Name: Nerdfighterになるには。Vlogbrothers よくある質問 (How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:02:31.000Z
Duration: 3 min 59 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

a Frequently Asked Questions video for the purposes of answering some questions

Like, for example, what is a Nerdfighter?

instead of being made out of, like, bones and skin and tissue,

[HANK] Nerdfighter is basically just the community that sprung up around our videos,

and, basically, we just get together and try to do awesome things

and have a good time  and fight against World Suck.

what World Suck sounds like. It's hard to quantify exactly, but, you know,

it's, like, the amount  of suck in the world.

[JOHN] One of the questions  we get asked the most is:

[JOHN] Well, I mean, it depends on how you define "real".

Hank runs the environmental technology website EcoGeek.

[HANK] John Green is an award-winning author.

He has written books such as Looking For Alaska,

An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns, and he's won many awards including

the Edgar Award and the, the Printz Award.

[JOHN] I don't blink because I'm focusing

I do blink in real life. That's why I still have eyes.

And, also, it's sort of a tribute to the original video blogger,

[JOHN] No, it isn't! It is not an acronym.

Acronyms are pronounceable. It is an initialism.

[HANK trying to pronounce DFTBA] Dfft-tpuh...

[HANK] Okay. It's an initialism  that stands for

[HANK] ...dead... [BOTH] ...to be a Nerdfighter?

[JOHN] No! If you wanna be a Nerdfighter,

[JOHN] We asked natural selection to make us puppy-sized elephants,

because they would have  the evolutionary advantage

of being adorable, and we are waiting for that to happen.

[HANK] Yeah, if you put stuff on your head, it makes you feel better about life.

[HANK] Is when Nerdfighters get together.

Sometimes we're there, sometimes we're not.

[HANK] French the llama is something that John is trying to make into a thing,

in which people say [for example],  "French the llama, that whale is big",

[JOHN] Uh, my puff level is the level of puff in my hair,

which gets higher as I get more stressed out.

[HANK] Is basically like a YouTube troll. [Makes angry squid noises]

there's tiny chickens in your head and they lay eggs and all of it gooes out of your nose.

[HANK] Secret siblings are anyone who makes

[JOHN] "In your pants" is a phenomenon discovered by Maureen Johnson.

If you add "in your pants" to the end of book titles,

[HANK] "A Spot of Bother... In Your Pants"

[HANK] Notsome is the opposite of awesome.

[HANK] Ah... is the Nerdfighter gang sign.