01 · Loving the Loves of Your Loves — announcement: John: Many collages were made as Project for Awesome perks; Sarah has now released some as DFTBA note cards, all proceeds to charity, John's favorite thank-you cards. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-12-17 · What State of Matter is Fire — announcement: Hank says this year's (2021) Project for Awesome calendar is available, released before the P4A so people can have it, celebrating Nerdfighteria's history with images from different eras. — 00:03:20
  • 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John says Hank has so many ideas that a website tracks days since he started a thing, and in a recent video John said Hank has an idea every 20 minutes and John's job is to say when they are bad. — 00:01:27

2022

2023

2024

2025

  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — Hank says the Project for Awesome is turning 18 this year (2025): the 18th annual P4A. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — Hank explains that the P4A has taken various forms but is mostly a 48-hour livestream raising money and awareness for organizations, with people worldwide helping decide where money goes. — 00:00:15
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — announcement: Hank announces that P4A 2025 video submissions open at noon Eastern on January 25 and run through February 8, submitted early rather than when the P4A starts. — 00:00:44
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — announcement: Hank announces an extended voting period: instead of only during the livestream, viewers get eight days, February 11 to 19, to watch videos and vote for organizations. — 00:01:06
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — announcement: Hank announces a new rule of one vote per organization per device, so viewers cannot vote for several videos of the same charity; the aim is to discover and support many organizations. — 00:01:20
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — ask: Hank hopes viewers make a P4A video, pointing them to projectforawesome.com for graphics, tips and information; videos must be new and made for P4A 2025. — 00:01:33
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — announcement: Hank announces the livestream runs February 14 to 16, starting on Valentine's Day. — 00:01:45
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — announcement: Hank says the Tiltify campaign runs the whole voting period, February 11 to 19, with improvements to perks. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — announcement: Hank announces perks will finally ship by cart in one shipment, saving money, though an order waits until everything is in the warehouse. — 00:02:05
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — announcement: Hank announces the physical download bundle returns with the t-shirt included, plus new surprise bundles he won't describe yet. — 00:02:20
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — announcement: Hank says that, as for many years, half the money goes to Save the Children and Partners In Health and half to charities viewers vote for. — 00:02:35
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — announcement: Hank says the livestream keeps its sleep breaks: they used to stream 24 hours a day but stopped, so the behind-the-scenes team can sleep. — 00:02:42
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — announcement: Hank says VODs will be available so viewers can catch up, step away to watch P4A videos and vote. — 00:02:58
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — Hank lists ways to take part: donate, make, watch or vote on videos, join the livestream, or donate at fightworldsuck.org any time of year. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — Hank calls the P4A very special and dear to his heart and thanks everyone who takes part. — 00:03:40
  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — Hank recalls two P4A taglines: the dangerous-day-to-get-paid slogan and 'make responsible financial decisions'. (playful) — 00:03:46
  • 2025-01-24 · Am I OK? — ask: Hank: With the Project for Awesome coming soon, Hank asks people who can donate more than $500 to join the matching fund via the description form, which goes to their dad, who runs the program. — 00:06:54
  • 2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — announcement: John says the Project for Awesome is this weekend and its fundraiser is already live. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — announcement: John says he is proud that half the money raised during the Project for Awesome will go to Save the Children and Partners In Health. — 00:04:22
  • 2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says he needs the Project for Awesome every year but really needs it this year (2025): it is silly and fun but also a serious fundraiser. — 00:04:22
  • 2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says the Project for Awesome has raised over $22 million for charity in the last 19 years. — 00:04:52
  • 2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — ask: John says the fundraiser is live, with perks including the first chapters of his next book and a signed postcard of a frog version of himself, all at projectforawesome.com/donate. — 00:04:52
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — announcement: Hank announces that the 2025 Project for Awesome begins now. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — announcement: Hank says half of the money raised during the Project for Awesome will support the work of Save the Children and Partners In Health. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — ask: Hank tells viewers that giving to the Project for Awesome supports the charities' work and also gets them perks. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — announcement: Hank says special guests commissioned their own frogs from frog artist Paige Tompkins this year (2025), available signed or digitally in the digital download bundle. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — announcement: Hank says the digital download bundle also has exclusive podcasts, videos and other art, including his old magazine collages. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — announcement: Hank says prints of his collages are available, each with a one-in-50 chance of getting an original, though buyers cannot pick which one, to keep fulfillment simple. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — announcement: Hank says he edited an hour-long compilation of crowd work, improv and material cut from his comedy special, recorded in clubs around the country, for the digital download bundle. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — announcement: Hank lists more perks: a merch bundle, a flat merch bundle, Nerdfighter art, a pin and a coin, all at projectforawesome.com/donate. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — ask: Hank invites viewers to vote on where half of the Project for Awesome money will go, finding charity videos and ways to vote at projectforawesome.com. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — ask: Hank asks viewers to watch the livestream at projectforawesome.com/live, where the brothers hang out with guests and are ridiculous, because doing some good right now will be nice. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — announcement: Hank says many things are planned and a guest schedule is at projectforawesome.com, but no one knows where the best moments will happen. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — ask: The description says the P4A fundraiser is still live and links the donation page. — video description
  • 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — John says he therefore picked a title no one would casually click on; the video is not really about tuatara digestion but about the Project for Awesome. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — John recalls that the brothers have run the Project for Awesome, an annual charity fundraiser, with Nerdfighteria since 2007. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — John says he has had a rough month professionally and personally and feels discouraged; the P4A came when he was tired and overwhelmed but needed a pick-me-up. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — John says over 10,000 people came together in the P4A and raised $3.6 million and counting while having a good time and being good to each other. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — John: The P4A reminded John that we do not need a them in order to create a strong us. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — John: The P4A gives John hope: he has only his little bucket for the fire, but others have theirs, and together we accomplish vastly more than alone. — 00:02:55
  • 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — John says that over its history the Project for Awesome has raised over $25 million for charity, which none of them could have done alone. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — John says the P4A is in-jokes and memes but also years of memories and familiar names: it is community, the thing built over 18 years he is proudest of, and thanks Nerdfighteria. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-02-21 · No Video Today!! — Hank reports that the 2025 Project for Awesome has raised $3,673,295. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-02-21 · No Video Today!! — Hank says this is the biggest Project for Awesome of all time by a fair margin. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-02-21 · No Video Today!! — Hank says he has had a post-Project for Awesome slump. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — John says that every seven to ten days for the last 20 years Hank has called him with an idea, inevitably a million-dollar idea. (playful) — 00:00:34
  • 2025-03-28 · Is This a Million Dollar Idea? — Hank concludes that making white-noise videos is a good business to be in, and wonders what it would be like to be in it for Partners In Health. — 00:00:23
  • 2025-03-28 · Is This a Million Dollar Idea? — announcement: Hank: If it works, Hank may look for other good sounds in the world and become a sound hunter for charity. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:42
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says Nerdfighteria, Crash Course, TB Fighters and the Project for Awesome taught him that small groups of people can bring about tremendous change. — 00:05:20
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John recalls Hank calling to say he had made the app with a developer named Bria; John thought the pitch brilliant and loved the idea of buyable beans like a Hank Bean. — 00:02:11
  • 2025-10-03 · Is It Time to Retire? — John finds it hard to imagine a world without Pizzamas or the Project for Awesome, but that world will eventually exist. — 00:02:51
  • 2025-10-21 · Is Book Publishing Dying? An Author's Perspective — John describes his favorite P4A perk, the Nerdfighter Art Perk: people worldwide make art valued at about $30, from plushies to paintings to knitted stuff, which is sent to someone who gets the perk. (hedged) — 00:05:19
  • 2025-10-21 · Is Book Publishing Dying? An Author's Perspective — John calls the art perk a lovely exchange of value that captures what the exchange of value ought to be in books and other art. — 00:05:49
