Nerdfighter

English Etymology From en nerd fighter; Nerdfighters was co-founder John Green's accidental misreading of the video game title Aero Fighters. Noun A member of the mainly online-based community subculture Nerdfighteria. en Timothy Alex Akimoff Big Sky nerds: Brothers still speak for underdog Sunday Missoulian 10 August 2008 B2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/349304352/ The experiment birthed the Nerdfighters, a nebulous group of self-described superhero geeks who follow the exploits of John and Hank Green religiously, and who claim to be “made of awesome” rather than flesh and bone. en Xander Wiersema A young girl slays inner demons while fighting cancer The Vancouver Sun 28 January 2012 D6 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/497794524/ John Green is possibly best known for Vlogbrothers, the YouTube channel he shares with his brother Hank. Together they have formed a large community of so-called Nerdfighters (note that Nerdfighters are not people that are against nerds but are in fact people who are for nerds). Twelve-year-old Xander Wiersema is an avid reader, gamer and Nerdfighter living in Victoria. en Caroline Vella Written In the Stars w:HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/written-in-the-stars_b_5297132 13 May 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20221220111639/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/written-in-the-stars_b_5297132 20 December 2022 With the help of his brother, he is rallying Nerdfighters everywhere with the battle cry of "raising nerdy to the power of awesome." en David Lindquist ‘Fault’ premiere draws adoring crowd The Sunday Star 8 June 2014 E2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/106603370/ When lead actors Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort arrived, one 20th Century Fox executive was heard saying, “We could have filled Yankee Stadium” with Nerdfighters — the nickname of supporters of the pro-intelligence and good-deeds agenda of Green and his brother, Hank Green. “The Fault in Our Stars” producer Wyck Godfrey, known for his role as producer for four “Twilight” films, said Nerdfighters are making their presence felt. en Jennifer Burek Pierce Introduction: Reading John Green and Writing Anticipatory History Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media Iowa City, Iowa w:University of Iowa Press 15 November 2020 2 978-1-60938-718-1 Despite their affinity for new media, Nerdfighters are readers, many of whom have reported reading more than twenty-five books annually—an amount Hank once described as “a lot of frickin’ books.”