In their fourth video into Brotherhood 2.0, John spoke about how both him and Hank had their own “happy dance” (see John's and Hank's), which is a dance one makes to celebrate any happy occurrence; and in January 12, 2007, John came up with the idea to do a video with clips of happy dances in several places.
On August 30, 2007, the Green brothers proposed to the by-then already existent community the idea to create a happy dance video together. They invited all Nerdfighters to send in clips of their happy dances in different places to collect them in one video. On December 24, 2007, the Green brothers uploaded a 9min 34s minute video containing plentiful clips (of an average of 3s) of Nerdfighters doing their happy dances in numerous places.
The Nerdfighter Happy Dance Project (2007)
This project, presented in the final week of Brotherhood 2.0, served as a visualization of the community that had emerged from the audience of the Green brothers’ videos. It showed a large group of people from places all over the world, from teenagers to adults, getting together to celebrate their connection.
By the time in which this project was made public, this community had already achieved other successes; but this project in its simplicity represents the way in which other projects reached success: An idea that comes up from the ongoing conversation between the brothers becomes achievable when they invite the Nerdfighters to collaborate with them in some way.
Happy dances are now a common artifact in this community’s culture, reflecting again the features of particularities of narratives.
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.
More narratives:
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