I feel like there's a way to do a full livestream without the breaks, but it involves getting behind the scenes people in some non-American time zones.
Last year's P4A was _right_ after I lost my job. This year's P4A launches on my birthday and I've landed a phenomenal job with a great company with a salary that will let me make up for last year. Sending love and gratitude to everyone in Nerdfighteria! 🖖🖖
Very glad for the voting rules change. A charity with 20 videos had an unfair advantage to a charity with only a few videos made. Especially when it seemed like some of them were trying to game the system on purpose.
i’ve been watching the p4a for over a decade now but this will be my first p4a with a job and disposable income!!! so excited to support for the first time!
"It's a dangerous day to get paid" The P4A will land around the time I'll receive my first pay check as a full-time engineer rather than a poor student 🤔😁🤑 In all seriousness though, the capacity for generosity is one of the things I've looked forward to the most about being a proper grown-up. Shout out to my fellow 2024 graduates! DFTBA!
I will say, the one year I had an excess of income during P4A, I got a GREAT tax return from it at the end of the year so it's pretty nice for that too if you go all out!!
that picture is so much Tel Aviv in Purim and you still see stuff like that to this day, apart from the fonts and posters dating this photo very badly it could have been literally any year lmao
I want you to know that when I watched this an ad break happened the MOMENT you decided to select the first connections, just before you hit submit. Creating a cliffhanger for maximum engagement.
How is it the "86" is mirrored, but the word "Mexico" is upside down but not mirrored? Like, if you rotate it 180 degrees so "Mexico" is at the bottom, then top will say "8P"?
@@Tim3.14 Both are mirrored. You can see the X I C O which all look identical if flipped upside down, so none of these letters should make you think it's upside down. You can also see the beginning of the M right next to the green border. And it's pretty clear that it's the right way up.
Because of my financial situation, as I work part time whilst on part time SSDI, I can't donate as much as I want to, but PGA is so wonderfully paced and spread about, I respect it so much
I've got a kid now and... I would love some rolling summaries. I've got about 30 min per day to watch and vote. While I understand that's not the desired engagement, it's the best I can do so that I can give with all my heart.
If the website is set up similarly to the past few years, you can search by charity or cause. So you could decide on a few causes you know are important to you as a way of narrowing down which videos to watch.
i quite love the sleep breaks. as a sufferer of FOMO, i hated the idea of missing out on the night shift lore that always becomes the most iconic times of the stream. sleep for all, fun times for all!
my partner and i have never really done anything [this is the moment you said something about frogs!? hank frogs are one of my hyper fixations] for valentine's day, this year we started to make plans, remembered its the same weekend and made our plans around p4a
I have been watching these videos for such a long time, and I still don't understand how connections works 😂 but still I will watch the video till the last second.
The worst part of this video was me screaming at my cellphone that the world cup is held on even non leap years, 2 years apart from the olympics, so it'd be 1986 not 88.
2:08 wait - this is purely on a PER CART basis, right? Not per account? Because I like to spread my donations out across different hosts… rather than 1 mega order all at 1 time. Or sometimes physical perks aren’t posted until that host’s segment. But I love helping to save on shipping so I guess it’s time to break that habit maybe. 😭 And I can always space out the digital donations still yay.
I've never really been able to participate, having always worked during it. I normally quick donate on my break. But it sounds like this year I'll be able to watch videos for the first time!
2:32 Chapter: changes, segment, "not live frogs, as has been the case for many years" pauses in speech are important, regardless of video pauses! So excited for P4A 2025 God i hope I have funds I'm able to donate!
I am so excited for the P4A this year!! I am sending in 2 different art pieces to sell! If you see a leather strap or an art print those are mine XD I will have it in the mail for you on Tuesday!
@@untappedinkwelli found nerdfighteria through the 2008 p4a, so I started officially following it in 2009 and 2013 was the first time i could donate (hence the socks). crazy how intertwined with this community my life is, even crazier that my 15 yo teenage girl self had the foresight to get into it
@@lorenabpv I am so grateful to 15yo you! It's always a delight to see you in comments. And yes, you've got two extra years on me, cause I came into P4A and nerdfighteria in 2010!
