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

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Bo Burnham's song from his special Inside, a satirical take on internet culture, attention and extremism.

HN commenters bring it up in threads about the internet, attention economy and smartphones, mostly as a favorite, with a few dissenters.

12 comments from Hacker News

@Imustaskforhelp2026-02 · in “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 both music if you have the time and the first one for sure.

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@zubspace2021-06 · in “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

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@Pyrodogg2021-08 · in “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

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@sodality22021-06 · in “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

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@metalman2025-12 · in “Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits”

thanks for the "recomendation" ▶ this video 168 million views edit: thinking about this video, it occurs to me that what is criminalised as subversion, may just be an instinctual reaction to non survial behavior on the part of our ruling class

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