John asks viewers to subscribe to Henry's YouTube channel (2023)
ask · status: asked in 2025; no response reported · last event: reminder (2025-11-25) · owner: John
In August 2023 John noted that Henry Reider had only four subscribers on YouTube and hoped Nerdfighteria could bump that up. In March and November 2025 he asked viewers again to subscribe to Henry's channel and to that of his mother Isatu, whose story in Sierra Leone they could follow there.
Told alongside: John and Henry Reider, a Sierra Leonean teenager with multidrug-resistant TB he met at Lakka hospital (2019)
About: Henry Reider, Isatu, Sierra Leone, YouTube
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-15 | asked | John notes Henry has only four subscribers on YouTube and thinks Nerdfighteria can bump that up. | Henry 00:05:18 |
| 2025-03-18 | reminder | John says readers will want to follow Henry and his mother Isatu in Sierra Leone, and asks viewers to subscribe to Henry's YouTube channel, linked in the description. | ITS ALL HAPPENING 00:02:58 |
| 2025-11-25 | reminder | John tells viewers that Henry and Isatu both have YouTube channels and asks them to subscribe, linked below. | Poverty Is Expensive 00:00:58 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2023-08-15 · Henry — John: Before getting sick Henry was a great student who dreamt of university; his mother Isatu worked hard to pay his school fees with a small market business selling scented oils and perfumes. — 00:00:29
- 2023-08-15 · Henry — John: Henry's mother Isatu paid the equivalent of thousands of dollars for his treatment, finding blood and supplies, and lost her business and apartment in the process. — 00:01:56
- 2023-08-15 · Henry — recommendation: John says Henry has just started a YouTube channel and a Discord server, making videos of daily life in Freetown, community interviews and vlogs, and is excited to connect with the community. — 00:04:42
- 2023-08-15 · Henry — John: Isatu wants to restart her business selling food such as macaroni, sugar and cereal, which needs bulk purchases and costly market space. — 00:05:18
- 2023-08-15 · Henry — ask: John has started a GoFundMe to fund Isatu's business and help Henry lift his mother out of poverty. — 00:05:47
- 2023-08-15 · Henry — John says Henry is alive thanks to extraordinary efforts by himself, his family, charities, caregivers and government; he gets to have a YouTube channel, take tests and help his mom. — 00:05:47
- 2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says he hadn't seen Henry since 2023 and wanted to thank Isatu for saving Henry's life by bringing him extra food and staying by him through three years in hospital. — 00:00:58
- 2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says Henry and Isatu stayed in Ghana rather than pay about $2,000 to fly home and back, and waited around 25 days instead of the expected 15 for a decision. — 00:01:56
- 2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says that at the last moment Isatu was denied a visa to Denmark, with no clear reason given, and had to fly back to Sierra Leone. — 00:01:56