  • 2025-10-21 · Is Book Publishing Dying? An Author's Perspective — ask: John asks viewers who want to make something for this year's (2025) Nerdfighter Art Perk to visit projectforawesome.com/physicalart by Wednesday (22 October 2025), October 29. — 00:05:49
  • 2025-10-24 · What Will Books Become? — ask: The description says P4A Nerdfighter Art submissions are open until Wednesday (29 October 2025), October 29, 2025 at projectforawesome.com/physicalart. — video description
  • 2025-10-24 · What Will Books Become? — ask: Hank reminds viewers that Nerdfighter art for the Project for Awesome is still open, with the link in the description. — 00:05:47
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John jokingly calls Crabulous Hank's most profound contribution to culture: a social media platform that can only be joined during the Project for Awesome and sends periodic crab photos or illustrations, and it is real. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John jokes that most of Hank's million dollar ideas are in fact single digit dollar ideas. (playful) — 00:03:53

2026

  • 2026-01-09 · There is Only One Source of Value — ask: The description says matching donations of more than $500 are open until noon EST on Sunday, February 8, 2026 at projectforawesome.com/matching. — video description
  • 2026-01-09 · There is Only One Source of Value — Hank says that is why years ago the brothers began working with Partners In Health and Save the Children during the Project for Awesome: they reject the idea that some lives are worth more. — 00:03:53
  • 2026-01-09 · There is Only One Source of Value — announcement: Hank says the Project for Awesome, a good and hopeful time every year, is just around the corner: February 13th to the 15th. — 00:03:53
  • 2026-01-09 · There is Only One Source of Value — ask: Hank asks those able to give more to become P4A matching donors (checks, stocks, donor-advised funds, credit cards, PayPal); matches can double, triple or quadruple donations during the livestream. — 00:04:26
  • 2026-01-13 · why we make art — John says the Project for Awesome, an annual fundraiser, has raised over $20 million for charity. — 00:00:58
  • 2026-01-13 · why we make art — announcement: John: In a mock 'message from our sponsor', John announces that the Project for Awesome begins in less than one month. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2026-01-13 · why we make art — ask: John tells viewers they can nominate a charity to receive P4A funds by making a video before February 8th; the description asks them to make one. — 00:00:58
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — Hank says it is time to prepare for the 19th annual Project for Awesome, a charity event raising money and awareness for charities doing important work worldwide. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank announces the P4A 2026 livestream begins at noon Eastern on Friday, February 13th and ends at noon Eastern on Sunday, February '5th'. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank: In a channel comment, asked whether they are taking breaks again, Hank says they are breaking similarly. — creator comment
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank says half the money goes to charities advocated for and voted on by the community, the other half split between Save the Children and Partners In Health. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank says many people have worked hard to make all the P4A information clear and organized on the website, linked in the description. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — ask: Hank says nominating a charity requires making a video and uploading it to YouTube; submissions are accepted from noon Eastern on Saturday, January 24th until Sunday (18 January 2026), February 8th. — 00:00:58
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank says P4A videos are advocacy for a charity you care about and must be made specifically for P4A 2026 using human intelligence and skills. — 00:00:58
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank announces that, as last year (2025), anyone can vote on which charities get P4A grants for eight days, from noon Eastern on Tuesday, February 10th until February 18th. — 00:01:27
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank announces this year's (2026) voting rule: one vote per charity per account, so no voting for several videos of one charity or across devices or days. — 00:01:27
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank says the account exists only to rein in people who game the system, will not be used to email voters, and asks people not to make burner emails to vote more. — 00:01:27
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank adds that accounts make it easier to see past votes and, with the new website backend, streamline voting data collection. — 00:01:57
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank says viewers donate to the P4A by getting perks on Tiltify during the same eight days that voting is open. — 00:01:57
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank says that, as last year (2025), several perks can go in one cart; it worked well and saved a lot on shipping. — 00:01:57
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank announces there are no pre-packaged physical bundles this year (2026): carts let buyers package their own bundle. — 00:02:26
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank says special guests will have limited-time items during their livestream appearances, with a schedule out the week before so viewers can plan. — 00:02:26
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank says P4A 2026 has an ocean theme, like a high school prom theme: Project for Awesome Under the Sea, with ocean-themed perks. (playful) — 00:02:55
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — Hank says he recorded the video in December, because the P4A planners now need videos well in advance rather than at the last second. — 00:02:55
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — Hank plays Connections, avoids the palindrome red herring, gets the purple group (biblical figures plus a letter) first and hits a 32-game streak. (playful) — 00:07:14
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — Hank plays TimeGuessr and fails to break 40: he guessed the years well but the places less so. (playful) — 00:15:56
  • 2026-01-20 · Am I ... Good? — John: The quote came from Zombicorns, a novella John wrote in 2010 for the Project for Awesome about a zombie apocalypse caused by corn monoculture. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-01-30 · Has Anyone Ever Accidentally Seen me Naked (Question Tuesday on a Friday) — Hank: For P4A Hank sought a high-quality possum mask (two-month lead time, too late), and has a list of balloon gags, very weird peanut butter someone sent him, and weird fruits from Miami Fruit. (playful) — 00:04:53
  • 2026-01-30 · Has Anyone Ever Accidentally Seen me Naked (Question Tuesday on a Friday) — Hank says you don't want to prepare too much for the Project for Awesome: you want to leave space for things to happen. — 00:04:53
  • 2026-02-06 · One week until P4A! — John says that since 2007 he and his brother Hank have hosted the Project for Awesome, an annual 24-hour charity livestream on YouTube with guest hosts viewers might recognize. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-02-06 · One week until P4A! — announcement: John announces that this year's (2026) P4A starts at noon Eastern on Friday, February 13, a good time to set a reminder. — 00:00:12
  • 2026-02-06 · One week until P4A! — John says last year's (2025) Project for Awesome raised over $3.7 million for charity. — 00:00:18
  • 2026-02-06 · One week until P4A! — ask: John says viewers can donate to get exclusive perks such as limited-edition signed art. — 00:00:22
  • 2026-02-06 · One week until P4A! — ask: John invites viewers to join the Project for Awesome from February 13 to 15 on the vlogbrothers YouTube channel. — 00:00:31
  • 2026-02-10 · I Was a Teenage Dirtbag — announcement: John says the 19th Project for Awesome starts in three days, but its fundraiser is already live with P4A-only perks such as a new episode of his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-02-10 · I Was a Teenage Dirtbag — John tells Hank the channel, the Project for Awesome and everything grown from them exist because he wanted to get closer to Hank through a shared project, which has worked for almost 20 years. — 00:03:47
  • 2026-02-10 · I Was a Teenage Dirtbag — announcement: John says Complexly will not be eligible for a Project for Awesome grant, because the brothers should not benefit even indirectly from the P4A. — 00:04:55
  • 2026-02-10 · I Was a Teenage Dirtbag — ask: John invites Hank and Nerdfighteria to the P4A livestream at projectforawesome.com/live, starting noon Eastern on Friday. — 00:05:08
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — announcement: Hank says the yearly Project for Awesome charity livestream begins today, moments or hours after he uploads, and thanks everyone for 19 years of it. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — announcement: Hank thanks viewers for their patience: P4A uses several new systems this year (2026), by choice or necessity, and the website broke a little yesterday but is now fixed. — 00:00:15
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — announcement: Hank says the Project for Awesome has already raised $88,000. — 00:00:26
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — announcement: Hank says the Tiltify perks include an unsigned fish print bundle: an artist was hired to make customized fish prints for all of the P4A guests, Hank included. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — announcement: Hank says Focus Friend users can get the Baked Beans bean, and all the money from it goes to the Project for Awesome. — 00:01:05
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — Hank says nonprofits often get access to grants and public funds unavailable to for-profits, since many foundations and agencies fund only registered nonprofits; this is how the Project for Awesome works. — 00:04:22
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — Hank concludes that usually organizations that should be nonprofits are, and those that should not are not, which is what makes the Project for Awesome possible. — 00:09:24
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — ask: Hank asks viewers to donate at projectforawesome.com/donate, where there are many perks. — 00:09:53
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — ask: Hank tells viewers they can vote at projectforawesome.com. — 00:09:53
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — ask: Hank asks viewers to watch the livestream on Vlogbrothers or at projectforawesome.com/live. — 00:09:53
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank opens the livestream with a bit: they skipped a year, so this is the 2027 Project for Awesome, held under the sea, and every 2026 problem is solved. (joke) — 00:16:04
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome has already raised over $432,000, thanks to its matching donors. — 00:17:31
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John worries that this year's (2026) P4A may have too many matching donors: for the first time he wonders whether they will raise enough to use the whole match. (hedged) — 00:17:31
