Touchscreen: Marshall "Soulful" Jones at TEDxMontreal

Marshall Jones makes us rethink our digital culture through an engaging slam poetry performance.
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[@daisy.0.0]

Watching this for school while doing remote learning 👀

[@harrison1032]

aren't we all

[@BrownMonke]

@@harrison1032 lol yeah

[@eadgarcia]

same here! oof

[@granted.2248]

pov: youre here from school

[@jimmyhsp]

sad but true

[@cianastuckey3383]

Frr 😂

[@THATCRAZYEYT]

true

[@mis_doll]

Yup...

[@lenguyenle4403]

Why do you know =))?

[@DTyloo]

POV your in English Class

[@paulwithda45]

YOO LMAOOO

[@king206gamer2]

Tf is this

[@mis_doll]

Yup...

[@boofoutdaroof]

@@king206gamer2 ong after my teacher played this i looked around straight crickets

[@gaminglegend8471]

Lmao

[@knjjah2776]

This has always been one of my favorite slam poems.

[@indybackx4882]

Pov : your English teacher sent you this link for school

[@LpsKorama]

English brought me here........thank you for coming to my ted talk

[@nothanniballecktor9633]

I liked the original version better. The changes you made to the performance weren't enhancing and robbed it of its emotion.

[@Godeiche]

I daresay it makes it even more eloquent and "virtually real."

[@starrynight3285]

Me too. I also don’t like the movements. Oh well. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@ratjamon]

Can anybody find any literary devices? Cuz i have homework on this and need one more

[@prestoncoley5760]

DimplesV2 yo sameeee

[@OasisZoz]

Yep

[@coulterminer]

POV: your missing this assignment and this the last assignment until your free for the weekend and you see *ROBO MAN*

[@aamirsohail1687]

This is very different to the original.

[@kyleethanmclaren9286]

I have to do an assignment on this?!

[@Cris-zi3mc]

Shut up

[@mimiloriya5436]

Yes it really is u.u but its good too

[@nicolesegovia9911]

i cant here mother nature over all this tweeting is just great

[@clockworkartist]

I love poets who use their body as a part of their poem

[@awesomedarkstalker4991]

Poem: Touchscreen
Ad: Car, built with an 12 inch touchscreen

[@speakeasynyc]

Congrats, excellent performance.

[@ttolalu]

This is different than the original, I noticed immediately.

[@aamirsohail1687]

Same

[@riverwoodruff5986]

same

[@jacobalexander1519]

Still good tho

[@Cris-zi3mc]

You like boys

[@summersummarized]

@@Cris-zi3mc i like boys

[@gianlucaseffinga1053]

i'm confused

[@Godeiche]

I felt bad clicking that thumbs up.

[@AjmalKareem1993]

Apple picks up always come costly :P

[@engiescout942]

He did not say Wakanda forever. 7/10

[@thememegoat8040]

ok boomer

[@biswassoumik1988]

Came here from the Chris Hadfield AMA

[@TheAmandakev]

Same. This guy gave me chills.

[@laynieavila2667]

Whaddup English class

[@muff1n.894]

how does he have his legs like that the entire poem

[@DAYMAKEFILM]

my man's out here on the ted talk makin computer noises

[@misterschizoguy]

Brah y’all in my English 2 rn watching this

[@t_zlayen3386]

We saw this in school i like this better

[@cellacecchi]

Positively AMAZING. Typing on my iMac. Click

[@sam6007]

Nobody:
Child Predetors: 0:16

[@orangutan12nine]

💀

[@303Concepts]

What an obvious truth to life (click)

[@KaiserAres]

My son sent me this. He watched it in English class today. This was hard.

[@hugues8653]

Stay modest Masharll. You act as if you had discovered a new vaccin :D

[@kriss7483]

put this in 2x speed thank me later

[@kingzombiepro6667]

Pov- in English class told this is important

[@prathnasok2199]

More than just 'awesome'!

[@joaoalvesbrk]

such an amazing performance.. top notch

[@zachvii6476]

I hate that people are seeing this in school, it’s making a genuinely brilliant poem, performance, and work of art which warrants discussion a hub of people who now look at it as some lame homework.

