2023
At the start of the 2023 Project for Awesome livestream, Nerdfighteria had already raised $107,906.69 on Tiltify, making the starting total raised $484,457.49. While this was less than the previous year’s starting amount, Nerdfighters continued to donate enthusiastically for the entirety of the livestream and beyond. In this P4A, the money raised in the first half was split between Partners In Health and Save the Children and the funds from the second half were divided between the top-voted charities from the community.
As is tradition, the livestream began with Hank and John. Hank set his video to premiere as the livestream was scheduled to begin (which delayed the start of the livestream slightly). During his video we had the only visit from Butfartman this year.
Hank also mentioned a variety of earlier P4A mascots in his video including Beanie Sandfurbs, Crank Green, Dave the Fish, and Glennnn and Daaaale.
John and Hank each wore suits for the beginning of the livestream, “because we’re both middle aged” according to John.
By 14 minutes into the livestream, the total raised was over $500,000. John and Hank were both live on TikTok while hosting the livestream and discussing new perks (like crabulo.us, which became a quick favorite when people realized they could anonymously send crabs to others, and exclusive content related to Hank and John visiting RAX, their childhood fast food roast beef restaurant). Hank became Crank to celebrate and immediately startled John.
Both brothers revealed that they had the Dr. Pepper Peeps to try and that Hank had more Dr. Pepper baked beans for this year.
Initially they each tried just the peep, but then Hank decided to dip his into the baked beans. After that he promised to fill a peep with baked beans if the total reached $600,000. That goal was immediately reached and Hank had no utensils in his office, so he used his fingers.
While most people were disgusted or confused by Hank’s choices, others jumped to meme making: a time honored P4A tradition.
Upon reaching $700,000 John ate another Dr. Pepper Peep despite not enjoying them.
Since RAX was on the mind, people noticed that John was dressed similarly to the mascot Mr. D.
Chat suggested “Eat the Menu” at RAX which intrigued Hank, who speculated how much would need to be raised for Keith to go to RAX with them.
John’s body rejected the Dr. Pepper Peeps and his camera froze as he almost vomited. His frozen face was then used for memes. Hank and John’s tummies both hurt.
John noticed that a number of people in chat were commenting on Hank’s default slack sound making them think they had messages. Suggestions begin for a new notification sound.
An hour into the livestream John took over solo and pushed through hosting while recovering from the Peeps. Unsurprisingly, the conversation shifted to tuberculosis.
John was joined by Dr. Joia Mukerjee, Chief Medical Officer of Partners in Health, to discuss the work PIH is doing and how P4A helps them achieve their goals (and how to fight TB). During this conversation the total raised passed $1,000,000!
Then John read part of a story he was working on, which was also a perk. John discussed how this was the 16th year of P4A, so it can drive now! A Nerdfighter made a driver’s license for P4A.
Driving brought the conversation back to Hank and John’s trip to RAX and chat began brainstorming names for the trip: Hank and John’s RAXcellent Adventure, RAXstravaganza, and RAX-ageddon were some of the suggestions (although the last one was more a reference to what the car would be on the way home from RAX). Someone drew a T-RAX, which became a running theme.
Hank took over hosting three hours into the livestream, just after the total reached 1.2 million dollars.
Hank showed art of his bean-filled Peep.
As chat continued to be distracted by Hank’s slack notifications, Hank agreed to change the sound to “hummus,” which he did not realize was just a person saying the word “hummus.” He then ran a poll on Tiltify to decide if it should be a plink or hummus and hummus won with $10,974.14 to plink’s $5,719.46.
Like he did in P4A 2022, Hank had balloons with tasks in them for him to complete. He popped a balloon when different goals were reached. The first balloon was “Banana Loca Bean Pickle,” so he brought out the Banana Loca, Dr. Pepper Baked Beans, and a jar of pickles. Hank does not like pickles.
Previous P4A hosts Answer in Progress were in chat and said what we were all thinking, "It is 1pm in Montana. It is too early for this."
This continued the variety of liquids on Hank’s desk: the bean juice from earlier was now combined with pickle juice (and even more bean juice). Luckily, as soon as Hank ate the bean pickle, we were all distracted by Ettore Rossetti from Save the Children joining the call. As usual, Ettore had been watching P4A (he often hangs out in the chat) and knew exactly when to join: right after Hank put cursed foods in his stomach. Ettore was once again wearing a Pizza John shirt and this year he surrounded himself with Hank’s and John’s books and a Nerdfighteria plaque from a previous P4A while he and Hank discussed the good work Save the Children does.
