Bo Burnham Tried To Warn Us 

Personally I feel like there's a saturation point where you could use your art money to buy some therapy and a cool gaming setup.

@@ctdaniels7049 would be genuinely surprised if Bo hasn’t gone to therapy. It’s just therapy is hardly guaranteed to work.

Modern Shakespeare

I feel that line, but the full on screaming into the mic during that last song hits me way harder

@@tropicturtle9021 I don't think it's that therapy is hardly guaranteed to work because it absolutely does. The thing about therapy is the problems people go to therapy to help with eventually are removed from that person's life or is augmented in a more manageable way. Your parents are fight? Hold on you'll be moving out in a few years then you won't have to be in the middle of it. Your dog just died? Relax, breathe, it's okay to not be okay. Express yourself to your support system whenever you feel like you need it. Ect. Therapists give skills to people who need to learn how to either cope, or hold on. However, when you are constantly faced with a problem that you cannot avoid and there is no way to augment how you interact with that problem then therapy is much less likely to work. I.e Bo's struggle with fame that he himself exemplifies. If fame is the issue, it in itself cannot be avoided if you are to continue to have it. You are either famous or you are not. Deal with it. And he's tried, but he has to maintain some sort of notoriety if 1) he continues to essentially preach to people about the shortcomings of fame and 2) indulge in the things that make him happy. He loves music, writing, comedy. If he gave those things up sure he'd deal with the fame issue but lose what makes life worth living. It's a double edge sword that therapy can't fix.

Yeah, as an autistic person that metaphor goes hard af

Agreed. IDK why this is a real thing!

While poignant, not a metaphor.

@@TheDavveponken oxford languages definition of metaphor: "a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable." so yeah, it's a metaphor.

@@sirenaisle not even with the definition at hand are you grasping the concept: a metaphor is the following: the girl was a rose, socializing is like theater, etc. It is ascribing one thing with properties that of another. It is subtle. It may sound like a metaphor but it isn't. He is LITERALLY describing a feeling/situation/a memory. A metaphor is not a literal description. It is description by analogy, by metaphor. Again, a simplervexample, "a mighty fortress is our god"

He intentionally avoids any online chatter that might involve him. He popped up on his reddit fan page after people questioned his mental health, and told everyone he was good, not to worry, and that while he knew those pages existed he made it clear he would not be back and had no desire to because he thought it would be unhealthy.

@@AllenSmithe After Make Happy I was so worried about him, and then when he made the comment about shooting himself in Inside I became genuinely concerned I would wake up one day to read another genius talent was gone. Hopefully his comment about being good mental health wise was real/true and long lasting.

Hoping Bo sees a successful video with tons of views and comments all adoring him is kind of missing the entire point of the video.

@@CAMELOT331 lol you seem to be missing it. They're saying he needs to seek therapy, bud.

@@drockopotamus1 thats... not at all what they're saying.

He's an artist

@@sarahwozniak5638he’s a great artist while art is dead

That's why we're called fools. Doesn't stop the drive though. It's literally just the way the world works.

beautiful

💯💯 for those who are empaths as I believe you may be as well, you could kind of see it from the first time you watch him.. but you came to laugh and he does that so well, hard not to enjoy it when he is so good at it.. but at the end of each set, (and during in many cases ) you feel a certain way.

Talk about THE CROW cawcawing the carved raven "block"! The raven mannequin retaliates by sayin' through permanently parted, sawed sanded completely smooth smooth-talking squawkbox, "I may be the one carved from a log, then permanently adhered atop another different log...but, of the two of us, my fellow actually-feathered friend, you're definitely a toothpick, or two short of a whole haystack; also, I'm unable to move, and -- inevitably -- I bein' the one bound (to the ground) to be destined to gettin' pooped on by the foulest of fowl "Friendly Fire," here, in Lincoln Park, between both of us again you're definitely the one with poop and pulp for some shitty brains, there, Peckerwood..." Lmao!

Every parent should have this mantra in their kit

I Always Loved preforming, or well more activities that got preformed, but I never once wanted to get famous with IT cause the Idea terrified me!!! There IS such a big difference between the Attention in the Moment you consent to IT, while you Play a role and IT IS about the craft and getting IT without your consent from some Stranger, that intrudes on you, feels entitled to you . . . .getting recognised on the streets IS my nightmare. I really want to publish, but only in a way that absolutely garanties Instay annonym

@@arianewinter4266I'm a performer and an artist, I have even streamed large portions of my life online for 20 years, but I still don't want to be famous in the way that makes it so I can't have a life. I've never tried to get attention that way because I'm sure it's a nightmare.

