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Haunting, And Incredibly Powerful Anti-Bullying Poem: Shane Koyczan, ‘To This Day’ Live

Meet Shane Koyczan.

He’s the one who wrote the poem “To This Day” that was crowdsource-animated and then went super viral in 2013, reaching 10 million page views in a matter of weeks.

Here, he provides a little more background and then does a live version of the poem in front of a TED audience.

It’s one of the most moving TED Talks I’ve ever seen.

As TED notes on the video:

“By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it’s like to be young and … different.

“‘To This Day,’ his spoken-word poem about bullying, captivated millions as a viral video (created, crowd-source style, by 80 animators).

“Here, he gives a glorious, live reprise with backstory and violin accompaniment by Hannah Epperson.”

Shane writes of the poem on his website:

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