[bhouston]

My daughter, who is interested in science and engineering loved the shitty robot videos. It was a form of engineering comedy. I guess if she wasn't a women, creating shitty robots would be just funny and inventive way that she figured out how to make money. Comedians make people laugh using inventive and unexpected constructions, she was no different. A lot of comedians do things that are in one way or another demeaning to themselves or showing a lack of self-respect, but they do it because they actually incredibly confident in themselves that they can stand up and make those jokes.

How was her videos not that different than the stchick that is Mr Bean. Rowan Atkinson is definitely not an idiot in real life, but that stchick sure got him attention he wouldn't have gotten any other way, because it was unique and over the top and funny.

It is also fine for her to move on to other topics. No one is forced to stay in any specific role they have invented for themselves, no matter what fans think.

[throwaway-9320]

Would like to mention Mehdi (ElectroBOOM) here as he seems to match the description, but with electricity and physics: https://www.youtube.com/user/msadaghd

[taneq]

Seconded, this guy is great. He plays it well enough that it takes a little while of growing incredulity before you realise he’s doing it all on purpose.

[bhouston]

Yes, the guy that seems to regularly accidentally electrocute himself. He is hilarious.

[macspoofing]

>I guess if she wasn't a women, creating shitty robots would be just funny and inventive way that she figured out how to make money.

What do you mean? This is exactly how it played out for her as well. It was a funny, inventive way of creating entertaining sciency-videos.

I have no idea why she sees it any other way.

>It is also fine for her to move on to other topics.

Of course ... everyone evolves. But there was never any need to look down on the content she produced that got her a level of fame.

[cptskippy]

> A lot of comedians do things that are in one way or another demeaning to themselves or showing a lack of self-respect, but they do it because they actually incredibly confident in themselves that they can stand up and make those jokes.

Many struggle with anxiety and depression, and are self deprecating as a defense mechanism because the criticism of others is less harsh when you've already done it to yourself.

[sgc]

No doubt. Robin Williams, undoubtedly one of the great masters of our times, killed himself.

[uname_a]

I have to admit that I am surprised that neither the article nor any of the HN posters have mentioned Rube Goldberg, whose humorous cartoons involving improbable contraptions to solve everyday problems seems to me an obvious predecessor to Simone Giertz.

[morganw]

Rube Goldberg had a predecessor. The machine that came before Colossus at Bletchley was named Heath Robinson after him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Heath_Robinson