Simone Giertz

“I don't want to be brain tumor girl. I don't want this to be my thing.”

“As for making video comedy, pretty much anyone can do it. When I got started, I just filmed it with my webcam and used iMovie to edit the video, which I still use.”

“I built a lot of stuff as a kid. But I was not interested in tech, I thought it wasn't really for me.”

“Programming is a pretty tricky thing to start learning. You need to combine it with comedy to get a wider audience.”

“Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist.”

“I build a robot version of Jenna Marbles' dog, Kermit. It turned out a little bit worse than I had anticipated.”

“I live on an old tugboat but feel that having a submarine would be the next level.”

“Career wise, I'm looking into different opportunities to do a TV show, but in some way that's not a goal in itself. To me, the goal is creating content and doing fun stuff that I'm proud to show. I don't want to do a TV show for the sake of doing it.”

“Reddit is, it's like a tiger. It's great if it's your friend, but it can also eat you alive.”

“Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.”

“Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting, because it's like putting syrup in your medicine, and it just makes it easier to go down.”

“I wanted to see if I could make a living off of having fun.”

“To me, the goal of building useless and ridiculous robots is more - I mean, in some way, it's like a personal goal because I think it's really fun, and I think having fun is super important to create things.”

“Finding a better way is all I do.”

“I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.”