I'm soo conflicted on that particular line. While there's a TON of weight behind it, I also think that some of us have things we need to say. For instance myself, I've become a vocalist and taught myself how to do metal vocals SPECIFICALLY after being diagnosed with PTSD, because I've made the decision I refuse to let my abusers that caused the PTSD to have the last word. That I myself have things that I want/need to scream into a microphone at anyone willing to listen, partially for self therapy, but also as a warning to others, not unlike many of Bo's more serious topics. I don't want fame and money - I'm a minimalist who is content with little, in fact if money was to ever become a thing I had access to, I'd likely just get myself some land to make my own log cabin on with a studio, build a permaculture forest, and anything above and beyond that would probably go to charity. I'm not in music for the fame, I'm in it for the message and the soul healing.

Wordsmith

Right. I was just trying to explain to my daughter, who doesn't understand what Bo does, what he did and poet honestly dint even cross my mind.

Comedy is his medium, but his means is poetry. He finds every possible way to meaningfully present his message, and all of it masquerades as being funny because it makes the message digestible.

​@@crystallakedoodexactly

I feel like calling him an artist is a pretty good descriptor - because, yes, he is a wordsmith and a poet, but he is also a comedian, a songwriter/composer, a film director, and a videographer

bo will fade into irrelevancy in 20-30 years

​@@Jeff_Biden why do you think so?

@@lucyandecember2843 do you think someone who the general population hasnt heard of before, and who generally hasnt impacted much, will be remembered as an example of an era?

@@lucyandecember2843because he is widely unknown to MANY regions of the world. The only group he reaches is people on RU-vid willing to listen to edgy english songs.

I hope it makes it that far. Seems like he's struggling. But if he does personally I think his projects will only grow in scope. Inside had much more of an impact than people might think. Especially during Covid. I don't know anyone that didn't see it.

You describe him like seeing a rare pokemon xD

@@kingwalz it kinda is like that tho 🤣

The guy obviously thinks about the larger ramifications of what it means to seek fame. How empty, and sad it is. Bo seems to have taken his anxiety very seriously. Instead of weaponizing it he stepped away. He doesn't go out and seek fame anymore. He just creates, with complete honesty and sincerity. His works ceased to be comedy a long time ago. He obviously wants to see and approach life with more respect and value than he was before. He is of course a creative person, and unfortunately when you want to make money, and live within the capitalistic confines of our modern day society - you have to grapple with your own contribution to that hell. That one interview where he talked about "conquering land" seems to me as though he was beginning to understand how imperialism, capitalism, and colonialism have ravaged the earth... and now peoples brains are next. He hates that he was ever a part of the genesis of that... and it shows. I know he gets a lot of shit for being a "privileged but pained artist" trope... but he honestly does seem to grapple with his own contributions to the problem. The Way the World Works really highlights this in a multitude of ways - lampooning him being a privileged rich white guy who's words honestly give little to the actual victims of the system. I think he knows that more than anyone can tell him. People are weird, and if anyone wants you to not have a para-social relationship with them... it's Bo.

That's very considerate that you waited for him to finish his alone moment

the openening song where he says "i can't wrap my mind around exactly why I'm here. I should be funny, I know you paid money- other than that- don't know why I'm here. To make you laugh right? that's only half right. Look at the world, I don't know why I'm here, none of this laughter can feed starving Africans. I just hope I don't get more from this than you do." also makes triggers my emotions. Something about the way he flutters when he says "that's only half right"

Same

That bar resonated so hard with me when I first heard it that I routinely go back and listen to that song.

It’s hauntingly beautiful

My jaw literally fell open when he dropped that line.

I felt somewhat guilty for laughing all these years after hearing him say that. He's such a great human and artist.

i always think of that ending. its beautiful

I've watched Make Happy more times than I can count, and the end never fails to make me burst into tears.

It was a line in the song for me that lead to why his "I hope you're happy" stung so much. He set it up by telling the audience to "Come and watch the skinny kid with the steadily declining mental health. And laugh as he attempts to give you what he cannot give himself". That shit left me shattered.

