Simone Giertz
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About
Simone Giertz is a Swedish inventor who gained much notoriety online for her YouTube channel highlighting various impractical robots, earning her the nickname "Queen of Shitty Robots."
Online History
In October 2012, Giertz launched the @SimoneGiertz[3] Twitter feed, which received more than 42,000 followers in the next four years. On May 12th, her personal site SimoneGiertz.com[5] was created. On September 15th, Giertz posted the first video to her YouTube channel, featuring her mechanized catapult invention (shown below).
On November 4th, 2015, Giertz posted a video titled "The Breakfast Machine," in which a robot arm spills Cheerios cereal and milk on a table before attempting to feed a spoonful to Giertz (shown below). Within six months, the video gained over 1.38 million views and 730 comments. That day, Giertz submitted the video to the /r/shittyrobots[1] subreddit, where it gathered upwards of 8,700 votes (95% upvoted) and 550 comments prior to being archived. The same day, it reached the front page of the /r/youtubehaiku subreddit.
On November 11th, Giertz posted a video showcasing an alarm clock that wakes people up by slapping them in the face (shown below, left). On December 16th, she uploaded a video titled "I built a chopping machine," featuring footage of a vegetable-chopping robot slicing carrots while she reads a newspaper (shown below, right). Within six months, the videos garnered more than 1.2 million and 373,000 views respectively.
On December 27th, a Facebook[4] page titled "Simone Giertz" was launched. On March 16th, 2016, Giertz posted footage of a robot slamming a mannequin's head on to a keyboard titled "I made a robot help me argue on the internet" (shown below, left). On May 6th, a video titled "I built a hair washing robot" was uploaded to her channel, featuring her new hair washing robot invention (shown below, right).
Reception
Several online news publications have reported on Giertz' work, including NPR,[7] BoingBoing,[8] The Inquistr,[9] Motherboard,[10] The Verge,[11] Lifehacker[12] and The Guardian.[13]
Brain Tumor Announcement
On April 30th, 2018, Giertz uploaded a video titled "I have a brain tumor," in which she revealed that a benign tumor had been discovered in her brain and that she would need to have the growth removed surgically at the end of May (shown below). Within 24 hours, the video was ranked third on YouTube trending and received more than 1.7 million views and 31,300 comments.
That day, the video reached the front page of the /r/videos, [14] /r/shittyrobots[15] and /r/3dprinting[16] subreddits. Meanwhile, a Moments page titled "YouTuber and robot-maker Simone Giertz needs brain surgery" was published on Twitter.[17]
Search Interest
External References
[1] Reddit – I tried programming a robot arm
[2] Reddit – The Breakfast Machine
[3] Twitter – @SimoneGiertz
[4] Facebook – Simone Giertz
[5] Simone Giertz – Simone Giertz
[6] Instagram – simonegiertz
[7] NPR – Need a Useless Robots?
[8] BoingBoing – The Amazing Shitty Robots of Simone Giertz
[9] Inquisitr – Simone Giertz the Patron Saint of Bad Robots
[10] Motherboard (Vice) – Simone Giertz
[11] The Verge – Robot Queen Simone Giertz
[12] Lifehacker – Im Simone Giertz
[13] The Guardian – Meet the queen of useless robots
[15] Reddit – /r/shittyrobots
[16] Reddit – /r/3dprinting
[17] Twitter – YouTuber and robot-maker Simone Giertz needs brain surgery
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