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With a private person

2010-07-06 · John, a private person · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · advocacy activism

After a day in Boston with a private person and her friends, John celebrates the online-born friendships of Nerdfighteria and asks viewers to vote for the Harry Potter Alliance in a $250,000 contest, 'with a private person'.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting by Nerdfighters incl. a private person; who a private person is (Eff Yeah Nerdfighters, cancer); John's day with her friends in Boston; online relationships meaningful IRL

  • ★★ a private person, known online as a private person, helps run Eff Yeah Nerdfighters, which John calls a constantly updating spew of awesome. — 00:00:09
  • ★★ a private person has cancer, which John says sucks. — 00:00:14
  • ★★★ This weekend a group of a private person's friends visited her in Boston, and John spent a day with them: 'an amazing day of amazing'. — 00:00:14 · Boston
  • ★★★ Seeing relationships that began online in Nerdfighteria be so sustaining and meaningful in real life made John proud to be a Nerdfighter. — 00:00:24 · Nerdfighteria

00:00:31 — What they did: volleyball questions (underwear colour), which Harry Potter character a private person would be, a puff fight, an espresso-and-gelato hunt

  • ★★ They wrote silly questions on a volleyball to throw and answer, picked a Harry Potter character for a private person, had a puff fight, and hunted Boston for espresso and gelato. (playful) — 00:00:31 · Harry Potter, Boston
  • ★ a private person doesn't know which Harry Potter character she'd be, maybe a mix of Luna and someone else; she agrees half Luna, half Dumbledore would be very beautiful. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:00

00:01:34 — Gratitude for an internet-based cross-generational friendship; LeakyCon; without Harry Potter no a private person and no Nerdfighteria; a private person and the HPA; the $123,000 for Haiti

  • ★★★ John spent the night thinking how grateful he is to know a private person and how to give thanks for their weird, internet-based, cross-generational friendship. — 00:01:34
  • ★★ John's first 'amazing night of amazing' with a private person was at LeakyCon, a Harry Potter conference. — 00:01:45 · LeakyCon
  • ★★★ Without Harry Potter John would have no a private person, and there probably would not be a Nerdfighteria. (hedged) — 00:01:51 · Harry Potter, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ a private person is a big supporter of the Harry Potter Alliance, a charity Nerdfighteria often partners with; together they raised $123,000 to help Haiti and sent the SS DFTBA there. — 00:01:57 · The Harry Potter Alliance, Nerdfighteria, Haiti

00:02:13 — The HPA's $250,000 contest: what the money would do; vote, 'with a private person' not 'for a private person'

  • ★★ Description update: the HPA won the contest ('WE WON! WITH ESTHER!'). — 00:00:00 · The Harry Potter Alliance
  • ★★★ The HPA is in a big contest to potentially win $250,000 to decrease world suck, and is currently in third place. — 00:02:13 · The Harry Potter Alliance, world suck
  • ★★★ John asks viewers to vote for the Harry Potter Alliance via the link in the description and to get their friends to vote. — 00:02:22 · The Harry Potter Alliance, doobly-doo
  • ★★ The prize would let the HPA continue getting books to kids from the Mississippi Delta to Rwanda and grow its human-rights advocacy. — 00:02:31 · The Harry Potter Alliance
  • ★★★ Winning would be a small way to thank a private person; John won't say 'for a private person', since she would hate that, but says they should win 'with a private person'. (hedged) — 00:02:41 > «I think we should win this contest with a private person.»

00:03:07 — Thanks to everyone in Boston; people wearing your face at VidCon; sign-off; bank-robber outtake

  • ★ John tells Hank he will find out at VidCon how pleasant it is to spend time with people wearing your face on their chest. (playful) — 00:03:11 · VidCon

Humor (significant)

  • John reads the volleyball question asking his underwear colour, with 'PANTIES!' written underneath. — 00:00:38 > «I guess in case you don't know what underwear is.»
  • The group tried to have a puff fight (with John's puff of hair), but it turned into a head-butting contest, — 00:01:10 > «as puff fights so often do.»
  • John explains why he won't say they should win the contest 'for a private person'. — 00:02:46 > «she will throw up in the back of her mouth and hate me.»
  • In the outtake John, with a hood up, says he looks like a bank robber and imagines a witness description. — 00:03:25 > «Mmm, about six foot one, pretty nerdy, fair bit of puff.»

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