 As their popularity grew, so did coverage on Nerdfighteria, whose followers are individually known as Nerdfighters.The term was coined when John saw a copy of the arcade game "Aero Fighters" and misread the title as "Nerd Fighters".Hank Green describes it as "a community that sprung up around our videos, and basically we just get together and try to do awesome things and have a good time and fight against world suck".