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222 statements about world suck in 142 videos, by upload date.

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2007

2008

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

Also named in: Nerdfighting in Bangladesh, Funny Noises from Tennessee

2009

  • 2009-02-08 · All Aboard the Fail Boat — John introduces the Fail Boat, the puppy-captained vessel Nerdfighters use to travel Nerdfighteria and to sail the world learning about places experiencing world suck. (playful) — 00:00:06
  • 2009-02-11 · A Song About an Anglerfish — Hank tells John he enjoyed his Question Tuesday and especially Captain Willy's voyage on the Fail Boat. — 00:02:48
  • 2009-06-21 · The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less — ask: both: The brothers tell YouTube this is a chance to use video-making skills to decrease worldwide suck, and hope viewers will take it. (hedged) — 00:02:29
  • 2009-06-23 (said on 2009-06-22, implied) · Fighting the Flame War! — Hank: Answering why someone who thinks the world sucks lives on it, Hank says one of the great things about being on the world is getting to make it suck less. (hedged) — 00:00:53
  • 2009-06-23 (said on 2009-06-22, implied) · Fighting the Flame War! — Hank disagrees with a commenter who says the world sucks and so should be destroyed, offering no complicated philosophical reason. (playful) — 00:00:53
  • 2009-07-14 · Sell Outs! — John says the Nerdfighter community is so tight-knit and focused on making the world suck less that he doesn't want selling-out questions pulling it apart. — 00:02:37
  • 2009-12-15 · 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
  • 2009-12-20 · 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 — 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 — John explains 'French the llama': he kept seeing 'world suck FTL' in comments; FTL means 'for the lose', but a nerdfighter told him it means 'French the llama'. (playful) — 00:02:21
  • 2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — Hank says Nerdfighteria is the community that sprang up around their videos, which gets together to do awesome things, have a good time and fight world suck. — 00:00:26
  • 2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — Hank defines world suck as exactly what it sounds like: hard to quantify, but the amount of suck in the world. — 00:00:33
  • 2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — Hank defines notsome as the opposite of awesome, pointing also to Fail Puppy and the Fail Boat. — 00:02:50

Also named in: Paper Towns Winners and Ningmasters

2010

  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen Johnson: Asked by a viewer afraid of sucking at writing, Maureen tells nerdfighters, who want to decrease world suck, that they should instead dare to suck. (playful) — 00:00:27
  • 2010-05-17 · My YouTube Story is Short — Hank: The other shows Hank and Katherine on a thrift-store couch singing about how amazing the first Project for Awesome was; Hank says the P4A has since grown bigger and better. — 00:01:10
  • 2010-07-05 · With Esther — announcement: John: The HPA is in a big contest to potentially win $250,000 to decrease world suck, and is currently in third place. — 00:02:13
  • 2010-08-27 · Rest In Awesome, Esther — John reports that Esther Earl, the Nerdfighter who inspired many of Nerdfighteria's recent worldsuck-decreasing projects, died earlier this week (week of 23 August 2010), aged 16. — 00:00:01
  • 2010-08-27 · Rest In Awesome, Esther — John says the community will continue to do projects with Esther: she will be with them most when they work to decrease worldsuck and show love for others. — 00:01:14
  • 2010-09-15 · Positive Pranking: The TP Edition — John's note to the people he 'TP'd' says the Tootsie Pops are not part of a marketing campaign but of Positive Pranking, an initiative started by Amy Krouse Rosenthal with the help of the Nerdfighters, and invites them to start their own positive pranking adventure. — video description
  • 2010-09-15 · Positive Pranking: The TP Edition — John says his friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal called him with the idea of positive pranking: using the pranking ethos to decrease world suck. — 00:00:29
  • 2010-09-15 · Positive Pranking: The TP Edition — John says Amy launched the positive pranking campaign by reinventing ding-dong ditching, delivering actual Hostess Ding Dongs to strangers throughout Chicago; the video is linked in the description. — 00:00:29
  • 2010-09-15 · Positive Pranking: The TP Edition — ask: John turns positive pranking over to Hank and Nerdfighteria and asks everyone to work together in the comments on excellent positive prank ideas. — 00:02:07
  • 2010-09-17 · Positive Prank Calls!! — Hank says he has decided to follow John's and Amy Krouse Rosenthal's lead and do some positive pranking. — 00:00:20
  • 2010-09-17 · Positive Prank Calls!! — Hank turns the most common prank, the prank call, positive: he calls people with encouraging and true facts about the world. — 00:00:35
  • 2010-10-27 · You Are Awesome — ask: John calls the foundation another way to work with Esther to make the world suck less and urges viewers to get a bracelet at DFTBA.com/Esther. — 00:01:11
  • 2010-10-27 · You Are Awesome — John thanks Nerdfighteria for all it does to decrease world suck, from their own communities to Bangladesh, and for being awesome. — 00:02:47
  • 2010-12-20 · Thoughts on the Project for Awesome — Hank says that in 2007 a group of people 'hacked YouTube', using YouTuber tricks harder than they normally would to get views, which felt awesome rather than dirty because it was for charity. — 00:00:01
  • 2010-12-20 · Thoughts on the Project for Awesome — Hank jokes that Mike Huckabee's attempt to 'hack' the Republican presidential nomination kept P4A from taking over the whole first page of 'most discussed', but P4A's hack was more successful. (playful) — 00:00:19
  • 2010-12-27 · To: You - - From: The Vlogbrothers — Hank says the book is useful because he and John are now in the t-shirt business and want to be in it in a way that does not increase world suck. — 00:00:27

