ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ze Frank - Humorist, web artist
Ze Frank rose to fame on a viral video -- in 2001! He has been making online comedy, web toys and massively shared experiences (like the addictive Young Me Now Me) ever since.

Why you should listen

Ever since his "How to Dance Properly" viral video -- born as a party invite for 17 friends -- hit the Web in 2001, Ze Frank has been making people giggle, guffaw and gasp out loud whilst procrastinating at work. He defines, in many ways, the genre of online comedy, and continues to innovate madly on the form. 

In 2006 he launched a year-long daily video blog called The Show with Ze Frank, which Slate.com called "the best sustained comedy run in the history of the Web." His rapid-fire delivery and absurd explorations in audience participation (like Earth Sandwich) has influenced a generation of digital native YouTubers. Perhap his most brilliant move: calling on fans to write the show for him. Using collaborative tools, online viewers collectively put words in his mouth (and props in his lap); he faithfully performed this wiki-comedy each week for his "Fabuloso Friday" show.

In 2008, along with Erik Kastner, Frank launched Colowars, the first massively multiplayer game on Twitter, which featured two months of sponsored online events and competitions. Recently he has worked with his audience to create a series of projects based on shared emotions such as pain, fear and the pang of nostalgia. Frank works as a consultant to range of industries on audience engagement and is a public speaker on the subject of the virtual life.

In 2012 he returned to the internet airwaves with "A Show." About which a MetaFilter commenter wrote:

If this were a cult, I would join.

If this were a religion, I would attend services.

If this were a band, I would not torrent the albums, but buy them, full price, from a local independent record store.

If this were a telethon, I would buy multiple tote bags.

Welcome back, Ze.

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TED2014

Ze Frank: Are you human?

Ze Frank: Você é humano?

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Você já se perguntou: será que sou um ser humano? Ze Frank sugere uma sequência de perguntas simples que podem determinar isso. Por favor, relaxe e siga as instruções. Vamos começar...
- Humorist, web artist
Ze Frank rose to fame on a viral video -- in 2001! He has been making online comedy, web toys and massively shared experiences (like the addictive Young Me Now Me) ever since. Full bio

