Hello, Youtube! I am going to make a
fast-talking vlog today, because I'm
joining the Road to Nerdfighteria vlog series
thing, which is all about sharing your
stories about how you became a
nerdfighter and how you found Nerdfighteria and
what it means to you. So, flashback 2009, I
am a freshman in high school going to a
high school that is not from my town. I
felt very out of place because I wasn't
with people I grew up with, and I was
very expressive about my nerdiness and a
lot of people judged me for that, so I
didn't really feel like I fit in with
anybody, and then I discovered Youtube,
discovered I can make my own YouTube
videos, and then I started doing that.
Started watching Hayley G. Hoover's
vlogs and she started talking about John
and Hank Green a lot. I was like, "I don't know who
these people are. I'm gonna find out who
John and Hank Green are. I research them,
found the Vlogbrothers, discovered their
videos, watched all of them multiple times
in all of the videos that were up at
that point. Discovered that John Green
was an author, read all of his books that
were out of that time a million times
probably because I just kept reading
them because I loved reading them over and
over again because they just made me
really happy. And John and Hank Green's
videos were fun and creative and nerdy
and it helped me to feel like I belong
to this awesome community of people. And
then I was still feeling really out of
place in high school and I was like, "Okay,
how do I feel like I can find
nerdfighters in my community?" and I
looked it up online and online it said,
"Look for a nerdfighter club!" Don't know
how I found the nerdfighter club at my high
school, but there was one, and I was like,
"I belong with this group of people
because we're all nerdy and we love to
express it and we love John and Hank
Green and we love talking about them." And
then I just love being involved with
this group of people! By my junior year
of high school, I became the co-president
of my high school's nerdfighter club.
We did project for awesome every year,
which is really cool. I would read John
Green's books over and over again, here's
my copy of Will Grayson Will Grayson from
2011. Where almost every page is folded
down with things highlighted and
underlined and boxed of things that I
wanted to keep reading again because I
just would love reading these books and I
still do it when I reread them. I like
finding things that I underline and
discover. Senior year of high school,
jumping forward a little bit, I am about
to graduate.
My sister is graduating from college
from Butler University and John Green is
giving the commencement speech at her
graduation. I flipped out when we went to
the graduation. I was more excited to see
John Green that I was to be my own
sister graduate, but I couldn't express
to my family enough that I was. In being
in the room where my favorite author was,
was the coolest thing for me and then
getting to hear him give us amazing
speech was life-changing. I cried and
then junior high school as well. The Fault
in Our Stars comes out. I pre-ordered the
book when it was supposed to come out in June of
that year and I get in January and it
was a signed copy. I made a video of it
and I cried and I loved it and I just
immediately read it and cried my eyes
out
Jump forward a little bit, Fault in Our
Stars movie comes out. I had been
starting to date Shawn for about like five
months at that point, and I'm like, "We are! I am
taking you this movie. We're going to the
midnight showing of it, surrounded by
teenage girls who were all screaming at the
screen and it was a great experience. And
I loved it and I'm happy that Sean let
me drag him to this. And then jump
forward a little bit to my study abroad
in London, John Green's doing a UK Paper
Towns event. I get a free copy of The Fault
in Our Stars and get to be in the same
room as John Green again. Flipped out,
it was amazing, and then saw the Paper
Towns movie and yeah. Nerdfighters and
Nerdfighteria has been such a big part
of my life because it helped me feel
like I belonged
when I felt so out of place. In high
school, specifically, I've never really
felt like I belonged in my high school
and then finding this amazing community
of people, that I didn't feel like judged
me at all for wanting to express myself,
it just made me really happy. And I
always put DFTBA at the end of my videos
because I love it. Thank you so much for
watching, you watch my other videos here,
this should be posted somewhere. I don't
know where! Thanks for watching. DFTBA!! Go
nerdfighters! Mwah!! Bye!!!!