Project for Awesome 2007 edition: the final Brotherhood 2.0 project (2007)
stage · status: retro
About: Nerdfighteria, YouTube, Project for Awesome, world suck
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-11-30 | propose | Hank says he wants to announce next week a final Brotherhood 2.0 project needing the combined efforts of every Nerdfighter. | November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project 00:03:03 |
| 2007-12-04 | rule-change | Hank says the final Nerdfighter project announced last week will be secret, revealed only through an email list, will need a YouTube account, and will be an effort to decrease world suck. | December 3rd: 10,000 Subscribers! and secret project 00:01:57 |
| 2007-12-12 | rule-change | Hank says the first Secret Project newsletter, an introduction, goes out tonight, and that December 17 is the day: only people on the email list and signed up for YouTube can take part, and it may take much time. | Dec 11: Secret Project...And More Punching 00:00:10 |
| 2007-12-17 | launch | Hank launches the secret project on December 17 as the 2007 Nerdfighter Power Project for Awesome: take over YouTube with hundreds of videos sharing one thumbnail, each promoting a charity its maker believes reduces suck; brothers will seed videos with questions. | Project for Awesome: Explanation and Humane Societies 00:00:00 |
| 2007-12-18 | result | John shows the most discussed page of YouTube filled with Nerdfighter videos and says watching hundreds of the videos with thousands of Nerdfighters made him the happiest since his wedding. | Dec 18th: The Project for Awesome and Question Tuesday!!! 00:00:00 |
| 2007-12-20 | result | Hank and Katherine's song reports the Project for Awesome result: 300 charities promoted and Nerdfighters taking over YouTube's most discussed page. | December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube 00:01:50 |
| 2007-12-29 | retro | John says he enjoyed the Project for Awesome because people who don't suck came together to do something that doesn't suck. | Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video 00:03:18 |
| 2008-12-17 | retro | Hank recalls last year's Project for Awesome as a fun YouTube-wide party in the comments where he found new YouTubers who became friends. | One More Day Until the P4A!!! 00:00:29 |
| 2010-05-17 | retro | Hank recalls his and Katherine's couch song about how amazing the first Project for Awesome was, now on YouTube's timeline, and says the P4A has since grown bigger and better. | My YouTube Story is Short 00:01:10 |
| 2010-12-21 | retro | Hank looks back on P4A's start in 2007: a group of YouTubers used every trick they knew to 'hack' YouTube for charity, slowed only by Mike Huckabee's rival 'hack'. | Thoughts on the Project for Awesome 00:00:01 |
| 2013-03-08 | retro | Hank recalls that the first Project for Awesome launched the day they hit 10,000 subscribers, to use their community to do good. | ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! 00:00:58 |