P4A 2008 edition
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2008-12-26) · last mentioned: 2009-06-21
The 2008 Project for Awesome, announced by Hank for 17 December 2008, had YouTubers make videos for their favourite charities. YouTube let the brothers guest-edit its front page, and Nerdfighters lobbied for hundreds of charities with over 200,000 comments.
Parts: Hank asks viewers to make and submit P4A videos about their favourite charities (2008) · Hank asks viewers to join the P4A supporters' mailing list (2008) · Hank encourages others to award money to P4A charities (2008) · Hank: no P4A mailing-list emails after December 20 and no sharing of addresses (2008) · Hank (with John): donate $1,000 to a P4A 2008 charity chosen by video quality (2008) · Hank asks viewers to spend the P4A days watching, rating and commenting on P4A videos (2008) · Hank asks viewers to fund a classroom project on DonorsChoose.org (P4A 2008) · Hank: write a Project for Awesome song and post it as an mp3 (2008) · John: Hank's P4A challenge to microwave a CD and short a 9-volt battery with steel wool (2008) · John and Hank ask front-page viewers to search out more P4A 2008 videos (2008) · John asks Hank and Nerdfighters where their P4A 2008 charity money went (2008)
Other editions: P4A 2009 edition · P4A 2010 edition · P4A 2011 edition · P4A 2012 edition · P4A 2013 edition · P4A 2014 edition · P4A 2015 edition · P4A 2016 edition · P4A 2017 edition · P4A 2018 edition · P4A 2019 edition · P4A 2021 edition · P4A 2022 edition · P4A 2023 edition · P4A 2024 edition · P4A 2025 edition · P4A 2026 edition
Told alongside: John's 8/8/08 event in Chicago: library talk, Grant Park and The Bean (2008)
About: Project for Awesome, YouTube
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-12-11 | announced | 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 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) | 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 |
| 2008-12-17 | launched | 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 |
| 2008-12-18 | 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 |
| 2008-12-18 | outcome | 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 | outcome | Hank says the 2008 Project for Awesome was pretty freaking awesome and that they will talk more about it soon. (hedged) | A Christmas Song! 00:03:31 |
| 2008-12-26 | outcome | 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 | looked back | Hank recalls this year's (2009) Project for Awesome, when thousands of YouTubers made videos supporting their favourite charities. | The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less 00:01:02 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
20 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank introduces the Project for Awesome, which he believes is the largest YouTube community-inspired event ever. (hedged) — 00:00:00
- 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank defines the Project for Awesome as a day when the YouTube community takes over YouTube to promote people who do things because they are right, not for money: charity. — 00:00:00
- 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank says they promote charity one day a year in the holiday season, then go back to silly songs, cat videos and being profane. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank explains the plan: the mailing list will feature videos that supporters rate, comment on and favourite so they reach YouTube's big lists, until P4A videos are everywhere and everyone knows YouTube is awesome. — 00:01:39
- 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank says editable Photoshop and Fireworks thumbnail files are at projectforawesome.com and can be customised as long as the video stays recognisably P4A. — 00:02:08
- 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank says YouTube changed how it picks thumbnails; after talking with YouTube and testing, non-partners should make the middle 10 seconds of the video the P4A image, e.g. 125 to 135 in a 3-minute video. — 00:03:07
- 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — Hank says it is the day before the Project for Awesome and he has spent all day organising it and making his own P4A video. — 00:00:00
- 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — announcement: Hank says he, John and his wife will spend most of the 48 hours of the 17th and 18th on it: John on BlogTV from noon Eastern, Hank later into the night. — 00:00:00
- 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — announcement: Hank apologises that the P4A thumbnail method is not working, according to reports. — 00:01:43
- 2008-12-17 (said on 2008-12-16, implied) · One More Day Until the P4A!!! — announcement: Hank lists fixes: a green screen with the P4A image, picture in picture, or keeping the P4A image on screen; a printable image is linked in the sidebar. — 00:01:43
- 2008-12-17 · Project for Awesome: DonorsChoose.org — Hank defines the Project for Awesome as a day when YouTubers talk about their favourite charities, encourage donations and talk about people doing good things. — 00:00:00
- 2008-12-17 · Project for Awesome: DonorsChoose.org — Hank says a cadre of about 10,000 people will promote P4A videos so they become YouTube's most viewed and discussed videos for at least two days. — 00:00:00
- 2008-12-17 · Project for Awesome: DonorsChoose.org — announcement: Hank thanks everyone taking part in the Project for Awesome and says he and John will be live on BlogTV. — 00:03:15
- 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — announcement: Hank says they are here to introduce some of their favourite videos from the 2008 Project for Awesome. — 00:00:00
- 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — Hank describes the Project for Awesome as an annual holiday-season event in which tens of thousands of YouTubers draw attention to charities worldwide. — 00:00:00
- 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — announcement: both: The brothers say YouTube let them be guest editors of its front page for a day. — 00:01:35
- 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — both: They thank the people known as Nerdfighters who helped make the project such a success. — 00:02:04
- 2008-12-22 · A Christmas Song! — Hank says the Project for Awesome was pretty freaking awesome this year (2008) and they will talk more about it soon. (hedged) — 00:03:31
- 2008-12-26 · Skoodilypooping — John says he is still reeling from how awesome the Project for Awesome was; Nerdfighters lobbied for literally hundreds of great charities. — 00:00:00
- 2008-12-26 · Skoodilypooping — John says that during the Project for Awesome Nerdfighters commented on YouTube videos more than 200,000 times. — 00:00:40