Yo. Vibes dawg.

Right, as in he should get fixed lol

@@drockopotamus1 And what exactly IS fixed? Would it mean the same thing to you; to me; to him? I hope he finds the peace he deserves. Happiness isn't possible for everyone, but maybe peace can be.

What's the message he's trying to convey?

​@@mandrewraethmocking the hand that feeds? That's how I live life.

@@handsomezack2054 That's really vague. You know he's a millionaire, right?

​I feel he's telling us about Corporate greed and human disconnect. Mostly he seems to express his own discontent with this. He deals with the falsehood of 'mainsteam' similar to how Jim Carrey does. ​@@mandrewraeth

@@mandrewraethwell there are several but one of them i feel is that we as a society are plagued by our own hubris and inaction and for a lot of people their lives are an elaborate performance that we're almost too scared to show the full truth, like in the video with the "making eye contact with sun glasses" analogy its a level of vulnerability that feels almost sickening to even consider showing, and we always feel this need to have some sort of veil over it to make it easier to digest, whether that be the internet or an elaborate act on a set to portray some kind of persona that hides the full truth does rhat make any sense? im tryin my best to explain this in words that make sense LMFAO

It doesn't sometimes cripple him, the point is he's permanently unescapably crippled by it

@@VanK782 I’d argue he always feels it, but it’s not always crippling. Otherwise he wouldn’t ever move forward

I do really feel frustrated with him sometimes, in the sense that he is so helplessly in need of peoples attention (as he has implied several times in his own art) that he's ready to continually defile his entire life to make another comedy special, and reluctanctly do it all over again next time, pretty parallel to the endless scroll/social media he often complains about. Bo Burnham has a problem. He can forever investigate, analyze, and make jokes about this problem, yet he never bothers to solve it for himself.

@@Forcoy im sorry but what ? Have you ever in your life looked into a mirror and thought to yourself that there are so few people out there who you could talk to the way you would want to talk ? That there is a bigger chance at you losing people once you open up to them simply cause the way you are drives people away from you the deeper you go but for some reason you are like a people magnet as long as they know you on the surface ? Have you ever made a subtle hint and felt the joy of someone acknowledging the hidden gem only to be met with the sad reality that it really was just this one gem that you shared and thats it ? Thought to yourself what kind of narcissitic personality you got while also throwing yourself away at a heartbeat to the point you feel ripped apart ? The apathy in your general life with the insane spikes of emotions in certain moments like your brain cant just hold it back and it shoots through it like a lightning jolt ? Your comparison to the endless scroll and social media is pretty hitting but while the scroll on social media is just a shortterm "im looking for something entertaining" his scroll feels more like a reason to find something thats worth it. I dont know why but most songs of him sound more like an agressiv way of a discussion in which you point your facts and just wait for your opponent to counter. There are some things you cant solve for yourself since your point of view went so far to one end that without anyone actually convincing you on the field that you are standing on that you are not seeing the whole picture you end up stuck. Like that one guy who went to members of the KKK and befriended them only for them to realize that being racist and generalizing isnt the answer. Also imagine asking someone who has a question and is reading books over and over again why he gets frustrated with every book he reads where he cant find the answer and why he keeps reading.

​@Forcoy The human condition cannot be solved

So true

classroom clowns are usually more unlikeable than bo burnham. Not even for the super studious "smart" people in school.

you missed a important komma

I might need aome help to understanf this.

@@katedayton3746funny when you see him, (but) struggling with unfathomable problems when no one’s around (I think)

yeah, it's in his style

This is literally what Mitch Hedberg was doing on stage. On a side note, I hope Bo never gets into drugs.

@@ilvanezzo Fun fact: my depression was exacerbated by anti-drug culture. I didn't stop getting worse and start getting better until I gave up trying to saddle the burden on my own and accepted medication into my life. Drugs can be bad, but they aren't always bad, mkay?

@@TheReaverOfDarkness Fun fact: Mitch Hedberg didn't die from taking a bunch of Tylenol. He died from mixing cocaine and heroin (among other things). So STFU ok?

@@TheReaverOfDarknessWhen they said drugs, they mean the shit that kills you, not advil or whatever you guys are supposed to take

two sides of life. he was always the same person, just needed to go through the journey.