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John grew a thick mustache for the Project for Awesome, planning it for about 16 weeks while Sarah asked why he didn't shave. — 00:20:40
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John brings back his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed only for the P4A, with an episode reviewing the Galapagos Islands and Kurt Vonnegut's novel Galapagos, for a $10 donation. — 00:24:03
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John lists P4A 2026 perks including exclusive Dear Hank and John episodes and a dadcast with Travis McElroy and Hank. — 00:24:45
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank admits that one year he offered a juice as a P4A perk; it was a huge mistake, too much work and maybe illegal, and was never sent out. (hedged) — 00:25:06
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome has passed half a million dollars. — 00:26:46
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John thanks the P4A 2026 matching donors (Partners In Health, Save the Children and hundreds of Nerdfighters) and the people who run the fund, including his father Mike Green. — 00:27:16
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank reports 72 of 300 of his signed fish prints left and 50 of 300 of John's. — 00:46:05
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John reports that the Partners In Health matching gift is maxed out, so each dollar now counts as $2.50. — 00:50:17
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John explains that P4A money pays for community health workers and children's services in refugee communities through Partners In Health and Save the Children, plus charities the community votes for. — 00:51:13
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says a Nerdfighter advisory group helps list the smaller charities that get P4A grants each year, which can be transformational, and that the P4A has raised about $17 million over the years. (hedged) — 00:51:43
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says the P4A livestream looks just like last year's (2025), although the company that hosted it before suddenly disappeared about a month ago. — 00:53:41
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank thanks the P4A livestream producers: the website is new and the whole back end of the Project for Awesome had to change. — 00:54:17
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says hundreds of matching donors came together to create $1.5 million of P4A 2026 matching funds, about as much as they could use. — 00:59:45
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John offers 20 prints of the Good News Bridge, which his mother painted after learning Hank's cancer was treatable rather than the worst case; John and his parents were on a walk there when they heard. — 01:00:55
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says the small Hanklerfish canvases he offers are experiments with new ways to make Hanklerfish: few, priced highly and about four inches across. — 01:02:03
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says his father Mike Green, who donated, helped run the P4A matching fund with Amy, and thanks his parents for making a P4A perk again this year (2026). — 01:02:42
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John announces he will host the next two hours of the P4A while Hank rests, joined by Dr. Joia Mukherjee of Partners In Health. — 01:05:49
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says he found early 2026 very stressful and difficult; he needs the Project for Awesome every year, but especially this year (2026). — 01:10:53
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $838,000, already more than any of the first ten Projects for Awesome. — 01:10:53
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — ask: Hank points viewers to the P4A videos at projectforawesome.com: half the money goes to Save the Children and Partners In Health and half to charities the community votes for. — 01:13:07
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — ask: John asks viewers who can to donate at projectforawesome.com/donate, and those who can't to watch P4A videos and vote for the charities they want supported. — 01:14:04
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says his new book, offered as a P4A perk in early form, is about the biology of cancer and his experience of having cancer; the perk is probably its first two chapters. (hedged) — 01:15:08
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says his 16-year-old son Henry, a very good boxer, will punch him when the P4A reaches a million dollars. — 01:17:37
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John grew the mustache for the P4A but not Pizzamas because he planned poorly for Pizzamas and did not want a thin mustache. — 01:22:47
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John calls the 19th Project for Awesome the most special thing he gets to do each year, and treasures that Nerdfighteria still exists and still makes things together. — 01:24:08
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the P4A makes meaningful change: community health workers hired in Lesotho, Save the Children's work in refugee camps he visited on the Syrian border, and small charities like This Star Won't Go Out. — 01:24:38
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says there are not many things like the Project for Awesome on the internet, and few that have lasted as long. — 01:25:07
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says P4A donations support structural change and individual lives like his friend Henry Reider, in the chat, whom he wrote Everything Is Tuberculosis about and who would not be alive without Partners In Health. — 01:42:50
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John thinks this is the 15th or 16th year the P4A has supported Partners In Health. (hedged) — 01:43:19
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says we can accomplish infinitely more together than alone, and the Project for Awesome always reminds him of it. — 01:45:36
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John adds two P4A perks: one of his own T-shirts from his wardrobe, and personalized book recommendations from him in a 10-minute conversation, for a large donation. — 01:50:18
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says only five of the ten T-shirts from his wardrobe are left and his personal book recommendations have sold out. — 01:58:11
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says the P4A digital download bundle includes a Delete This episode and Like Letters, the podcast he and Sarah make every year. — 02:00:14
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says this is the last year of P4A pressed pennies, because pennies are no longer being made. — 02:02:28
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John offers the 19th yearly P4A commemorative coin, which glows in the dark. — 02:03:25
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John offers 460 leftover signed quote posters from P4A 2024, each signed by one of Brennan Lee Mulligan, John, Hank, Alexis Nikole Nelson, Tyler Thrasher, Sabrina Cruz, Travis McElroy or the SciShow Tangents hosts. — 02:04:31
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says that for a $3,000 donation the creator of the Pizzamas role-playing game will host a one-shot with the donor. — 02:05:01
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome has passed a million dollars. — 02:08:07
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says an anonymous donor just gave $30,000, which he thinks is the biggest gift ever made during a P4A stream. (hedged) — 02:08:36
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John: After the P4A passes $1 million, John takes the live camera to his home gym, where his son Henry punches him in the stomach. — 02:09:17
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says the 2026 P4A has raised $1.065 million with matching, which he believes already passes each of the first 11 Projects for Awesome. (hedged) — 02:13:06
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says the P4A will not livestream continuously through its 46 hours: they learned a few years ago that streaming at 3 a.m. is too much, and want people to sleep. — 02:19:49
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says streaming the full 48 hours turned out not to raise more money or votes, so it was counterproductive. — 02:20:37
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says P4A 2026 donations are coming in at a rate between those of 2024 and 2025, closer to 2025. — 02:25:18
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John announces that tomorrow he will play Fortnite as a pacifist on the P4A stream with Stan Muller, co-founder of Crash Course Humanities. — 02:27:50
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John believes he released Zombicorns under a Creative Commons license, so it belongs to the public, but having it emailed is possible only during a P4A. (hedged) — 02:36:09
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says the 2026 Project for Awesome raised $1.1 million in its first two and a half hours. — 02:44:05
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says hosting the Project for Awesome is always exhausting, thrilling, nerve-wracking and wonderful; every year it goes astonishingly well thanks to the people who work on it in the background and all year. — 02:46:46
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John introduces a featured P4A video on menstrual health and dignity in Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan. — 02:47:56
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — ask: John explains how to vote in the 2026 Project for Awesome: open any video at projectforawesome.com and press the red 'vote for charity' button. — 02:51:29
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John thanks viewers for the 29,730 P4A 2026 votes so far; voters must register quickly, which helps prevent spam, traditionally a significant problem. — 02:52:12
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $1.116 million overall, with almost $400,000 in Tiltify donations. — 02:53:39
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says that, having done the Project for Awesome since 2007, he thinks its team has gotten very good at it. — 02:53:39
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John: Asked who Jared is, John says Jared is a crypto billionaire and also a concept, a divisive figure who sometimes appears during the P4A; the Projects for Awesome without him are John's favorites. (playful, hedged) — 02:55:03
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John tells a donor that, according to the website, 2026 is the last year of P4A pressed pennies because the mint is no longer making pennies, but he will advocate for doing them again. — 02:56:20
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the Project for Awesome is his favorite time of year, his favorite time to be a Nerdfighter and in general to be a person. — 02:56:57
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John thanks the anonymous donor of $30,000 earlier in the stream, the largest P4A 2026 gift by a factor of about 10. — 03:15:14
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says he is not convinced Twitter raises much money for the P4A, but knows it makes Hank really unhappy, and would rather see Hank happy. — 03:16:29