2011

  • 2011-02-02 · Top 5 Awesome Things About the Webb Telescope — Hank believes there are two ways to make the world a better place, decreasing the suck and increasing the awesome: not mutually exclusive, but not the same. — 00:00:16
  • 2011-02-02 · Top 5 Awesome Things About the Webb Telescope — Hank: Decreasing suck is extremely important, probably in the end more important than increasing awesome, Hank says. (hedged) — 00:00:30
  • 2011-02-04 · QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition — ask: John wears an Esther bracelet and tells viewers to get one, since they make the world suck less; link in the description. — 00:02:49
  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — announcement: John announces that some Nerdfighters are building Your Pants, like the old forum My Pants but yours; hopefully live within a week at yourpants.org, for friendships and decreasing world suck. (hedged) — 00:02:23
  • 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — ask: John points viewers to the New Zealand Red Cross to help victims of the earthquake in New Zealand, and to the Red Crescent to help victims of the violence in Libya. — video description
  • 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — ask: John says Nerdfighters from Bahrain to New Zealand to Libya to Morocco face mega-worldsuck for different reasons, and asks Nerdfighteria to pay attention and help where they can; links in the description. — 00:03:13
  • 2011-03-09 · DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day — John thanks Hank for being the noble brother who goes to the front lines to decrease worldsuck, which lets John stay in his basement. (playful) — 00:00:03
  • 2011-04-01 · Many Truths, 1 Lie! — ask: John wants to use the $26 to decrease worldsuck, preferably in a way that hurts Warner Chilcott, and asks Nerdfighters for ideas in comments. — 00:01:50
  • 2011-04-27 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — Hank just paid about $16,000 in federal taxes; most of it, he says, goes to decreasing suck: unemployment help, education and healthcare for people who could not afford them. — 00:00:15
  • 2011-04-27 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — Hank, in a line jokingly credited to his grandfather, says using government only to decrease suck, never to increase awesome, is like using the Starship Enterprise as a shipping barge. — 00:00:44
  • 2011-05-27 · Older Than Gravity In Bruges: Thoughts from Places — John met Nerdfighters from all over Belgium in a park, grateful to be part of a community that builds friendships while trying to make the world suck less. — 00:02:21
  • 2011-09-26 · Awesome Bankers? — John says he will explain credit crunches, why they are so evil, and how Nerdfighteria could dramatically decrease world suck by becoming better bankers. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-09-26 · Awesome Bankers? — John concludes that bankers can reduce world suck and that we can be bankers, facilitating sustainable economic growth in the developing world. — 00:02:55
  • 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John recalls that in Brotherhood 2.0 they created the Foundation to Decrease World Suck: people donated and the brothers gave the money to things like Save the Children and train fare for two Nerdfighters to meet. — 00:00:37
  • 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 — ask: In the description, Hank invites viewers to keep donating to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck at fightworldsuck.org. — video description
  • 2011-11-09 · 27 Part Video — Hank reports the Keep It / Shave It fundraiser result: Keep It $1494.43 beat Shave It $1449.98, together almost $3,000 for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck. — 00:03:10
  • 2011-11-11 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John thanks Hank for being so committed to reducing world suck that he will endanger his marriage and sully his face with the goatee. (playful) — 00:03:35
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John says the tour gatherings will feature music, readings, decreasing worldsuck, punishments and hilarity. — video description
  • 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
  • 2011-12-19 · 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
  • 2011-12-26 · 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