I nearly turned off the video once the P4A portion was finished, but then I recalled percentage watch time average effects the push of the algorithm, so I listened to the rest of the video in support. 😅
I am so excited for these changes, esp being able to watch charity vids at other times. I also might try and make a video this year for the first time, we'll see! P4A 202tithe :)
hahahahaha oh whoops. Those should be separate sentences, but putting them together is very, very funny. Though if you've missed Sabrina from Answer in Progress (formerly NerdyandQuirky) drawing frogs the last few years, I hope you'll get a chance to hear about/see them this year!
The last pic in Timeguesser is from the world cup game with the "Hand of God Goal" which was when the guy in the picture punched the ball in the net and it counted
Hank, John, Nerdfighteria, I am so excited. Probably. This year will be my tenth - no ELEVENTH - P4A. I am finally at a point in my life where I can - probably - be a.. is it called matching donor? As long as the minimum is $500 then I'm in. To be able to go from, "Well, I can more or less afford the amount that gets me the socks" (I still have my P4A 2014 socks, BTW) to the point where I can potentially be a matching donor makes me lightheaded with joy.
I was hoping you would film you doing Connections today because the sausage/pepperoni was my undoing. I did also put Brat with hit/bop/banger, so I was all over the place.
Hank, have you played Catfishing: The Wikipedia Guessing Game? I think it is a lot of fun, a real challenge, and something I feel is right up your alley.
Sad that I can't catch the livestream anymore 😓 It's just not the same watching it after, without being part of the live stream... but having a child and being in opposite time zone makes it hard to be part of the community.
My boyfriend and I compete on geoguessr everyday, but the final winner is the one with most points during the week, and now I just had to call him to watch Hank playing time guesser because we hadn't heard of it before and it seems SO COOL. We'll definitely be playing that too
Did you know that timeguessr's creator is a nerdfighter? It's true! -John
We are being awesome everywhere!
Istg there is going to be a museum dedicated to these guys and their team, if not I'll make it myself.
checks out.
I was there on that epic stream where he showed John his own picture!
@@christinamenesesi came here to say this 😂🥰
As a mod I am so incredibly thankful for the sleep breaks
@@kimmykimmie I'd send a self care bunny but I lost my macro
@@kimmykimmie ngl as a community member/participant I am grateful for the sleep breaks too
Thank you for being a mod.
We're ageing as a community, I think more of us need the sleep breaks every year 😂
I feel like there's a way to do a full livestream without the breaks, but it involves getting behind the scenes people in some non-American time zones.
Last year's P4A was _right_ after I lost my job.
This year's P4A launches on my birthday and I've landed a phenomenal job with a great company with a salary that will let me make up for last year. Sending love and gratitude to everyone in Nerdfighteria! 🖖🖖
What a difference a year makes! So happy you'll be joining us for even more shenanigans this year. And Happy early birthday!
Thank you so much @@untappedinkwell!!
Yayyy!!! Congratulations on your (newish) job!! and happy early birthday to ya!
Thank you @@faithannerush!!
Your birthday is valentines day?! ❤
That faint sound you hear is John screaming "THAT'S LITERALLY DIEGO MARADONA" at his screen.
You could also read Mexico 86' on the flag
@@Madisita2473 that was my main thought, as a not-football-knower, yes 😂
Came here for this comment, thanks
So true
I love that he automatically made an exactly 4 min video before padding it out with connections because it's SO naturally ingrained at this point 😂
Very glad for the voting rules change. A charity with 20 videos had an unfair advantage to a charity with only a few videos made. Especially when it seemed like some of them were trying to game the system on purpose.
I didn't even realize it was an issue. Glad it's been changed!
Same. I was always surprised that wasn't already a thing because it obviously skews for larger more well known charities.
Charities trying to find some sort of loophole in the rules? Imagine my shock !
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when tiktok gets banned hank is gonna just put his tiktoks at the end of vlogbrothers videos to make them longer lmao
Everyone manifest that I get the job at a library I just interviewed for so I have plenty of money for P4A!
@@martino.3487 I'm doing a master's of library science right now, and I love it so I hope you get the job. ❤️
i’ve been watching the p4a for over a decade now but this will be my first p4a with a job and disposable income!!! so excited to support for the first time!
This is a very exciting transition, speaking from the experience of me and a lot of other nerds. Enjoy!
Me too!! I'm so so excited!
This was me last year and it's such a good feeling 🥰
Congrats on the disposable income!! Make sure you set a budget and enjoy this year's P4A!
Congratulations! Mostly on having disposable income! But also, on getting to use said income to buy fun nerd stuff from a charity livestream!
