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NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants)

2011-02-09 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · reflection essay

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Answering talk about Nerdfighteria changing as it grows, John sets two rules (don't be mean, DFTBA), recalls the community's recent accomplishments, announces the coming Your Pants forum, and argues that Nerdfighter is an identity you choose and define by living it.

What is said

00:00:00 — Answering a claim of fewer inside jokes: the Pizza John mustache returns, with a pile-up of old in-jokes

  • ★★ Because Nerdfighter suchducks claimed in a video that they make fewer inside jokes than they used to, John reveals the Pizza John mustache for the second time. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Pizza John
  • ★★ John piles up old in-jokes: pizza in the mustache, the singamajig, his puppy-sized elephant, the Dread Pirate Fireball Wilson Roberts and French the Llama, Tender Morsels in your pants. (playful) — 00:00:18 · Pizza John, puppy sized elephant, Willy, French the llama, in your pants

00:00:56 — Conversation about Nerdfighteria changing as it grows; two rules: don't be mean and DFTBA

  • ★★ John notes much conversation on Tumblr, the Ning, YouTube and Twitter about Nerdfighteria changing as it grows and how to keep the community strong, and offers his two cents. — 00:00:56 · Tumblr, Nerdfighter Ning, YouTube, Twitter, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John sets two rules, for Nerdfighteria and for human existence generally: number one, don't be mean; number two, DFTBA. — 00:01:07 · DFTBA, Nerdfighteria > «number one: don't be mean and number two: DFTBA»

00:01:29 — What Nerdfighteria accomplished in recent months

  • ★★ John says Nerdfighteria has accomplished a ton in recent months, including raising more than $10,000 with a private person for This Star Won't Go Out. — 00:01:36 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John reports that the Project for Awesome generated more than 600,000 comments and raised more than $150,000. — 00:01:40 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John lists more feats: Nerdfighters broke the email inbox of Warner Chilcott's CEO, determined that moon pasta is more efficient than Earth beef, and transcribed every vlogbrothers video at nerdfighteria.info. (playful) — 00:01:44 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★ Nerdfighters keep doing amazing things worldwide, from dressing as Phineas Gage for Halloween to drawing 'regular squids of rational debate and source citation' and attending anything-but-clothes parties. (playful) — 00:01:53 · giant squid of anger

00:02:11 — Nerdfighteria needs better ways to interact: the Your Pants forum is coming at yourpants.org

  • ★★★ John says Nerdfighteria needs better ways to interact: YouTube comments don't lend themselves to relationships or collaboration, and the Ning confuses new users, though Ningmasters are working on it. — 00:02:11 · YouTube, Nerdfighter Ning
  • ★★★ John announces that some Nerdfighters are building Your Pants, like the old forum My Pants but yours; hopefully live within a week at yourpants.org, for friendships and decreasing world suck. (hedged) — 00:02:23 · Your Pants, Brotherhood 2.0 forum, world suck

00:02:59 — No one can tell you if you're a Nerdfighter: identities are chosen and defined by living them

  • ★★★ John argues no one can tell you whether you're a Nerdfighter, nor you anyone else: it is a chosen identity, collectively defined by living it, not by talking about it. — 00:02:59 · nerdfighter, Nerdfighteria > «Nerdfighter is an identity that you choose and then we collectively define that identity.»
  • ★★★ In John's opinion the same goes for almost all identities, chosen like musician or writer or seemingly unchosen like brother: identities matter but resist simple definitions. (hedged) — 00:03:12
  • ★★ John says that if he has learned anything about brotherhood in the last four years, it is that it is about much more than sharing the same parents. — 00:03:23 · Hank Green

Humor (significant)

  • John compares the returning Pizza John mustache to herpes and the Transformers franchise. — 00:00:12 > «you can never be quite sure that it's gone away for good.»
  • To satisfy demands for more inside jokes, John stacks old in-jokes into one walk. — 00:00:28 > «while wearing a book called Tender Morsels in your pants on my head.»
  • In the mustache John feels he looks like both a cop and a creeper. — 00:00:43 > «I feel like I should be arresting myself for creeping in the first degree.»
  • Google can't find yourpants.com; John doesn't expect it to find his pants. — 00:02:51 > «Google, your job is when I input a symptom, you tell me what terrible disease I probably have.»

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