Projects & rituals: lifecycles

Stage threads grouped by what they are about, in order of first appearance. Each line opens the thread with its dated events.

Punishment

2007-01-02 — Brotherhood 2.0: the 2007 year of daily video letters: launch → propose → propose → propose → propose → propose → milestone → propose
2008-01-22 — Nerdfighter projects: complete a project to earn the right to punish the brothers (2008): launch → rule-change → result

Nerdfighter Book Club

2007-01-08 — Brotherhood 2.0 Book Club: each brother reads a book the other assigns (2007): propose → launch → milestone → retro → launch → restart → milestone → launch
2012-06-15 — Summertime Nerdfighter Book Club 2012 edition: Fahrenheit 451: launch → rule-change → milestone → milestone

Nerdfighter Happy Dance Project

2007-01-12 — Happy Dance Project: compilation of the brothers' and Nerdfighters' happy dances (2007): propose → launch → propose → propose → launch → rule-change → rule-change → rule-change

Paper Towns

2007-02-09 — John: write and revise Paper Towns (2007): milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone
2007-09-10 — John: read Paper Towns draft excerpts on Brotherhood 2.0 (2007): propose
2008-04-14 — Paper Towns advance-copy giveaways to Nerdfighters (2008): launch → rule-change → result → restart → restart → milestone → result
2009-09-09 — Paper Towns paperback release (2009): propose → launch
2009-09-09 — 10-word challenge: John gives away a Paper Towns paperback a day for his favourite 10-word comment (2009): launch → rule-change → milestone
2010-06-11 — Paper Towns: UK publication (2010): launch

Foundation for Decreasing Suck Levels Worldwide

2007-02-19 — Brotherhood 2.0 Concert Scholarship Fund, relaunched as the Fund for Decreasing Suck Levels Worldwide (2007): propose → launch → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → propose → milestone
2007-11-01 — Foundation project: train fare to bring a secret sibling and her Nerdfighter boyfriend together (2007): launch → milestone → retro

John's planned picture book 'Everyone Poops in My/Your Pants'

2007-02-28 — 'Everyone Poops in My Pants' picture book: Hank's illustrated remake of John's story (2007): milestone → retro

Four-minute rule

2007-03-06 — Four-minute rule for Brotherhood 2.0 videos (2007): launch → rule-change → rule-change → rule-change → rule-change → rule-change → rule-change

Other

2007-03-12 — Brotherhood 2.0 video podcast feed (2007): propose
2007-04-21 — Carbon-neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0 through carbonfund.org (2007): launch → milestone → milestone → retro
2007-08-24 — Secret project: Nerdfighters' birthday greetings for John (2007): milestone → milestone → retro → retro
2007-10-03 — The brothers' feud, to be judged by Nerdfighters (2007): propose → propose → propose → launch → result → result → propose → retro
2008-03-27 — John and Hank's Peeps eating contest (2008): launch → milestone → result
2008-04-08 — Nerdfighter donations to the Uncultured Project for rural Bangladesh (2008): launch → result → result → result → result → retro
2008-05-05 — Nerdfighters' belated birthday project for Hank (2008): propose → launch → result
2008-05-05 — John, Hank and Maureen Johnson speak at a Grand Rapids library (2008): launch → result → retro
2008-07-22 — John's July 28 appearance in the Grand Haven, Michigan area (2008): launch → result
2008-08-06 — Hank and Maureen Johnson's unsanctioned Nerdfighter gathering at Barnes & Noble, Union Square, New York (2008): launch → result
2008-08-25 — Nerdfighters' birthday collaboration video for John's 31st birthday (2008): result
2008-09-14 — Contest over whether John or Hank talks faster (2008): propose → milestone
2009-07-15 — John's Chicago Nerdfighter gathering (July 2009): launch
2009-07-16 — Hank and Lauren Fairweather's co-written song and video (2009): milestone
2010-01-20 — Maureen Johnson fills in for John on vlogbrothers during his paternity leave (2010): launch → milestone → rule-change → milestone → retro → retro → retro
2010-02-04 — The Harry Potter Alliance's Helping Haiti Heal raffle (2010): milestone → result → milestone → retro → result
2010-02-23 — Childhood stories: Hank's proposed vlogbrothers theme week (February 2010): propose → launch
2010-03-11 — John's spring 2010 tour for Will Grayson, Will Grayson: launch → milestone
2010-03-22 — Top 10 Week: a vlogbrothers theme week of top-10 list videos (2010): launch → milestone → retro
2010-05-21 — Vlogbrothers How-to Week: a week of how-to videos (2010): propose → launch → retro
2010-08-19 — Happy John Day 2010 edition: Nerdfighters' secret-project birthday video for John: launch → result
2010-09-20 — Open letters to our 15-year-old brothers: a vlogbrothers theme week (September 2010): launch
2010-11-30 — Animal sex week: a vlogbrothers week of videos on animal mating (2010): launch → milestone → retro
2011-09-12 — John's talk and signing in Asheville, North Carolina, a fundraiser for his parents' hometown library (October 2011): propose
2012-03-20 — John's Nerdfighter gathering in Amsterdam (March 2012): milestone → launch
2012-12-01 — Gatherings teased by Hank for the United Kingdom, for people who cannot get to VidCon (2012): propose
2013-02-19 — Mental Floss YouTube channel, made with John and Hank (2013): propose
2013-09-06 — Hank's new album with YouTube and wizard rock musicians (2013): propose → milestone
2013-11-26 — stage:85e4d10c6f-01: launch