"It's a dangerous day to get paid"
The P4A will land around the time I'll receive my first pay check as a full-time engineer rather than a poor student 🤔😁🤑
In all seriousness though, the capacity for generosity is one of the things I've looked forward to the most about being a proper grown-up.
Shout out to my fellow 2024 graduates! DFTBA!
Congrats on your job!!
Enjoy this update to your P4A experience! Speaking on behalf of me and many other nerds, it's pretty fun.
I will say, the one year I had an excess of income during P4A, I got a GREAT tax return from it at the end of the year so it's pretty nice for that too if you go all out!!
Amen! I can't wait til I can afford more of these things
Congratulations on your new engineering designation. It only gets more fun from here! (In income, interesting challenges, and opportunities!)
Hank, a thing to know about Purim is it is a holiday where you dress up in costumes, hence the v i b e s. Well done on picking Tel Aviv!
Yeah! A lot of people will choose to dress up as like, Queen Esther, but lots of people dress up as contemporary stuff. One year our rabbi was Batman.
that picture is so much Tel Aviv in Purim and you still see stuff like that to this day, apart from the fonts and posters dating this photo very badly it could have been literally any year lmao
Hank not seeing the YEAR on the Mexican flag is driving me wild.
Jarrod here... So stoked.
I am so old. P4A 2008 represent 🙌🏼
I started donating in the 8th grade….now I’m closing in on 30 with a toddler and baby. Time is soup
Remember when the P4A had to hack the algorithm by mass comment on videos to bring them to the home page? Those were the days.
that's how i found nerdfighteria at 15. it's been a while omg
@@omnipotent_arcanis Sometimes I miss the "work those legs, ladies" (a requested spam comment for that algorithm hacking) of it all.
This video is a prime example of how unique your relationship to your audience is in this video format
I want you to know that when I watched this an ad break happened the MOMENT you decided to select the first connections, just before you hit submit. Creating a cliffhanger for maximum engagement.
The Pizza John shirt/blazer combo feels like it really captures the pure chaos/force for real good in the world that is the Project 4 Awesome
I’m super excited to be able to have more time to watch vids and vote b/c I always felt so rushed in the past.
Me too!
Agree, but also, there's something to be said for that "end of Livestream mad rush to vote" vibes. Oh well, this is what happens when we grow up...
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I was expecting a long P4A video, but I love the regular vlogbrothers-length P4A video and then games
11:32 Not me YELLING at my screen that the date was RIGHT THERE
Why can't I find it??? Where??
@@siskosofia7688 I don't see it either.
It said 86 on the Mexican flag
How is it the "86" is mirrored, but the word "Mexico" is upside down but not mirrored?
Like, if you rotate it 180 degrees so "Mexico" is at the bottom, then top will say "8P"?
@@Tim3.14 Both are mirrored. You can see the X I C O which all look identical if flipped upside down, so none of these letters should make you think it's upside down. You can also see the beginning of the M right next to the green border. And it's pretty clear that it's the right way up.
Me and a friend pooled together to do the matching fund!!! Life goal achieved 😭
Awww! That's super awesome, ya'll!
I am that friend!! And it's amazing that we did it!!
@@girlfan woo!!!
That's so cool - thank you!
Real time VODs is massive 🙏
The change to voting rules makes so much sense and seems obvious in hindsight. Also glad to have a longer time to watch videos.
I like the voting change! Super looking forward to this year!!!💛
Gives us something to do on Valentine's day. My partner usually doesn't like it so thank you for making it better!
As a long time viewer I love that this evolves with time. Thank you.
Because of my financial situation, as I work part time whilst on part time SSDI, I can't donate as much as I want to, but PGA is so wonderfully paced and spread about, I respect it so much
I've got a kid now and... I would love some rolling summaries. I've got about 30 min per day to watch and vote. While I understand that's not the desired engagement, it's the best I can do so that I can give with all my heart.
If the website is set up similarly to the past few years, you can search by charity or cause. So you could decide on a few causes you know are important to you as a way of narrowing down which videos to watch.
as a tip for recognizing Hungarian, Sz is a consonant cluster that pretty much only exists in Hungarian.
Also in Polish, but Polish doesn't use umlauts like ö.
Last year I listened like a podcast while moving across country, so I’m very glad to SEE the chaos this year!
Please protect us from Jarrod.
Do not speak that name, it might summon him *shudder*
Jarrod Jarrod Jarrod!
