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Imagine being a rural 80-year-old farmer or something, finally being like "fine, I guess I'll try the internet", and then this is the first thing you see.
The problem is that children should be allowed to be bored. This is where we find our ways to break it up and find out interests and our minds can wander and ponder. This cant happen if they are glued to a smartphone from age of 2 or less.
I feel like if you asked artists to design a character embodying the entire Internet, they'd really get to be creative and go all out with the prompts, adding a lot of features and details to the character's design. But I find it interesting how effective this portrayal is: white shirt, black pants, black shoes, round black sunglasses. It's so simple. He just looks like any guy at all. All the weight of the character is in Bo's performance and the cold blue lighting. His outfit would be perfectly unremarkable if not for the sunglasses. We can't see his eyes. The lenses are small, so we can still see his eyebrows, it's not like we can't read his expression. But we can't look into his eyes. There's no window to the soul, just round black discs.
they usually say stuff about the eyes being a gateway to the soul or that its the most humane feature, and if you put that idea into play, removing the feature of your eyes and hiding it goes against it.
The way he laughed when he said "Color pencil drawings of Harry Potter characters" Got me thinking: Did he actually saw it or he made it up but laughed because he realized how likely it is to exist
You must be from another timeline to even think that was a question. Of course it exists and it's been up on that internet for at least 20 years, possibly earlier since Harry Potter got its start in the 90's.
To top it off with “And if we stick together, who knows what we’ll do. It was always the plan. To put the world in your hand.” Then followed by the worlds most evil sounding laughter ever, then switches into fast paced “Could I internist you in everything, all of the time, apathy is a tragedy and boredom is a crime” shows that the lack of care the world has for a single person, YOU. and that the “world in your hand” isn’t always the best thing. You see for how truly terrible and evil people can be and that if the internet connects the world together, then the internet would be the worst place from the start because of that. Bo then covers it in the beginning with a wholesome sounding song, but cracks in the paradise of the internet start to show, and in the end, it all is let loose. The evil of humanity can never be hidden, especially on the internet, no matter what you do.
“It was always the plan, to put the world in your hand” followed by maniacal laughter. That sums up the monkey’s paw that smart phones were. It was one thing when then the sum of human knowledge and consciousness was in a box on your desk that took 5 minutes to load. It’s another thing to have effectively instant access to almost all human knowledge and consciousness in your pocket at all times.
a few other comments said it sounded like a song from a disney villian who won and honestly, i can see why. this has the vibe of a villain who won because there was never a protagonist to fight against
Id say its more a 'welcome to chaos' Its a song he's repeated for decades on end, to every new traveller, individually by the millions. In doing so, and seeing what they ask for, he's lost his mind, his original ethos corrupted and warped by humanity. Of course, he's not fully lost, at the end he regains composure, only to once again lose it, but it demonstrates that there is some degree of sanity left.
Oh yeah- is this a coincidence, but i was listening to this for the first time and on the radio it said 'and a nine-year old boy died in the crash alongside .....' and then i heard 'heres a 9 year old who died' COINCIDENECERJTBNBDJHDC
He went from being an 18 year old performing welcome to youtube to looking like he is 30 and taking a bigger step by going up to welcome to the internet.
@@bajumbas176 The makers of iPads, and all screen devices, have a vested interest in keeping us using them. That rule (thou shalt keep clicking) is the primary rule of screen design. When you couple that with endless arrays of outrage, pleasure, hate, lust, etc. on the internet, you get an addictive cycle that starts to be instilled in children at a very young age. Just keep clicking...just keep clicking...
The creator of the internet created the internet to be a vast repository of all of human knowledge and to make said human knowledge accessable to the entire world. He succeeded in that, but he did not realize what humans would bring to the internet.
@@bajumbas176 The Internet is a reflection of people. That's the problem. People didn't want to know what people were really like. Or are in denial about it.
@@TitaniumDragon That's exactly it. The problem is that ALL of humanity is there. We were promised a fresh start. We thought that we could leave our demons behind and build a new world that would bring out the best in us. The problems came when we realized - it would bring out the worst in us, too.
The irony that this song plays in the background on my third monitor while having discord open on another and doing homework on the first. Everything, all of the time.
This really is a peice of art!!! I do not think I have seen a video that better caputers the danger of the internet so perfectly! More people need to see this!!!
when i first found bo maybe 5 years ago or so it was so awesome, because here is this kid that clearly has what it takes to be one of the greats. not one of the greats yet, and its not clear whether or not he would blossom into one of the greats. it was so awesome to watch because up until that point in my life, all of the comedy greats and my comedy heroes were already super famous greatest of all time level - carlin, hicks, louis ck etc...but bo has given me the chance to watch one of these types of people grow from basically a child into someone who could stand toe to toe with the greats. is he there yet? not quite. will he 100% for sure achieve carlin status? i think it probable but not 100%. either way, its been an absolute honor and privilege to watch and im very much looking forward to all that is to come.
