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October 24th: RANDOM NERDFIGHTING

2007-10-24 · letter vlog · John · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: community lore, punishment or challenge, fundraising ask, civic or action cta

John thanks Hank for recalling that nerdfighting is about bringing people together, jokingly settles that nerdfighters fight for nerds, recommits to his failed toilet-paper-and-Nepal challenge for Friday, and runs through Kiva, EcoGeek's PC Magazine honour and two viewer votes.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting; filming inside; thanks Hank for yesterday's reminder that nerdfighting brings people together

  • ★★ John thanks Hank for reminding him in yesterday's video that nerdfighting isn't about tearing people apart but about bringing people together. — 00:00:09 · nerdfighter

00:00:36 — Mock museum titles for Hank's still shot; commenters ask whether nerdfighters fight for or against nerds; nerdy faces

  • ★★ John says a few commenters have asked whether nerdfighters fight for or against nerds, reasoning that stain fighters don't fight for stains. — 00:00:36 · nerdfighter

00:01:34 — Freedom fighters and Power Rangers: nerdfighters are for nerds; recommitting to the failed toilet-paper-and-Nepal challenge for Friday

  • ★★ After worrying that his Nerdfighter shirt suggests fighting against nerds, and puzzling over freedom fighters and Power Rangers, John concludes that nerdfighters are for nerds. (playful) — 00:01:34 · nerdfighter

    “Nerdfighters are for nerds, Hank.”

  • ★★ A nerdfighter pointed out that John never completed the challenge he set himself on January 2: he talked about Nepal but failed to eat the five sheets of toilet paper. (playful) — 00:01:34

  • ★★★ John commits to eating five whole sheets of toilet paper while discussing the political situation in Nepal on Friday. (playful) — 00:02:13 · first in: 2007-01-23, Week 1 Condensed!

    “On Friday, I am going to eat five whole sheets of toilet paper while discussing the political situation in Nepal.”

00:02:42 — Three things: Kiva ran short of listed borrowers, go back to lending; PC Magazine names EcoGeek a top-100 site; vote for secret siblings' film and a nerdfighter's scholarship; sign-off

  • ★★ John says Nerdfighters have supported Kiva.org for months, a website that lets regular people be microfinanciers. — 00:02:42 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John reports that Kiva.org recently had more people wanting to lend than listed developing-world entrepreneurs; there were more borrowers, just not yet on the site. (playful) — 00:02:42
  • ★★★ John tells viewers that borrowers are back on the site, so everyone can go back to making loans at Kiva.org. — 00:03:12 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John reports that PC Magazine named Hank's EcoGeek.org one of the 100 best websites on the internet. — 00:03:12 · EcoGeek
  • ★★ John asks viewers to watch and vote for a film by two secret siblings, and points to a scholarship vote for a nerdfighter (names omitted), with details linked. — 00:03:12 · secret sibling

Humor (significant)

  • John imagines museum titles for the still frame of Hank's previous video. — 00:00:36

    “Bucktooth McGee has seen the face of the Lord?”

  • Testing whether nerdfighters fight nerds, John asks if Power Rangers range against power and gets lost in the phrase. — 00:01:34

    “Does it mean that they're rangers of power? Or rangers with power? Or rangers in favor of power?”

  • Kiva became so popular that lenders outnumbered listed entrepreneurs. — 00:02:42

    “They ran out of poor people.”

  • After EcoGeek is named one of the 100 best websites, John claims to know how many websites exist. — 00:03:12

    “There are like 8 or 900.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Kiva · nerd · nerdfighter

Also: Brotherhood 2.0 · EcoGeek · microfinance · Nepal · PC Magazine · Power Rangers · secret sibling

Also centred on Kiva: June 28: How to Be a Microfinancier · How to be a Microfinancier Part 2 · Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting · Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism · Awesome Bankers? · The Bank of Nerdfighteria

Also centred on nerd: Brotherhood 2.0: June 20: Moving · July 27: How Nerdfighters Drop Insults · How to Make Guys Like You · Harry Potter Nerds Win at Life · Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!)

Replies to

  • continues · Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd — “Hank, I gave myself that challenge on January 2nd”
  • continues · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… — “Hank, I want to thank you for reminding me in your awesome video yesterday that nerdfighting isn't about tearing people asunder, it's about bringing people together.”

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