Jarrod is inevitable
@@_maxgraycame here to say that
You cannot escape Jarrod and his crypto empire. It's too late now.
My anxious brain looooves that y'all are so open about changes and what's going on in the community, thank you!!!
I am cheez doodles guy levels of excited about the expanded voting window! It's so good!
Omg it's soooo good
!!! Tracking perk shipments was always chaotic on the donor end as well, the shipping change sounds great
I'll be making my first P4A video this year after many years as a donor!! Very excited!
Yay yay yay yay yay!!! So excited for nerdfighter P4A videos!!!
i quite love the sleep breaks. as a sufferer of FOMO, i hated the idea of missing out on the night shift lore that always becomes the most iconic times of the stream. sleep for all, fun times for all!
And somehow not even a single drop in weirdness for P4A night two!
I was wondering what you were gonna say to fill the rest of the video haha the connections switch was a plot twist
my partner and i have never really done anything [this is the moment you said something about frogs!? hank frogs are one of my hyper fixations] for valentine's day, this year we started to make plans, remembered its the same weekend and made our plans around p4a
Amazing!
I am so excited! For the first year in a while I am not working P4A weekend. 🎉
Just so you know to look out, I made P4A 2025 buttons for those working it and I sent some out to your PO Box yesterday!
i already made my charity video for this year and i'm hyped!!
Yay!!!!!!
Harp, Bass, Peroni, and Bud are the beers from Connections
I have been watching these videos for such a long time, and I still don't understand how connections works 😂 but still I will watch the video till the last second.
🚫 NOT LIVE FROGS 🐸
I was a little disappointed by that ngl
When hank gestures pizza john does a little eye brow wiggle.
p4a is my favorite time of the year!! very excited. 8 days of voting seems very interesting, i look forward to perusing through mamy videos!
Hank Dad Dance videos are honestly my favorite thing, and also one of the perks that I buy annually during P4A, so thanks for the preview! ❤🎉
These are all wonderful improvements to the P4A! Excited to spend my Valentines Day with this community 💖
The best part of this video is the p4a 2025 news. The second best (and it is very close) is hank dancing. I love your dances hank
The worst part of this video was me screaming at my cellphone that the world cup is held on even non leap years, 2 years apart from the olympics, so it'd be 1986 not 88.
2:08 wait - this is purely on a PER CART basis, right? Not per account? Because I like to spread my donations out across different hosts… rather than 1 mega order all at 1 time. Or sometimes physical perks aren’t posted until that host’s segment. But I love helping to save on shipping so I guess it’s time to break that habit maybe. 😭 And I can always space out the digital donations still yay.
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How are you so good at timeguessd
I've never really been able to participate, having always worked during it. I normally quick donate on my break. But it sounds like this year I'll be able to watch videos for the first time!
Can't believe I've participated in P4A since 2008. DFTBA y'all.
I am so ready for this P4A… I need to do some good right now!
How did I not know that the colors actually had meaning in connections.....
Hank not recognising DIEGO MARADONA is killing me 😭😭
Hank not seeing Mexico 86 in the flag killed ME!!
Traditionally, you can wear whatever the heck you want on Purim. The point is to be as crazy as possible.
Bass is a British beer brand with a red triangle logo that was the UKs first registered trademark
2:32 Chapter: changes, segment, "not live frogs, as has been the case for many years" pauses in speech are important, regardless of video pauses! So excited for P4A 2025 God i hope I have funds I'm able to donate!
Hell yes to the sleep breaks. Sleep is good for people. Lets not ruin days and make the lovely workers dread their upcoming work!
thank you connections influencer hank green
I love to interact with videos so that more people see them it is my favorite!!!
Well, Hank just ruined my night. I just spent 4 hours playing Timeguessr.
I am so excited for the P4A this year!! I am sending in 2 different art pieces to sell! If you see a leather strap or an art print those are mine XD I will have it in the mail for you on Tuesday!
These were very very good guesses!
this is my 17th (i think?) p4a, which is crazy at 31 years old. anyway, i still have my socks from 2013 and wear them every winter
Omg me too, I love those socks! That might have been my first P4A, not 100% sure since it’s been so long lol
I think you have a couple more P4As than me! time is wild!
