Hey, Youtube. It's Barry Aldridge. Real
name; no gimmicks. How's it hanging people?
I'm here to talk about my journey on my
road to Nerdfighteria. It all began
though back 2007. Oh, gosh. This is like ten
years ago. Oh, crap. I can't believe that.
Nearly 10 years.
So I'd heard
about the Vlogbrothers a little
bit. One or two inklings because
I knew a YouTuber by the name of
Charlieissocoollike liked their videos
and I was probably in and out a bit, but
my first serious interaction with the
Vlogbrothers was December 17, 2007. The
very first ever Project for Awesome and
I saw videos I knew from people like
Charlieissocoollike, like JohnnyDurham19
eah he doesn't do videos much
anymore and a couple other people for
a thing called Project for Awesome. And I was
like, "What the hell's this? I'm curious
about this." And then I remember I was
sort of was inkling with the Vlogbrothers
so it was it was on the right day and
the Vlogbrothers had launched a video called
Project for Awesome. They were behind
it and Hank was saying, "Good morning. It's
December 17 and he was flailing his arms
about and I thought, "Is he a quiz show
host or something. No, no, it's fine. That's weird."
But anyhow, I liked his energy. I liked his
brother being completely opposite and I
like what they were actually talking
about. When I watched a couple of their
previous videos I was like, "Hmm. This is interesting.
There's some intelligence here. Really
good work there. I was like, "Okay,
cool!" and so it was based off of
Charlie's recommendation because it was
his recommendation to be quite
honest. So, over the course of time,
I'd watch a few of their videos and that
and then around about in April as I was
chatting to some friends, I had the
impossible. The Vlogbrothers subscribed
to me. I was like, "Whaaaaaaat....WHAT??!!? Seriously!!"
And, it was sort of history. Like I
made it. I made it into the inner sanctum
of nerdfighteria. I'm in the
Holy Temple and I cannot escape. I'm now
going to be converted into a statue! AHHHHHHH.
Yeah.
I thought I was going to be turned into a
statue, so I was like, "You know what, I've
earned their respect. Also, yeah, I did a
little bit of a channel recommendation
to them, so they went and
used one of their intros back in two
thousand eight. Yeah, if you do remember
the Vlogbrothers videos intros in 2007, it's a
very, very sort of dated intro, but it was
good at the time because it represented
YouTube's independence really to be fair.
Around the time after
that, I think was about mid-200, I
watched all of their videos from 2007.
The everyday challenge
sort of thing, which, I do miss so really to be
quite honest with you. Got it done within a
month I think. Yeah, I think was like
a month and it was fun to watch. And
you know, nowadays, the videos wouldn't
look that great because the greatness of
the video and not 240p pixels.
After that, I knew about what they
were doing and I decided, " You know what,
I'm going to get more involved with
Project for Awesome." I did do a
project for awesome video in 2007 by the way, but
under an old username and then I thought
I'll get myself a bit more involved. And
I thought, "You know what, I like what
they're actually doing with that and I did a
Project for Awesome video in 2008 and it
blew up like hell. I'm not kidding. Not
only that, it also got onto the front
page of the global website where the
Vlogbrothers were guest edited, which was
part of the best three months I ever had.
And not only that, it recognized about
the fact that you know it made me want
to do work and try and put in videos
with autism as well. Talking about autism,
trying to raise awareness, talk about my
life experiences and out a bit more, and
it was just crazy I just thought it was
absolutely amazing. I've gotta thank John
and Hank seriously from the bottom of my
heart about that. Did I ever meet John
and Hank? Yes, absolutely. I met John twice.
I met Hank once. My first visit though
with John was back in August of 2010. I
can't remember it well. I think maybe like August
fourteenth maybe it was. Yeah, I have the
train ticket somewhere but I can't seem to find
it. He was doing a book signing
that at The Water Stones in London and I
think was near Piccadilly Circus I
remember. And I have done a video about
meeting him and I had asked him about
a message. He said just how Barry Aldridge is
awesome and I was like, "Oh my god, that was so
cool!" and he recognized me straight
away. It was just unbelievable. It was really
cool I remember meeting, mark my
words, in a pub gig sort of thing which
we don't actually talk about nowadays. If
you want to know a bit about that, just
private message me. Well, you know, and
it was actually kind of cool and then
the second time I met them was on the
further February 2013. That's John for
the second time and Hank for the first
time. It was for the signing of...not Paper
Towns, The Fault in Our Stars. The
Fault in Our Stars book, I think, was the
paperback? Yeah, it was the paperback and
it was a great show because it was in
this expensive hallway. Talked for
like an hour and a half and I
remember the football was on, I think the
superbowl, as well there was a lot
of sports stuff going on. I remember Hank
you talking about he found the Superbowl
without commercials being a bit weird
over here and that, because in America
they show the Super Bowl and have all
these commercials. And then, well, I met
him and I was thinking like, "John's
probably forgot." John
remembered me and he told Hank
and then Hank just got out of his seat
and hugged me. I wish I had a video of
that to be honest with you. I can only tell
it from fact so some people say I'm alive,
but I'm not. So, that's my big road
and also some of the things of meeting
the Vlogbrothers really to be honest with you.
And the road has been quite long and a
bit narrow, and also a bit tough, as well,
because I'm more of an underground one.
If people ask me what type of
nerdfighter I am, I'm an underground one,
which you know I don't follow to the
beat of the mainstream. I'm more someone
near that. I like
mainstream stuff like Doctor Who and
that, but I followed to the beat of my
own drum and if there was a
Project for Awesome, I will follow the
rule stat, but anything else with Nerdfighteria
and all that sort of stuff, I would
probably do fifty-fifty. As
long as it's for a good cause and
that's what this story is basically
about. Just telling you my road into Nerdfighteria
and I'm glad though to be a
part of it, even though I'm not on it as much
as I used to be and I may be off doing
other things, and maybe busy with life, I
still respect the Nerdfighteria culture. I
still thank John and Hank
for all the help they've done, including making me
want to do autism videos.
after that whole buzz though for
my 2008 project for awesome and my 2009
videos talking about the National
Autistic Society. And I'm forever
grateful for them on that. You never ever
net food from their plate in my view.
They've given me food from their plate. I
will never ever take any food from their
plate. That's just an expression that
goes and that's how my journey felt and
I'm really, really proud to be a Nerdfighter,
even though not as strong as I once
was, but I still believe that it was part
of that culture that made me kind of
like a Project for Awesome veteran as one
of my friends say, or legend, I don't know.
We'll have to wait and see. It's down to
the people or Nerdfighteria that can
say that. And also John and Hank green at
the end of the day. Take care, everyone! Peace!
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