Oct. 2nd: Brotherhood 2.0 on the Road (Literally)

[lookingformybluebox]

When he says DON'T FORGET TO BE AWESOME, I might as well have died!!!!!

[mthsbandrocks]

I love how he says "outlet"

[JAMBO4358]

Toby didn't pay attention to this video

[SuperCatSara]

this is like one of the main reasons I've gone back from the beginning to watch this. TO FIND THE CONTEXT OF THAT LINE IN DFTBA ASDFGHJKL I have accomplished this. Perfect.

[cynthiayl12]

Is it just me, or does he say outlet funny?

[StaleMilk12]

Wait, wait wait wait. Was that really the FIRST DFTBA? AND IT WAS ALREADY AN ACRONYM? I feel like part of history has just unfolded before my eyes...

[ThatOneChick2021]

@StaleMilk12 Well, it was an initialism, not an acronym, but yes.

[StaleMilk12]

@ThatOneChick2021 ...and I've been saying diff-ta-ba in my head this whole time... :(

[kill100578]

I cant believe this is the start of so much

[vidkid42]

The beginning of DFTBA!

[MilwiththeEna]

When he said that last line, I literally expected the song to continue x)

[ninjasquid1]

you should sell books with the pants, and be like, "here's looking for alaska. IN YOUR PANTS"

lol

[Shamhatter]

HANK

THINK OF THE BEEF JERKY DEALS!

[MarianAlaways]

I nearly ate my own hand at that last line! *attempts to not squeek and geek out and fails* DFTBA!

[lilly94white]

'Like it says on my friend Katie's arm: Don't Forget To Be Awesome'

V.DFTBA.V

Nerdfighters!

[stephstirling]

DFTBA: THE BIRTH.

[hpobsessed21]

@stephstarkidweasley It was strange to hear it in the original context.

[Morphesque]

I just watched this video for the first time and my entire crafting dream right now is to create a glorious pair of pineapple pants, crocheting my sisters' solstice gifts be damned.

[kmjvt11]

It's honestly like..should make history books somewhere. THE FIRST TIME DFTBA WAS EVER SAID!!

(on vlogbrothers..it was obviously said before, hence katy's arm)

[ChelsieOliviaa]

This video. Is like. Monumental in Nerdfighter history.

[dannerzme]

:O DFTBA!!! God bless this Katy!!

[MoonintheClouds]

But I'm allergic to pineapples =(

[rikko338]

If you can watch the end of this video without speaking along then you're a better man than I am.

(or, taking into account the fact that 3/4 of vlogbrothers subscribers are girls, a better woman than I am.)

(...wait.. what?)

[PrettyLoather]

@rikko338 use something non-gender specific, like 'person'.

[BethTheBubblyGirl]

PINAPPLE PANTS

[JustCallMe253]

EEEK! I now know the origin of that strange, mildly repetitive line in DFTBA. THIS. IS. THE. FREAKING. ORIGIN. OF. THE. ACRONYM!!!!

/happyandsquealy

[Gryffindor004]

It's even said in a musical way. It's like John wanted it to be made into a rap.

'Oh and Hank, like it says on my friend Katie's arm...Don't Forget To Be Awesome'

[Rayne0804]

AHHh! schaumburg!? i live 20 minutes away from there!! dammit for this being almost four years after the fact.....sigh.

[janiegirly07]

the birth of DFTBA!

[daniels1caudill]

This is my birthday video! Wow that's freaky that DFTBA was coined on my 12th birthday, and that the yeti's birthday is on the day after mine! haha. And has anyone got John his peep yet?

[LMNOP1214]

@daniels1caudill IDK... *immediately looks to tumblr*

[Ashleystalworth]

Dear John

Something you say in this video will later be turned into a rap.

Sincerely,

Future John

[XxCroloxX]

1000th Like :)

[puppylover11396]

Don't forget to be aaaaaaaaa! Wow this was seriously the beginning of DFTBA? I want to meet this Katie girl. :)

[pocahomiehontas]

ALL HAIL KATIE!!

