John: he will never again sign his name 250,000 times (2021)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: repeated (2024-12-31) · owner: John · last mentioned: 2026-03-31
After a 2021 signing of 250,000 sheets, John said he would never sign his name that many times again. He went on to smaller signings for Everything Is Tuberculosis in 2024 and Hollywood, Ending in 2026, each time admitting he had said he would not.
Told alongside: John: sign 100,000 copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis (2024) · John's 'amazing Lectro Jog of Amazing' paper jogger (2011) · John: The Anthropocene Reviewed will not be his last book (2021) · John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020)
About: The Anthropocene Reviewed (book), Lectrojog
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-30 | predicted | John doesn't think he will ever sign his name 250,000 times again. (hedged) | I did it! 00:02:25 |
| 2024-10-22 | recalled | John admits he said after last time he would never again sign hundreds of thousands of books, but says he is signing only 100,000. (playful) | My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis 00:03:00 |
| 2024-12-31 | repeated | John says that after this he just will not be able to do bulk signing with his Lectrojogger again. | I Just Can't Do It Anymore 00:01:44 |
| 2026-03-31 | recalled | John admits he said he would never do this signing again because he has arthritis, and his shoulder, and so on. | I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:03:24 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John says an audiobook narrated by him is available for pre-order; it is unsigned only because he hasn't figured out how to sign digitally. (playful) — 00:03:10
- 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — ask: John says he has been livestreaming signing sessions on John's Channel and invites viewers to hang out with him in a low-stress way, link below. — 00:03:20
- 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John: In over a thousand hours of signing, John learned the causes of the French Revolution from a 38-hour audiobook on the topic. — 00:01:56
- 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John says that signing taught him that on the other side of boredom there is a kind of blissful flow state. — 00:02:10
- 2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John loves to sign books and no one can stop him, including his doctor, who is a little disapproving, and his spouse, who is a bit dubious. (playful) — 00:03:53
- 2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John's dream and goal is for one person to sign a million books in a lifetime; he won't deny it anymore. (playful) — 00:03:53
- 2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John: After finishing these signatures John will be at 782,000, most of the way to a million. — 00:03:53
- 2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John knows it's silly, and an unsigned edition is available, but he wants to sign: it makes him happy, or something adjacent to happy. — 00:04:22