After saying goodbye to Ettore, Hank declared “I don’t know what we’re doing!” and popped another balloon. This balloon told him to pop another balloon and do that task twice. Hank was worried because there was a balloon task he did not want to do once and he really did not want to do it twice!
Luckily, he ended up with Skyler’s suggestion to improvise a play with characters from his shelf. Hank’s first play was a skit between monkey baby and Mr. Hummus. The second was a hook-handed penguin, Hank with a hammer and a gun, and Dobby the house elf mediating their conflict. That scene ended with all three screaming “TRANS RIGHTS!”
Since donations continued to come in during Hank’s skits, we had reached another balloon. This time, it was the one Hank had been dreading: Ceri’s suggestion to cronch a lemon!
Hank realized the acid from the lemon was burning his lips, so he put chapstick on which sealed the acid to his lips, rather than protecting them. His lips began to swell.
Being resourceful, Hank added the juice from his cronched lemon to the open can of Dr. Pepper baked beans from earlier. He decided it was “way better.”
Then, a new P4A activity began! Ryan Reynolds donated his Deadpool Adventure Time watch to be auctioned off to raise as much money for P4A as possible. People had to join the auction first and then could participate in the auction by bidding in chat. Because Nerdfighteria is an excellent community, very few false bids were submitted.
While the auction continued in the chat, Hank was joined by Mercury Stardust! They discussed Hank eating poison, preventing pests and mold, and more. Still recovering from cronching the lemon and swelling lips, Hank became “lemon lips no hips.” When questioned why, he responded that he had lemon lips and no hips.
John took over from Hank with the prescription snorkeling goggles he had ordered for their trip to Jamaica just before P4A that did not arrive in time.
As the auction continued, John’s daughter Alice did his make-up. Sarah helped by adding false eyelashes, which John was not a fan of and immediately removed. Alice tried Diet Dr. Pepper for the first time and liked it!
Despite Hank and John trying to out-bid each other, Ben S. won the auction and donated $9,876.54 for the watch. We reached $1.5 million raised overall, and Sarah added to John’s make up look.
John and his family took an adorable family photo, now that his make-up was done.
Meanwhile, the memers kept memeing about RAX.
As a reward for reaching over $1.5 million, John’s children, Henry and Alice, got to punch him.
While recovering from being punched, John handed the stream to the Super Carlin Brothers who offered prizes to the winners of the trivia games they created.
Tessa Violet took over hosting and played her songs for the chat. She used polls to drive up donations while finding out which songs we wanted to hear.
Continuing the music, Tessa handed the stream to the Gregory Brothers, who wrote songs about the cringe crimes created during P4A so far. Then a poll was used to vote on which song they would workshop into a perk. They wrote about T-RAX being a hummus herbivore, Lemon Lips, and 16 Weeks to Glory. The poll decided that they should develop the 16 Weeks to Glory song.
T-RAX, the hummus herbivore.
Hank returned to hosting along with longtime Nerdfighter Karen Kavitt, now known on the internet as Karen Puzzles. Hank introduced Karen to Crank Green and then they competed at speed puzzling. Karen finished two vintage puzzles faster than Hank could finish one Pikachu puzzle. As they continued to talk Hank kept working on the puzzle and did end up finishing it (other than the missing piece). Someone made a P4A online puzzle that chat could do while Hank and Karen puzzled.
After that, Hank popped another balloon and sang All Star with a helium voice. He was then joined by Tyler Thrasher, who showed some of his art and asked Hank would-you-rather questions. It turned out that Hank had semi-traumatic connections related to a few of the would-you-rathers, which impacted his answers.
Then Hank tried to listen to a song about Five Nights at Freddy’s but no one else could hear it. He popped another balloon and did a task: Ashley suggested phoning a friend. Hank spends time searching his phone for someone it would not be too late to call and settles on Joe Bareta, with the backup plan of calling Payton if Joe did not answer. It was unclear why Hank taped the phone to his foot, other than wanting a challenge.
After the phone call, Hank handed the stream to a first-time host: Hank’s chair.
Hank’s chair did not seem to enjoy the hosting job. They stayed silent and still. Hank took back over a few minutes later. He popped a balloon that told him to put on press on nails.