[Twefrence]

AhA! The "Oh and Hank" part is forever famous now =D

I need to retrace all these videos asap!

[dearcatherinee]

I almost just peed myself when I heard the "Oh & Hank" part

[MissWinged]

OMG. when he said 'oh and hank....' i got so excited xD

[eda1102]

So this is where the line "like it says on my friend, Katie's arm" from the song came from.

[mirosango14]

I have just witnessed the birth of DFTBA! =D

[maat369]

Ooh, this was made on my birthday, and it was the very first DFTBA. I couldn't be happier! :D

[LifeMustard]

@maat369 Just in case you didn't know, your birthday is the day after Charlie McDonnell's. That is awesome.

[maat369]

@LifeMustard Alright, my life is now complete. Charlie is my Helen Hunt... maybe just not as creepy. xD

[LifeMustard]

@maat369 I'm glad you're not as scary as Hank. :)

DFTBA

[KittnzNChz]

The way he says 'outlet' makes me want to headbutt him.

[untitledmusicproject]

Off to go make a pair of pants with a pineapple!

[Theworldingreen]

and the corn is plentiful <3

[mythmanjay]

It's good that you remind us and re-remind us and re-re-re ... etc.... that vlogging-&-driving is bad to do---doesn't change the fact that you condoned (doned-a-donedoned) it by doing it :(

so thumbs-down, but beef jerky/pineapple pants outlets are cool

P.S. This IS NOT the origin of DFTBA; DFTBA is forever, Hank & John etc. just hopped-on the DFTBA-train!

[hihikmn]

DFTBA! So it began!

[rikko338]

Nice to hear the origin of DFTBA! Which is now currently in sticker form on the back of the laptop I am CURRENTLY writing this on!

[EmmyBea]

OMG the origin of DFTBA!!!!

[doctorturkleton]

"tomorrow's the yeti's birthday"

tomorrow... october 3rd

I SHARE MY BIRTHDAY WITH THE YETI

FJKSFJFDKSAF YAY

[Twefrence]

I finally found it. The "oh and hank" part in DFTBA (the song) TOTALLY AWESOMEEEE. 

[Chocohall]

I shop at outlet malls. They sell cheap stuff.

[thesegirlshaveboobs]

Dude. My name is Katie. That means my arm started DFTBA.

[doodlehh]

Old VB makes me so happy :)

[YeahHildeKase]

i want this to be a real outlet mall.

sounds perfect

[fecklessman]

THINK OF THE BEEF JERKY DEALS!!!

[yohanne14]

all hail the Katie!!! inventor/John-reminder of DFTBA!!!

HAIL!!!

[JediCoati]

15 people need to be welcomed into some nerdfighter pants (i never post this kind of thing. i think it's a symptom of procrastinating on my college app essay)

[ClocksInMyPlace]

Hurray for Katie beginning the DFTBA!

[catratfatcat]

@GirlWithAHat DFTBA = Dont Forget To Be Awesome

[oneorangespider]

Don't worry about getting weird looks from other cars.

One time, on a road trip back to california from spending Christmas in Colorado, we bought some packaged cheese. Unfortunately, we had no cooler. So, I was given the task of propping the cheese up against the cold window, and putting my pillow against the cheese to hold it there with my head. From the outside, it was two packages of cheese squished against a red blob.

We got some WEIRD looks from the surrounding cars.

[williusethis]

wow, so i bet someone goes up to her and goes omg you got this from the vlogbrothers?!

and she goes

uh no, they got it from ME

[GirlWithAHat]

I don't know what you mean when you say,

Please explain,

What is DFTBA? <3

[nukeakitten]

@GirlWithAHat DFTB DFTB DFTBA DFTBDFTB DFTBA!.

