Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham (from "Inside" -- ALBUM OUT NOW)

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Strong rec zubspace · 2021-06 · on “I Miss the Old Internet (2019)”

I just watched Inside [1], where Bo Burnham creates a wonderful, funny, sad and thought-provoking "Special" about our internet culture. Highly recommended. This is one of my favourite songs now: [2] It's a bit crazy when I think about how different our generations grow up and it makes me a bit sad that our children will have a completely different understanding of what the internet is. For me it was a place of wonder, freedom and self-expression. It's different today, but even I have problems explaining how it changed. But it definitely lost some if it's playfulness on the way. [1] [LINK] [2] [this video]

Strong rec Imustaskforhelp · 2026-02 · on “Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love”

This reminded me of this song which actually shows the extremism of things in Internet. Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham: [this video] "Y'know wasn't always like this, not very long ago.. just before your time.. right before the towers fell.. circa 99 this was catalogues, travel blogs a chatroom or two, we set our nights and spent our nights waiting for you." "It was always the plan to put the world in your head." "Could I interest you in everything all of the time? Apathy is a tragedy and boredom is a crime. Everything and anything all of the time" Bo Burnham is amazing. Another (interesting?) song is jefferey bezos song [LINK] [Bo Burnham: Inside - Jeff Bezos] Recommend everyone to watch bo

Recommends sodality2 · 2021-06 · on “iOS 15 Humane”

Yep- it's totally different from his previous work but I absolutely loved it. Especially "Welcome to the Internet", because I can see firsthand what the song is about. Here's the video on Bo Burnham's own channel: [this video]

Recommends Pyrodogg · 2021-08 · on “Life before smartphones (2020)”

"Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime" - Welcome to the Internet by Bo Burnham[1] This new song from Bo's covid-lockdown inspired special "Inside" hits this right on head. The Internet, particularly when paired with mobile devices just tries to suck up so much attention, because that's exactly what we made it do. [1] [this video]

Cites andrewxhill · 2022-01 · on “Blue verification checkmark vs. hexagonal PFPs on Twitter”

Why stop at 2000 though? The internet is still full of terrible things today, many of which are the most visible, and most of which are happening because, money. [this video] Terrible things on the internet don't make all things built on the internet guilty by association. Just like scammers and grifters finding opportunities in web3 don't make all NFTs bad ideas.

Cites poszlem · 2022-09 · on “Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]”

Kind of makes me wonder what would those people say if we played them Bo Burnham's Welcome to The Internet from 2021: [this video]

Cites aebtebeten · 2024-04 · on “Personal Machines and Portable Worlds”

What makes a "world" for me is that there are a few basic rules from which all the gameplay can be derived; something where the basic axioms don't generate a rich theory is just "on rails" and at best a trivial world (something where the basic axioms generate anything and everything is even worse: a degenerate world). What makes a machine "personal" for me is that I need to engage by putting in some creative input in to get anything out; doodling on a sheet of paper is personal, but clicking on and desultorily reacting to some external stream is impersonal. In these senses, the "engagement" of the monetised web is neither personal nor a world: Which Power Ranger are you? Take this quirky qui

Cites 082349872349872 · 2024-04 · on “30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok”

It occasionally produces art: [this video] EDIT: Mr. Burnham is vintage 1990, so he's a bit too old to have been weaned onto it