 Good morning John the project for awesome is happening one week from today. It's snuck up on us. Here it is surprise every year since 2007 we've done a charity livestream 48 hours long lots of guests many goofs And it's very fun and it is starting a week from now here on the vlogbrothers channel at youtube.com Vlogbrothers maybe you're thinking I know all this I know all about the project for awesome I don't need to watch this video. Please watch this video. We have changed things It's gonna be different this year than it ever has been and I want you to know about it first difference We are going to be using a new platform for our fundraising portion of the event. It's called tiltify It's designed explicitly for charity live streams because though like that's the world. We're in now This is exciting a huge portion of the money We raised during the project for awesome is people donate money and in exchange they get perks And that will all happen on tiltify now the tiltify will be open on Wednesday of next week You can start seeing all the perks that are available then though it won't be everything I wrote a short story for the project for awesomeness here called bonker doesn't die in which April May the main character from my Books goes to VidCon and it has to rescue a pig a celebrity internet pig because I can do that So head on over there next Wednesday It will be open during the entire project for awesome Of course these are all things that are only available during project for awesome and during some portions of the event your donations will be matched So you might give ten dollars for my tiktok drafts But it's gonna become thirty dollars for charity money raised during the first half of the project for awesome We'll go to save the children and partners in health two organizations that are very effective at Decreasing the overall amount of suck in the world during the second half of the project for awesome The money will go to organizations voted on by you Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself There are four ways you could participate in the project for awesome number one You can come and join our live stream tell people about it change your Twitter bio Make sure everybody knows and they come and they hang out and it's fun number two You could donate money you could do that at the tiltify Which will open on Wednesday and you'll get perks in exchange for your donation Or you can just donate money at fightworldsuck.org if you want to give a larger amount like you want to be part of our matching fund you can email us at FTWS at Complexly comm foundation to decrease world suck at complexly comm matching funds can only come in until 12 p.m Eastern time on February 10th So email us before then third you can make a video promoting a charity that you are excited about and believe in previously We opened submissions for those videos the day the project for awesome began We are not doing that anymore That was like a relic of the time when we were trying to game the YouTube algorithm Which hasn't been a thing for like ten years So to give our volunteer team time to go through the videos and decide which ones we might want to feature during the live stream We are getting those submitted early this year So make a video talking about the impact the organization has it has to be made specifically for the project for awesome And you can submit it at project for awesome comm you got tips for how to make great videos there We got graphics you can use but you have to submit them by noon eastern on February 10 So you got less than a week to do that but hey Every vlogbrothers video is made in less than a week and finally at project for awesome comm during the live Stream you'll be able to vote on your favorite charities to determine which ones are going to get part of the money We raised during the second half it is the most wonderful time of the year Thank you in advance for joining us whether you do one or none or all four of the things Thank you for being a part of this community. I'll see you during the live stream It's gonna be a very silly time starting out February 12th at noon eastern time John I'll see you on Tuesday, and I will also see you next Friday. I'm trying to dab I can't there's some invisible force that's preventing me from dabbing. Oh, well, that's probably just a joke. I can't do it