nerdfighter

2007-03-14 — Tasks for becoming a nerdfighter (2007): propose → retro

Stuff on Heads

2007-03-22 — Stuff on Heads: viewers send pictures and videos of stuff on their heads (2007): propose → result → retro → propose

EcoGeek

2007-04-11 — Hank: EcoGeek podcast (2007): propose
2007-10-25 — EcoGeek website: growth and milestones (2007): milestone → milestone
2009-05-14 — Hank's EcoGeek YouTube channel (TheEcoGeek): launch (2009): launch

An Abundance of Katherines

2007-04-27 — An Abundance of Katherines film adaptation (2007): propose → milestone
2008-07-09 — An Abundance of Katherines paperback release (2008): milestone
2011-10-19 — An Abundance of Katherines fan cover contest (2012): launch → milestone → result → milestone

Top Secret Project

2007-04-27 — Top Secret Project: Nerdfighters' birthday greetings for Hank (2007): launch → milestone → result → retro

Evil Baby Orphanage

2007-05-15 — John and Hank: develop the Evil Baby Orphanage into a story (2007): propose → propose → propose → milestone

Looking for Alaska (film)

2007-05-16 — Looking for Alaska film adaptation in development (2007): milestone

Brotherhood 2.0 forum

2007-06-06 — Brotherhood 2.0 forum 'my pants' restored after an outage (2007): launch → milestone → milestone → restart → restart
2007-09-05 — Brotherhood2.com: site problems and relaunch as a new site (2007): milestone

Accio Deathly Hallows

2007-07-20 — Hank's song 'Accio Deathly Hallows' (2007): milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → retro → retro → retro → milestone

Question Tuesday

2007-07-24 — Question Tuesday: weekly Tuesday question days for nerdfighters (2007): propose → lapse → launch → restart → milestone → lapse → restart → restart

Presidential anagrams

2007-08-10 — Hank's Anagramming Guide to the presidential elections (2007): launch → retro → retro → retro
2011-12-21 — Hank's presidential anagrams of the 2012 Republican field (2011): launch

The Man Who Throws the Tetris Piece

2007-10-17 — Tetris Day: Nerdfighter music video for Dr. Noise's cover of Hank's Tetris song (2008): launch → launch → milestone → milestone

Nerdfighter Scavenger Hunt

2007-11-01 — Brotherhood 2.0 scavenger hunt (2007): launch → milestone → milestone → rule-change → milestone → milestone → milestone → lapse

Project for Awesome

2007-11-30 — Project for Awesome 2007 edition: the final Brotherhood 2.0 project (2007): propose → rule-change → rule-change → launch → result → result → retro → retro
2008-12-12 — P4A 2008 edition: launch → rule-change → milestone → milestone → result → result → result → retro
2009-12-06 — P4A 2009 edition: propose → launch → milestone → rule-change → milestone → launch → result
2010-11-27 — P4A 2010 edition: launch → rule-change → rule-change → rule-change → launch → rule-change → milestone → result
2011-11-02 — P4A 2011 edition: propose → propose → rule-change → rule-change → milestone → rule-change → result → rule-change
2012-12-04 — P4A 2012 edition: launch → milestone → milestone → rule-change → launch → result → result → propose
2013-12-16 — P4A 2013 edition: launch → milestone → rule-change → milestone

