Simone Giertz

I can't.

There was... I mean, my TED Talk was so... Yeah, for one, once again, they cut out my best joke.

What was your best joke?

My best joke.

They didn't even ask me about it.

It was... So there's this whole lead up where I built a chopping machine.

So it's a machine that chops vegetables and has two giant knives.

And it goes... And it's kind of terrifying.

And I show...

a video of it and then it ends on this gif of it chopping up a banana and I'm kind of scrunching up my face being like, ugh, ugh.

And the whole reason I show that project is because I'm leading it up to the punchline of, oh, and as a bonus, this gif right here is the perfect response if anyone ever sends you dick pics you don't want.

And I was like, I have abandoned the hope of being shown in classrooms for years ago.

I say that I'm crude and wholesome because I can be very crude, but I also try really, really hard to be a good person.

And to like, I'll say shit and fucking all that stuff, which I don't even think is crude.

But yeah, but I really, really try to wield the power that I have in a thoughtful way.

So no, I wouldn't call me edgy because I'm not, I don't think it's edgy.

It's all like sex.

It's just a funny joke.

I mean, it's fine.

It's a decision that I made really early on where I was like, I think often people misinterpret what I'm doing as being for children, which I think is part because my projects were always really colorful and fun.