Nerd Factor 2013 edition
project history · status: completed · last event: milestone (2013-07-16) · last mentioned: 2013-07-30
John brought back Nerd Factor in April 2013, asking for one video response per person. More than 1,600 people entered; winners MagicTurtle643 and Sabrina (NerdyandQuirky) made guest Vlogbrothers videos in July while John was on paternity leave.
Told alongside: John's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts filling in (2013)
About: Nerd Factor, MagicTurtle643, Sabrina Cruz, Michael Buckley, Ruby Day, The Swot Sisters
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-04-02 | launched | John brings back Nerd Factor: one video response per person; winners featured in a future Vlogbrothers video, and one becomes a paternity-leave guest host. | TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video 00:02:55 |
| 2013-05-28 | outcome | John thanks 1,600+ Nerd Factor entrants and names winners MagicTurtle643 and Nerdy and Quirky as his paternity-leave stand-ins, plus singers Ruby Day and the Swot Sisters. | NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) 00:01:13 |
| 2013-07-09 | milestone | Nerd Factor 2013 winner MagicTurtle643 delivers his guest vlogbrothers video, the stand-in prize announced with the results. | The World Needs More Magic 00:00:00 |
| 2013-07-16 | milestone | The other Nerd Factor 2013 winner, Sabrina (NerdyandQuirky), delivers her guest vlogbrothers video. | The Ghost of Teenaged Future 00:00:03 |
| 2013-07-30 | looked back | The description thanks the guest hosts by name: Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, WheezyWaiter, Rosianna, MagicTurtle643 and NerdyAndQuirky. | Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… video description |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — John announces the return of Nerd Factor, a contest idea he says they stole from Michael Buckley. — 00:02:55
- 2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to make one favourite video of theirs a video response; winners will be featured on Vlogbrothers and one will be a paternity-leave guest host. — 00:02:55
- 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — John thanks the more than 1,600 people who posted videos to the Nerd Factor competition; he is sad only two can replace him. — 00:01:13
- 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — announcement: John names Nerd Factor winners MagicTurtle643 and Nerdy and Quirky, who will stand in for him on Tuesdays during his paternity leave. — 00:01:27
- 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — John says MagicTurtle643 has made videos for over five years, took part in the Project for Awesome, has fewer than 700 subscribers and is hilarious, so 'let's change that'. — 00:01:53
- 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — announcement: John declares two more winners, both singers: Ruby Day and the Swot Sisters, whose whole song he calls amazing. — 00:02:51
- 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — announcement: John: Every Tuesday there will still be a 'John video' on vlogbrothers, with John played by others: Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, Craig (WheezyWaiter), Maureen Johnson and two Nerd Factor winners. — 00:01:25
- 2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — MagicTurtle643 introduces himself as one of the two Nerd Factor winners chosen to fill in for John during his paternity leave. — 00:00:00
- 2013-07-16 · The Ghost of Teenaged Future — Sabrina Cruz: Sabrina introduces herself as the other Nerd Factor winner, known as NerdyandQuirky, and says that, following the pattern of previous videos, she is not John. — 00:00:03