Vlogbrothers

2007-12-31 — Vlogbrothers in 2008: the channel after Brotherhood 2.0 (2008): propose → rule-change → milestone → rule-change → milestone → milestone → propose → milestone
2009-12-21 — Vlogbrothers in 2010: the channel's end-of-year reinvention (2009): propose → launch → milestone → milestone
2010-11-01 — Vlogbrothers educational week: a week of videos making a solid effort to be educational (November 2010): propose → launch
2010-12-28 — Vlogbrothers in 2011: schedule and plans (2011): propose → launch
2011-04-07 — Vlogbrothers livestreams on YouTube Live (2011): launch
2012-01-02 — Vlogbrothers in 2012: two videos a week and plans (2012): launch → rule-change → milestone
2013-03-06 — Vlogbrothers in 2013: the channel reaches one million subscribers (2013): milestone → milestone → retro

Nerdfighter Ning

2008-01-04 — Nerdfighter Ning: the community site launches (2008): launch → rule-change → milestone → rule-change → milestone → milestone
2008-08-17 — Nerdfighter scavenger hunt (2008): milestone → launch → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone

Blurbing Book Club

2008-02-12 — Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club (2008): launch → rule-change → milestone → milestone → rule-change → result → rule-change → milestone
2011-06-15 — Blurbing Book Club 2011: group reading of The Great Gatsby: launch → rule-change → rule-change → milestone → milestone

Jambo Read

2008-02-26 — John's talk and signing at the Spartanburg Public Library Jambo Read (2008): launch → retro

Popular Songs in Unpopular Styles

2008-03-08 — Hank's 'Popular Songs in Unpopular Styles' segment (2008): launch

nerdfighters.com

2008-03-08 — Hank's (and possibly John's) Stickam video chat for 20,000 subscribers (2008): launch
2008-05-30 — T-shirt design contest for the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting (2008): launch → milestone
2011-08-12 — Happy John Day 2011 edition: Nerdfighters' secret August 24 project for John: launch → result

Hank's first album

2008-05-08 — Hank's first album: release for the Grand Rapids trip (2008): launch

Omnictionary

2008-05-19 — Omnictionary: the brothers' wiki as a user-created novel (2008): launch

Tour de Nerdfighting

2008-05-30 — Tour de Nerdfighting 2008 edition: launch → milestone → milestone → launch → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone

Obama's Idiots

2008-06-17 — Brothers punish themselves in return for donations to Obama's campaign: proposed project (2008): launch → lapse

Star Trek

2008-06-25 — Hank's song about Star Trek (2008): propose → propose → launch

Terminus

2008-07-30 — John's 8/8/08 event in Chicago: library talk, Grant Park and The Bean (2008): launch → rule-change → rule-change → result → result → retro → retro → retro

Paper Towns Tour

2008-09-04 — Paper Towns Tour (2008): milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → rule-change → milestone → milestone → milestone

Let It Snow

2008-10-10 — Let It Snow (John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle) publication and sales (2009): milestone → milestone
2011-06-15 — Let It Snow film adaptation: movie rights sold to Paramount (2011): milestone

Song Wednesday

2008-10-16 — Song Wednesday: Hank performs a song on Wednesdays (2008): restart → restart → restart → rule-change → restart → lapse

Paper Towns collab album

2008-10-16 — Paper Towns collab album: free album for proving dedication to Paper Towns (2008): launch → milestone

planned Paper Towns film (2008 Mandate Pictures option)

2008-10-25 — Paper Towns movie option by Mandate and Mr. Mudd (2008): launch

So Jokes

2008-11-03 — Hank's album So Jokes: release (2008): launch → rule-change → launch → milestone → result → milestone → milestone

Jokes in four minutes

2008-11-07 — Hank's 'jokes in four minutes' videos: propose → launch → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone

DFTBA Records

2008-11-24 — DFTBA Records: founding of Hank and Alan's label for YouTube musicians (2008): launch → milestone → retro → milestone → retro → retro → retro → milestone
2009-07-30 — Hank's live album 'I'm So Bad at This' (Cambridge, MA show): release (2009): launch
2011-04-22 — DFTBA posters: Nerdfighter-designed posters sold at DFTBA.com (2011): propose → launch → rule-change → milestone → launch → launch

Brotherhood 2.0

2009-01-02 — Brotherhood 2.0.0.9: the vlogbrothers' 2009 schedule and rules (2009): launch → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone

I Know

2009-02-26 — Hank's 10-word song 'I Know' for the Masters of Song Fu challenge (2009): launch

Pwning Google Challenge

2009-03-02 — Pwning Google Challenge (2009): propose → launch

Truth or Fail

2009-03-04 — Truth or Fail game-show videos (2009): launch → rule-change → restart → rule-change → milestone → lapse → restart → milestone