With his new nails, Hank attempted to play the guitar. He removed some nails to make it possible but still lost a nail in the guitar.
Somehow it was time for another balloon. This one was Joe’s suggestion to eat Awesome Coffee beans straight from the package. Hank ate 4 beans with a big cronch. “It’s turning into coffee in my mouth. I don’t like it,” he said. Chat agreed that there was a reason John is the unpaid coffee intern, rather than Hank.
While waiting for his next guests, Hank discovered a new skill: singing covers as the B52’s didn’t hurt his throat as much as singing normally does.
Then Hank was joined by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Sam Reich, from Dropout.
While they chatted, we reached another balloon task, “pretend to be a cute little housefly, you have to do a good job.” Brennan was skeptical of the “you have to do a good job” and called it “charged.” Sam offered the alternative of “you have to give it an honest try.”
Sam asked Hank when he will say he has done enough good in the world. Hank doesn’t think answering that is helpful.
The mood of this segment shifted to chaos as Hank brought out the Banana Loca. Sam had never seen it before, but Brennan experienced it last P4A. “OH NO,” declared Brennan, “you had a corndog last time, THAT’S A PICKLE!”
“This is the opposite of ASMR,” said Sam as Hank explained the process of coring the pickle and filling the cannon with beans.
After that horror, it was time for the Eons team: Blake, Kallie, and Michelle to take over hosting. They sculpted creatures from clay, as voted for in Tiltify polls.
Kallie dressed Logan, the cat, in a dino costume when a goal was reached.
Then they handed hosting over to Sam and Ceri from SciShow Tangents, who drew donors as citizens of Butt City. People were donating so quickly that their partners came to help draw citizens off camera.
Upon reaching a goal, Sam and Ceri each cronched a lemon (since the task had been Ceri’s idea in the first place).
They both liked cronching the lemons. “Hank is a baby for not being able to cronch that. I will go on record, I would say that to his face,” said Ceri.
Sam and Ceri offered to cronch eggs if a target is reached. Chat, slack, and their partners said no. Chat suggested a butter cronch instead (because BUTTer), but we ended up with cronching eggs on heads instead.
With that, Sam and Ceri had to go clean up, so they handed the stream over to Kevin from Defunctland. Kevin led a discussion of amusement park attractions and kids’ TV shows. He also did impressions. He teased a shirt reveal if a goal was reached. We reached the goal but Kevin’s camera broke while trying to show his shirt.
Rosianna then took over for some calm community times. She drew a self care bunny finding little pleasures and led us over $1.75 million total raised while drawing little monsters.
This one is the Intergalactic Crab of Mystery (unrelated to Crank Green).
Rosianna then returned hosting duties to John, who said “hummus, the unexpected star of the 2023 Project for Awesome. Nobody saw it coming. Hummus has emerged,” because much of chat had shifted from chanting “we’re here because” to “we’re hummus because.”
As John watched a soccer game, he agreed with chat that he missed the vision board and brainstormed with chat what should be added to the live vision board. The vision board was then offered as a perk (with the understanding that a whiteboard could erase while shipping).
While brainstorming, someone suggested "RAXcellence." John declared, “we no longer go for excellence in this family, we go for RAXcellence!”
Items on the vision board:
2023 Project for Awesome #P4A2023
Take a journey of meaning
Your hydrogen is Big Bang stuff
A mottled lens unto the bifurcated human heart whose one true nature is to break apart
16 Weeks to Glory
Now we’re cooking INDUCTIVELY
RAX on RAX on RAX
HUMMUS HUMMUS
Jimmy Glass Carlisle United
Feathers
Imagine others complexly
P4A!!!!
Ants
Napoleon’s monkey spy
End TB Now
Commit to the bit
Chat GPT thinks I’m an NPC
Prescription Snorkeling
Trans rights are human rights
PANIC STATIONS!!!!!
RAXCELLENCE
Not remembering most of 2015
A spiral
Hope
John was then joined by Jarvis Johnson. They discussed parasocial relationships, beverages, and more. Their conversation included reminiscing about old-school vlogbrothers experiences including Paige Railstone, which John explained after Jarvis left.
John then handed hosting to Vanessa and Matt of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, who began by acknowledging that they are separating the work from the author and that the rest of their segment would not be Harry Potter related. Instead, they talked about classic movies.
