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P4A 2016 Hilarity Reprise - OVER $2M RAISED!!

2016-12-13 · announcement · Hank, John, Ettore Rossetti, Big Bird, Grace Helbig, Mamrie Hart, Hannah Hart, Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal, Gaby Dunn, Nathan Zed, Sabrina Cruz, Destin Sandlin, Charlie McDonnell, Rosianna Halse Rojas, Lex Croucher · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Global development (also: Personal life) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: calendar ritual, fundraising ask, guest or collab, community lore

After a montage of gags from the P4A 2016 livestream, Hank, back from paternity leave, thanks everyone for the 10th Project for Awesome raising over $2 million, says six weeks away from the channel changed him, and thanks larger donors and YouTube's $25,000 Creators for Change match.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Montage of livestream moments: confetti, Save the Children staff, Big Bird, guests, Mars, bread demon, Cheez Doodles Guy

00:02:20 — Hank is back: P4A 2016 raised over $2 million; last-minute perks; thanks to everyone who took part

  • ★★★ Hank says he is proud of the community: the tenth Project for Awesome saw Nerdfighteria work together to raise over two million dollars. — 00:02:21 · Project for Awesome, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank announces he is back, says his mind is still a little hungover from P4A, and is glad that is how he came back. (playful) — 00:02:23 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says P4A is still going: viewers watching within the first twelve hours can get last-minute perks at projectforawesome.com/donate. — 00:02:41 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank thanks everyone who donated, shared, voted, made videos, volunteered to put it together, and joined the livestream. — 00:02:49 · Project for Awesome

00:03:00 — Six weeks away from the channel during a moment everyone wanted to talk about changed Hank

  • ★★★ Hank says the last six weeks away were weird: his first time leaving the channel in almost ten years, during a moment when everyone wanted to talk about what was happening. — 00:03:00 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★ Hank thinks the break changed him and is interested to see how that shows as he returns to making videos and says things he has been thinking about. (hedged) — 00:03:18 · Vlogbrothers

00:03:27 — Larger donors thanked in the description, YouTube's $25,000 Creators for Change match, perks link and sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says P4A got many more larger donations this year (2016), and he will thank a bunch of those donors in the description. — 00:03:27 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says YouTube gave a $25,000 matching donation through its new Creators for Change program, which funds creators promoting awareness, tolerance and empathy on social issues. — 00:03:31 · YouTube, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank thanks John for doing P4A with him and thanks everyone for supporting it. — 00:03:50 · John Green, Project for Awesome

In the description and comments

  • ★★ Hank thanks those who added to the P4A 2016 matching fund: a generous Partners In Health donor gave the $400,000 match for Partners In Health, and individual donors and families matched gifts to both charities in the first and second halves. — video description · Partners In Health, Project for Awesome

Humor (significant)

  • John notices viewers calling him Glitter Beard and realises why — 00:00:40

    “People are calling me Glitter Beard—oh, it's 'cause you want me to put glitter in my beard.”

  • Out of context in the montage, Hank asks Phil a grim question — 00:00:50

    “How are we all going to die, Phil?”

  • John reads a viewer question asking what he thinks of Mars — 00:02:02

    “I think it is a cold, dead rock in the middle of the ocean.”

  • Hank puts the screaming Cheez Doodles Guy on screen and John reacts — 00:02:13

    “Oh, Hank, you put up Cheez Doodles Guy!”

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Mentioned

Central: Project for Awesome

Also: People: Aleksander Gamme · Barack Obama · Charlie McDonnell · Destin Sandlin · Donald Trump · Ettore Rossetti · Gaby Dunn · Grace Helbig · Hannah Hart · Lex Croucher · Link Neal · Mamrie Hart · Nathan Zed · Rhett McLaughlin · Rosianna Halse Rojas · Sabrina Cruz

Organizations: Save the Children

Terms: DFTBA

Places: Mars

Characters: Big Bird

Only in the description or credits: Partners In Health · YouTube · YouTube Creators for Change

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