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John: sign 100,000 copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis (2024)

promise · status: kept · last event: kept (2025-01-07) · owner: John · last mentioned: 2026-03-31

In October 2024 John set out to sign 100,000 copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis, reporting his count along the way despite wrist and shoulder pain. In January 2025 he had signed 110,000 sheets and sent them to the printer, and he later credited the signed first printing with the book's #1 bestseller debut.

Part of: Everything Is Tuberculosis: John's nonfiction book about tuberculosis (2024)

Told alongside: John asks viewers to pre-order and buy signed copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis (2024) · John: he will never again sign his name 250,000 times (2021) · John: make a large-ish tuberculosis announcement within a week to 10 days, explaining his signing of 100,000 sheets (2024)

About: Everything Is Tuberculosis

date event what video
2024-10-22 promised John says he is signing 100,000 copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis for pre-orders. My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis 00:02:50
2024-11-01 progress update Surrounded by signed sheets, John says about 19,000 are out there and 81,000 more remain; he is actually past 20,000. Working Through a Crisis with My Brother 00:08:16
2024-11-13 progress update Asked for his signature count, John says he is at 31,400 of 100,000 signatures, which will take 200 hours. Some New Things… 00:37:33
2024-12-31 progress update John says that about 50,000 sheets into signing 100,000 copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis he developed worsening wrist and shoulder pain, and he can no longer sign. I Just Can't Do It Anymore 00:00:38
2025-01-07 kept John has signed 110,000 tip-in sheets for Everything Is Tuberculosis, jogged and boxed them, and sent them off to the printer in Virginia. The Format but it hurts to stand up 00:00:01
2025-07-01 recalled John says his book was almost guaranteed a #1 because he signed over 100,000 copies of the first printing and about 50,000 people pre-ordered it. What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:00:29
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

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