[katmanbegins]

#OH and Hank, OH and Hank,

Like it says on my friend Katie's arm, Like It says on my friend Katie's Arm,

Don't Forget to Be Awesome..#

:D :D

[1emi3ly]

My birthday was 3 days after this <3 DFTBA!!!!

[g2theIrishPianist]

Happy dftba day!

[61teewssa]

I too was born on October 2 so this makes me laugh.

[ecofreak303]

"I MEAN HANK THINK OF THE BEEF JERKY DEALZ!" oh john. also i'm happy about dftba :D

[AngelicAnimeX]

DFTBA was born on the arm of a girl named Katie, and on October 2nd. As a girl who's name is Katie and was born on October 2nd, this makes me happy.

Very, Very, Happy.

[littlebigfan3000]

YYYYEEESSS I finally found the episode where it all started lol

[twowordsJohnnyDepp]

Hearing that, then entire DFTBA song just ran through my head...

[VideoCult1]

OMG THE ORIGINAL DFTBA!!!!!!!

[mEllenTheFruit]

Katie.. we owe you so much. I'm so glad you're immortalized is the DFTBA song.

[xbookfreekx]

Thank you so much Katie!! :D

[artvandelay13]

That's seriously how DFTBA started?? I thought John or Hank invented it...

[anandora]

haha.. for the "nine months into a project" thing i thought he was talking about pregnancy xD

[madasrabbits06]

alas.... dftba is born!! :)

[SyreenInSapphire]

AH! The FIRST DFTBA!!

[dhubigh]

Wow! I have the same birthday as the Yeti! i feel honored!!

[pseudocaveman]

YES, THE BEGINNING OF DFTBA! whoo!

[eragonlover1]

This sounds like a good idea. Yes.

OMG YES INDIANA IS FILLED WITH CORN.

And also: The beginning of a legend. Yes.

[ashjess67]

NERD FIGHTER OUTLET MALLL! OH YEAH!!!!!! sweet idea John !!!!!!

[slinkiesandpie22]

John. I believe you should come to IOWA :D

[Why yes, we do have corn]

[BucksStudent]

John, you could have put the camera in a cup holder and aimed it towards you. I also don't think we would have been disappointed if you kept your eyes on the road.

[littletoolate]

John looks reallllly tanned in this video :P

BIRTH OF DFTBA!

[FFEEZZProductions]

they disagreed about wikiiipedia

or wikeepedia

[HighKingTurgon]

In addition to pineapples, there should be literary titles down pants legs at the Pants outlet.

[mylovelydame21]

DFTBA! The first appearance! LOVE it!

[dakranon]

I doesn't matter that I know nothing bad happens, I still can't listen to anything John says in this video, for fear that he's going to crash while looking into the camera. >:(

[jaspenHALBONE]

so this is where dftba was born. i've been waiting for this episode.

i'm watching every vlogbrother video in order :D it's so impossible to tear away!!!

[lemonhead1256]

@jaspenHALBONE I AM TOO:)

[mithwenarataur]

@jaspenHALBONE Same here (only apparently a year later)!

[thesegirlshaveboobs]

@jaspenHALBONE Me, too. Me too.

[rikko338]

@jaspenHALBONE ...takes so long though, It's taken me a week and a half to get to this point. DFTBA!

[keerak]

No! Don't look into the camera, look at the road. No, stop it! This video made me reaaaally nervous.

[peoplecallmeagoth]

YAY YETI!

DFTBA!

[Combmatt]

And so this is when all Nerdfighters never forgot to be awesome

[Mathematician2]

Wow, I don't think John realized at the time how historic this video would become to Nerdfightaria and the brotherhood. THIS...is where DFTBA got introduced...AWESOME (btw, saying that DFTBA is awesome is slightly redundant)

=Math

[Painfoot]

Don't forget to be awesome!

[didavargas]

DFTBA!!!

[AnonymousFreakazoid]

DFTBA FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fadedgalaxia]

There's a fantastic outlet up in Fremont, Indiana, that has a socks store.

