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

Why HN readers recommended it

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

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

boburnham

Topic

internet culture satire

Format

music

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

12

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• 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 …

• This reminded me of this song which actually shows the extremism of things in Internet. Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham: [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 …

• 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: [VIDEO]