Nerdfi-what?

So this week it seems we’re all going to reminisce about the past and recount just how it was we found our way to the awesome that is Nerdfighteria. Mine’s not really all that exciting but it’s the truth, I hope it is at least. Wouldn’t it be awful to have false memories because your brain decided it wanted to play a prank on you? Well I guess you wouldn’t really know if they were false so it couldn’t be awful if you didn’t know it. I’m getting off topic.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was browsing forums on Gaia Online when I was in a thread and someone posted a link to a Youtube video they thought was relevant to the conversation. I decided to click the link and I watched this video and it happened to be Hank Green’s “50 Jokes” video, and I thought it was pretty cool so I clicked on another one and watched that. But this is the internet and I have a short attention span, something else popped up and I said “Vlogbrothers who?” Having barely watched two videos I completely forgot they existed.

A couple of months later, it was early in the morning and I was sitting in the chemistry lab of my high school. A friend of mine came in as she normally does to do homework, that never actually happened any time she came in because we both distracted each other to no end. We were looking up Youtube videos when she asked me if I had ever heard of Hank and John Green the Vlogbrothers, I told her no because I had completely forgotten the channel at that point but it did sound familiar. We watched a video and my mind realized I’d seen these guys before and that I had never finished watching the videos I had meant to watch. After watching the videos like mad for a week, subscribing, and realizing there was a whole community out there full of such awesome people, I had found Nerdfighteria.

So that’s how I found Nerdfighteria. There may be a few inaccuracies, such as the video, this happened back in 2009 I believe, and I don’t trust my memory. “50 Jokes” was probably the second video I watched but I really think it was the first one. And I am pretty sure it was before school and not after school. Despite those, that’s how it went down. I can’t wait to read other stories about how you guys found Nerdfighteria.