All it is is SOCKS.

It's called "Socks Galore".

And it is made of win.

DFTBA

[iLoveU130]

a peep in the shape of me, hahaha

[4windchimes]

FINALLY I get to learn what that means. DFTBA!

[L0VEx1901]

Haha, I know. I've been wondering that too.

[Fralmunk]

This whole time I was thinking "Don't crash don't crash don't crash don't crash" XD

DFTBA!

[FreneticEnergy]

ftr:

i concede that a single pirate would get pwned at a ninja convention. that's just the power of numbers.

but a single ninja would get equally pwned at a pirate convention. (in fact, a group of 10 ninjas would probably get equally pwned. pirates ftw. moving on.)

the only exception to this pattern i can come up with (up with which i can come? wow...) is: a single nerdfighter at a worldsuck convention. this nerdfighter would be too busy doing the pwning to be pwned even a little bit.

[senorsqueakydesk]

I can't imagine an entire store of beef jerky. I do enjoy beef jerky, but are there really enough kinds to fill a store?

[MUTEscifan31W]

And thus we have DFTBA.

[maggielovesdrwho]

ZOMG DFTBA!

WHAT?!

wow

[vampgirl95]

NINJAS

[sammygreen1]

This video made me extremely nervous!

[speede179]

DFTBA!!!

[Amiryfey]

a Peep in the form of John would be jokes

[HAMSTERk]

It's been done. :)

[DittoFreak]

Comment 191:

WATCH THE ROAD JOHN!!!

[roocarpal]

That's totally what I was thinking the whole video, I was like 'ROAD! ROAD WATCH THE ROAD!'

[KellyLynnx2x]

I miss the videos like these.

[equuslover22]

welcome to my pants! :D

[NpPro93]

so his friend Katie started the entire DFTBA thing?

[nerdra]

I am so scared for you and how much you are looking directly at the camera that I can hardly listen to what you are saying.

Which makes me sad. Because otherwise I totally would have laughed when you said "welcome to my pants."

It's a terrible day when a pants joke goes unlaughed-at, John. (Does it count as ending a sentence with a preposition when the preposition occurs as a component of a hyphenated, made-up phrase-word?) A terrible day.

[unoriginallywitty]

And hence the beginning of "DFTBA".

[unoriginallywitty]

I think it would be funny if there were peeps in the shape of the word "Nerdfighters".

[ThePsychoticRaccoon]

it would be even funnier if those same Peeps were accessorized with Nerds and Strawberry Hill-flavored.

[zrg48]

on the road again

[chiquitabanana]

apparently i'm allergic to welcome...

[dude33369]

lol

[Umeboshi18]

Garrison Keillor reference??!!! That just made my day! Well, that and the John-shaped peep.

[muggle394]

You guys should TOTALLY make a NerdFighter Outlet Mall!

you could call it The Mall of AWESOME!

-muggle394

[readingwench]

MY NICKNAME IS PINEAPPLE!!!!

speaking of peep, I found ghost peeps today! OMFG

[partyweetow]

Gah I live near Schaumburg! I could've seen you talk or whatever it is you did there! Sigh...

[astro491b]

PINEAPPLES are MADE OF AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

[MollyOmigosh]

You were Lemonette-ing it John! :D

[singingislife18]

this was shot on my birthday!

[charlottepoet]

i was totally in that part of illinois when this video was made!

[Jonnygasms]

I know that outlet mall!

[violentjelly]

have YOU seen psych??

pineapples = awesome

really

and u would prob find the show entertaining :)

[ciz4cooky]

AHAH! i was in this and i taught you how to pronounce pwn and to use it in a sentance! and u wrote pwn in my copy of looking for alaska

[neversaynatalie]

What if a police car pulled you over??

Awkward...

:]

[charosaurus]

DFTBA!!

