Actually Properly Analyzing "Inside" by Bo Burnham 

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I remember watching it on the discord a few months ago

You know I just watched the cursed images video from whang and was curious to check you out and this isn’t what i was expecting but I’m glad I watched it, never knowing much about him this was an interesting video makes me feel bad for him in a way but knowing he still has people who love him makes me feel a little happy for him

The subtitles are a tease. It's a shame you had to edit it so much.

you can absolutely be proud of it, was very moving and instructive to watch!

Ahit that's good analysis

Nailed it

I saw it more as a critique of capitalism which would tie into the rest of the special, it's got heavy anti-capitalist overtones throughout the entire thing. "Look at where you came from, look at you know" seems to be poking fun at Bezos because he grew up rich, so the "look at where you came from" part is ironic because it makes it sound like a rags to riches story. The other part where he makes it sound like a "competition" between bezos, gates, buffet, and zuckerberg, when in reality they're all on the same team, that seems to be more so him making fun of the billionaire worship.

@@ashsessions911 You're seeing politics where there are none… The special is about himself, not the system.

@@louisrobitaille5810 Yeah, it's just all the time he spends talking about the system and politics in general is clearly for nothing. Media literacy is dead holy shit lol

Funny you should mention this. My horror movie podcast did an episode on Inside when our release day fell in April Fool’s. Seemed fitting and we really got into the horror aspect.

I agree. He made a "comedy special" that doubles perfectly as a true *psychological* horror

Same that’s why I had to stop watching it because it was scaring me

I first watched this special after smoking weed for the very first time and I have never felt such existential pain

I’m only 7 weeks older than Bo Burnham. I was not someone who paid attention to his work prior to this special. I watched this one during the pandemic (like most people) and it felt so personal. “30,” “Comedy,” “Problematic,” and more feel like someone sharing my internal feelings. “Facetime with my Mom” made my partner at the time cry. Watching this video and learning more of the backstory of Bo, the room, etc makes me feel even more connected to it. This special helped me process my feelings and grief around what was going on in the world and how ironically isolated I felt. Going through a quarter life crisis during a pandemic in such a broken world. It felt weirdly comforting to see how even someone like him, who does have worldly comforts, was also overwhelmed by things. It helped me feel like I was connected to the world again in a new way.

Like when he saw Phoebe Bridget's covering That Funny Feeling.

I appreciate the kind words

Why is there only one reply? This comment is amazing, I’m adding another.

yes (the infinite reaction video is, in part, about this) - but he clearly is talking about personal experience (no way could such a perfect and profound understanding of those emotional and intellectual states come from anything other than personal experience) and we can never know quite where reality ends and dramatisation begins - I suspect he doesn't even really know that himself.

I've also felt like this since it came out. There's quite a few people I've seen describe it as existential horror or say it made them feel a lot of dread, but I was in a horrible place when it came out and it gave me so much comfort. I still watch it when I'm not doing well too.

Same here, actually just found out about this special and saw it last week, and I can't get enough of it, it actually helped me a lot to figure out myself and my feelings - this is a timeless masterpiece.

i like this, I feel like the ending could be interpeted in so many different ways, but this one is the one fits best imo

I agree with the spotlight part, tho I think that him smiling at the end it's basically going back to Bo's perfectionist and controlling persona, basically the director of the special, not the actor, and he gives a last smile of approval in order for it be released

​@@ruzco4873 i agree this is what i thought!

Thank you

agree. i always saw it like that, because in a moment of the special he is watching his old youtube videos angry and with disgust in a very similar shot. so him smiling at the end while seeing his latest work its him showing that he is satisfied with INSIDE as a work of art

same, and I haven't even seen Inside

@@neanda please do you wont regret it

Thank you.

Yeah, I have to agree. This special was so emotionally visceral that it left an indelible mark on me. My mind has always resonated with the more brooding and macabre feelings of existence, but Bo putting all of his trials into words in Inside validates a lot of those feelings.

Don't be scared*

I see a lot of climate change anxiety in the special also - and for me this is the side of activism where you physically run out of care to give. Climate change is such an enormous, unfaceable issue that pessimism easily creeps in because optimism is too hard to keep when the individual is so powerless - I think he literally means the ocean is rising and he no longer has the capacity to care. Continued in funny feeling where the “20,000 years of this, 7 more to go” talks about the age of man and the 2027 climate deadline

@@estermay4894 that’s exactly it - certainly there’s some more deeper analysis that’s valid, but at its core he’s coming to terms with what the new reality is going to be… ironically enough, I think that any conclusion of this special other than this “existential crisis” as someone else explored kind of proves his points

I feel like you're ignoring the literal meaning.

@estermay4894 That Funny Feeling is a potent mix of climate grief and Capitalist Realism.

"it was so sad and a bit reminiscent of how I viewed everything that was happening in the world when it came out that it just made me deeply uncomfortable and sad." Yup, cause it is. I've returned to this special in the last 6 months or so after finally watching 8th Grade & have new appreciation for it, like you. But I'm replying to add that the newfound appreciation doesn't overwrite the original uncomfortable and sadness from watching when it came out -- it builds on it -- I think without those original emotions upfront, the artistic "script" falls a bit flat, because we're not returning to admire something we previously wanted to run away from feeling. It used to induce anxiety & now I put on tracks and anxiety is alleviated.

now* returning

I mean the song is about the strange praise that people have for those we see as successful due to the flawed conception that success is directly correlated to competence and that people vicariously live through these people that dont care about them, but it isnt super relevant to the special in terms of plot analysis

@@TheCursedJudge Not saying you're wrong, just that it's really funny

@@TheCursedJudge I interpret it more as like a funny/random thought in Bo's head. ''A funny feeling'', one might add.

I don’t think it was pointless. I think he is pointing out the whole idea that Amazon has taken over the world and that since the pandemic lockdown, Amazon became the only way people shopped for anything.

​@@TheCursedJudgeIt's been a while since I've seen the special....but I interpreted the Jeff Bezos song as...a catchy tune dedicated to the company we all have a love/hate relationship with...that being Amazon. (And everything Amazon consists of....like Twitch streaming, Prime Video, Amazon the online store where you can have an item on your doorstep in a few hours depending on where you live. Which all were used heavily during the pandemic, and played a big part of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. "where did everyone go to when they needed something during the pandemic?"...Amazon. Who got exponentially more wealthier due to the pandemic?....Jefferey Bezos. Along with all the drop shipper's who were using Amazon to sell their scalping priced Webcams/Video Cards/Gaming Consoles and selling them on Amazon for absurd prices since they knew people and large companies would pay for them ...as they had to get all of their employees setup at home for remote work and Zoom meetings. It was a weird weird time, where we got way too comfortable....being uncomfortable.

It’s weird cuz I think everyone can understand the idea of feeling like nothing makes sense

I'm here, this was amazing, and I don't know either of these people. The algo's seem to be widening their recommendations

The algorithm shouldn't exist in the 1st place. If you don't want to see something and willing to look, you shouldn't see it. Relisten to Welcome to the Internet.

Thank you

awesome, samir

Samir so cool 🏅

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Not exactly, the unnecessary praise of billionaires ties into the whole theme of attempting to improve

@@sillyguy_5559I'm just quoting ​the text that flashes across the screen, since it's gone too fast for people to read. Not offering an opinion of any sort

Aleks you used too be pretty prominent in the discord no?

Still am