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THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!!

2009-12-17 · John · watch on YouTube · Global development · advocacy activism

John opens the 2009 Project for Awesome, sending viewers to the livestream chat to rate, favorite and comment on charity videos, then makes his own P4A video: his unborn baby 'hates malaria', so he auctions his nerd glasses and asks for donations to Malaria No More.

What is said

00:00:00 — P4A 2009 begins: what the Project for Awesome is; upload P4A videos as responses; livestream.com/projectforawesome as headquarters for 48 hours

  • ★★★ John announces that it is time for the 2009 Project for Awesome. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ John defines the P4A as an annual event where the YouTube community makes videos about charities and rates, favorites and comments on them to push them to the top of YouTube. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome, YouTube
  • ★★ John asks viewers who made a Project for Awesome video to upload it as a response to this video. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ John sends everyone to livestream.com/projectforawesome, the P4A headquarters for the next 48 hours, and asks them to hang out in the chat to coordinate comments, ratings and favorites. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John explains the P4A is organised through Livestream this year because, though imperfect, it puts everyone in the same room; chatting only needs a Twitter account. — 00:00:00 · Twitter

00:00:48 — Twitter-based livestream chat; John's own P4A video: his unborn baby hates malaria; nerd-glasses auction and FirstGiving page for Malaria No More

  • ★ John says coordinating in the chat lets a roving band of nerds take over the largest entertainment website in the world. (playful) — 00:00:48 · YouTube
  • ★★★ John says he and his wife are about to have their first baby (joking that she will have it and he will stand there and faint). (playful) — 00:00:48 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★★ John says people offered baby presents, but the unborn baby already has everything; the one thing it desperately wants is an end to malaria. (playful) — 00:01:17
  • ★★ John jokes that at an ultrasound the technician let them hear the unborn baby say it hates malaria but can do nothing about it from inside the amniotic sac. (joke) — 00:01:17 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★★ John says that unlike his unborn child, viewers and he are not stuck inside amniotic sacs, so they can do something about malaria. (playful) — 00:02:03
  • ★★★ John is auctioning his nerd glasses, worn in almost every 2008 Vlogbrothers video; the auction is linked in the sidebar and all proceeds go to Malaria No More. — 00:02:03 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★★ John asks viewers who want to give his baby a present to donate to Malaria No More at firstgiving.com/johnsbabyhatesmalaria on behalf of his unborn child. — 00:02:03

00:02:32 — Farewell to the nerd glasses; sign-off 'Don't forget to beat all malaria'

  • ★ John bids farewell to his nerd glasses, sure they are going to a 'Nerdfightastic' home. — 00:02:32

Humor (significant)

  • Too excited about the P4A, John admits he is not wearing any pants. — 00:00:00 > «This is YouTube, not a country club.»
  • At the ultrasound the technician moves the wand to the baby's mouth so they can hear what the baby is saying. — 00:01:17 > «the first words I heard my unborn baby say were, I hate malaria»
  • John varies the DFTBA sign-off to fit his malaria cause. — 00:02:32 > «Don't forget to beat all malaria.»

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