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John: Handing over to Hank, John says the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $1.144 million, ahead of 2023 and 2024 at this point and just behind 2025. — 03:18:39
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the most likely mascot of the 2026 Project for Awesome is '2027', which speaks to how good 2026 has been so far. (joke) — 03:20:07
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $1.185 million some three and a half to four and a half hours in. — 03:48:35
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says Katherine's Little Arts perk, 50 small canvases at $200 each, is almost gone already, with five of 50 left. — 03:51:29
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says Travis McElroy has made a yearly Project for Awesome podcast with him for nine years. — 03:52:47
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank: Continuing the 2027 bit, Hank says they fixed every problem by moving into the ocean and giving the fish the land: humans now have simple fish problems and the fish complicated human ones. (joke) — 03:56:56
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank: A P4A balloon task tells Hank to do the opposite of the next one, which says to dance the Macarena in total silence with a stern face, so he dances to the Macarena played backwards with a happy face. (playful) — 04:03:26
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank runs a donation poll on whether Jared appears on the P4A stream and states the Jared rules: 15 minutes' warning beforehand and no more than 15 minutes on stream. (playful) — 04:14:23
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank introduces the featured video from Ettore Rossetti for the Rossetti Brothers Pickleball Project for Awesome 2026. — 04:26:36
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank thanks a donor for a $10,000 gift that came in during his Batman segment. — 04:44:01
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank offers foil prints of the mural he and Sara Sandoval painted when he was in Los Angeles; 437 of 500 are left. — 04:46:51
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank lets donors vote on whether he plays Connections live on the P4A stream, noting that on Hank's Channel he edits out the parts where he is confused, so he always looks very smart. — 04:47:57
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank says the P4A pressed pennies were about destroying pennies, which they thought were bad; now that the penny is ending, he no longer has to worry about it. — 05:07:52
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says P4A 2026 voting and donations close in four days, 19 hours and 33 minutes. — 05:11:52
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank welcomes Tyler Thrasher as a guest on the P4A 2026 livestream. — 05:16:46
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says Tyler Thrasher has three P4A 2026 perks up, including a signed Tyler Thrasher fish print. — 05:22:06
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank confirms he wrote the foreword to Tyler Thrasher's new book The Universe in 100 Colors, signed copies of which are P4A 2026 perks. — 05:23:45
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says 20 or 50 of Tyler Thrasher's books are left and his glowing flowers are sold out, but items left in unpaid carts come back online about 10 minutes later. — 05:27:55
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — ask: Hank asks viewers to donate to the P4A and buy perks, because he wants to reach $500,000 before John comes back. — 05:29:25
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank: Continuing the 2027 bit, Hank tells Tyler Thrasher that after a war with the fish, the fish got the land and humans the ocean. (joke) — 05:42:36
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says the total is at $487,000, and $13,000 more would pop another balloon before John arrives. — 05:47:54
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank says three of Tyler Thrasher's 50 signed books are left as P4A 2026 perks. — 05:55:10
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank introduces a featured P4A video from giveinternet.org, 'No internet, no opportunity': potential does not matter without internet access. — 05:56:56
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank explains that the P4A raises money through a Tiltify campaign and other ways, and that half of it goes to Save the Children and Partners In Health, two extraordinarily effective global health organizations. — 06:01:35
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank: Showing his collection of Project for Awesome and Crash Course coins with his son Orin, Hank says they have been making the P4A coin for a long time. — 06:04:52
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank announces that P4A 2026 Tiltify donations have reached $500,000. — 06:17:16
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John opens a donation poll at projectforawesome.com/donate on whether he keeps his P4A mustache all weekend, looking like Ned Flanders, or shaves it that night. — 06:19:11
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — ask: John says that whether or not viewers can donate, they can be part of the P4A by voting at projectforawesome.com, which has had around 30,000 votes so far. — 06:37:38
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the P4A 2026 matching funds include $500,000 from a Save the Children matching donor and almost $1.5 million from Nerdfighters who came together to form a matching fund. — 06:40:31
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says the 2026 P4A has far more matching money than ever but less from Partners In Health, which slows the overall donation rate but keeps matching going much longer, each dollar counting as $2.50. — 06:41:16
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says the mustache poll ended in favour of shaving after someone gave about $2,000 at the end to have it shaved, which he calls a great decision. — 06:46:29
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the Project for Awesome has raised over $18 million for charity since it started. — 06:54:24
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the Project for Awesome began as a lark, an attempt to hack the YouTube algorithm for good: they were not thinking of raising money and had never made a dollar from YouTube. — 06:55:13
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John offers Sarah and Alice's Natural Intelligence portraits, strange collage portraits of human beings, as P4A perks, along with the right to name one for $100. — 07:07:23
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John: Taking up a suggestion, John says he will shave his mustache once the 2026 P4A total reaches $1.5 million. — 07:12:54
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome has reached $1.5 million, three quarters of the way to $2 million. — 07:24:29
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John: After the P4A passes $1.5 million, John shaves off his mustache on camera and feels profound relief, saying he looks 27. — 07:26:06
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says his guest Danielle Bainbridge offers two P4A perks: a review of someone's manuscript, which he might get himself, and a personal essay workshop. — 07:29:23
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says his father, who worked in nonprofits for most of his career, including the Nature Conservancy, offered to help with donor development and the matching fund, which now brings in about $1.5 million a year. — 07:34:32
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says Complexly, now a nonprofit, is a regular charity except that it is not eligible for Project for Awesome grants. — 07:45:08
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John introduces a featured P4A video from Habibi Works on what it has done over the last 10 years and how it has evolved to meet its community's needs. — 07:51:54
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says None Pizza with Left Beef also dates from 2007, making it as old as the Project for Awesome. — 07:56:58
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says his son is now 16 and his daughter 12 and a half, both younger than the Project for Awesome. — 07:57:56
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $1.526 million in total. — 07:58:58
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John: Asked for 2027 lore, John says what a relief it is that every problem was solved by 2027: in February 2026 he doubted civilization would get through, and now everyone lives under the water. (joke) — 08:00:12
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says he has read a couple of versions of the manuscript of Hank's book about cancer, offered as a P4A perk, and calls it brilliant on how cancer works and what it wants. — 08:05:05
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John calls a viewer's idea, a super digital download bundle of earlier bundles for the 20th Project for Awesome, a great idea. — 08:06:01
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the 2026 Project for Awesome could reach $2 million that night or early the next morning. (hedged) — 08:07:18
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John announces that P4A 2026 Tiltify donations have passed $550,000. — 08:07:47
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John launches a signed mystery book perk: a signed copy of one of his books, such as Turtles All the Way Down, Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed or Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 08:08:39
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the $100 signed mystery books sold out quickly because they were underpriced, a lesson learned: they will not underprice them next time. — 08:09:51
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — John says the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $1.56 million in total, after $560,000 of Tiltify donations. — 00:09:03
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — John says the 2026 Project for Awesome is $440,000 away from $2 million and expects Hank to raise that in the next two hours. (playful) — 00:09:33
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank pops balloons holding tasks as the Project for Awesome passes fundraising marks: at $560,000 raised, the next comes at $575,000; he says he has already done the one he dreaded most. — 00:11:52
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — announcement: Hank offers the DadCast, his podcast with Travis McElroy about being dads, as a Project for Awesome perk on its own or in the digital download bundle. — 00:41:49
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — announcement: Hank lists P4A perks including an exclusive Hank's channel video and an exclusive episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed, John's podcast that has not had an episode in years. — 01:02:29
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — ask: Hank: Thanking Erika Ishii and Travis McElroy, Hank asks viewers who want to donate to go to projectforawesome.com/donate. — 01:02:29
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank says the P4A Tiltify, where people donate for perks, has raised $589,000, and matching donors make each donation worth about double. — 01:16:02