The end of their hosting was also the end of the first half of the Project for Awesome. In total the first half raised $1,838,186.49 for Partners in Health and Save the Children. The second half of the P4A began with Taylor, Miriam, and Darcy hosting.
Continuing with traditions from earlier P4As, Taylor and Miriam still had Detergent’nt and promised Darcy carrot crunches for every $5,000 donated (although this amount was soon changed to every $10,000 to keep Darcy from having a tummy ache).
Additionally, Taylor and Miriam ran a poll to decide if they should mix Detergent’nt with garlic hummus or spicy hummus if a goal was reached.
Part way through their hosting time, Hallease joined them.
2 million dollars total was reached while watching a featured video. Taylor and Miriam returned from the video singing “we’re hummus because.”
In honor of raising $2 million, Taylor and Miriam drew bats on their faces.
To celebrate, Darcy was dressed as a dragon/dinosaur. Chat soon named her the Darcy-saurus-RAX.
A new poll was put on Tiltify to compare the Hank cronch and the Darcy cronch. Hank was in chat at the time insisting he could cronch carrots like Darcy.
Taylor and Miriam mixed the garlic hummus with the gatorade to create a cursed substance, which they ate and declared a mistake.
Darcy got to cronch another carrot before handing the stream back to Hank, who also cronched a carrot.
After saying goodbye to Taylor, Miriam, and Darcy, Hank and his son, Orin, welcomed Dr. Becky Smethurst to the livestream. They discussed space and Orin learned how to blow up balloons on his own.
After the space conversation, Hank hosted on his own for a bit and decided, for the first time ever, that a decision must be made about this year’s P4A mascot. In the past, a mascot has come about organically, but this year had multiple contenders and Hank wanted an official answer. A Tiltify poll was created where people could vote for Lemon Lips, Bean Pickle, T-RAX, or Hummus to be the mascot. While waiting for those results, Hank popped another task balloon. This was the first of the clear liquid challenges! Hank had 4 clear liquids and each time a clear liquid challenge task happened he had to drink one of them. This first one was vinegar. Orin tried the vinegar first and did not like it.
While discussing mascots, Hank brought out Beanie Sandfurbs. Orin added a stickman to the bottom of Beanie.
Then it was time for another balloon! It was another clear liquid challenge. This time Hank drank water. Orin popped this balloon and the next one by sitting on them. The next balloon was a challenge to tell a story where every sentence started with the next letter of the alphabet. Hank started out fine but then skipped E and switched the order of H and I. After the story, Hank was attacked by a balloon that Orin had blown up and released all on his own.
Katherine and Gummy Bear joined Hank and Orin, so they took a family picture together just like John’s family had done the night before.
Then Katherine used the Butfartman shirt to wrap Hank's head. This was the closest we came to a Butfartman sighting during P4A that year.
Hank was then joined by Mark Gibson who did some mentalism with Hank and Orin.
After the mentalism, the mascot poll results were in: T-RAX won with $19,634.03, Hummus took second place with $8,462.04, and Lemon Lips Man took third with $1,762.11.
Hank declared the mascot to be a RAX-related pteranodon. He later corrected himself to sauropod, which chat then corrected to theropod. Hank saw a chat from GoldieLocks saying “The mythical T Rax can solely survive on Hummus!!” and started building combined lore bringing in many different ideas including:
T-RAX can’t be named Hummus because they are already named T-RAX, but could exclusively eat hummus
T-RAX could be called TB-RAX
Many references to the Gregory Brothers song from the night before
T-RAX can also eat beans, drink Dr. Pepper, and eat Dr. Pepper baked beans
T-RAX might live in a lemon grove
As this lore was built, John was in chat and promised to cronch a lemon during the stream. He also suggested the T-RAX roars hummus, shooting hummus at will.
Hank then told chat about a new perk idea he had: making small Hanklerfish art on mini canvas boards and worked with chat to figure out how to get more supplies. Chat even gave Hank a coupon code as he tried to buy more canvas board online.
Katherine arrived to give Hank actual food and discuss the logistics of this new perk idea. She agreed that while the website allowed him to buy 800 canvas boards and he believed he could make art on 800 canvas boards, he needed to consider the amount of space this would take up in the house and if they needed to lay out to dry. She has been through this kind of situation before. “I have some experience with him taking over the house.”