@@untappedinkwelli found nerdfighteria through the 2008 p4a, so I started officially following it in 2009 and 2013 was the first time i could donate (hence the socks). crazy how intertwined with this community my life is, even crazier that my 15 yo teenage girl self had the foresight to get into it
@@lorenabpv I am so grateful to 15yo you! It's always a delight to see you in comments. And yes, you've got two extra years on me, cause I came into P4A and nerdfighteria in 2010!
I nearly turned off the video once the P4A portion was finished, but then I recalled percentage watch time average effects the push of the algorithm, so I listened to the rest of the video in support. 😅
Or you could even mute it and open another tab while it plays. That's what I do with long videos sometimes.
I am so excited for these changes, esp being able to watch charity vids at other times.
I also might try and make a video this year for the first time, we'll see! P4A 202tithe :)
doooo eeeettt!!!
Is this John's channel because I see timeguesser content. 🙌
Feeling like John would have recognised Diego Maradona tbh.
excited for the changes!
I kept saying ‘that’s Maradona’ and 86 over and over and he Just Didn’t Listen!
"not live frogs, as has been the case for many years"
I think I missed this part of P4A in previous years.
hahahahaha oh whoops. Those should be separate sentences, but putting them together is very, very funny. Though if you've missed Sabrina from Answer in Progress (formerly NerdyandQuirky) drawing frogs the last few years, I hope you'll get a chance to hear about/see them this year!
The mods say thanks for sleep breaks!
Yeah we do!!!
The last pic in Timeguesser is from the world cup game with the "Hand of God Goal" which was when the guy in the picture punched the ball in the net and it counted
same tournament but different game, the hand of god was against england in the quarter final
Oh my God! Cart for group shipping! I always get a bunch of stuff and feel bad cause you have to ship it to Switzerland.
For some reason I missed the last p4a but I'm really excited for this year!
Those vods might save it for me now! since the sleep breaks (that I totally support!) but It made it very hard for me to catch it last year
ice dye pizza john! i still love that design
TimeGuessr looks awesome! Never seen it before.
Is will be having a grand adventure in India then but will check the stream when able and donate!!
Hank, John, Nerdfighteria, I am so excited. Probably. This year will be my tenth - no ELEVENTH - P4A. I am finally at a point in my life where I can - probably - be a.. is it called matching donor? As long as the minimum is $500 then I'm in. To be able to go from, "Well, I can more or less afford the amount that gets me the socks" (I still have my P4A 2014 socks, BTW) to the point where I can potentially be a matching donor makes me lightheaded with joy.
That's incredible! Congrats!! and Happy upcoming P4A!
I love everything you do Hank!
I have a signed Hanklerfish rock from a past P4A perk. One of my students saw it yesterday and thought it was very cool
Hank, you're a gem.
I was hoping you would film you doing Connections today because the sausage/pepperoni was my undoing.
I did also put Brat with hit/bop/banger, so I was all over the place.
FIVE MILLION LETS GOOOO WE CAN DO IT THIS YEAR
No Jarrod!
Some real 2016 Hank vibes in this video.. i love it :)
There was an 86 (backwards) on the Mexico flag in that last one!!
Hank, have you played Catfishing: The Wikipedia Guessing Game? I think it is a lot of fun, a real challenge, and something I feel is right up your alley.
Based on the name I'm guessing its the same as Pedantle?
Oh my gosh thank you for prolonging the voting period, that makes everything way better
Gonna be on a plane to San Juan PR on the 14th SO I'LL HAVE 6 UNINTERRUPTED HOURS TO WATCH THE LIVESTREAM!!!
May the wifi be strong!
Sad that I can't catch the livestream anymore 😓
It's just not the same watching it after, without being part of the live stream... but having a child and being in opposite time zone makes it hard to be part of the community.
I thought you said "rocks" not "frogs" and then was very confused when you said "not LIVE rocks"
This all sounds awesome!!! (I wrote that before I realized the pun!) 😮
5:59 lucky to remember most of my summer in Drammen, Norway but what I can’t, I attribute to Aass (the beer)
My boyfriend and I compete on geoguessr everyday, but the final winner is the one with most points during the week, and now I just had to call him to watch Hank playing time guesser because we hadn't heard of it before and it seems SO COOL. We'll definitely be playing that too
Thank you for the update! I love the work that you all do; it’s so inspiring!
THANK YOU FOR EXTENDING VOTING OMG
I've had the exact same reaction to the order of the groups that day xD
I'm glad for the vods because I always miss the pst mornings stuff with my fave people as I'm not a pre-Noon person.