Joyce, Jim, and their kids.
I feel like the reason that I loved Bo Burnham’s and Inside so goddamn much is not just because he captured what it feels like to be trapped inside your own head, but also because a good part of being trapped inside your own head as a millennial is coming to terms with the fact that our planet is dying and that all these things and dreams that you aspire to when you were a kid just aren’t gonna be possible for you or for most of the people that you know or for generations that come after you through literally no fault of your own, you were just sort of born into the end of the world and he just kind of have to try to make the best of it in a world that also simultaneously demands that you work and that you live for an audience and that you broadcast everything that you do and say and think, and it’s exhausting and it’s depressing and we’re just supposed to not talk about it or not talk about how we feel about it and now when I go to the therapist and they ask me if I’m anxious about some impending thing there’s no way for me to answer that without it being an actual rational answer not really just a product of my own anxiety, we literally are on a planet that is dying and those of us who don’t really have any power to make much change I just sort of caught in the crossfire hoping that those who do have the power to make significant change get scared enough to actually do some thing before it’s too late, and I don’t really feel like we’re allowed to talk about that as much as we really should be, like we all Know that climate change is happening and we all acknowledge it now except for a few conservative fucks, but that doesn’t make it less hopeless. Where the fuck are we supposed to go? The poor will die and will pay the price, and already are. And it’s not fear mongering… It is literally something we are witnessing in real time. And that’s a terrifying thing that we just try to distract ourselves from. And I’m so goddamn tired. I feel like I’ve lived 100 lifetimes and I’m only 28. The world really did already end and I just try not to think about it as I turn on YouTube for the thousandth time. Guess I’m going back inside
Bo Burnham deserves so much more credit for this scene during “Sexting”. It’s only on screen for a moment but him establishing consent and bringing light to its importance really meant something to me. Especially in a time where sexting and sending nudes is common practice, I think him saying that she does not have to follow through with sending anything is comforting and important.