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $1.6 million in total. — 01:16:29
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank explains that the Project for Awesome splits the money it raises: half goes to Save the Children and Partners In Health, half to organizations the community votes for. — 01:19:43
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank tells Demi Adejuyigbe that it is secretly 2027 and every problem has been fixed, though a few things happened in those twelve months. (joke) — 01:21:58
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank: After a featured video for Thrive Youth Center, Hank explains that money raised at projectforawesome.com/donate is split among charities according to viewers' votes. — 02:04:21
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank offers confetti for the 'Project for Awesome 2027', saying he means 2027 because everyone knows the actual situation. (joke) — 04:12:52
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank opens a donation poll on whether Jared visits the late-night stream and states the Jared rules: he stays no longer than 15 minutes, with a 15-minute warning. — 04:13:19
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank says the Project for Awesome Tiltify stands at $661,000 and doubts it can gain $100,000 in his last shift. (hedged) — 04:17:01
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank says the Project for Awesome Tiltify has raised $671,000 and is unsure it will reach $700,000. (hedged) — 04:39:03
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank: Introducing a featured video for the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, Hank calls the Project for Awesome and Nerdfighteria wide-ranging and wide-branching. — 04:39:55
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank plays a Project for Awesome Bingo card that someone from This Star Won't Go Out made. — 05:05:22
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank: On the Project for Awesome Bingo card, Hank counts that John drank his Diet Dr Pepper in the first stream and says John will get a makeover tomorrow. — 05:08:38
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank says he knows everyone will make it through this year (2026) because he is in 2027. (joke) — 05:26:02
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank says about 2,000 people are still watching late at night and he had hoped the P4A Tiltify would reach $700,000 before he goes to bed, $20,000 in half an hour. — 05:26:30
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — announcement: Hank promises to do a Banana Loca if the Project for Awesome Tiltify reaches $690,000 in the next ten minutes. — 05:26:58
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank: Speaking as Casey Kasem from 2027, Hank extends the 2027 bit: a squid attack destroyed New York City, humanity came together, and people gained the entire ocean. (joke) — 05:31:10
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank announces that the Project for Awesome Tiltify has reached $690,000 within the ten minutes. — 05:35:44
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank reports that the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $1.9 million. — 05:49:12
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank: Near the end of his shift, Hank says the Project for Awesome Tiltify stands at $696,000, short of $700,000. (hedged) — 05:55:10
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank: Signing off for the night, Hank thanks the Project for Awesome staff, the matching donors and Dr. Joia Mukherjee. — 05:58:50
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John says Stan Muller narrates the Zombicorns audiobook, available only as a Project for Awesome perk, and that a $10 donation counts as $25 thanks to matching donors. — 00:09:38
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John says the 2026 Project for Awesome is now $28,000 away from $2 million. — 00:10:07
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $2 million. — 00:23:54
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says that if the 2026 Project for Awesome raises $3 million, his dream number, the P4A will have raised about $30 million in its history. (hedged) — 00:23:54
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says the Tiltify stands near $750,000, but with matching donations every dollar donated counts as $2.50. — 00:29:07
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John thanks the matching funders, who have made the 2026 Project for Awesome two and a half times more lucrative than it would otherwise be. — 00:29:31
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says the P4A has run every year since 2007 except one year off to move from December to February, which is why 2026 is the 19th annual edition, not the 20th. — 00:32:44
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says P4A 2026 videos have had over 40,000 votes, and half the money raised goes to charities chosen by those votes. — 00:33:09
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — ask: John tells viewers that even if they cannot donate they are a huge part of the P4A, because their votes decide where the money goes. — 00:33:09
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John says the current featured P4A video is from This Star Won't Go Out. — 00:36:58
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says Esther Earl, part of the group Catitude, was in some ways a co-founder of the Project for Awesome, and that its current director, Lindsay Ballantyne, was also in Catitude. — 00:37:32
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says the P4A usually gives money to a couple dozen organizations, and for small ones a $50,000 or $60,000 grant is a huge amount. — 00:39:47
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says the money the P4A is raising hires community health workers in Lesotho and responds to refugee crises around the world. — 00:39:47
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says the Project for Awesome is not only about how fast it can raise money but how long, doing a good job over the long term. — 00:45:45
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John: As a P4A perk, John is bringing back The Anthropocene Reviewed with reviews of the Galápagos Islands and of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Galápagos. — 00:46:40
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says Epic Games, which he loves, is a longtime supporter of the Project for Awesome. — 00:52:16
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John says this is the last year the Project for Awesome offers pressed pennies as a perk. — 01:02:51
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John repeats Joia Mukherjee's point that change needs not a majority but enough really committed, organized people pointing their attention and love in the same direction. — 01:06:46
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John says they are trying to reach $1 million on the Tiltify, which would mean over $2.5 million raised for the 2026 Project for Awesome. — 01:07:34
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says not all the Project for Awesome's money has come from Nerdfighteria, but the vast majority has, and that makes him really proud. — 01:08:02
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says using the money the Project for Awesome has raised to hire community health workers and midwives in Lesotho and Sierra Leone makes a lot more sense than spending $30 million on a yacht or a private plane. — 01:09:15
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — ask: John asks viewers to donate to this year's (2026) Project for Awesome at projectforawesome.com/donate. — 01:12:23
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says that thanks to the matching donors a $200 donation means $500 raised for the Project for Awesome. — 01:14:41
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says the 2026 matching fund raised over $1.5 million, because his dad and his colleague Amy are too good at raising money for it. — 01:15:11
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John says the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised over $2.1 million with some 24 hours and 30 minutes left. — 01:39:12
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John introduces a featured video about Climate Ed, a UK-based organization teaching elementary-school children climate science through the Do One Thing method, and invites votes at projectforawesome.com. — 01:44:29
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says the overall 2026 Project for Awesome total is $2,129,464.96, and he hopes to hand over to Hank at over $2.15 million. — 01:59:06
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John launches three personalized book recommendation perks: for a very significant donation, a 10-minute Zoom call in which he recommends books, a perk he loves for meeting Nerdfighters. — 02:07:05
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John celebrates reaching $800,000 raised at the Tiltify before Hank comes on. — 02:11:08
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank: Taking over at $800,000, Hank says he is confident the 2026 Project for Awesome will hit a million dollars raised at the Tiltify. — 02:13:16
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: Hank says 396 of 675 mystery perks are left: random sets of three or four perks from past P4As. — 02:14:02
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: Hank calls the 2026 Project for Awesome shirt, a giant squid that came to save us, his favorite shirt ever; it is a P4A exclusive. — 02:15:23
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John lists P4A perks: a glow-in-the-dark commemorative coin for a $40 donation and a Hanklerfish enamel pin for $30. — 02:18:47
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank says Jared cashed out of crypto at the top and is now in AI, vibe coding a pretzel factory. (playful) — 02:19:36
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: Hank says John's $3,000 personalized book recommendation perks have sold and been taken down, and the total is now $820,000. — 02:23:38
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank: With 3,269 people watching, Hank says P4A viewership stays fairly consistent, barely ever dropping by over half even late at night. — 02:28:52
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank says Katherine watches the whole Project for Awesome stream, sometimes with it playing while she is asleep in bed. — 02:29:29
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank: Greeting Alexis Nikole, Hank says everyone at the Project for Awesome knows it is actually 2027 and everything has been fixed in the last 12 months. (playful) — 02:30:37
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: Hank says Katherine has been making beautiful little artworks as P4A perks, which sell so fast they need no marketing. — 05:26:01
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: Hank announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome has hit $900,000 raised at the Tiltify, and fires a confetti popper. — 05:35:16