Unfortunately for Katherine, Hank saw a message in chat that said “Coward do 800” and admitted that this is the only voice he has in his head. Hank promised that he would only use Sharpie so the canvas boards would not need time to dry and placed the order.
Katherine found the giraffe sex book.
As Hank caressed the roast beef furby, Katherine suggested that Hank take it with him to RAX.
Hank was then joined by Jessica Kellgren-Fozard and they discussed queer history.
After the queer history quiz, Hank began his solo hosting by popping another balloon.
Unfortunately, he lost the task slip so he popped another balloon. We reached $2.2 million dollars total raised and Hank sang karaoke Mamma Mia. Hank solved the problem of chat not being able to hear Hank’s audio, but his solution was only left side audio.
After his song, Hank handed hosting over to Jessi Knudsen Castañeda from Animal Wonders and Nicole Sweeney. Jessi also had Sunny hosting with her. A Tiltify poll was set up to decide colors for the animals to paint with to make perks.
As we waited for poll results, Jessi showed us Gaia the armadillo.
Then, she set up Inky the opossum to paint. Inky requested only the best treats for making art.
After adorable animals, Karina, Nathan, and Jacob from Drawfee took control of the stream for the first time.
They came in with the goal of doubling the amount raised so far but quickly realized that was unlikely. Instead, they focused on encouraging donations while drawing the running themes of the P4A so far.
They began with the Drawfee mug making the face of someone who has donated to charity.
After seeing many calls for hummus and lemon lips in chat, Jacob drew his understanding of those ideas.
Nathan took on the idea of T-RAX, although the Drawfee team decided RAX was not a restaurant. He added a tie when he found out T-RAX wears a suit.
As Jacob began to draw crabulo.us, Karina showed her desk crab, which has crabs (crab abs).
“All beware, all be crab”
Nathan claimed that bean pickle visited him, which is how he could draw him. As he drew, someone said that bean pickle probably tastes beautiful. Hank, in chat, said “Bean Pickle does not taste beautiful” and “I ATE BEAN PICKLE.”
As Nathan and Jacob had been drawing quick sketches, Karina made a more involved version of Jacob’s lemon lips and hummus because the Drawfee team were very fond of the idea of lemon lips.
Chat then requested that Jacob draw 5’9” brown eyes in a sundress, a reference to a song lyric discussed on Dear Hank and John. As Jacob drew, Karina commented, “my eyes are up here and over there and down here.”
At the end of their segment, Karina said “thank you Lemon Lips for being an icon. When everyone hated you, we didn’t.” The Drawfee team then handed the stream back to John.
John began by reminding the chat about perks they could be getting before being joined by Hrishi Hirway.
While they chatted, we reached $1 million on Tiltify. This milestone was celebrated by Henry setting off a champagne popper and playing Fortnite with John while Coco, a family friend, watched.
After not winning at Fortnite, John washed his lemon and cronched it. He commented, “it was better when it was in my mouth and now it’s in my tummy.” This continued to be a P4A of tummy aches for John.
John told the chat a secret: they might get a dog. Chat was sworn to secrecy because the kids couldn’t know yet. This was a dangerous game for John to play when his kids could have been watching the stream. (Since P4A ended, they did get a dog named Potato.)
John set off another champagne popper to celebrate the total amount raised in all P4A’s passing $19 million. He then prepared the chat for the upcoming experience that is the Destin Hours.
Destin began in a dinosaur mask with a space helmet and quickly explained the plan for this year. People could donate to put their name on a character, a dino going to the Moon, a dino going to Mars, or a dino going to the JWST. Any donation during Destin’s time that was $50 or more would get their name on the Awesome People Board. Destin and his team worked hard writing names on magnets and sending dinos on trips all over.
In five minutes they had raised $50,000.
Julie went to the Moon as a mermaid for the fourth year in a row.
In less than 30 minutes $100,000 had been raised.
This year, Destin had a spaceship to wear to go to the JWST.
John Green, Gumball Mike, and Hummus went to the JWST. Gumball Mike took all of chat with him.
Crabulo.us became a crab!
Coco and Henry went to Mars!
T-RAX went to the JWST.
In the end, Destin’s segment raised $180,000. As Destin handed the stream over to Hank, Hank asked if Power Rocket had made it to the JWST. Destin made sure it happened.