I think that’s called growing up

it all aged perfectly well if youre not a puss, ya know? people get upset at the mildest stuff.

It's life

He pretty much explains this in Problematic

Bill Hader has also spoken about how he regularly had panic attacks while doing SNL. It's mind boggling that he and Bo and I'm sure untold other performers can get through that and still continue a performance.

Bill Burr rarely has L takes.

Boll Burrnham

Especially since Bill Burr will absolutely trash the hell out of something or someone if he thinks it's/they're bad. If Bill Burr is impressed and thinks you're great then you're probably amazing.

I hope when Bo is Burrs age, 50s, he will be able to still be putting out these messages.

Both Boston boys :)

You can also 100% see that only some of them really get it. It's in their eyes.

You ever notice on that episode he says "no one wants a twenty something year old kid telling them how the world works. And then on Inside right after he turns 30 he plays" This Is How The World Works".

That Green Room episode is incredible. The dynamic with the older jaded comics before he played that song was great. Then after he played the song they understood how talented he is. Also Gary Shandling was so awsm on that episode. Love that guy.

The only way I listen to Art is Dead is by listening to it twice - first the studio version, then the Green Room version. It’s just perfection

@@justinbrooke3511 And he also made a joke about it at the end of "Lower Your Expectations".

It definitely is and it's why he's so popular. I will say it does start to veer into teenager who thinks they're deep territory, but he's not wrong. The whole "corporations are colonizing your mind, man!" stuff is a little cringe but there is certainly some truth to it as well. It's just not as deep as he seemingly thinks it is, honestly. Super talented and funny guy though.

@@SpartanArmy117 alternatively, it's deeper than *you* think it is and the brilliant artist has his finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist

He doesn't pretend it's deep... it's just truth. ​@@SpartanArmy117

@@ringehdingehdurgen Haha yeah that's probably it. It's just so deep I couldn't fathom it.

@@SpartanArmy117 Yeah I have to disagree with you. I do think it's as deep as he says it is but it's easy to ignore and most people will as we always do.

I was young, I didn't realize there was any deep meaning to his songs. Guess it's too late now

@@jackalexande it’s never too late.

@@jackalexande Nothing is ever too late. Social media addiction can be broken.

Bo's warning is his "Sound of Silence"

Its funny cause people view me as weirdo cause i dont have ig or fb or any other social media except youtube So i get secluded by that as well

Over 200k now :) FANTASTIC video man really hope you see more success!

I hope they ban AI created videos from YT. That or heavily watermark/filter them.

​@@petercruz1993i get so upset when I see a title I like and it turns out to be a robot with a million views. Take me back to like 2009.

are you kidding me akhzjsh this video sounds like it was written by chatgpt

This truly is fantastic work. Video essays are utter garbage, and this one is a masterpiece in a sea of schlock

Yup its ruining lifes

yeah the network society is... wait, I'm not supposed to say this. social media bad!!!!

I got off several years ago. Still have it for messages with old friends / family. But I don't "use" it. I remember growing up and getting nervous all the time hoping for likes and attention, I really hated that feeling. Been a lot better since then.

and here you are posting comments to people who dont care about you. i think you failed@@thanksyoutubefortakingmyhandle

I recognize the point you are making here but I'd like to take this opportunity to mention that 12 step programs like AA are statistically ineffective, discourage things like reporting abuse and harassment, and their entire premise is pretty much "pray the pain away." It's incredibly toxic. Having that said you're right on the money.

Yeah whenever I want to show Inside to someone, I’m like “ok just 3-4 quick hours of his other stuff first” lol

I personally think "Inside" is to us what, "Pink Floyd - The Wall" was to our parents.

@@phenel wow very good insight and comparison, totally agree

Oddly that’s what makes me not want to watch it. I don’t want one of my favorite comics to stop making me laugh 😢

@@c0mplex564 2 sides to every coin. Embrace it.

except it very much isnt. dont get me wrong i do believe social media has a strong impact on the mental health of a lot of young people, and its not like we havent made scientific research on this already, its not a qustion of the world being just or not, we have already theorized some correlations regarding mental health, its just hard to make absolute long term conclusions right now. having that said its simply not comparable to dying horrible deaths by cancer and other respiratory problems. but regardless whether one thinks its comparable or not though, i dont get why you have to approach it from a grounds of comparisson, bot can be bad in their own specific way.