  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John says the other reason is that, in trying to make three videos a week, they let slide the project-based nerdfighter work of increasing awesome and decreasing world suck. — 00:01:37
  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — John says what he loves about Kickstarter, as about the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, is that it is 'about us': the money is raised and spent together. — 00:02:55
  • 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John says that this year (2012) the Foundation to Decrease World Suck distributed more than $88,000 to charities chosen by the Nerdfighter community. — video description
  • 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — announcement: John says the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, a Nerdfighteria project for over five years, is finally becoming an actual charity that can take tax-deductible donations; the process is ongoing and complicated. — 00:00:30
  • 2012-05-04 · Screaming Through VidCon — ask: Hank: VidCon 2012 will raise money for the Project for Awesome and the Foundation to Decrease World Suck through a book drive and a charity auction; attendees should bring books. — 00:02:27
  • 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John recalls Hank saying Webb is like our pyramids, a monument for everyone who comes after us, and that besides decreasing suck it is important to increase awesome. — 00:01:13
  • 2012-08-03 · I Don't Understand My Life — Hank thanks Nerdfighteria for spreading these ideas and making the world suck less, more awesome and a little weirder. — 00:03:29
  • 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank says the Foundation to Decrease World Suck is a real non-profit now. — 00:02:08
  • 2012-11-27 · Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers — recommendation: John: For people interested in decreasing world suck, John recommends Behind the Beautiful Forevers, the most interesting and complex book about poverty he has read, and says it is great rather than merely sad. — 00:00:29
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John introduces the sixth annual Project for Awesome: every year on December 17th the Nerdfighter and YouTube communities come together to decrease world suck. — 00:01:27
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John says money raised for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck goes to the organizations in the five most-voted videos, at the discretion of an all-Nerdfighter P4A board, so a rigged vote cannot win. — 00:01:56
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John announces that four anonymous donors will match every dollar donated to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, up to $50,000. — 00:02:26
  • 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — John says the Foundation to Decrease World Suck was set up in 2007 to fund things like Nerdfighters' first concerts and fighting global poverty, and since 2008 has focused on global poverty as more important. — 00:00:29
  • 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — John says that after last year's (2011) Project for Awesome the Foundation to Decrease World Suck gave more than $80,000 to five charities chosen by the YouTube community, leaving it broke. — 00:00:29
  • 2012-12-14 · I Got Nothin… — Hank says it is a good time to feel together as humanity, and that with the Project for Awesome coming everyone is ready to work together to make the world suck less, in little and big ways. — 00:00:55
  • 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — announcement: John says that, with no overhead, 100% of donations through the Foundation to Decrease World Suck go to P4A charities, which viewers partly choose. — 00:02:49

Also named in: Can I be Space President?

2013

  • 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
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says the Nerdfighter Kiva group is at about $1.76 million, and that every day he makes two loans from the Foundation to Decrease World Suck's rotating $8,000 of Kiva credit. (hedged) — 01:56:15
  • 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
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig makes a 'Nerdfighter clone' to practise talking to Nerdfighters; the clone says DFTBA and is sent to decrease worldsuck in the bathroom with a mop. (joke) — 00:01:43
  • 2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — MagicTurtle643: Since we can't decrease world suck with Harry Potter spells, he says all we can do is demand more Harry Potter, which still captivates people. (playful) — 00:01:52
  • 2013-08-13 · Shailene's Hair, Unfair Monopoly, and the Just World Fallacy — John is concerned about this in his own life and wants Nerdfighteria to be an active, effective force against world suck, not just another community aiming to grow big and powerful. — 00:02:17
  • 2013-08-13 · Shailene's Hair, Unfair Monopoly, and the Just World Fallacy — announcement: John says the brothers will try to make things even more transparent so Nerdfighteria can hold them accountable and they can decrease world suck effectively together. (hedged) — 00:02:37
  • 2013-09-03 · Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform — John: freed from saving every dollar against bankruptcy, Hank could invest in DFTBA Records, VidCon, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Crash Course, SciShow, the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and more; none could have happened without publicly subsidized health insurance. — 00:02:55
  • 2013-10-15 · Thoughts for Nerdfighteria — John: For new viewers John explains: Our Pants is the forum; videos may not exceed four minutes unless educational; he likes pizza, Hank corn dogs; Nerdfighters fight to make the world suck less. — 00:02:47
  • 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: 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 — announcement: John says he and Hank are auctioning their World Cup 2014 support: donations to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck on behalf of a team decide whom they support, top to bottom. — 00:00:55
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John announces the Foundation to Decrease World Suck is now an official 501(c)(3) federally sanctioned charity, so US donations are tax-deductible. — 00:01:40
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John: Every dollar donated to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck this year (2013) will be matched up to $125,000 by anonymous donors. (doubtful: $125,000) — 00:01:51
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: The Foundation to Decrease World Suck has $23,955 in the bank, from VidCon, the Nerdfighter Minecraft server and charity items at DFTBA.com, a much better start than last year (2012). — 00:02:00
  • 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

