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The Future of Nerdfighteria

2014-07-08 · announcement · John · 3:34 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Internet & YouTube, Projects, Global development, Sports) · mode: Announcements · tags: community lore, self promotion, civic or action cta

John shares plans from the VidCon Nerdfighter gathering - more IRL events, educational video for younger kids, materials for Crash Course, year-round charity - asks Nerdfighters whether and how vlogbrothers should run pre-roll ads, and announces Nerdfighteria will be on AFC Wimbledon's shorts.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Henry asks for a dragons-and-dinosaurs video; John invites Nerdfighter editors to make it

  • ★★ Henry asked John for a video about dragons and dinosaurs fighting bad guys together, with scary parts but not too many; John explained he can only make videos where his head moves around a screen. (playful) — 00:00:01 · Henry Green
  • ★★ John invites brilliant video editors and motion-graphics artists in Nerdfighteria to take Henry's idea and run with it. (playful) — 00:00:13 · Nerdfighteria, Henry Green

00:00:19 — The future of Nerdfighteria from the VidCon gathering; 1: more IRL events and Nerdfighter gatherings

  • ★★ Every year there is a huge Nerdfighter gathering at VidCon to talk about what's ahead for Nerdfighteria; John shares some of what came out of it. — 00:00:25 · VidCon, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ One: they want more IRL events - more Nerdfighter gatherings with the brothers and facilitating gatherings without them; John finds travel hard right now because of family. — 00:00:32 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John jokes that nothing beats real life - except the internet, which does beat real life; real life is a close second. (joke) — 00:00:46

00:00:53 — 2: educational video for younger people; 3: non-video materials for Crash Course with Khan Academy

  • ★★★ Two: they want to make educational video for younger people; John can't say more yet, but imagines elementary students getting excited about science and history. — 00:00:53
  • ★★★ Three: teachers and students want non-video materials - essays, primary sources, worksheets - to go with Crash Course; Khan Academy has helped some, and they want to do much more in the coming year. — 00:01:09 · Crash Course
  • ★★ John says Crash Course is used in thousands of schools. — 00:01:12 · Crash Course

00:01:27 — 4: decreasing worldsuck year-round: P4A's $800,000 and the World Cup sarcoma fundraiser (Brazil jersey)

  • ★★★ Four: they want to decrease worldsuck and increase world awesome year-round, not just through the Project for Awesome. — 00:01:27 · world suck, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says the Project for Awesome raised more than $800,000 for charity last December. — 00:01:30 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John wears a Brazil jersey because Brazil fans, with matching, gave over $16,000 to sarcoma research to win his World Cup affection; the project has raised over $80,000 for the Sarcoma Foundation. — 00:01:37

00:01:58 — 5: advertising - no pre-rolls so far, the money at stake, options, Hank's equipment for Vi Hart, and the survey

  • ★★★ Five: vlogbrothers has never run pre-roll ads because the brothers find pre-rolls annoying; it has only display ads. — 00:01:59 · Vlogbrothers, online advertising
  • ★★★ John says pre-roll ads are about 99% of YouTube's revenue, and that with them vlogbrothers could earn five or six times what it does now (he can't give actual numbers). (hedged) — 00:02:08 · YouTube, Vlogbrothers, online advertising
  • ★★★ John asks whether and how to run pre-rolls; options: keep things as they are, delete ads entirely, or run pre-rolls and give all the money to the Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck or to education and Nerdfighter projects, or a mix. — 00:02:17 · Vlogbrothers, Foundation to Decrease World Suck
  • ★★ John recalls Hank buying Vi Hart equipment years ago so she could make better videos more often - the best $1,000 he ever spent, as she became a phenomenally successful educational creator. — 00:02:31 · Hank Green
  • ★★★ John asks Nerdfighters to take the survey linked in the doobly-doo on ads and on what they want from Crash Course and education content on YouTube. — 00:02:50 · Nerdfighteria, doobly-doo, Crash Course, YouTube

00:02:59 — Nerdfighteria will be on AFC Wimbledon's shorts next season and in FIFA 15

  • ★★★ Thanks to HankGames fans, Nerdfighteria has increased its AFC Wimbledon sponsorship: next season its design will be on the shorts of the actual AFC Wimbledon uniforms. — 00:02:59 · AFC Wimbledon, HankGames
  • ★★ John tells Hank that playing as AFC Wimbledon in FIFA 15 he will see the design on their computer shorts: Nerdfighters made it to FIFA. (playful) — 00:03:17 · AFC Wimbledon

00:03:26 — Asking for comments on Nerdfighteria's future; sign-off

  • ★★ John asks Nerdfighters to say in comments where they would like Nerdfighteria to go. — 00:03:26 · Nerdfighteria

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Mentioned

Central: online advertising

Also: People: Henry Green · Vi Hart

Projects: Crash Course · Foundation to Decrease World Suck · Project for Awesome · VidCon

Works: FIFA 15

Organizations: AFC Wimbledon · Sarcoma Foundation · YouTube

Terms: doobly-doo · world suck

Concepts: dinosaur · sarcoma

Places: Brazil

Events: FIFA World Cup

Myths: dragon

Only in the description or credits: HankGames · Khan Academy

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Part of an exchange of 5 videos, 2014-07-08 – 2014-08-01.