Man it’s a shame we live in this world then.

wtf are you both on about, we already have studies on the matter who already theorize social media might create a toxic environment that influences mental health on a lot of youth. why wouldnt we? we just are incapable of making conclusion on long term, cause logically we havent gotten there yet. what i dont get is, why would you need an approach of comparisson. for as impactful as social media may be on the mind it doesnt compare to dying a horrible death of cancer or other related issues caused by concumption of tobacco. but regardless whether you agree with that or not BOTH can be bad in their own specific way, why do you need to declare it as worse than so and so?

that's just not true

This is a very unfounded position lol

Especially when you know that if Bill mentions your name, you should be VERY nervous until he gets his thought out.

Bo is a real artist

nah that guy is a washed up hack

​@@anishinaabaeguy is one of the best to ever do it. No doubt one of the best of his generation at the very least. I can understand if you don't like Bill. The style of comedy isn't for everyone. But a washed up hack? C'mon now that's crazy. But I want to hear the rationale. So a couple questions. 1. What makes him a hack? 2. Why do you consider him washed up? When was the peak and what changed since? 3. Who are your favorite comedians? Give me at least one current one who isn't "washed up." Not trying to come at you. Genuinely want to know lol.

@@Later_Nerd commenting because I want to see the followup lol

My thought's always been I'd rather be one of the people behind the scenes surrounding the artist or figurehead, like a songwriter or producer. You still have a hand in making it just not personally marketing it.

andd the most succesfull people, with the most money arent even famous, you cant enjoy your money when you are famous

Same, AS much AS I Love acting, or singing ITS . . . .

In high school I took a "Media English" class as an alternative to just regular English where we dissected various forms of media and things of that nature. Bo wasn't out at the time or he ABSOLUTELY would have been a feature in one of my projects. We did do one once, where we had to choose between fame or fortune, and we had to justify our reasons, then do a counter argument for the opposite. I was one of 3 students in the class who chose fortune and not fame. MOST of the students' reasons for choosing fame was simple: money. Some wanted notoriety also. Out of the 3 of us who chose fame, I was the *only* person to make the argument for anonymity. That being famous comes with a terrible mental toll, and that as a person who has ALWAYS had things like environmentalism at the forefront of my mind, having wealth and none of the fame could almost be an advantage. You can toss around the weight of that money without anyone tracing it back to you, potentially making your life more miserable. My teacher LOVED my answers and made me present my project to the class, as well as the top fame choice, which lead to a debate that lasted in our class the rest of the week.

You get money, fame, success, and you never get to live in peace again. You get the entire world speculating about everything you do at all times and you can almost never directly get involved with the conversation. Have fun never walking down the street again without being harassed

This song. Broke. Me.

It's a song I never need to hope I can hear again for the first time. Every subsequent listening does the exact same thing to me. I remember the show ending, the screen going black, and my wife and I muttering "God I hope he's found some happiness since filming this."@@AmberLie

@@devinkerr5474 as somewhat of a musician myself...I know there's a sense of catharsis behind finishing a song and getting that perfect (enough) take. So I'm once it was done and he knew he did his best work he found some peace. I think that was actually one of his last live performances before he released Inside where he did mention he did get better... right as covid was shutting down all the venues.. then he spiraled a bit again. But I think that special was also very therapeutic for him.

So, this is actually a psychological phenomenon that has been studied rather a lot. I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head, but the loss of one's own decision-making or thinking skills in submission to that of the group happens so frequently. There's a weird bias shown in studies on it where, even when someone knows for a fact that the group is wrong in a decision, they'll vote with the group. Often, the person either just feels like they shouldn't speak up, or they feel like the group must know better than they do. It's really interesting how our minds have been shaped for social survival to the point that we'll often accept essentially all jumping off the same bridge rather than be seen as the one who openly disagreed with the group.

@@colixnaia6512I think it’s because our very sense of self is dependent on others validating that we exist. So when any majority of selves is doing a a thing the psychological weight is too much to withstand with your comparatively small individuality that will now have to wrestle with both disgust and loneliness.

