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Nerdfighteria
Nerdfighteria is a mainly online-based community subculture that originated on YouTube in 2007, when the VlogBrothers (John and Hank Green) rose to prominence in the YouTube community. As their popularity grew, so did coverage on Nerdfighteria, whose followers are individually known as Nerdfighters. The term was coined when John saw a copy of the arcade game ''Aero Fighters'' and misread the title as ''Nerd Fighters''. Hank Green describes it as "a community that sprung up around our videos, and basically we just get together and try to do awesome things and have a good time and fight against world suck". He defines "world suck" as "the amount of suck in the world". The Greens established The Foundation to Decrease World Suck, in order to raise funds and launch projects that would help a variety of causes. Nerdfighters believe in fighting world suck, promoting education, freedom of speech and the use of the intellect in modern society. Nerdfighters and the Green brothers have col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Nerdfighteria is a mainly online-based community subculture that originated on YouTube in 2007, when the VlogBrothers ( John and Hank Green) rose to prominence in the YouTube community. As their popularity grew, so did coverage on Nerdfighteria, whose followers are individually known as Nerdfighters. The term was coined when John saw a copy of the arcade game '' Aero Fighters'' and misread the title as ''Nerd Fighters''. Hank Green describes it as "a community that sprung up around our videos, and basically we just get together and try to do awesome things and have a good time and fight against world suck". He defines "world suck" as "the amount of suck in the world". The Greens established The Foundation to Decrease World Suck, in order to raise funds and launch projects that would help a variety of causes. Nerdfighters believe in fighting world suck, promoting education, freedom of speech and the use of the intellect in modern society. Nerdfighters and the Green brothers ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VlogBrothers
Vlogbrothers (sometimes stylized as VlogBrothers or vlogbrothers) is a video blog channel on YouTube. The Internet-based show is created and hosted by the Green brothers: John Green and Hank Green. The first incarnation of the brothers' online broadcasting was the "Brotherhood 2.0" project, preceding the establishment of the pair's regular vlogging activity through the Vlogbrothers channel. The Vlogbrothers channel was the first in what would become a larger portfolio of YouTube channels created and developed by the Greens, sparking a community of fans and supporters of Vlogbrothers, known individually as Nerdfighters, and collectively as Nerdfighteria. Subscribers of the brothers on YouTube are the base of the online community Nerdfighteria. The Green brothers encourage their viewers to become a community by creating websites and various projects, like the Project for Awesome, as a way to engage with their subscribers. Vlogbrothers is owned by Complexly (formerly named EcoGeek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Green
John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author, YouTube Content creation, content creator, podcaster, and philanthropist. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including ''The Fault in Our Stars'' (2012), which is one of the List of best-selling books#Between 20 million and 50 million copies, best-selling books of all time. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market. Aside from being a novelist, Green is well known for his work in online video, most notably his YouTube ventures with his brother Hank Green. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Green was raised in Orlando, Florida, before attending boarding school outside of Birmingham, Alabama, graduating in 1995. He attended Kenyon College, graduating with a double major in English studies, English and religious studies in 2000. Green then spent six months as a student chaplain at a children's hospital. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Green
William Henry Green II (born May 5, 1980) is an American vlogger, science communicator, entrepreneur, author, internet producer, and musician. He is known for producing the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers with his older brother, author John Green, as well as for creating and hosting the educational YouTube channels ''Crash Course'' and ''SciShow''. He has also advocated for and organized social activism, created and hosted a number of other YouTube channels and podcasts, released music albums, and amassed a large following on TikTok. With his brother John, Hank co-created VidCon, the world's largest conference about online videos, and the Project for Awesome, an annual online charity event, as well as the now-defunct conferences NerdCon: Stories, focused on storytelling, and PodCon, focused on podcasts. He is the co-creator of ''The Lizzie Bennet Diaries'' (2012–2013), an adaptation of ''Pride and Prejudice'' in the style of video blogs that was the first web series to win an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Foundation To Decrease World Suck
Project for Awesome (often abbreviated P4A) is a community-driven charitable movement on YouTube, created by the Green brothers, Hank and John, run through their VlogBrothers YouTube channel and through their online community known as Nerdfighteria. Formerly dubbed the Nerdfighter Power Project for Awesome, the project has taken place annually since 2007. The movement was started to have YouTubers create innovative videos promoting their favorite charity and upload it by a certain deadline, with the aim that their promoted charity gains more awareness, and donations from audiences. The event lasts for 48 hours. From 2007 to 2019, the P4A took place in December, but in 2020 it was announced that the event would be moved to February moving forward. Background The Foundation to Decrease World Suck is a non-profit corporation, based in Montana. It is designated as a 501(c)(3) A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project For Awesome
