Hi.
There's this thing called John Green week from January 3rd to January 10th, leading up to his new novel,
The Fault in Our Stars, or "TFIOS" as it's known in nerdfighteria.
I have a lot of explaining to do.
"John Green is the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns. He is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He was 2006 recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, a 2009 Edgar Award winner, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Green’s books have been published in more than a dozen languages.
In 2007, Green and his brother Hank ceased textual communication and began to talk primarily through videoblogs posted to youtube. The videos spawned a community of people called nerdfighters who fight for intellectualism and to decrease the overall worldwide level of suck. (Decreasing suck takes many forms: Nerdfighters have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight poverty in the developing world; they also planted thousands of trees around the world in May of 2010 to celebrate Hank’s 30th birthday.) Although they have long since resumed textual communication, John and Hank continue to upload three videos a week to their youtube channel, vlogbrothers. Their videos have been viewed more than 75 million times, and their channel is one of the most popular in the history of online video. He is also an active (if reluctant) Twitter user with more than 1.1 million followers."
There. That pretty much explained it all.
Also since I can't explain it better myself: Taken from
"Vickiiatoria"
"BROTHERHOOD 2.0: A project undertaken by John and Hank Green, in which they were not allowed to communicate via text for a year. ‘Two Brothers, One Video Blog, 365 Days of Textless Communication, It’s a whole new kind of brotherhood.’
DFTBA: An acronym usually meaning Don’t Forget To Be Awesome, though it has an unimaginable number of meanings. Some of which can be found here. It is often used as a farewell by Nerdfighters. If said to you it should be seen as a compliment, as the person saying it has recognised that you are in fact made of AWESOME. It is also the name of a record company founded by Hank Green and Alan Lastufka that signs youtube artists whose talents may otherwise go unrecognised.
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| Hank Green |
HANK GREEN: The younger brother of John Green, musician, co-founder of Nerdfighteria with John Green and co-founder of DFTBA Records with Alan Lastufka. His albums include: So Jokes, This Machine Pwns N00bs and his upcoming album Ellen Hardcastle.
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| John Green |
JOHN GREEN: The older brother of Hank Green, award winning author and co-founder of Nerdfighteria. His works include: Looking For Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
NERDFIGHTER: A person who his proud of being a nerd, has taken on the title, nerdfighters are known for watching the vlogbrothers on youtube and doing their best to decrease worldsuck.
NERDFIGHTERIA: Though Nerdfighteria is not a physical location, it is an island where the awesome of all the nerdfighters in the world is joined. The two rules of Nerdfighteria, and really the world, are 1. Don’t be mean; and 2. DFTBA.
THE NERDFIGHTER ‘GANG SIGN’:
Now I guess I should do some of my own writing because I have been stealing everyone else's. This girl called Liz publicized the who idea of John Green Week. Click the link on the bottom of this post to see what she said about it. I will definitely spread that whole week rereading his books. I will do my best to make book reviews for each once I finish. At the very least I want to reread An Abundance of Katherines, which was my favorite one.
-DFTBA
Liz's Post:
Clicky hereth
John Green's website:
http://johngreenbooks.com/
Hank's nerdfighter blog:
CLICK
DFBTA:
http://dftba.com/
