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I think Bo Burnham's "Inside" holds up really well. (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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As far as I know it's only legally available on Netflix so I don't have a link, but if you have access to it I highly recommend it. I'm rewatching it right now because I'm on a break from job hunting and, though I try to get outside at least once a day, I frequently fail at that goal because there's not a lot of extrinsic reason to go outside. It's not the same as the pandemic but it definitely has parallels and a lot of "Inside" feels relevant right now.

He's an engaging performer. Great writing and delivery, good physical comedy and performances, and I think he's a really interesting visual designer. I love the lighting and editing of Inside as much as I like the writing and performance.

What do you think of Inside? of Bo? I know some of his earlier stuff is... rough. I think he had a bad case of "becoming famous as a child" but I think he matured gracefully as an artist.

Side casual conversation: is there an active comm for standup comedy / whatever kind of comedy Inside is? I guess it's internet comedy but I don't think that's a standard genre.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like the verse that starts with "not very long ago, just before your time..." Never forget what was taken from us!

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was pretty fluent with the earlier internet, and I definitely saw things that messed me up, but at least I didn't have massive international corporations trying to addict me to services from the jump. Or at least, they weren't as good at it then. The part that goes

Mommy let you use her iPad; you were barely two.

And it did all the things we designed it to do...
now look at you.

Gets me choked up when I hear it. We, adults generally, have let a lot of awful things happen to the kids. Even now I don't think we really understand the scope of the damage. The fact that I, and my parents, and their parents and so on were fucked up and abused in their own unique contemporary fashions doesn't make the pill any less bitter.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That line doesn't hit me quite as hard because I'm an "Oregon Trail" millennial: my first computer ran DOS (which means I was definitely old enough to read, because I had to be to use it) and I didn't get the Internet (AOL, LOL) until I was a preteen. Luckily for me, I matured at the same rate as mature content proliferated, so I was never really exposed to anything I wasn't equipped to handle.

(My computer illiterate parents had absolutely no clue what I had access to and got damn lucky I didn't have a personality inclined to go seek weird shit out, because it could've easily gone the other way.)

My own kids, of course, get Linux PCs, not tablets, and don't get unsupervised access to the Internet at all.

But yeah, for a lot of people outside of my very narrow age range and tech-exposure circumstances, it's been an absolute disaster.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

Thats exactly how my childhood experience was as well