ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS!

good morning John this morning I got up checked Twitter tweeted about my halitosis kissed my cat brush my teeth got in my car filmed some scishow got some p4a perks ready to ship went back home tumbled made a video for Hanks channel molested the kid II went out to the warehouse with Catherine folded mud boxes because I love folding mud boxes made a video for the dftba records channel then came home edited an episode of hank games live tumbled some more lonesome money through Kiva and then I made a vlogbrothers video I haven't actually made the vlogbrothers video yet that last part was a lie tell you that I made for Hanks channel was sort of like a walkthrough of all of the vlogbrothers designs since late 2007 and archives first archive of the Bob brothers YouTube channel was December 1st 2007 11 months after we started making videos and we had just under 10,000 subscribers and that was a huge deal we've been making videos for a long time and we were very proud of that number it was really amazing and yes this is what that looked like four by three Oh actually yeah that's it this is this is more haha on the day that we hit 10,000 subscribers we also launched the first project for awesome we thought that our community was so big on YouTube that it was a shame that we were not using it to do some good in the world people do not feel that way about 10000 subscribers an email private for awesome however was a huge success that year and it has been a huge success every year since this year we raised over four hundred thousand dollars and finally I get to tell you who's gonna get that money sorry this took so long but it turns out that you're getting a lot of money away it gets complicated legally dumb we have the office of letters and light not forgotten the wildlife Waystation the Alzheimer Society the Harry Potter Alliance Save the Children the BGSU dance marathon uncultured project techo and love 146 Dayton task force and all those charities for doing such great work and thank you to the people who make videos to support them obviously for me the big thing hanging over this video is that we got a million subscribers this week and we also got 300 million video views on vlogbrothers and with the help of you if you would like to help we would also like to hit a third milestone this week and that is reaching 2 million dollars loan through Kiva orgs nerd a group were very close we're like 1.97 $6,000,000 the other current gout you may have twenty five dollars or even more than that just sitting there ready to loan and if you don't have a current account is linked in the description probably your first twenty five dollars loaned will be free donated for you to loan out now somehow despite the fact that having a million subscribers is obviously a huge deal and is very important to me and it feels totally impossible at the same time when I think back to what our channel was when we had ten thousand subscribers I feel about the same about this project now as I did then maybe that's because to some extent these videos have always been and remained just videos that I'm making for my big brother maybe it's because we've always been very open about who we are and how we live our lives while still being entertaining so people don't get the wrong idea about us being more than we are or maybe it's because this community is just a one-of-a-kind never to be seen again kind of thing and in any case I'm very happy that that's how I feel so thank you to everyone who's been a part of this over the years whether you started watching when I was giving away peeps on the street in 2007 or when I was translating dance songs in 2013 thanks for watching and finally a little bit of research that I want to do in the comments please I'm curious what was the first vlogbrothers video you watched and when was that I understand if you don't remember I remember what my first vlog but this video I watched was it was the first one before anyone outside cuz I made it I was the first person to watch a vlog for this video hipster I was watching vlogbrothers videos before it was cool also so are you you are right now watching vlogbrothers videos before it's cool hopefully it will never be cool John I'll see you on Tuesday [Music]

Channel: vlogbrothers

Views: 360,151

Keywords: community, internet, online, growth, people, sociology, charity, philanthropy, kiva, hank green, nerdfighters, charitable organization, giving, awesome

Id: J8LRBoRp4QA

Length: 4min 0sec (240 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 08 2013