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank: At $906,000, Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome is going to get to a million dollars today, though he doesn't know how. (hedged) — 05:45:53
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank tells Drawfee that early in the stream he called the P4A 2027: a year was skipped and everyone now lives underwater. (playful) — 05:48:21
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: Hank says the Project for Awesome logo on the website is covered in ferns, which confused him when he woke up. — 05:49:27
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank explains that the Project for Awesome raises money and the community then votes on some of the charities that receive it. — 06:19:37
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: Hank announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $2.5 million in total, fires a confetti cannon and thanks the staff. — 06:32:28
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome is more than halfway through, at $2.5 million and not far from $1 million raised during the stream alone, with 46,000 votes cast. — 06:33:11
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank: Looking at the yearly fundraising graph, Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome has recently pulled ahead of 2023. — 06:36:51
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John: Asked by Hank what the Renaissance after the current disaster looks like, John says that in 2027 things are great, with a lot more art making. (playful) — 06:49:02
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John says the P4A is close to $950,000 at the Tiltify and to maxing out Save the Children's donation: Save the Children found a matching donor for $500,000 of donations to it. — 06:50:02
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says each donated dollar now counts as $2.50, but after a million dollars it will count as $2. — 06:50:02
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John leaves Hank to host the Project for Awesome, saying he will be back in a couple of hours. — 06:53:28
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank explains the Nerdfighter art perk: people send in art they make, maybe 10 or 20 pieces each, which is pooled and sent out as a collection, so a donor can get two. — 06:53:56
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank says the production of the Nerdfighter art perks is all volunteer time, a way people can contribute without spending money. — 06:54:36
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank thanks everybody for donating responsibly, because during the Project for Awesome we make responsible financial decisions. (playful) — 06:56:36
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank says the stream has raised $951,000, with ten minutes left in his shift. — 06:59:18
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank says half the money donated to the 2026 Project for Awesome goes to Partners In Health and Save the Children, and the other half to charities voted on by viewers. — 07:03:13
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome has now raised $2.55 million in total. — 07:04:25
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome has definitely passed 2023 and is trying to get toward 2024, while 2022 is above every other year because it was a weird year. — 07:04:46
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank explains that 2022 was the P4A's best year because there was suddenly more disposable income in the economy. — 07:04:46
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank says the P4A is currently raising around $4,000 to $6,000 every 10 minutes. — 07:05:16
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John finds it metaphorically resonant that the first birth came during the Project for Awesome, since the hospital would not exist without the P4A and the community pushing the brothers toward charity. — 00:07:36
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John says the 2026 Project for Awesome is just ahead of 2024 and just behind 2025 but has more matching funds, and he is confident it can catch up with 2025 if donations keep their pace. — 00:09:27
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John says a $100 donation to the 2026 Project for Awesome buys the right to name one of the collage faces made by Alice and Sarah. — 00:10:33
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John says the money raised at the Project for Awesome over the years is now close to $30 million. — 00:12:02
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John: Every year John takes ten books from his own library, signs them and donates them as Project for Awesome perks. — 00:13:36
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John says the 2026 Project for Awesome has just passed $2.7 million, $300,000 short of $3 million, and every dollar donated now counts as two. — 00:15:58
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John says 2026 is probably the last year of the Project for Awesome's pressed pennies, a perk since the fundraiser began, because pennies are no longer made. (hedged) — 00:32:30
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John is relieved that a painter spells his name Jarid, because the Jared of Project for Awesome lore is very problematic and has gotten into AI big time. (playful) — 00:34:34
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John lets Alice write on his face with a Sharpie the initials of donors giving over $100 in the last 14 minutes of the hour; Alice and Sarah cover his face with names. — 00:37:56
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — ask: John tells viewers who cannot donate that they are still essential to the Project for Awesome through their votes at projectforawesome.com, which decide where the money goes. — 00:47:51
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John calls the 19th Project for Awesome a really special one because the Maternal Center of Excellence delivered its first baby that day. — 00:55:02
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John recalls that in 2007 and 2008 the early Project for Awesome raised no money but hijacked the YouTube algorithm to make it about charity for a day. — 01:34:09
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John says the Project for Awesome slowly became a fundraiser and a way to draw attention to charities and get people excited about what we can accomplish together as a species. — 01:34:38
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John thanks Alan Lastufka and the others who started the Project for Awesome in 2007, and marvels at what Nerdfighteria has accomplished over 20 years. — 01:34:38
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John: Over a divisive poll between mushy peas and baked beans, John jokes that splitting people into camps is just what the Project for Awesome looks for, because the internet runs on division. — 01:36:19
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank tells Destin Sandlin that for him it is already 2027: 2026 is over and every problem has been fixed. (joke) — 02:06:21
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome Tiltify crossed $1 million a little while earlier and now stands at $1,080,000. — 02:11:14
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank says that this year (2026), as last year (2025) with another artist, the Project for Awesome had art made based on each livestream guest. — 02:18:01
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank's signed fish prints are on sale as 2026 Project for Awesome perks, with 85 of 300 left. — 02:48:02
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank calls an anonymous donation of $30,000 the biggest the 2026 Project for Awesome has received. — 02:48:56
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank says resources are not equally distributed, but when everyone joins in, some give $30,000, some $100 and some only vote and hang out, and none of these is much better than the others: it's just people. — 02:50:14
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank hands over to crunch time, a P4A tradition in which Miriam's dog Darcy crunches carrots in exchange for donations. — 02:52:47
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank has no doubt the Tiltify will reach the night's goal of $1,207,000, where the community-voting organizations' matching funds max out, during his shift, and thinks it should far exceed it. — 05:00:49
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank says one-off auctions never really move the needle in the Project for Awesome, because they can only be done once. — 05:01:43
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank calls auctioning signed chunks of Jared, the P4A mascot, his most controversial Project for Awesome idea and puts it to a donor poll. (joke) — 05:03:28
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome total has reached $3 million. — 05:07:40
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank offers to answer, for the next 30 minutes, the question of anyone who donates over $50. — 05:24:42
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank: Asked what he would tell himself after the first Project for Awesome, Hank says very little: some intel on certain people he might not want to work with, and that he is headed in the right direction. — 05:29:45
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank explains that 2026 Hank cannot appear: Hank left 2026 behind without living it, brought forward into 2027. (joke) — 05:33:52
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank's favorite Project for Awesome mascot of all time is his friend Beanie Sanfurbs. — 05:43:16
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank thanks the matching donors, everyone behind the scenes making the Project for Awesome happen and all the guests, saying he hasn't said it enough. — 05:56:55
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank: To reach the night's goal, Hank tells donors that a donation over $500 gets their name written on his face. — 06:14:01
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome has hit its Tiltify goal for the night with time to spare. — 06:29:13
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank activates a power boost of matching funds; the match will be used up when the Tiltify reaches $1.5 million, after which each dollar donated is one dollar to charity. — 06:33:46
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank eats weird fruit sent for the Project for Awesome by a Nerdfighter in Miami who runs a weird fruit business, Miami Fruit. — 06:39:09
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank: With the goal reached, Hank sets the next aim at $1.5 million, where the match maxes out; the Tiltify stands at $1.216 million. — 06:53:12
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank celebrates the 2026 Project for Awesome reaching $3.1 million. — 07:05:02
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank says the last power boost of P4A 2026 matching funds is active, multiplying donations 2.5 times. — 07:14:39
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — ask: Hank says the power boost stays active until the Tiltify reaches $1.5 million, which it might not, leaving matching money on the table, and urges viewers to push to $1.5 million. — 07:15:17