I’d say my favorite is “if none of its of interest to you, you’d be the first” because of how that is 100% true for every person. No one has gone on the internet and been like “eh, it’s not for me”
The fact that the line at 1:39 "Could I interest you in everything all of them time? A little bit of everything all of the time? Apathy is a tradegy and boredom is a crime. Anything and everything all of the time." Just works with the topic of Internet it has everything you could toggle all of the time that's a little bit of everything all of the time. If you are ever mean on social media you'll be in deep trouble, and you just get glued to the screen so being bored is unintentionally a crime. This line is such a banger I love the notes that accompany it as well. I think a variation of this line appeared in Goodbye too.
I used to say “I was half-raised by the internet,” in the context of this song it makes it uncomfortable realization that my personality was influenced by a mindless entity which’s sole purpose was to get me hooked in and guess what, it worked… I’m gonna go outside 😅
The way the music switches is fitting. The beginning sounds like a carnival. Upbeat and fun... the further down the rabbit hole you go the more fast, chaotic, and sinister the circus becomes. Then slowing down and reflecting on the good old days. To conclude with the spastic intensified out of control tempo is just the spiral that has become the internet. So clever
@@calebmurphy9406 It’s talking about the constant flow of new information and content that the internet provides. Basically, the Internet treats apathy, or the lack of enthusiasm/interest, as well as boredom as something that shouldn’t be happening, so it feeds you more information endlessly.
There is an adult radio station in germany, called "Deutschlandfunk", which normally only has documentaries, news and politics. The only times they play music its normally whenever some Jazzmusician has died. And only at 1am. They played your song at least twice already, which actually means they accepted this song as part of a new culture, as something important that people need to hear. Congrats.
When I was first watching this video, I was doing electrical work and a game and that’s all I can think about whenever I listen to this song happens to more songs than you think
As an educator for 30 years, mostly at the high school level but at elementary and middle school the last 2 years..... People really need to think how this internet world is impacting these little tikes AND their parents. I wasnt allowed to watch the 3 stooges as a kid because my mom was afraid i would imitate their physical slap stick thinking it was real. Think what these kids are being exposed to 24/7 if they want and if not them, their parents. These kids have grown up knowing about every school shooting, every war is at their disposal and every conspiracy theory. We have to rethink how we teach our children and work with their parents. These kids are being exposed to every horrific event in the world or the people raising them have. Be kind and show them that kindness is in their day to day life.
Bo Burnham really is the kind of guy who would write a song specifically for when people ask him for an encore, and all the encore involves is him walking up onto stage, adjusting his microphone, playing one key, and yelling at everyone to fuck off.
@@cringekiddo Why wouldn't they? This song (and the whole Netflix special) is still quite new, and it's also a masterpiece that will be talked about for a while. How did that surprise you?
I am both sad and terrified at the idea of how many people took these words without realising the deep meaning behind them taking all the words at face value
@@alexanderliczner It's amazing the progress we have when we don't have a psychotic megalomaniac as president of the free world anymore. I just hope everyone remembers how close to the brink we got come 2024.
Man, as someone born in '88 I do miss the internet of the mid-to late 90s / early 00's (got my first computer, a Gateway, purchased in early 1996)... He is 100% right, after 9/11 the internet really DID change..
still blows my mind that its a single cut and all the lights music lyrics was all created by bo.. in a guesthouse or shed whatever. mind blowing talent. bo fo sho
It's so true how the internet has blurred everything together. You see something tragic and then there's a meme right below. We hardly have a chance to process emotions and so it all turns to be numb
It makes me think of Instagram stories. It goes from social justice to “look at what I ate for lunch!” really fast. Makes the seriousness of issues seem insincere.
Exactly. I'm not even entirely sure Bo knew what he had here, because this project clearly weighed on him organically throughout its production, but I'll be damned if there aren't so many subtle nuances in its craft that make it stand head and shoulders above any 'comedy special' in years, if not decades. In fact it's almost insulting to call it a comedy special. This is a feature length, one man virtuoso film that deserves every single award that's coming its way. I always thought Burnham was a smart and snappy performer, but this is visceral stuff that hits hard. I question if some will turn it off before the first 30 minutes or so are up not understanding where this thing is going, but all those people are missing the fuck out on what is right now the best film of the year.
i'm convinced bo made that line "i can't grow a beard, that's not ironic it's just sad" so he could grow one and have us look back saying "that's ironic"
i thought it was a little bit hit or miss, but when it hits (like this song) it hits really hard. but like a song about how your mom doesn't understand how to use facetime? i had to skip past that one. just a really boring premise
@@fruitypeebils I interpreted that song more as a comment on how he had to facetime his mom every night as part of his coping mechanism during lockdown. He's said frequently how much his mom has helped him so I thought it was quite moving peek into their relationship.
@@fruitypeebils I can't explain how on point that reaction is to the themes of the special. "This part isn't amazingly entertaining to me at this very moment should I just sit here for 3mins and watch it? No, can't wait that long MUST SKIP TO CONTENT!" Remember fruity, apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime.