This Is Not Tom

2009-04-28 — This Is Not Tom: John's story told through weekly online riddles (2009): milestone

Hanko de Mayo

2009-05-05 — Hanko de Mayo 2009 edition: Hank's 29th birthday: milestone
2010-04-21 — Hanko de Mayo 2010 edition: Hank's 30th birthday (Hank trees, 30 presents): launch → result → retro → retro
2011-04-25 — Hanko de Mayo 2011 edition: Nerdfighters' gifts and videos for Hank's birthday: launch → milestone → result → result
2012-05-01 — Hanko de Mayo 2012 edition: propose → result

Dead Boy's Girlfriend

2009-05-07 — Hank's song 'Dead Boy's Girlfriend' (2009): launch

DFTBA Volume One

2009-05-21 — DFTBA Records compilation album (DFTBA Volume One) release (2009): launch

LeakyCon

2009-05-25 — LeakyCon 2009 edition: retro → retro → retro → retro

Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge

2009-06-17 — Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge 2009 edition: launch → propose → launch

Chewie for President t-shirt

2009-07-11 — Chewie for President 2012 t-shirt and Hank's Chewbacca for President song download (2009): launch → restart

Global Geek Week

2009-08-03 — Global Geek Week 2009 edition (video contest): launch → result

DJ Paige Railstone

2009-08-06 — DJ Paige Railstone: Nerdfighters invent a person to see how real she can become (2009): propose → launch → milestone → milestone

Happy John Day

2009-08-25 — Happy John Day 2009 edition: Nerdfighters' birthday collaboration video for John: result → retro

John Green bobblehead

2009-08-25 — John Green bobblehead: John's birthday present, sold to Nerdfighters (2009): milestone

Demolition Derby

2009-08-27 — Hank's song 'Demolition Derby' (2009): launch → milestone

Where's Margo

2009-09-23 — Where's Margo: Nerdfighters photograph Margo Roth Spiegelman around the world (2009): result

Hank's second studio album (untitled)

2009-09-25 — Tour de Hank: Hank's tour of shows and Nerdfighter gatherings (2009): propose → propose → propose → launch → milestone → milestone → retro

DARPA Network Challenge

2009-12-04 — Nerdfighteria's team for the DARPA Network Challenge (red balloons) (2009): launch → result → retro

VidCon

2009-12-10 — VidCon 2010 edition: launch → milestone → rule-change → rule-change → milestone → milestone → rule-change → milestone
2011-01-29 — VidCon 2011 edition: launch → milestone → retro
2011-06-28 — VidCon 2012 edition: propose → propose → launch → rule-change → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone
2012-12-01 — VidCon 2013 edition: launch → milestone → retro → retro → retro
2013-11-09 — VidCon 2014 edition: milestone

Pizza John

2010-02-24 — Pizza mustache shirt: DFTBA pre-order of John's pizza-mustache photo shirt (2010): launch → milestone → retro
2012-11-08 — An unnamed 'weird' new item on pre-order at DFTBA.com, teased by Hank (November 2012): propose → launch → retro

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

2010-03-11 — Will Grayson, Will Grayson: publication (2010): propose → launch

corndog shirt

2010-04-21 — Corndog shirt: one-week pre-order funding tree planting and Hank's 30 presents (2010): launch

Looking for Alaska

2010-04-27 — Looking for Alaska: Lemniscaat's Dutch re-release with reader-designed cover ideas (2010): launch

Photomatron

2010-05-31 — Hank's Photomatron software (2010): milestone → milestone

Farmville

2010-05-31 — Hank's song 'Farmville': iTunes single release (2010): launch

Hank's 2011 Harry Potter song

2010-07-22 — Hank's yearly Harry Potter songs (2011): milestone → milestone → milestone → retro → milestone

Esther Day

2010-08-03 — Esther Day: the brothers' annual videos on a private person's birthday about what she chooses (2010): launch → retro → milestone → retro → milestone

Thoughts from Places

2010-08-20 — Thoughts From Places: the vlogbrothers' series of visual essays from places (2010): launch

Vlogbrothers shirt

2010-09-04 — Vlogbrothers t-shirt: two-week pre-order at DFTBA.com (2010): launch

Positive Pranking

2010-09-16 — Positive Pranking: John and Nerdfighteria take up Amy Krouse Rosenthal's positive-pranking idea (2010): launch

SuperNote

2010-10-01 — Vlogbrothers team in Rhett and Link's SuperNote contest (2010): launch

The Beckoning of Lovely

2010-10-05 — The Beckoning of Lovely: Amy Krouse Rosenthal's 10/10/10 gathering at the Bean, Chicago (2010): launch → result → result
2011-10-24 — The Beckoning of Lovely 2011 edition: propose → retro

