Project for Awesome Will Remind You to Be Kind

Don't forget to be awesome: It's the rallying cry of the nerdfighters, simply defined as fans of the Vlogbrothers, a YouTube channel with over 1.5 million subscribers run by Hank and John Green

Not so simply, nerdfighters are members of a community complete with its own signature hand sign, slang ("French the Llama!") and determination to decrease world suck

Nerdfighters are also, of course, made of awesome. And for the past six years on Dec. 17 and 18, this global community gathers where it all started, YouTube, for the aptly named Project for Awesome

Project for Awesome, or P4A as thumbnails for the project read, began in 2007, almost a year after the Vlogbrother's channel launched, and only two years after YouTube itself was founded. That first year, the Green brothers encouraged nerdfighters to create videos about charities they cared about. Each video had the same thumbnail, leading the P4A thumbnail to dominate the now-defunct browse page. Read more...