As Hank took over, he celebrated all of the progress so far with a confetti cannon. He revealed that his supply order from earlier was unable to be fulfilled but that he had NEW PLANS.
It was balloon time, and the task was clear liquid challenge. This time the liquid was peppermint schnapps.
As Hank chatted with everyone, he tried to think of the name of a TV show. While his mind reached for “Ted Lasso,” he instead said “Tony Orange.”
It was then time to pop another balloon. This one was from Mickie and told Hank to draw a crab without lifting his pen and that he had to do a good job. While Hank did lift his marker multiple times, he always put it back where it was.
Hank was then joined by Brian David Gilbert, a cool guy!
Brian asked Hank about the best and worst things he had done on stream so far (for a good cause, of course). Hank said, “I think biting directly through the skin of a lemon into the lemon was probably the least pleasant thing. I also had a pickle stuffed with baked beans. But like, that was kind of okay.” As for the best thing, it was being a cute house fly the day before.
Hank and Brian then had a staring contest while naming celebrities in alphabetical order. Hank stumbled because he could not remember what letter came after D. Chat was not surprised, considering he skipped E when telling an alphabetical story earlier.
Hank popped another balloon, which revealed the final clear liquids challenge! This time it was tequila. Chat questioned how Hank could let Orin drink one of the clear liquids before, considering two were alcohol. Hank insisted that he could smell that the one he offered Orin was vinegar, so it would be fine.
Brian and Hank discussed various animal milks and their desire to have more options at Starbucks (pigeon milk, elephant milk, etc.). Then Brian ate Vanilla Bean Gu and reviewed it.
After eating Bean Gu, Brian was required to go exercise (as the packet instructed) so Hank turned to Mark Watson to co-host for a bit. Hank taught Mark about the Banana Loca, this time stuffing a Twinkie, rather than a pickle. Mark got to choose if the Twinkie would be filled with honey mustard or Dr. Pepper baked beans. He chose the baked beans.
As he watched the Twinkie fill with beans Mark commented, “not the best thing I’ve ever seen in my life, but certainly not the worst either.”
When Hank questioned why Mark was enthusiastic about joining him on Dear Hank and John, since Hank did not know how Mark knew who he was, Mark responded, “I don’t know if you know, but you and John are actually quite notable figures online.”
Hank decided that a Dr. Pepper baked bean Twinkie is better than a regular Twinkie. It was then time for a balloon task. Mark and Hank each needed to build the tallest tower in five minutes.
Hank immediately went for stacking books while Mark began stacking coins. It looked like Hank would win until his tower suddenly fell over. When Hank informed Mark that there were only 18 seconds left Mark replied, “you can fling numbers all you want, science man!”
Despite the task objectively being “tallest tower” a poll was added on Tiltify to judge who should win. Some people decided to include Mark’s table in the height of his tower, thus giving him a bit more height than just the coins. In the end, Hank’s tower won with $1,194 to Mark’s $518.
Mark and Hank then discussed podcasting while snorkeling and demonstrated what it would sound like by talking with markers in their mouths.
At that moment, Hank realized there were beans in his keyboard. So far he had lost use of the right arrow key. Mark commented that losing the right arrow key is better than losing the letter E, and then referenced a novel written without the letter E. Chat immediately reacted to the idea of Hank not having access to the letter E after forgetting about it twice earlier that day:
After that, Hank had a few minutes of hosting on his own and it was time for another balloon. It was cronching an egg on his head like Sam and Ceri did the night before. Luckily, eggspert Ceri was in chat offering advice like showering in cold water after, to not cook the egg.
Hank did an eggcellent job cronching the egg on his head. However, he did not eggspertly prepare by laying out paper towels on more than his keyboard. After cronching the egg and switching to a featured video, Hank forgot to turn off his TikTok livestream, who saw him attempting to clean up and heard him say that this was a mistake.
After Hank’s egging, Sheeza, Flaw, Xander, and Birb from Nerdcrafteria took over. They took us on a tour of Nerdcrafteria including the new things that were being built in honor of this P4A including a lemon, a Pizza John with the word “HUMMUS,” a RAX, and Flank (fly Hank).
They also had other P4A themed builds including Crank Green and Beanie Sandfurbs.
Nerdcrafteria had a scale model of Plough Lane, the Wimbledon AFC stadium. In Nerdcrafteria it was a hockey stadium, for one of the games they demonstrated.
