What is Nerdfighter?
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Nerds who fight, usually against popular people. This term originated from the
Nerdfighters are considered to be "made of awesome" by John, Hank (the other participant in the videoblog), and other nerdfighters. The nerdfighters often send in pictures of nerdfighter related activities to the videoblog, such as nerdfighter embroidered pillows. It is unknown what will happen to nerdfighting when the videoblog ends.
As an adjective:
"Bob is pretty nerdfighter."
As a noun:
"Bob is a nerdfighter."
As a verb:
"Yeah, I totally nerdfought my way through that."
As a group:
"The nerdfighters killed Bob's family."
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2.
People who instead of being made up of cells and organs and stuff are actually made out of awesome.
They fight decepticons on behalf of Nerds everywhere!
John and Hank Green are made of awesome Nerdfighters.
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Made of awesome people who are nerds. Nerdfighters call themselves nerd with a compliment, and their are many categories.
John: I've come to believe Nerdfighters is a game about nerds who fight, nerds who tackle the scourge of popular people.
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a nerd that fights for the pride of nerds everywhere, usually against the popular people. Coined by brothers John and Hank Green in their videoblog Brotherhood 2.0. Based on a videogame John saw in an airport.
the nerdfighters banded together to defend nerdiness.
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Originally defined by the creators of Brotherhood 2.0, a nerdfighter is a nerd who fights jocks using their various ways of nerdfighting. For example a chatspeak nerd might try and confuse you with their l33t way of speaking.
Nerd 01: I hate jocks, they always make fun of me for playing Magic: The Gathering.
Nerd 02: Well, why don't you go nerdfighter on their ass in order to decrease world suck.
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Dedicated follower of the vlogbrothers.
Nerdfighters are proud to be Nerds and fight to decrease WorldSuck.
Instead of being made of bones and organs, they are physically made of
Can be easily identified by the use of the word
The opposite of a Nerdfighter is a Decepticon.
"I think that person is humming Accio Deathly Hallows."
"They must be a Nerdfighter!"
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A person who is not made of flesh and blood, but is, in fact, made of awesome.
Started by brothers John and Hank Green, as a part of the "Brotherhood 2.0" project of 2007, where John and Hank would communicate only through video blogs for an entire year. (youtube/vlogbrothers)
The signature move for nerdfighters is Star Trek hands (you know, the funky fingers).
Nerdfighters will be happy to know that the VlogBrothers are going on a "Tour de Nerdfighting" at some point in 2008. (papertowns)
Most nerdfighters desperately want to live in an imaginary (or is it) place called "Nerdfighteria" (or Nerdfightaria, depending on spelling).
(from An Abundance of Katherines, a book written by John Green)
"The fans of Brotherhood 2.0 call themselves nerdfighters. A tightknit and extraordinarily dedicated community, the nerdfighters have raised tens of thousands of dollars for charities and political campaigns, taken over the most discussed pages of youtube, and written hundreds of letters to Merriam Webster lobbying for the inclusion of the word "nerdfighter" into the dictionary."
*note: In case you couldn't tell, the term "nerd" is not used dispargingly, but is rather used as a source of pride. If one is a nerd, they should be proud!
CM: Whoa! You got a hundred on your AP World History test!
BW: Yeah, I am such a nerdfighter.
(generally used as a noun, though it can be used as an adjective : nerdfighterish)
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