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The P4A 2023 is The Hottest Club on the Internet

2023-02-24 · review / recommendation · Hank · 18:01 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: calendar ritual, community lore, recurring series, fundraising ask

In his third P4A meme review, Hank goes through five folders of fan memes and art from the 2023 Project for Awesome (Dr Pepper Peeps and bean-stuffed pickles, the Slack 'hummus' sound, lemon crunching, the Rax perk and the T-Rex mascot), then says the P4A, made up from scratch, is ever so good and thanks everyone.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Welcome to the P4A 2023 meme review: five folders of fan creations

00:00:29 — The memes folder: Dr Pepper Peeps, bean pickles, lemon crunching, Darcy's carrots, hummus, the mascot vote, Rax, the hottest-club meme

  • ★★ Hank gift-wrapped the Peeps labelled to open on P4A day one, but his son thought they were a present, opened them at John's house and ate them. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Peeps, John Green, Project for Awesome
  • ★ After spilling pickle juice on stream, Hank points to all the paper towels he used, thanks Katherine Green, and admits he bought too many pickles. (playful) — 00:01:02 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank stands by his view that a Twinkie filled with Dr Pepper baked beans beats one without. (playful) — 00:01:57
  • ★★ A meme recalls the P4A auction for Ryan Reynolds' screen-worn Deadpool watch: the speaker and Ray were in a tight bidding battle, and then Ben came in at the last second. — 00:01:57 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says Destin was responsible for the largest single hour of this year's (2023) Project for Awesome. — 00:01:57 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank tells buyers of the confetti perk that he has ordered special stickers to seal them and will send them once the stickers arrive. — 00:02:26
  • ★★ Hank says he and John both crunched a lemon on the stream, and it went badly both times. (playful) — 00:02:56 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank says Darcy crunching carrots, rewarded for every $10,000 raised, got the P4A through the $2 million barrier. (playful) — 00:02:56 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank explains the hummus joke: a stock Slack notification sound is a woman saying 'hummus'; donors paid for him to switch to it and he kept it the whole P4A. — 00:03:54 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ In the vote for the 2023 P4A mascot, T-Rex clobbered the other option, 'hummus lemon lips man'; it wasn't even close. — 00:05:16 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ Hank says last year (2022) he had to pretend to be a crab and this year (2023) a cute little housefly, and both times it hurt his knee. (playful) — 00:05:16 · Crank Green
  • ★★ Committing to the bit, the brothers decided to make Rax a priority: having long talked about Rax without going, they are going to go to a Rax. — 00:05:45 · commit to the bit, John Green
  • ★★ Hank says someone accidentally bid $42,000 for the watch, and luckily they were able to roll it back. — 00:06:14 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says the two vibes of the Project for Awesome are a little contradictory but come together very well. — 00:06:14 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ The title meme, in the Stefon format: the internet's hottest club is the P4A livestream, which has everything, from bean-filled pickles and the word hummus to Rax. (playful) — 00:06:14 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ Hank says a little lemon juice made the Dr Pepper baked beans much better by cutting the sugar. — 00:06:57

00:08:24 — The hummus folder

00:08:48 — The T-Rex (Rax) folder and the lemon folder

  • ★★ Correcting a meme, Hank says the Rax trip was the number two P4A perk, not number one, which is still pretty amazing. (hedged) — 00:08:48 · Project for Awesome

00:10:24 — The art folder: housefly Hank, P4A cookies, long Furbies, the Road to Rax

  • ★★ Hank says we have to stop saying 'now we're cooking with gas' and stop cooking with gas, which isn't even as good as solar-powered induction. — 00:11:22
  • ★★ Hank says many fan works look like they took more than two days; he has never made anything like them and has no idea how hard it is, but it seems very difficult. (hedged) — 00:12:31
  • ★★ On a 'You can cry here' meme, Hank says crying is in the P4A's founding documents: not required, but encouraged. (playful) — 00:12:31 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Explaining the 'Tony Orange' memes, Hank says he couldn't remember Ted Lasso's name, only that his last name was a noun. (playful) — 00:13:03
  • ★★ Fan art notes Nerdfighteria turned 16 this year (2023), so it has a driver's license and is an organ donor. (playful) — 00:13:03 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank broke an egg over his head and immediately regretted it, and did no Sharpie face at all this year (2023). (playful) — 00:13:32 · Sharpie Face
  • ★★ Hank explains that P4A+ is basically the digital download bundle. — 00:15:20 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Fan art shows a Hanklerfish crunching a lemon; Hank calls him lovely and says he has made a mistake. (playful) — 00:15:20 · Hanklerfish
  • ★★ Hank calls two long Furbies, a lemon-hummus one and a bean-pickle one leaking beans from a crack as his pickle did, one of the greatest pieces of P4A art this year (2023). — 00:15:20 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Fan art imagines 'The Road to Rax' as a video game whose levels are the P4A's bits: the Dr Pepper Peep, bean pickle, lemon lips, raw coffee beans and Tyrannosaurus Rax. (playful) — 00:16:16 · Peeps, Project for Awesome

00:17:15 — The P4A as a made-up source of meaning, thanks and sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank says there are many ways to find meaning and purpose, but the Project for Awesome is one they made up from scratch, and it is ever so good. — 00:17:15 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ Hank calls it a truly magical P4A and thanks everyone who was part of it, in whatever way, and John. — 00:17:44 · John Green, Project for Awesome

Humor (dominant)

  • Hank's gift-wrapped day-one Peeps are opened and eaten by his son at John's house — 00:00:29

    “Sound financial decisions.”

  • Spilling pickle juice, Hank names the P4A's true priority — 00:01:02

    “Because it's Project for Awesome, and the most important thing is paper towels.”

  • A meme on the hummus in-joke, in the 'friendship ended' format — 00:03:25

    “Friendship ended with beans. Now hummus is my best friend.”

  • Crunching a lemon on stream swelled Hank's lips — 00:05:16

    “when I crunched the lemon my lips swelled up and I looked like this guy from Monsters Inc”

  • The title meme lists everything the internet's hottest club has — 00:06:14

    “Honestly, that list could have gone on way longer and not gotten any less weird.”

  • Fan art of Hank as the housefly from his task is too well done — 00:10:24

    “i'm not a cute little fly i'm a big scary fly”

  • Fan art says Nerdfighteria turned 16 and now has a driver's license — 00:13:03

    “And, just so you know, it is an organ donor.”

  • The Road to Rax video game ends with a final boss — 00:16:16

    “And then last, you got to fight Tyrannosaurus Rax.”

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Mentioned

Central: Project for Awesome · Rax Restaurants

Also: People: Destin Sandlin · Katherine Green · Orin Green · Paul Hollywood · Ryan Reynolds · Sigmund Freud · William Shakespeare

Projects: Awesome Coffee Club · Awesome Socks Club

Works: Hanklerfish · Ted Lasso · The Anthropocene Reviewed (book) (“The Anthropobene Refilled”) · We're Here Because We're Here

Organizations: Slack

Groups: Tuataria

Rituals: Four-minute rule

Terms: Crank Green · DFTBA · Sharpie Face

Concepts: gas stove · induction cooking · pickled cucumber · tuberculosis · Tyrannosaurus · video game · vision board

Places: North Dakota

Characters: Deadpool (character, “Deadpool”) · Mr. Delicious · Self-Care Bunny · Stefon · Strong Sad

Products: Dr Pepper · Furby · Peeps

Memes: commit to the bit

animal: Darcy

Also centred on Rax Restaurants: The Commercial that Killed a Fast Food Chain · The Rax Guy · Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX

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