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(Music) This is the human test,
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(Música) Este é o teste humano,
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a test to see if you are a human.
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um teste para ver se você é humano.
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Please raise your hand if something applies to you.
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Por favor, levante a mão
se algo se aplicar a você.
00:23
Are we agreed? Yes?
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Estamos de acordo? Sim?
00:27
Then let's begin.
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Então vamos começar.
00:29
Have you ever eaten a booger
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Você já comeu meleca de nariz
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long past your childhood?
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quando já não era mais criança?
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(Laughter)
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(Risos)
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It's okay, it's safe here.
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Está tudo bem, é seguro aqui.
00:40
Have you ever made a small, weird sound
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Você já fez um barulhinho estranho
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when you remembered something embarrassing?
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quando se lembrou de algo constrangedor?
00:49
Have you ever purposely lowercased
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Você já deixou a primeira
letra de um texto
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the first letter of a text
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minúscula de propósito
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in order to come across as sad or disappointed?
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para parecer triste ou decepcionado?
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(Laughter)
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(Risos)
00:59
Okay.
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Ok.
01:02
Have you ever ended a text with a period
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Você já terminou um texto
com um ponto final
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as a sign of aggression? Okay. Period.
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como sinal de agressão? Ok. Ponto.
01:11
Have you ever laughed or smiled
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Você já deu risada ou sorriu
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when someone said something shitty to you
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quando alguém lhe disse alguma merda
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and then spent the rest of the day
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e então passou o resto do dia
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wondering why you reacted that way?
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se perguntando por que
reagiu daquele jeito?
01:22
Yes.
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Sim.
01:24
Have you ever seemed to lose your airplane ticket
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Você já achou ter perdido
sua passagem de avião
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a thousand times as you walked
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milhares de vezes no caminho
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from the check-in to the gate?
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entre o check-in e o portão de embarque?
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Yes.
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Sim.
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Have you ever put on a pair of pants
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Você já vestiu uma calça
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and then much later realized that there was
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e muito depois percebeu que havia
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a loose sock smushed up against your thigh?
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uma meia presa junto à sua coxa?
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(Laughter)
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(Risos)
01:43
Good.
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Certo.
01:46
Have you ever tried to guess
someone else's password
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Você já tentou adivinhar
a senha de uma pessoa
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so many times that it locked their account?
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tantas vezes que a conta
dela foi bloqueada?
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Mmm.
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Hm.
01:54
Have you ever had a nagging feeling that one day
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Você já teve aquele sentimento incômodo
de que um dia vão revelá-lo
como uma fraude?
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you will be discovered as a fraud?
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02:02
Yes, it's safe here.
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Isso, aqui é seguro.
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Have you ever hoped that there was some ability
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Você já desejou
que houvesse uma habilidade
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you hadn't discovered yet
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que você ainda não descobriu
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that you were just naturally great at?
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em que você fosse muito bom naturalmente?
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Mmm.
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Hm.
02:15
Have you ever broken something in real life,
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Você já quebrou algo na vida real,
02:18
and then found yourself looking
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e se viu procurando
02:20
for an "undo" button in real life?
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por um botão 'desfazer' na vida real?
02:25
Have you ever misplaced your TED badge
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Você já perdeu seu crachá do TED
02:27
and then immediately started imagining
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e imediatamente começou a imaginar
02:29
what a three-day Vancouver
vacation might look like?
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como seriam três dias
de férias em Vancouver?
02:35
Have you ever marveled
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Você já achou estranho
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at how someone you thought was so ordinary
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como alguém que você pensava
que fosse tão comum
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could suddenly become so beautiful?
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poderia se tornar tão belo de repente?
02:45
Have you ever stared at your phone
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Você já ficou olhando seu telefone
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smiling like an idiot while texting with someone?
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sorrindo como um idiota enquanto
mandava mensagem para alguém?
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Have you ever subsequently texted that person
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Você já mandou para essa pessoa em seguida
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the phrase "I'm staring at the phone
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a mensagem "Estou olhando o telefone
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smiling like an idiot"?
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e sorrindo como um idiota"?
03:01
Have you ever been tempted to,
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Você já se sentiu tentado,
03:03
and then gave in to the temptation,
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e se rendeu à tentação,
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of looking through someone else's phone?
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de bisbilhotar o telefone de alguém?
03:09
Have you ever had a conversation with yourself
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Você já teve uma conversa consigo mesmo
03:11
and then suddenly realized
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e de repente percebeu
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you're a real asshole to yourself?
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que você é um babaca consigo mesmo?
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(Laughter)
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(Risos)
03:19
Has your phone ever run out of battery
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Seu telefone já ficou sem bateria
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in the middle of an argument,
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no meio de uma discussão,
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and it sort of felt like the phone
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e meio que pareceu que o telefone
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was breaking up with both of you?
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estava terminando com vocês dois?
03:30
Have you ever thought
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Você já pensou
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that working on an issue between you was futile
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que discutir uma questão
entre vocês era fútil
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because it should just be easier than this,
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porque deveria ser mais fácil que isso,
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or this is supposed to happen just naturally?
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ou deveria acontecer naturalmente?
03:42
Have you ever realized that very little, in the long run,
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Você já percebeu que pouca coisa,
a longo prazo,
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just happens naturally?
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acontece naturalmente?
03:48
Have you ever woken up blissfully
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Você já acordou alegre
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and suddenly been flooded
by the awful remembrance
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e de repente foi inundado
pela terrível lembrança
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that someone had left you?
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de que alguém tinha te deixado?
03:57
Have you ever lost the ability to imagine a future
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Você já perdeu a capacidade
de imaginar um futuro
04:00
without a person
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sem uma pessoa
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that no longer was in your life?
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que não estava mais na sua vida?
04:06
Have you ever looked back on that event
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Alguma vez já relembrou aquele evento
04:08
with the sad smile of autumn
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com um sorriso triste de outono
04:10
and the realization that futures will happen
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e a compreensão de que o futuro chegará
04:13
regardless?
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apesar de tudo?
04:17
Congratulations.
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Parabéns.
04:19
You have now completed the test.
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Você acabou de completar o teste.
04:21
You are all human.
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Vocês são todos humanos.
04:24
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
Translated by Gustavo Rocha
Reviewed by Adeline Daniele

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ze Frank - Humorist, web artist
Ze Frank rose to fame on a viral video -- in 2001! He has been making online comedy, web toys and massively shared experiences (like the addictive Young Me Now Me) ever since.

Why you should listen

Ever since his "How to Dance Properly" viral video -- born as a party invite for 17 friends -- hit the Web in 2001, Ze Frank has been making people giggle, guffaw and gasp out loud whilst procrastinating at work. He defines, in many ways, the genre of online comedy, and continues to innovate madly on the form. 

In 2006 he launched a year-long daily video blog called The Show with Ze Frank, which Slate.com called "the best sustained comedy run in the history of the Web." His rapid-fire delivery and absurd explorations in audience participation (like Earth Sandwich) has influenced a generation of digital native YouTubers. Perhap his most brilliant move: calling on fans to write the show for him. Using collaborative tools, online viewers collectively put words in his mouth (and props in his lap); he faithfully performed this wiki-comedy each week for his "Fabuloso Friday" show.

In 2008, along with Erik Kastner, Frank launched Colowars, the first massively multiplayer game on Twitter, which featured two months of sponsored online events and competitions. Recently he has worked with his audience to create a series of projects based on shared emotions such as pain, fear and the pang of nostalgia. Frank works as a consultant to range of industries on audience engagement and is a public speaker on the subject of the virtual life.

In 2012 he returned to the internet airwaves with "A Show." About which a MetaFilter commenter wrote:

If this were a cult, I would join.

If this were a religion, I would attend services.

If this were a band, I would not torrent the albums, but buy them, full price, from a local independent record store.

If this were a telethon, I would buy multiple tote bags.

Welcome back, Ze.

More profile about the speaker
Ze Frank | Speaker | TED.com

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