P4A 2008 edition
stage · status: retro
About: Project for Awesome, YouTube, Nerdfighteria, John Green
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-12-12 | launch | Hank officially announces the 2008 Project for Awesome for December 17, 2008, run from projectforawesome.com, with rules for P4A videos (charity topic, P4A thumbnail, tags and title, sidebar link, submission) and a supporters' mailing list. | The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! 00:00:41 |
| 2008-12-17 | milestone | The Project for Awesome day is under way; Hank posts his own P4A video as a tiny part of the project he and John organised. | Project for Awesome: DonorsChoose.org 00:00:00 |
| 2008-12-17 | rule-change | After reports that the thumbnail method is failing, Hank changes the P4A thumbnail rule: make the entire second half of the video the P4A image and choose the last thumbnail. | One More Day Until the P4A!!! 00:02:12 |
| 2008-12-19 | milestone | YouTube lets John and Hank guest-edit its front page for a day to feature 2008 Project for Awesome videos. | Introducing...The Awesome 00:01:35 |
| 2008-12-19 | result | The brothers thank the Nerdfighters who helped make the 2008 Project for Awesome such a success. | Introducing...The Awesome 00:02:04 |
| 2008-12-22 | result | Hank says the 2008 Project for Awesome was pretty freaking awesome and that they will talk more about it soon. | A Christmas Song! 00:03:31 |
| 2008-12-27 | result | John says he is still reeling from the P4A's awesomeness: Nerdfighters lobbied for hundreds of charities and commented more than 200,000 times. | Skoodilypooping 00:00:00 |
| 2009-06-21 | retro | Hank recalls this year's Project for Awesome, when thousands of YouTubers made videos supporting their favourite charities. | The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less 00:01:02 |