​@colixnaia6512 iirc it's called mob mentality

@@maxxcrafting7519 I ended up looking it up. It's called groupthink. Believing that the others in the group who are agreeing are representative of the whole group can cause someone to change their thinking or behaviour to agree with the group. Perhaps ironically, it's in a way a form of confirmation bias, as agreeing despite oneself only adds more appearance of unanimity and increases chances that others will conform to groupthink as well.

​@colixnaia6512 Precisely that. It is something humans evolved as it improved survivability - if you react to an external event/stimulus (e.g. a large predator, a potentially-venomous snake or spider, unexpected loud noises etc) the same way as the majority of others around you, you are more likely to survive to pass on your genes. I got my degree (nearly 25 years ago!) in Social Psychology, and it is incredibly useful for understanding why people act like they do. There are a relatively small number of people who have 'abnormal psychology', but the VAST majority of people interact with other humans in a fairly predictable manner (the outliers tend to be people who have some nonstandard psychology (eg psychopathy, bipolar, BPD etc) or neuropsychological issue (something on the edges of the autism spectrum, brain damage etc) that prevents them from responding to things 'appropriately'. However I don't recommend a psychology degree for anyone other than those who plan to work in the mental health field - it's simply not widely required. Interesting af though! 😊

so much yes

it is not "dance, monkey, dance" but "dance, poet, dance"

@@mf--That doesn't make sense. Monkey's dance for coins, poets don't. Keep trying to be clever, you'll get it someday.

same here! one of the many songs of his that got me through terrible times. only bo could make a song like that to completely break me and lift me up again 🙏

"The Chicken" makes me cry every time I hear it!!! Like ugly uncontrollable crying. I'm smiling and bawling and my boyfriend is just sitting there horrified, confused, and wondering what the hell just happened!!!!!

I didn't care for it but that's because I have no soul.

Chicken was dogshit. I watch Bo for his great humor, but his poetry, while well done, keeps him from being top tier.

​@@blad...🤓

I absolutely cried. My bf did too though.

I am not an artist but I SOBBED after finishing Inside. Same experience my partner looked at me like “huh?”

Same.

xD

I cried too. Though, I would say I'm more of an aspiring artist than anything

same

Same here. Didn’t think I’m in for a RU-vid character arc type night but here we are

Hi, I do not understand The Chicken and had a hard time watching the outtakes after the multiple songs with spiders in them (arachnophobia) Help?

You can just watch the chicken song by itself! I really recommend it's very funny.

His best song is I’m bo yo but yea whatever that “this is deep” song could be second

The chicken destroyed me when I first heard it. I got got.

Yes, I saw a lot of people thinking that inside was a special about the experience in quarantine and it is much more than that, it is above all an incredible and critical read about the internet and capitalism

Inside helped my struggle with social anxiety and being an absolute shit show fuck up. It was never about quarantine but the point he was making was a totally different point to me.

growing anxious about the internet and capitalism to a dangerously self destructive degree wasn't part of your guy's quarantine? Lucky. seriously though seeing this i almost wish i had people analyze my development over the last decades and make sense of it for me, but then again, I wouldn't really have listened to what Bo has warned us about...

I'm actually impressed people didn't get it. There was very clearly a *lot* there beyond quarantine commentary, that should be clear to anyone who watched it.

At minimum people also need to watch Make Happy and understand that the last song of Inside is basically a sequel to the last song of Make Happy.

I know!!! I came to the comments to find this. I was wondering if anyone else was shocked enough to point it out.

I think she might be reading notes on what questions she's supposed to ask during the interview, but yeah not paying attention to the person you're interviewing is strange

Same! I grew up alongside Bo and PewDiePie. Can't imagine growing up now alongside today's online content creators..

@Spyracik I agree, content has changed so much since then. But on the flip side of this I have seen so many creators I like completely implode in on themselves by being horrible people

Same, 93 til infinity

@@Spyracik I'm so lucky I got to grow up with creators like pewdiepie, jacksecpticeye, markiplier, and dantdm. I feel like you don't really get those same types of sincere and humble creators nowadays, many of the currrent creators are so obviously taking advantage of children's attention spans, it's sickening. I think it's also so different because these creators really tried to distance themselves from the audience and condemned parasociality, I literally remember many videos from pewdiepie or jacksepticeye where they explicitly stated "I am not your friend, please don't act like you know me, I am just a performer".