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome livestream will go hard for its last couple of hours on the morning of 15 February and sell all the perks left. — 07:15:17
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank lists the P4A 2026 perks still available: 34 of his signed fish cards, two chapters of his audiobook, digital downloads, an exclusive Dear Hank and John and Fortnite played as a pacifist. — 07:15:52
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank: In the poll for the P4A 2026 mascot, the P-Fern-A (as heard) leads, with 2027 close behind and Bat Hank, Non-Fungible Jared and Party Worm among the other candidates. — 07:15:52
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank backs the fern in the P4A 2026 mascot poll. — 07:16:35
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John: Talking with Rosianna Halse Rojas in the final three hours of the 2026 Project for Awesome, John says that when the next goal is hit, Alice will do his makeup. — 02:09:07
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says they know what it takes to make this the most successful Project for Awesome of all time, but also that it is okay if it is not: both things can be true. — 02:10:39
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John calls Rosianna Halse Rojas a long-time Project for Awesome hero, involved since 2007. — 02:11:09
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — ask: John: Thanks to a power boost activated by website manager John Lee, every dollar donated counts as $2.50 to the 2026, or arguably 2027, Project for Awesome until the boost runs out, so John says now is the best time to donate. — 02:12:21
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John thanks the Project for Awesome team: the Foundation to Decrease World Suck board, producers Laura Chernikoff, Lindsay Ballantyne, Sari Riley, Sylvia Roma Miller and Amy Darling, the web, design, perk and social media staff, moderators, video reviewers and matching donors. — 02:12:52
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says P Fern A is winning the poll for Project for Awesome mascot, good news for him since he has never had a mascot: Hank always is the mascot. (playful) — 02:14:05
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the Project for Awesome and the Maternal Center of Excellence are separate projects, but without the P4A the hospital could never have existed, since Nerdfighteria would never have grown as it has or had its values. — 02:15:23
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John sets the next goal at $3.3 million raised in total, and Alice will do his makeup once it is reached. — 02:15:53
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John explains his book-recommendation perk: a 10 or 15 minute Zoom conversation about the donor's taste in books, then a list of recommendations; if all sell, they will have raised about $75,000 for charity. — 02:16:22
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John says this year's (2026) Project for Awesome T-shirt shows a giant squid attacking New York City, in the name of good, alongside the P4A sweatshirt. — 02:24:20
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John: A $12,000 gift from the donor Pythagonal takes the 2026 Project for Awesome over the $3.3 million goal, to $3.308 million, and John says he is a little sick. — 02:25:59
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John: At $3.339 million in total and $1.305 million on Tiltify, John says it is truly possible this will be the biggest Project for Awesome ever, which happens at $1.479 million on Tiltify, $174,000 away. — 02:35:45
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the Tiltify stands at $1.305 million and the 2026 Project for Awesome becomes the biggest of all time at $1.479 million, $174,000 away. — 02:36:11
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John recently reread Zombicorns, the zombie apocalypse novella he wrote about 15 years ago for the Project for Awesome, the first time he had ever reread his own work, and found he liked it and was proud of himself. — 02:36:45
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — ask: John says voting at projectforawesome.com stays open for three days: half the money raised goes to Partners In Health and Save the Children, half to charities chosen by viewers, so they should watch P4A videos and vote. — 02:39:24
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: Told by the chat that this is his second year as a P4A mascot, John agrees that Silly Nelson was a mascot in a past year and says he is making a comeback in silliness. (playful, hedged) — 02:39:49
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John announces a new 2027-themed poll on the best thing about 2027: living underwater, the fish having the land, six-seven being over, Harry Styles as prime minister, all human problems solved, or the lungs on our backs. (playful) — 02:40:57
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John's day after the P4A is a recovery day with no meetings, so he can watch the Olympics, which he loves; he cries a little every time anyone wins a gold medal. — 02:42:24
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John says voting on P4A videos runs to the end of the fundraiser in three days; the stream will focus on fundraising for its last two hours and 27 minutes, with Hank joining at 11 o'clock. — 02:46:02
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John says this is the last year the Project for Awesome is offering pressed pennies, and the commemorative coin, different every year, glows in the dark this year (2026). — 02:48:49
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — ask: John says they totally understand if people cannot donate; everybody should watch Project for Awesome videos and vote for the charities they want supported, and over 50,000 votes have been cast. — 02:49:18
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: The 2026 Project for Awesome passes $3.4 million; John says about $117,000 more on Tiltify will make it the biggest ever, thanks to matching donors who put up over $1.5 million. — 02:54:09
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: Thanking a donor on his 17th P4A, John says being trusted with a place in people's lives for 17 years is very special, and welcomes first-timers: they always need new Nerdfighters. — 02:55:36
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John was 29 when they started and is now 48; he does not know if he will still make videos every Tuesday when it is half his life, but suspects he will still be doing the Project for Awesome. (hedged) — 02:56:32
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John calls the $75 digital download bundle, with every digital perk including two chapters of Hank's new book, the steal of every Project for Awesome. — 02:57:19
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: With "all human problems being solved" leading the poll on the best thing about 2027, John says that in early 2026 it felt far away, and getting it done in a year is a testament to humanity. (joke) — 02:59:08
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John explains that $1.36 million has been raised on Tiltify, but with the over $1.5 million matching donors raised before the P4A, the total is $3.416 million. — 03:00:57
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John asks people not to donate if they cannot afford it: deciding where the money goes matters as much as raising it, since the P4A has always crowdfunded the money and crowdsourced its destination, from big organizations to small ones. — 03:01:29
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: Agreeing with a viewer, John says the first few Project for Awesomes were not fundraisers at all but an attempt to take over the YouTube front page and hijack an algorithm that was then unsophisticated. — 03:03:00
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says YouTube is now larger and more complex, with an algorithm better at capturing and holding human attention as long as possible, the only thing it is trained to do, so the P4A now fights on a different front. — 03:03:00
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the grand total chart looks like a straight line up and the 2026 Project for Awesome appears on pace to beat 2025, at least for now. (hedged) — 03:03:46
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: Asked whether YouTube once helped host a P4A, John says they don't talk about that year: they raised little and it was weird, though Bo Burnham was there. — 03:04:16
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says $1,466,129.92 on Tiltify will max out the power boost and all matching funds; at $1.351 million, about $110,000 is left. — 03:08:09
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the best thing about the Project for Awesome to him is that Nerdfighters around the world make stuff and Nerdfighters around the world get stuff. — 03:09:03
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says this is the 19th Project for Awesome; they have done it or something like it since 2007, in long livestreams full of silliness, joy and hope. — 03:15:49
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says this is his 19th P4A and he has never missed one; he has a cold, likely brought home by a sixth grader, and slept badly because he kept his phone by the bed despite Sarah's objection. — 03:16:45
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John: The 2026 Project for Awesome reaches $3.5 million, which John celebrates with Henry's choco pies, at 10:13 in the morning with an hour and 47 minutes left. — 03:21:01
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says that with $3.5 million raised, the Project for Awesome has now raised over $30 million in its history. (hedged) — 03:21:37
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: At $1.372 million on Tiltify, $107,000 short of the biggest P4A in history, John says they will definitely get there; the open question is whether during the livestream or after. — 03:22:05
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: Hank arrives 45 minutes early, which John calls a Project for Awesome miracle, and John goes to get coffee while Hank hosts. (playful) — 03:23:16
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome is about to pass the biggest grand total ever raised: it needs $3.7 million and stands at $3.5 million, less than 10% away. — 03:24:55
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John calls the idea that a viral thread will save the 2026 Project for Awesome ludicrous, as it is doing fine; Hank answers he is just trying to do the best they can and reach people who forgot. (playful) — 03:29:41
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John says voting and the Tiltify fundraiser end on Wednesday, February 18 at 11:59 a.m. Eastern, while the livestream ends in an hour and 38 minutes. — 03:30:36
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says Hank being early made his day, the biggest thrill of the Project for Awesome in 19 years for him; Hank admits he thought he was 15 minutes late. (playful) — 03:31:05
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank: To send subscribers a notification, Hank records a Vlogbrothers video on the stream, telling John it is the last hour of the Project for Awesome and asking everyone to join, then edits and uploads it. (playful) — 03:35:31