Also named in: The Gray Speckled Walls Encroach: The Perks and Liabilities of Frequent Flying

2014

2015

  • 2015-01-13 · On Writing, Looking for Alaska Turning 10, and Winning the Project for Awesome — John says these twenty charities will use the community's money to decrease worldsuck in lots of ways, and thanks everyone. — 00:03:31
  • 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — John: Bank of Nerdfighteria update: Vlogbrothers ad revenue is split in half between the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and a fund sponsoring online educational content such as Physics Girl and The Financial Diet. — 00:02:05
  • 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — John: So far this year (2015) the Foundation to Decrease World Suck has raised about $40,000, mostly from people watching ads on Vlogbrothers; John thanks viewers for 'ingesting' the advertising. — 00:02:18
  • 2015-12-08 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semiannual Report — announcement: John announces the ninth annual Project for Awesome starts Friday at noon Eastern, with fundraising starting at midnight via an Indiegogo with perks, 100% going to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck. — 00:01:12
  • 2015-12-08 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semiannual Report — John says the Foundation to Decrease World Suck has no overhead: everyone volunteers, and it only distributes money raised during the P4A and the rest of the year to charities. — 00:01:32
  • 2015-12-11 · The Refugee Crises: Project for Awesome 2015 — announcement: John says all first-day donations to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck are split between Save the Children and the UNHCR, later money going to viewer-chosen charities. — 00:03:42
  • 2015-12-15 · P4A 2015 - Condensed Soup — announcement: Hank says donations through the on-screen donation card are still matched by Google up to $100,000, and every cent passes to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck. — 00:03:26

2016

2017

  • 2017-08-03 · HAPPY ESTHER DAY!!! — John tells Hank he loves him and admires his hard work, his relentless pursuit of decreasing world suck, and his love, kindness and patience as son, father, husband and brother. — 00:00:41
  • 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 that since 2014 all Vlogbrothers ad revenue has been split evenly between the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and a fund sponsoring online educational content. — 00:00:04
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — John says the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, despite its silly name, is a real charity: federally sanctioned, with tax-deductible donations. — 00:00:46
  • 2017-12-19 · History Is Happening — John says the social internet can be a platform for activism and fundraising that truly makes the world suck less. — 00:02:04

2018

  • 2018-09-11 · Surprise . . . — John: The process reminded John that people are always working together to increase world awesome and decrease world suck. — 00:02:55
  • 2018-10-29 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE! — announcement: John: This year (2018) all Pizzamas profits and royalties go to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, to be used as matching funds during the Project for Awesome. — 00:00:31
  • 2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report — John explains that Nerdfighteria's charity, the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, is a real charity despite its silly name, raising money all year for the Project for Awesome. — 00:00:14
  • 2018-11-23 · Four Jokes from a Two year Old — announcement: Hank plugs a book of poetry Nerdfighters created together, with all proceeds going to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck. — 00:02:39
  • 2018-12-11 · When the Internet Came Home — John: The P4A weekend reminded John how the best of the internet feels; he felt grateful to be part of a vibrant, joyous community working together to make the world suck less. — 00:03:08

2019

  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — In a comment John says the Foundation to Decrease World Suck has no employees: its costs are perks made and shipped by DFTBA at its charity rate; the rest is paid by the brothers or done by volunteers. — creator comment
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John recalls that in 2007 the Foundation to Decrease World Suck was mostly a joke, decreasing worldsuck by paying for people's first concerts: of some value, though maybe not the most efficient. — 00:00:51

2021

2022

Also named in: The 2022 P4A Meme Review!!!

2023

2024

  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John: Project for Awesome donations are tax-deductible because the Foundation to Decrease World Suck is a real charity, though its name sounds like it isn't. — 00:03:06

2026

  • 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
  • 2026-02-14 · 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
  • 2026-02-15 · 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

Also named in other years (nothing said): How the P4A is Changing in 2025! (2025-01-17)