The Power of Nerdfighteria

So I was just over hanging out on Your Pants and was thinking about how Nerdfighters and nerdfighteria has changed my life.

Now I could go into the whole story of how I became a nerdfighter, why, when, blah, blah, et cetera that a lot of people tell...But I'm not going to.*

I am going to get down to the heart of what I really want to say.

Nerdfighters can and have changed the world. And that is just so freaking amazing.


Nerdfighting lives by the model "Decrease World Suck, Increase Awesome", but what I've come to learn during the last year and a half that I have be apart of the Nerdfighting family is that it is more than that.

Because of Nerdfighteria: Project for Awesome completely took over Youtube for a day, Vidcon, 5 planes were sent to Haiti after the earthquake with supplies; Ester Earl will forever be remembered as the star that won'to go out, and such, and so, so much more, I'm met and made friends with someone from Isreal, I'm learned that I am truly not the only nerdfighter in the state.

What it comes down to Nerdfighting is whatever each individual nerdfighter wants it to be. Over the four years that John and Hank have been making videos (and leading us), Nerdfighteria has grown to an international family.

There are over 23,000 members on Your Pants. The Vlogbrothers YT channel has over 500,000 subscribers. Nerdfighteria runs a record company (DFTBA Records). Countless vlogs, blogs, and other collaborations have been started through this community.

What it comes down to is that Nerdfighteria has shown me that anyone, even two brothers and a group of the nerdiest people on the internet, can impact each other and the world.

And that's what being a nerdfighter has taught me thus far.

Sami

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*Okay fine. When: 18 months ago. Why: I don't remember. Comments: See entire post above.