On October 2, 2007, John briefly shared his friends’ tattoo with Hank and the Nerdfighters, which said “DFTBA”, an initialism that stands for “Don’t forget to be awesome”. Given that the community had already established a constant use of the word “awesome” (Nerdfighters are “made of awesome”, and they aim to “increase awesome”), the community adapted this initialism as their parting phrase very quickly. Next to the Nerdfighter gang-sign, this phrase is another go-to cultural artifact that Nerdfighters use to identify themselves as part of the community.
In 2009, Hank composed a song using initialisms proposed by Nerdfighters to jokingly respond to the prompt "Please explain what is DFTBA."
DFTBA
The narratives explored in this series of posts are the results of the pre-study I did with the aim of finding the most prominent themes and narratives that emerged throughout the first year of the Nerdfighter Community.
Each of these posts explores the stories and themes that are the basis to understand the culture of this community, its activities and overall atmosphere. Each section explains a theme or narrative that Nerdfighters have adopted as shareable stories through which they make sense of their culture.
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