[@pinoybro09]

Then they go on to talk about holographic interactions on ted

[@multishock5285]

I just realized that wall-e is the perfect visualization of this poem

[@doriangeron]

Lol . Money Can Buy Love For $ 9.95 . Lmbo

[@josephmoore4640]

Ok boomer

[@insanenutman]

Uhh... That was awesome.

[@ThuthukaniNdlovu]

awesome

[@jocelynreynolds530]

This isn't the same. I saw him performing this and they didn't use the same words

[@marshallconley3239]

my name is marshall OMG
(nobody cares) i no right

[@Its_.br1]

Who’s here from ms lam?

[@blacktinyhole]

Slide the answers

[@ctrllvfxdesl1694]

Ong I’m in English

[@cendbe]

Who let bro cook?

[@RhymeUh]

this is so different i really feel like the original was way more touching

[@PhysicsPolice]

Luddism.

[@beladan]

Oh the delicious irony of 'like'ing this!

[@funguscreature4721]

The original is much better, I all the changes robbed it of it's originality and emotion.

[@chenchenlino]

Bars

[@legendkbj]

When he said we have no real friends..... I felt that😐

[@CynthiaPulver]

The saddest thing is to not know other than what you experience. The Millennial generation isn't under the social constraints as my generation was. When you connected with friends it was through verbal communication with eye contact and body language that's what being human is about.Through Facebook or MSG, I have contact with my daughter almost daily but I haven't spoken to her in almost a year. I called last week expecting her voicemail but she answered. Surprised, I called out her pet name. She started crying and I knew at the sound of my voice a flood of emotion overcame her. The power of my voice stirred emotions she wasn't aware she harbored.

[@emo_alien_5858]

And then everybody clapped

[@hornyaspid9756]

All the people went 👏

[@fazedudeyourhairisawesome126]

this is so true!!!

[@Xeria]

wow

[@chu4810]

no friends
there's an app for that!
no life
there's an app for that!
man i can relate to this so much

[@amarylisloreille9585]

I miss my childhood without mobile phones...

[@otakujayy7979]

I love this poem, it's my favorite one

[@miltonrosa9131]

POV ur Ik writing class

[@adriang5190]

POV: you go at the french school

[@draterdiputs]

it seems like there's less passion here than in the original, not saying he's tired of performing it but maybe thought he needed to switch up the raw presentation for Ted

[@unintelligible0546]

some of the tech terms he uses are not correct

[@thedangerkev]

Deep 🚬

[@gianlucaseffinga1053]

I really feel him

[@leonalton]

just woow......

[@juan-le3lj]

Sisi, cortame la clase.

[@Kangarooo5]

Yeah, original good.

[@HeatherWestcott]

Phenomenal linguist!

[@PamsGoingOnRightNow]

How many of us want to share this on facebook? :S

[@applesong01]

Pamela Zamora me😊

[@thememegoat8040]

ok boomer

[@sitomer95]

amazing, perfect combination of creativity ad intelligence

[@ivory1177]

omg i can't stop replaying this video

[@sentinelprime3511]

This left me feeling shocked

[@rayyy597]

YO

[@fk4689]

Love it!! Wonderful performance with a beautiful message. Thank you!

[@ZoharAri]

true

[@farjuice6339]

Nerd

[@sheracar]

Awesomeness!!! No other words but a huge smile on my face (after watching this about 10 times in an hour)

[@prefix1338]

Doing homework... (Russia, lol)

[@pattyjlovespda685]

YES!

[@doriangeron]

why might be love drugged !!!!!!!

[@ehryk]

ST. AGATHA NAMBAWAN

[@izaacandrews990]

Brilliant!

[@pennyvt8634]

I Think I Like This One More.

[@idonotreallygiveashit]

Bro, I just gotta say, just because we have tech and use it, doesn't mean it consumes us. You sir are sharing your personal expiriences about having little friends and writing poems about that. And yes, you are right, you DEFINITALLY have more friends online than in real life. look at the comments!

[@alexxi5046]

Did you forget the lines

[@shanteebennett5461]

Awesome👍

[@valeriek6078]

wtf is the main idea

[@isaiahpyatt1892]

Covid made what he was saying so much worse. Hopefully one day we’ll be human enough again to be able to put our phones down

[@crumble20]

Android fanboys clapping at 2:00 (disclaimer: I don't give a fuck about brands)