Project for Awesome (often abbreviated P4A) is a community-driven charitable movement on YouTube, created by the Green brothers, Hank Green, Hank and John Green, John, run through their VlogBrothers YouTube channel and through their online community known as Nerdfighteria. Formerly dubbed the Nerdfighter Power Project for Awesome, the project has taken place annually since 2007. The movement was started to have YouTubers create innovative videos promoting their favorite charity and upload it by a certain deadline, with the aim that their promoted charity gains more awareness, and donations from audiences. The event lasts for 48 hours. From 2007 to 2019, the P4A took place in December, but in 2020 it was announced that the event would be moved to February moving forward. Background The Foundation to Decrease World Suck is a non-profit corporation, based in Montana. It is designated as a 501(c) organization#501(c)(3), 501(c)(3). The Foundation is the Project for Awesome's parent or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aero Fighters
''Aero Fighters'', known as in Japan, is a vertically scrolling shooter originally released in arcades in 1992 by ''Video System'' and was also released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. It was the first in the ''Aero Fighters'' series, and a spiritual successor to the 1991 ''Turbo Force''. Gameplay This game uses basic shooter mechanics of the SHMUP genre of video games. Pressing button 1 fires normal weapons; this can be upgraded by collecting P or the rare F items, though the maximum power level has a hidden ammo count, after which the player will return to the previous power level. Pressing button 2 launches a powerful special attack; uses are limited to how many B items the player has collected (every life starts with two). Some ground enemies will drop score items when destroyed; they appear as the currency of the selected character's nation. By default, players start with three lives, and can acquire one more at 200,000 points. ''Aero Fighters'' is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan Activism
Fan activism involves “forms of civic engagement and political participation that emerge from within fan culture itself, often in response to the shared interests of fans, often conducted through the infrastructure of existing fan practices and relationships, and often framed through metaphors drawn from popular and participatory culture”. It utilizes the enthusiasm and empathy of the fan community to raise awareness of social concerns or otherwise support the ideals expressed by object(s) of the fandom. The rise of fan activism has been attributed to the emergence of new media,Jenkins H. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press. 2006.Earl J and Kimport K. Movement societies and digital protest: Fan activism and other nonpolitical protest online. American Sociological Association. 2009. and is described as "not about the mix between political concerns and culture but rather action that looks like political activism but is used toward nonpolitical ends." Neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DFTBA Records
DFTBA Records, commonly known as DFTBA.com, is an e-commerce merchandise company that was co-founded by Hank Green and Alan Lastufka in 2008. Originally a record label, the company now focuses on selling merchandise for prominent YouTube content creators, such as Green himself, his brother the novelist John Green, Charlie McDonnell, CGP Grey, Kurzgesagt, and Charles Trippy, among several others. DFTBA is an initialism for "don't forget to be awesome", a catchphrase of the Green brothers. Name The name of the company originates from the initialism "Don't Forget to Be Awesome". The initialism is generally seen as the motto for the VlogBrothers (consisting of Green, and his brother, John), as well as their fan base, known as Nerdfighteria. The original goal of the record label, as Lastufka stated in a video on the subject, is to provide a distribution network for talented artists of YouTube and to make sure their music reaches out to the "largest audience possible." His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Public Library
The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. It consists of 81 locations, including a central library, two regional libraries, and branches distributed throughout the city's 77 Community Areas. The American Library Association reports that the library holds 5,721,334 volumes, making it the 9th largest public library in the United States by volumes held, and the 30th largest academic or public library in the United States by volumes held. The Chicago Public Library is the second largest library system in Chicago by volumes held (the largest is the University of Chicago Library). The library is the second largest public library system in the Midwest, after the Detroit Public Library. Unlike many public libraries, CPL uses the Library of Congress cataloging classification system rather than Dewey Decimal. History In the aftermath of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, Londoner A.H. Burgess, with the aid of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank & John Green (7492360088)
Hank is a male given name. It may have been inspired by the Dutch name Henk, ''Mentalfloss'' itself a short form of Hendrik and thus related to Henry & Harvey. Given name or nickname * Hank Aaron (1934-2021), Hall of Fame baseball player * (1931–1994), Major Leagu ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
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