After showing a few games and taking a group picture by Crank Green, Nerdcrafteria handed the livestream over to Louie from Club Crochet.
Louie’s plan for his session was to crochet a triceratops Hank live on stream and attach previously crocheted objects to himself for each donation that came in. Chat quickly insisted that this was not sustainable. Louie both agreed and disagreed but continued forward anyway.
He quickly shifted to placing crocheted objects on the table where he was crocheting rather than attaching them to himself. Here he was showing one of his secret agent birbs.
In the end, there were many displayed creations for the many donations and a partially completed Hank triceratops. Louie finished the triceratops off camera and it was sold as a perk.
After that, Brit Garner and her partner, Thain, took over hosting. They began the P4AI, where they gave Chat GPT prompts related to the Project for Awesome and had the program write scripts and songs for them to perform, as well as coming up with 9th grade science questions to ask Brit, since she is a science teacher.
In a detective noir story we learned that Lemon Lips Man had cronched all of the sheep in Glennnn and Daaaale’s flock!
Chat GPT’s songs included references to decreasing world suck, baked bean pickle, T-RAX, and puppy sized elephants. After the scenes and songs, Brit and Thaine handed the livestream to Taylor, Miriam, and Darcy.
All three of them woke up early to raise money, cronch carrots, and do a Nerds taste test. Chat asked why Darcy is so cute. Science does not know the answer. Instead of the $10,000 for a Darcy cronch from the busier hours, this early morning cronch session happened every $150 donated. Taylor and Miriam tried many forms of Nerds including traditional, gummy clusters, and candy canes. They then ranked them from best to worst. Darcy cronched many carrots. At the end of their hosting session, they passed the livestream to Rosianna.
Rosianna showed chat her mostly painted kitchen and did a tarot reading before jumping back into drawing monsters and having a relaxing chat with chat. Since Louie was still in the chat, others lovingly pointed out to him that this was sustainable hosting (unlike his attempt to do multiple things at once).
While Rosianna drew monsters using features voted on in a poll on Tiltify, everyone celebrated passing 50,000 votes so far! The poll decided that this monster needed a lemon, so it became a flying lemon monster.
A new poll on Tiltify let donors vote for what colors of watercolor makeup Rosianna should use to make a face monster. The end result was green. Rosianna and chat decided that this green monster eats jealousy.
After a few relaxing hours with Rosianna, John took over hosting for the last bit of the P4A. Rosianna informed John that “we’re at the big numbers place” as we all reflected on the good work that had been done so far before this final push.
Then John and Henry played more Fortnite (this time finishing in 6th place) and celebrated reaching $1.4 million donated on Tiltify with another champagne popper.
A Nerdfighter shared this sign that they saw near their home. A warning to us all that soon P4A would end and we would not hear Hank’s slack say “hummus.”
John showed the P4A balloons from 2019, still holding strong with their new friend T-RAX as we approached $2.7 million donated overall with more confetti and Hank rejoined the stream.
Hank admitted that he woke up to many strange things, but the weirdest one was the trail of confetti in the snow from his office to the back door of his house. Then Hank and John each put on a celebratory piece of headgear: Hank wore his crab hat and John wore his prescription snorkeling goggles. A poll on Tiltify questioned which was a better choice. Crab hat won with $29,613.80 to the goggles’ $14,307.66.
As we approached the end of the livestream we also approached the end of voting for charities.
Meanwhile, the Tiltify reached $1.5 million but chat noticed about five minutes before John and Hank did. Then, the total donations reached $2.8 million, putting the total for all P4A’s combined at $20 million!
Hank was joined by Katherine, Orin, and Gummy Bear. John was joined by Sarah, Henry, and Alice. Chaos ensued in the final minutes of the Project for Awesome. Hank and Orin ate Dr. Pepper Peeps. Henry cronched the lemon John had cronched the night before, spraying lemon juice everywhere.
Henry and Alice gave John Sharpie face while Orin popped Hank’s last balloon. It told him to sing in monotone. John suggested “Call Me Maybe” and Hank obliged.
As the P4A livestream ended, Henry and Hank each shot off confetti. “I caught confetti with my mouth!” said Orin. In the end, 71,960 votes were cast and $3,069,686.33 were raised. And the last sound heard on the livestream was Hank’s computer saying “HUMMUS.”