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says Vlogbrothers videos are known for the best comments because they have the best moderators; livestream chats are not known for quality, but P4A conversations are meaningful and full of wonder and hope thanks to good mods. — 03:39:56
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says his next platform will be Jared's vibe-coded pretzel factory, which accidentally became a content platform, Pretzel Tube. (joke) — 03:41:51
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank: The 2026 Project for Awesome passes $3.6 million, $72,000 from the biggest ever; Hank's 37-second Vlogbrothers video, titled "I'm deleting this video in one hour", has eight views. — 03:42:41
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says over $206,000 has come from the power boost alone; the 2026 P4A is past $3.6 million in total and $1.418 million on Tiltify, $60,000 from the biggest ever. — 03:46:18
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says he has not seen donations come in like this since 2026, the year they did not actually live because things went bad, until the Project for Awesome turned everything around. (joke) — 03:47:39
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — ask: John says people who cannot afford to donate still have an important role: watching P4A videos and voting for the charities that receive half the money; if you are broke, don't donate, do vote. — 03:54:05
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — ask: Hank adds that everyone should vote on Project for Awesome videos and also vote in general, one of the ways they fixed everything in 2026. (playful) — 03:54:34
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John: A big donation uses up all the matching funds, leaving the 2026 Project for Awesome $5,000 from being the biggest ever. — 03:56:27
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John: The 2026 Project for Awesome becomes the biggest of all time, pushed over the line by a donation John credits to Azra the cat, an hour and ten minutes before the livestream's end. — 03:57:19
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John: The 2026 Project for Awesome passes $1.5 million raised on Tiltify. — 04:02:56
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank notes they just raised more in ten minutes than ever before, about $100,000, maybe the biggest ten minutes in Project for Awesome history; the end is bigger than the beginning. (hedged) — 04:04:03
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: At $1.512 million on Tiltify and $3.773 million in total, the 2026 Project for Awesome is already the biggest ever and $27,000 from $3.8 million. — 04:05:57
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the Project for Awesome is impactful and brings together a community at the same time, a reminder that doing good can also be fun: good and fun are not opposites, and it is his favorite time of every year. — 04:12:08
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John: The 2026 Project for Awesome passes $3.8 million raised, the biggest of all time. — 04:14:10
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says that last year (2025) it took until three days after the livestream to reach $3.7 million. — 04:14:39
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — ask: John: With 54 minutes left, John asks viewers to hang out for the rest of the P4A on this Sunday (22 February 2026) morning, with the Olympics in the background, as he is doing. — 04:14:39
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says the Project for Awesome had 19,000 donors in 2024 and 24,000 in 2025. — 04:18:17
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — ask: Hank says the success of the P4A is a function of the number of people in chat and asks viewers to get people they know into the chat in the last hour. — 04:20:00
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John is not sure the number of people in chat decides the P4A's success; he thinks it is partly due to the quality of the people in chat. — 04:20:00
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says some streams with even more viewers than the P4A livestream raise less money, and the P4A has a lot to be proud of. — 04:20:28
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says many viewers have no money to give and many do, but everyone is focusing attention on the Project for Awesome at once, and the focus is the thing that does the work. — 04:20:57
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John thanks the Project for Awesome team, saying their work is a year-round thing, and he is proud to work with such amazing people on such an amazing project every year. — 04:23:12
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: Showing the P4A shirt, John jokes that the giant squid came upon Earth and solved all their problems by uniting humanity: the giant squid of 2026. (joke) — 04:25:40
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says Katherine has a cold and he has one too, perhaps caught from her, during the P4A. — 04:26:56
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John: The Nerdfighter art perk officially sells out during the 2026 Project for Awesome. — 04:27:41
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank wants to know that time invested in a social media platform can lead to an outcome he cares about, like the Project for Awesome doing better, and thinks the answer is no. — 04:31:57
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says that this morning the 2026 P4A was about $100,000 behind earlier years, and now it has caught up and shot past. — 04:35:19
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John calls the last two hours the most stunning in the Project for Awesome's history. — 04:38:31
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — ask: John says next year (2027) will be the 20th Project for Awesome and asks for fun, silly, nostalgic ideas, such as bringing back the best perks of past digital download bundles or every year's mascot. — 04:41:09
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the Project for Awesome is truly one of the oldest fundraisers and is more powerful than ever. — 04:41:47
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank: For the 20th P4A, Hank suggests calling YouTube's head honchos to bring back the most discussed page for one day, hard-coded to show only Project for Awesome videos. (playful) — 04:41:47
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: At $72,000 short of $4 million, John thinks they will get there, probably not on the livestream but eventually. — 04:47:28
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: Hank says Focus Friend users can get the baked beans bean, and that money also goes to the Project for Awesome; John thanks him for making a bean just for the P4A. — 04:48:58
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank: As the 2026 P4A passes $1.7 million on Tiltify, Hank says $200,000 has been raised since he arrived. — 04:53:15
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John: The 2026 Project for Awesome passes $4 million during the livestream, reaching $4,018,000: the first time the P4A ever came near $4 million, they blew past it. — 04:59:42
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says that as a professional Project for Awesome pay-attentioner he had said they would not get to $4 million, and then they did. (playful) — 05:01:25
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says 56,924 votes for charities have been cast at projectforawesome.com. — 05:01:54
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank explains how the money works: it all goes into the Foundation to Decrease World Suck; after paying perk shipping costs, half the pool goes to Partners In Health and Save the Children and half is shared among the organizations voted for at projectforawesome.com, and the Foundation zeroes out its bank account every year. — 05:03:22
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says that two hours earlier the 2026 P4A stood at $3.2 million, and now it is at $4.03 million. — 05:05:38
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says about $70,000 was raised in the ten minutes before the $4 million mark. — 05:06:27
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank recalls that leaving comments on YouTube videos was long a big part of P4A because it confused YouTube's algorithms into promoting charity videos, but that had stopped working. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank recalls that at the 2011 Project for Awesome they pledged $10,000 to Partners In Health for its work in Haiti for a number of comments, he thinks their first direct gift to PIH. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says they oriented a lot of the Project for Awesome toward Partners In Health. — 00:02:55
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says recruiting Project for Awesome matching donors was a big part of it. — 00:02:55
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — announcement: Hank announces that this weekend, during P4A, which was instrumental in building the Paul E. Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital, the first baby was born in Sierra Leone's first NICU. — 00:03:49
  • 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the Project for Awesome raised over $4.2 million. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John hails Hank as inventor of 2D Glasses, TikTok science guy, Crash Course, VidCon and Project for Awesome man, best-selling novelist, Billboard-charting musician and Emmy winner. (playful) — 00:00:13
  • 2026-05-15 · The Weirdest Thing About Dogs (and Cats (and Horses)) — announcement: Hank announces the Project for Awesome 2026 grant recipients, congratulates them and points to a link in the description. — 00:05:10
  • 2026-07-08 · Project for Awesome Recap Video 2026!! — The description thanks everyone for the very goofy good fun, Tuna for editing this recap, and all of the donors. — video description
  • 2026-07-08 · Project for Awesome Recap Video 2026!! — both: The recap opens with a montage of greetings from the livestream: the brothers, guests including Freddie Wong, and viewers greeting from places like Alaska, Australia and a Vegas hot tub. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-07-08 · Project for Awesome Recap Video 2026!! — Hank: Calling it the 2027 Project for Awesome and correcting to 2026, Hank jokes to John that they skipped a year. (joke) — 00:00:59
  • 2026-07-08 · Project for Awesome Recap Video 2026!! — Hank: A livestream clip shows hosts repeating "four million dollars" in disbelief, calling it unbelievable and not normal. — 00:03:34
  • 2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says the phenomenon of TFIOS drove John, and to a lesser extent Hank, to retreat to higher-barrier corners of the internet like Vlogbrothers, with its decades-long history of tiny chickens, Projects for Awesome and bean Furbies and videos not expected to draw many viewers. — 00:00:58
  • 2026-10-13 · My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body — Hank's photo before the one of the pillow tripod was of a Project for Awesome Hanklerfish he is making; he is practicing to see what he might make. — 00:01:52
  • 2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — ask: The description asks viewers to donate a piece of their art to the Project for Awesome. — video description