Today I'd like to draw your attention to the nerdfighting scene. Basically, these two brothers named Hank and John Green decided in 2007 to communicate via Youtube, by creating a channel called "vlogbrothers" and posting occasional videos. Their nerdy humor and love for the philisophical pursuits eventually landed them in the vast halls of internet fame. John Green is a prolific author who has written three books (An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and Looking For Alaska), and Hank Green is a very sciency/musical/HarryPotterFanboy person whose exploits include playing the guitar and singing on at least two albums of funny, nerdy songs. The followers of the vlogbrothers are called "nerdfighters", whose self-proclaimed goal is to "decrease world-suck", which is exactly what it sounds like: the collective bad stuff of the world.
Now obviously, the only way to truly decrease world-suck would be to spread the love of Jesus to people around the world, because ultimately all world-suck comes from Satan and the opposite of world-suck comes from God. But since the vlogbrothers aren't (from what I can garner) Christians, you won't hear a lot of that in their videos. And while it's true that doing little things like positive pranking and working for charities do affect the world-suck levels, we have to realise that it's not us doing the nerdfighting, it's God. Which is really cool, knowing that God is a nerdfighter, because that means we've won the war against world-suck inherently.
How would one become a nerdfighter? To borrow from the popular philosopher's statement, "I think, therefore, I am," you wish, therefore, you are. Kind of like Christianity, you don't have to undergo any strenuous rituals or tests to become a nerdfighter. You just have to want to improve the world's situation. Much like Christianity, where the only qualifying factor is a love for Christ.
Oh, and by the way...
Nerdfighter salute. Which looks a lot like the bird, if done incorrectly.
*nerdfighter salute*
--JesusFreak
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