Giraffe love shirt

2010-10-19 — Hank's giraffe-love t-shirt: pre-order at DFTBA.com (2010): launch → milestone

dft.ba

2010-10-21 — dft.ba: Sam and Alan's DFTBA URL-shortening service (2010): launch

This Star Won't Go Out bracelet

2010-10-27 — This Star Won't Go Out bracelets sold at DFTBA.com/a private person for the This Star Won't Go Out Foundation (2010): launch → milestone → retro

HankGames

2010-11-18 — HankGames: Hank's channel of commentated game-play videos (2010): launch
2011-08-15 — 'Hank and John play FIFA 11' series on HankGames (2011): launch
2011-09-16 — John's FIFA career with Swindon Town, 'The Miracle of Swindon Town' (2011): launch → milestone → milestone → result
2013-11-05 — John's AFC Wimbledon FIFA series on HankGames, whose ad revenue sponsors the real AFC Wimbledon with Nerdfighter-designed ads (2013): launch

Your Pants

2011-02-09 — Your Pants (yourpants.org): the Nerdfighter forum, its hacker outage and return (2011): propose → launch → lapse → milestone → restart
2011-02-23 — Nerdfighters research the life of a private person in Your Pants (2011): launch → result → result

This Machine Pwns n00bs

2011-03-07 — Hank's This Machine Pwns n00bs Video LP: the whole album streamable on YouTube (2011): launch

John's untitled novel (2011)

2011-03-10 — The Fault in Our Stars: writing, title and publication (2011): propose → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone
2011-06-10 — Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 edition: propose → launch → milestone → launch → rule-change → milestone → milestone → milestone

Savann Tabak well

2011-03-22 — Savann Tabak well: the vlogbrothers' Water.org campaign for a Haitian village (2011): launch → milestone → result

2D Glasses

2011-04-19 — Hank's 2D Glasses for watching 3D movies in 2D (2011): launch → milestone → retro

Hank's wall poster

2011-04-22 — Hank's wall posters: a different poster behind Hank in every video (2011): rule-change → rule-change

Ellen Hardcastle

2011-06-09 — Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle: release (2011): propose → launch → milestone

ReadIt1st

2011-08-12 — Hank's ReadIt1st website (2011): propose → launch

Nerd Factor

2011-08-19 — Nerd Factor 2011 edition: fan-video contest: launch → milestone → result → milestone
2013-04-02 — Nerd Factor 2013 edition: launch → result → milestone → milestone

Diablo III

2011-09-09 — Hank plays the Diablo III beta on HankGames (2011): launch

John and Hank's Awesome Adventure

2011-10-21 — John and Hank's Awesome Adventure: Nerdfighters' iOS game starring the brothers (2011): launch

URLatron

2011-10-21 — URLatron: Hank's Tumblr-to-.com domain service (2011): launch → rule-change

The Fault in Our Stars

2011-10-24 — John's reading from The Fault in Our Stars in Indianapolis (November 1, 2011): propose

Nerdfighteria Community T-shirt

2011-11-02 — Nerdfighteria Community T-shirt at DFTBA.com, royalties to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck (2011): launch

Foundation to Decrease World Suck

2011-11-05 — Keep It or Shave It: Hank's facial-hair vote with dollars for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck (2011): launch → result
2012-03-13 — Foundation to Decrease World Suck becomes a real non-profit (2012): propose → milestone → milestone

Crash Course

2011-11-07 — Crash Course: launch of the brothers' educational channel (2012): propose → propose → propose → propose → launch → milestone
2013-02-15 — Crash Course Chemistry: launch of the Crash Course chemistry series (2013): launch
2013-05-21 — Crash Course US History: production of the series (2013): milestone

SciShow

2011-11-07 — SciShow: launch of Hank's science channel (2012): propose → propose → launch → milestone → milestone

Bank of Nerdfighteria

2011-11-17 — Bank of Nerdfighteria: the Nerdfighters' Kiva lending team: milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → retro → milestone → milestone
2012-08-28 — John's Kiva deal: if the Nerdfighter Kiva group reaches $1 million before the 1,000th vlogbrothers video, viewers may challenge both brothers to clear their outstanding punishments (2012): launch → result

No Edge Shirt

2012-02-18 — Hank's 'No Edge' shirt: pre-order at DFTBA.com (2012): launch

The Fault in Our Stars (film)

2012-03-20 — The Fault in Our Stars film adaptation (2012): milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone → milestone