The so-called “queen of shitty robots” is on the mend. Simone Giertz, whose engineering and robotics videos have brought more than 1.1 million subscribers to her YouTube channel, shared a photo of her brand-new scar after undergoing successful surgery to remove a noncancerous tumor on her brain.
Giertz announced in late April that she would need surgery to remove the tumor, which had been sitting atop her right eye for months. In keeping with her sense of humor, she named her tumor Brian and slipped him an eviction notice via Twitter one week before her scheduled operation.
After posting a vlog in which she informed her viewers that she was going into surgery
, Giertz emerged safely hours later. She now has the above scar to show for her ordeal. It’s a wound that puts her in a rare club on YouTube; Charles Trippy, who once recording his own brain surgery amid a daily vlogging streak, noted his and Giertz’s “matching scars.”Giertz hasn’t yet said when she might return to her YouTube channel, but we hope to see her back in her shop soon with a new batch of shitty robots.
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