[silverwing2332]

I was definitely on that same road yesterday, or at least I think it was, all the roads in indiana/illinois look the same. Lots and lots of trees and no hills, and a lot of roadkill (which is really gross).

Anyways, DFTBA, wow, I've always wondered when this started, and it started on my birthday, that is exciting!

[beagletaylor01]

The Cullens Can Drive And Vlog While Going 100 MPH

[LindseySubtlyInked]

They can drive and make a SANDWICH at 100 mph.

[beagletaylor01]

Alice Can Drive 100 MPH And Vlog And See The Future Annnnnnnnnnd Make A Sandwich

[AdamsKid93]

Oooooohhh! Alice cullen schools all!

[KellyLynnx2x]

ALICE CULLEN! I love her. :]

[aprlshwrs]

lol

[madelinegriffitt]

john you are now an honorary hoosier, go us!

[Elrich89]

The introduction of DFTBA was on...MY BIRTHDAY!! YES!!

[smurfala]

the introduction of DFTBA.

:D

[LatieKogan]

I see me!

:]

[markish17]

what about the obama mini-feud

[yeldah239]

i used to live in schaumburg illinois!

[bryanitous]

Woot Woot for Schaumburg

[AnonymousAce]

OMG, I just got triple de ja vous while watching this video.

[simplypda]

Whoa! I did not know a pineapple is international for welcome. There's one on my front door..

[harrypotterfan0]

tsk tsk. it worries me how much you looked at the camera. great vid, though!

[potterfreak0515]

Oh. My. God. GRARGH! I live 20 minutes away from Schaumburg! And I used to live there! And some of my friends live there! Why couldn't I have started watching this before last week???

[papplegrassbracelet]

we always eat jerky (meat-treats)on road trips - as if there is an outlet... nice!

[regularguy5mb]

Nalts makes this look so easy, but John just looked scared for his life.

Of course, that might have been the 72 miles per hour.

[AnotherGayVlogger]

That video made me extremely nervous... i was like

(0_o) - Dont Crash, Dont Crash, Dont Crash LOOK AT THE ROAD!

[theoriginaNickybitch]

"a peep in the shape of me"

"its like saying Welcome to my pants"

[smileychirk]

Have a feud over carbon emissions.

John is flying everywhere creating a personal carbon footprint the size of Alaska.

Meanwhile Hank is hell-bent on Eco-Geekery.

The two positions are irreconcilable.

[TINZAA]

HAHAHAHAHA

[CrossKnights]

Ninja pride world wide!

[kushya]

Huum... 2 de octubre no se olvida...!!!

[123whee]

BEEF JERKY OUTLET!! :D That's totally jokes.

[ducttapething34]

DFTBA!!! I LOVE IT!! NERDFIGHTERS DFTBA! Man we rock! YOU ROCK!

[ajs111550]

Indiana, where the road is long, the somn is somn....

A Prairie Home Companion reference?

[blindhurricane]

THAT IS FUCKING HILLARIOUS! you are the DEFINITION of funny!

seriously dude, this is fucking jokes:) you're awesome!

[andwerver]

Sorry, I have to vote 1 because this is really unsafe and dangerous to others, who you are putting at risk.

[Tamelean]

lmao keep it comin!

[pinkmage05]

Pirates totally kick ninja butt. And I am going to put 'DFTBA' everywhere!

[samd317]

LOL - Just visited your blog and had to pull my 9 year old son away as I believe he would watch every one consecutively! Y'all are a hoot!

[App1eScruffs9]

whoa i live near shaumburg!

[whitneyofgreatness]

i thought you two got in a bit of a political dispute once... maybe i'm wrong. God knows it wouldn't be the first time. lol.

DFTBA! that...is awseome! gosh im in such a good mood! i've missed out on BH2.0 for like 3 days and now im watching them all back to back!

and john a peep in the shape of you is such an awesome dream!

my project this weekend is to find a pinapple in the form if a patch and put