My name is Michelle, and I'm from Chicago. And I have been in Nerdfighteria since
March of 2007. [laughs] So quite a while. I think my first video was the
Shakespearean insults one, and I just was hooked after that. I'm like, "Who are these
crazy people? This is fantastic!" I actually didn't even know that Hank existed until
later on, but that's okay. I still love you Hank.
Nerdfighteria has meant everything to me.
I've basically been a nerdfighter my entire adult life. I brought my husband
into it when I met him. I made him watch all of Brotherhood 2.0, which is the only
year he missed, so... He's been since 2008.
We've been nerdfighters together in nerdfighterlike, nerdfighterlove.
They give us ways to think about the world and a way to view the world.
My husband and I never ever watch one
without each other. We watch them together, and it's just meant so much to both of us.
I found This Star Won't Go Out through Nerdfighteria,
and I actually ended up starting to work with them about two years ago now.
I started a charity athletic team for them, and we called it Team Awesome
because what else would we call it? It's been a fantastic journey. I've gotten to go to
various cons like this and tell people all about Esther's story and about why I
like to run for... We say awesome. "Be awesome for Esther."
If I could say something to Nerdfighteria, it would be: thanks for being my family for ten years.
It's meant the world to me.
Hi my name is Nick Taniguchi. I'm from Seattle, Washington.
I wasn't really into YouTube until I found this random event that happened on
YouTube called YouTube Live, and I wanted to watch it because Charlie the Unicorn
was going to have like a short on it. So I watched this YouTube Live event and
I was enamored by these musicians that came up. There were all these people
standing up and playing ukelele behind this one artist named Julia Nunes.
So my twin brother Chris and I started watching her videos and got super obsessed.
Going through her back catalog, we found out that like she's really into John Green's books.
She'd like toured with him and like performed for like his book signings.
So we're like, "Okay who's John Green? Who are these Vlogbrother people?"
And so we just kind of like started
watching their videos as well and then got really enamored by this like massive
community of like fans and creators. We got into like Charlieissocoollike and
all these people. So after a while, we're just like completely in love with this community,
and we decided we wanted to go to like the third VidCon,
which was the first one in Anaheim!
And for the first time we're like meeting all these other like nerdfighters and like
other YouTube fans, so we're like really excited and really happy.
My first few friends that I made through VidCon, we had met up after the
Julia Nunes concert, and they both happen to be like
really big nerdfighters as well. And literally
every other YouTube friend that I've made since somehow is connected to those two.
So really like Nerdfighteria has like really expanded my online friendships
like exponentially, and I owe them a lot for that. And I love the ideology and not
forgetting to be awesome, and following what you're passionate about and
just carelessly like getting enthused about it. It's definitely benefitted my life in a lot of ways.
And that's my story!
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