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The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8

2014-11-19 · announcement · John, Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Global development · mode: Announcements · tags: guest or collab, on location, calendar ritual, civic or action cta, recurring series, community lore

Interrupted by Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne on the Paper Towns location, John announces P4A 2014 moves to December 12-13 and proposes a split: day one for efficient global poverty and disease charities with matching money, day two for Nerdfighteria-chosen charities with real discussion instead of comment spamming; he asks for feedback.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Night-morning near dawn in Roscoe, NY ('Jupiter!'); a serious day in the book, so no messing around with Nat and Cara

  • ★ John vlogs at night-morning, nearly dawn in Roscoe, New York; readers of the book will know from the setting it's a serious day, so he won't mess around much with Nat and Cara. — 00:00:06 · Paper Towns

00:00:20 — Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne interrupt John's P4A intro (Macarena); P4A moved to December 12-13 for the end of the Paper Towns shoot and 'Project for Nat'

00:01:47 — P4A history and problems (comment spamming no longer works, little matching money, too little attention to voting); John's day-one/day-two proposal and request for feedback

  • ★★ John: the P4A started in 2007 with YouTubers making charity videos, when videos were found via the Most Discussed and Top Rated pages, and Nerdfighteria came together to hijack YouTube's algorithm. — 00:01:47 · Project for Awesome, YouTube, Nerdfighteria, recommender system
  • ★★ John: YouTube made comments progressively less important to discovery, so comment spamming basically no longer works. — 00:02:06 · YouTube
  • ★★ John: traditionally 100% of the Project for Awesome's money goes to charities chosen by Nerdfighteria at projectforawesome.com. — 00:02:16 · Project for Awesome, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John sees two problems: it is hard to get matching money from wealthy private donors, and comment-spamming leaves too little attention for voting on charities. (hedged) — 00:02:24
  • ★★ John asks Nerdfighteria for feedback and any new ideas on his proposal. — 00:02:36 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John proposes that day one of the P4A raise money for three organizations known to be excellent and efficient against global poverty and disease, attracting matching donations and fighting a known cause of world suck. — 00:02:41 · Project for Awesome, extreme poverty, world suck
  • ★★★ John proposes that day two raise money for charities chosen by Nerdfighteria, with meaningful discussions in P4A video comments instead of comment-spamming. — 00:02:55 · Project for Awesome, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John's summary: December 12-13 instead of 17-18; videos uploaded at noon Eastern on the 12th; watching, discussion, careful voting at projectforawesome.com; later money to voted charities, day-one money to global health and poverty charities. — 00:03:05 · Project for Awesome, global health

00:03:35 — Creepy building bathroom; P4A is John's favourite time of year, perks will be amazing; last daily 'see you tomorrow'

  • ★★ John: the P4A's format and scope have changed a lot over the years, but it is always his favourite time of year to be a Nerdfighter. — 00:03:43 · Project for Awesome, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John says he can promise that this year's (2014) P4A perks are going to be amazing. — 00:03:50 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ John heads back to the movie set; this is the last time he gets to say he'll see Hank tomorrow, which he calls a bummer. — 00:03:53 · Paper Towns (film)

Humor (significant)

  • Vlogging in the dark 'night-morning', John breaks off to point at a bright light in the sky. — 00:00:05

    “Jupiter!”

  • Introducing his interrupters, John names Nat Wolff as Q and then calls Cara Delevingne by another famous name. — 00:00:34

    “and, um, John Lennon, who plays Margo Roth”

  • The P4A move turns out to land near Nat's December 17 birthday, so the event gets renamed. — 00:01:24

    “Yeah, project for Nat.”

  • Wandering a creepy abandoned building while vlogging, John can't resist opening a door. — 00:03:38

    “Oh, it's a bathroom!”

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Mentioned

Central: Nat Wolff · Project for Awesome

Also: People: Cara Delevingne

Works: Macarena · Paper Towns · Paper Towns (film)

Organizations: YouTube

Terms: world suck

Concepts: effective altruism · extreme poverty · global health · recommender system · spamming

Places: Jupiter · Roscoe, New York

Characters: Margo Roth Spiegelman · Quentin Jacobsen

Products: Roomba · YouTube comments

Only in the description or credits: Pizzamas

Also centred on Nat Wolff: Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) · Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff · Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places

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