Rationale

In September 2010 I began watching the Vlogbrothers, John and Hank Green, on YouTube and was instantly hooked. As a result of this and my long standing nerd status I became a Nerdfighter. But due to the nature of social interaction and YouTube I found it very difficult to understand some of the concepts and most of the in-jokes in their videos. The only way to fully understand the community was to go back and watch heaps of old videos, but I quickly discovered that I couldn’t spend 50 consecutive hours watching videos, so I watched just enough to get by and contented myself with buying all the music and doing general research on the internet.


I chose to do Nerdfighteria and nerd life for a number of reasons; I wanted to know more about Nerdfighteria, in doing this blog I could research much deeper and then summarise all of it, along with my opinion, in a way that was easy to understand. I wanted to try and understand the nerdiness within myself, which I did by examining my childhood to discover what influenced my nerdiness. And I thought it would be useful for other nerdfighters to have something that told them about Nerdfighteria and the people in it, without them having to spend heaps of time researching and watching videos, in a way that was simple and accessible.