My AUSome Trip

I made a friend!
If you’d have asked me what was the least likely of all places for me to make a friend, I’d give youtube as my answer. But I did!
After being a slow and hardly-steady stream of videos I’d post on my channel on youtube, AnHourInAMinuteLG, I finally decided to be proactive about my youtube destiny. I could not just sit and twiddle my toes, waiting for some wonderful nerdfighter to come along and connect with my videos. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not looking for youtube fame, far from it! In fact, I made the videos for myself first, my family and friends second. If someone else happens upon them and enjoys them, all the better, but I am not out to grow a following of any kind.
Despite this, after watching so many youtube gatherings that other nerdfighters attended, and random sighting of the all-famous John and Hank Green, I was discouraged. How could I be a ‘real’ nerdfighter without actually knowing any other nerdfighters? I felt that there must be a way to connect to nerdfightaria through the actual nerdfightaria, which I consider to be a global, cross-generational mindset, rather than an actual place or event. I don’t have to go to a youtube gathering to assert my ‘nerdfighterness.’
So I searched for the two tags I most wanted to be associated with: Melbourne and Nerdfighter. (Melbourne since I’ll be studying there in a few months for a semester abroad. No need to explain about nerdfighter!) I came across the channel of a lovely young lady who put herself, her likes and dislikes, her nerdy randomness on youtube for others such as myself to discover and appreciate. I messaged her through the wondrous video sharing site we all know and love called youtube.com, and wrote to her about my upcoming trip to Melbourne. I asked her what were cool things to do in Melbourne, what’s the weather like, if she knows about the university I’ll be attending etc. I didn’t think she’d answer me at all, but to my utter surprise, a day later, there was a number in parenthesis near the word inbox. The number was 1. This may seem like nothing, but to any real youtuber would know this, (1), meant I had received a message. Opening it, I read the sweetest most heartfelt and detailed direct message I’d ever received- from a complete stranger!!!
This my friends is the power of youtube, and nerdfightaria. I had made a friend on youtube. We continued chatting back and forth for a few days and I feel like I am already there.
Following this I watched a series of videos about the recent gathering in Melbourne. Frezned was there and other amazing Australian nerdfighters were all getting together in Federation Square. And I got to watch from the sidelines, wishing I were already in Melbourne, and getting to meet these lovely Melbournites in all their nerdfighterly awesome action. But I got to see this amazing nerdfighter’s point of view of the event and I practially feel like I was there.
Thanks for always being awesome,
LG
http://www.youtube.com/user/AnHourInAMinuteLG
P.S. You Melbouneites are so lucky for the weather you got there, especially on gathering day!
P.P.S. Anyone reading this who does not know what a nerdfighter is, you might as well not know what youtube is! No, I’m just kidding. Check out the vlogbrothers on youtube.