Unfortunately as people it's really hard to not compare ourselves to others. And the thing about social media is people mostly post the BEST things about their life. Vacations, major milestones, relationships, families, etc. We end up subconsciously comparing our current normal state to the "super happy" state we assume everyone else must be online since they're posting the BEST things going on. We end up feelings worse thinking we're not as good as the people online, although that's nonsense. Our lives at one time cannot be as 'interesting' or 'good' as tens or hundreds of others enjoying abnormally good days combined. I've been off social media completely for 3-4 years now, and I cannot recommend it enough. It's poison for the human psyche.

About 25% of gen x talked non-stop about how social media and cell phone living were terrible and dangerous. They now get called boomers. The remaining 75% raised their kids on the stuff the way they were raised on TV. And when your kids get to be 20 themselves they're old enough and educated enough to state honestly and confidently exactly how you screwed up. And you should listen. It's going to be how you allowed them to put all of their pain and their every waking moment of life on the effing internet for the world to laugh at. You allowed your kids to become a cringe meme. They had all of their puberty and learning experiences televised for the world's entertainment and laughter. I can only imagine that to be 1,000 times more painful than the puberty Gen X had that was never documented and that not a single person alive can remember. Just a thought.

I hate instagram and tiktok especially. They let people spout off hate speech, and the algorithm just pushes it further to the top. The stupider, meaner, and grosser something is, the more the algorithm pushes it for engagement. Idk, I can't log on without this very real feeling that every time I open this app I'm being manipulate by media corporations😭 Plus I'm tired of seeing 13 year olds talk about politics.

As someone who’s been through this cycle, I strongly encourage you to stay away from it while you’re not completely sucked back in. The allure isn’t real. It’s a memory of meaningless and useless dopamine surges.

Yes, I got rid of FB and Insta in 2019, and for a whole year I struggled with the desire to check. After a year I was fine, but I was shocked by how long it took. I started looking at Insta again and felt terrible. I felt so insecure and inadequate. It is sad we let children on these sights.

great your worshipping a celebrity, just like he literally tells you not to do.

@@uncledeadhead3674there’s a difference between being a fan, and worshipping someone. people are fans of bo- some have been for many years. that is not worship. that’s being a human.

when you say the things people say here about how amazing he is etc, yeah thatsthe same as worship, noone is saing they hold services to him, but its worship none the less, fan worship IS worship. @@chiffonlime643

@@uncledeadhead3674 i don't think enjoying some one's art enough to follow their journey is worship. But go ahead and keep commenting brain dead stuff stranger's opinions. Good way of finding your own fulfillment.

you really don't get it , he is literally telling you not to follow people on you tube etc, and you still do it. @@dogxwaffles

God, this is so scarily accurate I can't even. There's no fixing it really either. If I had enough time, social energy, charisma, political sway, etc, I still wouldn't even have the foggiest on how to fix it here. But sadly I have none of that and, like you, will wail into this void.

The saddest part is, if someone tried to stop that when you were a teenager, you probably wouldn't have listened, since we always think we have it figured out at that age. I'm in the same position as you now so I'm not trying to say you specifically, just being that age in general

I feel this so much I too am an autistic adult (28 and also ADHDer) wishing I’d listened and properly learned from what Bo’s work warned me about in life. Just the line “so when you develop a dissociative mental disorder in your late twenties don’t come crawling back to me”, is such a big thing that I wish I’d had any idea about before it was too late.

hey im 15 can you explain it to me i really don't get how it makes your brain rot.@boy07

Went from a happy and curious 8 year old kid to a 26 year old addict and agoraphobic really fast. Not any of it would probably have happened if i didnt degen online and chase impossible goals on my computer for the better part of my adult life. The mans message is clear

Love your comment

It's not cringe to be open about your feelings. I hope you're doing better now :o)

Hope you're in a better place now bud. The song that really hit me was Don't Wanna Know. "Am I on in the background? Are you on your phone? I'd ask you watch you're watching but I don't wanna know- Is there anyone out there? Or am I all alone? It wouldn't make a difference still I don't wanna know." I always listen intently to this song. Bo is never on in the background, for me.

@@Michael_MWwhat song is that

The other recording, from the special outtakes hits harder for me,

@@karlnicholson414 I think that’s cause in the outtakes it shows just how much effort goes into it. In the actual special you can tell the amount of work, but people rarely think or realize just how many takes you do to get the “perfect”one