jesus fucking christ

@EntropyManifest

2 жыл бұрын

hell yeah

@trashketchum9782

2 жыл бұрын

i love that this is pinned 😭

@u2befake149

2 жыл бұрын

Fuck man, shit.

@papasscooperiaworker3649

2 жыл бұрын

@@u2befake149 Fuck, man shit.

@the.real.mose.milburn

2 жыл бұрын

@@papasscooperiaworker3649 Fuck man shit.

"Don't be intimidated by music theory, it's just names for noises you already know." That's some good shit right there.

@notnotme1717

Жыл бұрын

omg I forgot that was today. this video has distorted my perception of time.

@Mystician

Жыл бұрын

Riiight. No sense UNDERSTANDING the nature of things. Just say, "been there, heard that" and dismiss anything you're too lazy to know more about.

@mikathorpe2919

Жыл бұрын

@@Mystician Literally, what? There's no dismissal here, just no need to be intimidated. Calm down.

@kangarumpy

Жыл бұрын

That's how I feel about physics: it's putting numbers to things you already intuitively know.

@QuikVidGuy

8 ай бұрын

Every musician has a theory, it just might not be classical theory

I'm 70 and I'm in awe. Thank you.

This went from a fast paced funny rant about capitalism and Bo Burnham, to an existential discussion about cyborgs and transhumanism, to a monumentally soul-wrenching ending that shifted my whole fucking paradigm. At the end of all of it, I realized that you did something truly special. You changed my perspective.

I hope bo and Jeffrey watch this together and slowly lean in to a kiss that they tell no one about

@lilwil386

2 жыл бұрын

this comment needs more traction

@MesGuided

2 жыл бұрын

This is the definition of romance.

@ambryon2112

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god

@vicdrose

2 жыл бұрын

enemies to lovers

@taylorhammondillustrations

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh scandalous

"You're just a blob of compliments that will morph into an abusive mob when my time comes" is hands down the best description of the KZread/Twitter/Instagram/Tiktok commentariat that I have literally ever heard.

@jameso2290

2 жыл бұрын

"commentariat" - what an astute word choice. Brilliant.

@lauren259

2 жыл бұрын

v

@0ggy280

2 жыл бұрын

It reminded me of contra points discussions on cancel culture

@notthis9586

2 жыл бұрын

Huh... guess you're part of the blob now, and so am I it seems... when do we form the mob?

@XXPiggyzXX652544

Жыл бұрын

@@jameso2290 adopting this into my vernacular immediately

Without irony, this is at LEAST in the top 5 most important pieces of visual media I have ever consumed. I truly appreciate the way this helped me reconsider my relationship with technology, and not necessarily in a negative way. Its helped me develop a stronger respect for, as well as scrutiny of, my online life. Thank you so much.

This is unquestionably a masterpiece, but it kind of scares me, because there are many points throughout where I felt my feelings change about a subject, and I didn’t know if it was because the points being brought up rung true to my values, or because CJ is such a persuasive personality with such a mastery over words and delivery that my feelings were completely swayed and won over. I know that just sounds like a compliment but it’s legitimately scary and concerning to me.. Obviously, there's nothing wrong with changing your stance or begin swayed to the other side on an argument, it's extremely valuable and important, but like, it's important to understand the reasons you were swayed, right?

@XXPiggyzXX652544

Жыл бұрын

It's okay to feel uncertain. The solution is to branch out. Find other opinions and evaluate their merits on even ground. Maybe read the works of some philosophers noted in this video.

@darkmadder762

Жыл бұрын

Katherine is right. You find out what you believe by repeatedly exposing yourself to new perspectives. In the beginning you will change back and forth and it'll feel uncomfortable but over time you will take things from everything and form a unique opinion based on who you are and all the info you've seen.

@n.normal1565

Жыл бұрын

tbh I have to be in a really okay headspace to listen to a new CJ essay. ur so not alone. I know I'll be led down the garden path of my own opinions and then bam knocked off the wall. you do have to go in knowing that. but by now, I trust CJ's philosophical authenticity enough to know that I will have something legitimate to take away and think about. but for sure I've warily put on a new cj upload when I woke up and turned it off 30m later in tears (it was fine, I was fine, I enjoyed it later, but I don't need all of my assumptions questioned before i've had my coffee). I totally get the thing about the bad taste or strangeness of a persuasive talker, though. I guess you just gotta build that trust (I realise the parasocial irony in this statement) and your own history of turning over & exploring yourself the stuff that's said. idk how to parse this succinctly, I realise now.. but there's a certain intellectual honesty present in cj's breakdowns that I have found over time I can trust....... & rarely makes me need my safeword 🤭

@alexia3552

Жыл бұрын

The capacity to be a supervillain has to be the best kind of compliment

@araynajoy5608

Жыл бұрын

I feel the same way. It feels like someone has an uncomfortable level of power over you, like you might believe them on a deep level even if you're brain did disagree. They're videos are wonderful, and the points have helped me work through what I believe in a lot of areas, but it's scary to watch this person I don't know and find my walls just completely rescind. I trust them, and I didn't choose to. It's been better recently though. Watching this video now hits totally different than it did when it came out, because I have changed so much. I still agree, but spending a long time processing what I believe about philosophy, politics, art, religion, etc. means I know that the part of me that agrees is actually me, and not this blind trust and "love" I have for a person I don't know.

THIS ESSAY IS LONGER THAN INSIDE AND YET CJ TALKS AT 3X THE SPEED OF BO

@dartxni

2 жыл бұрын

Well visual medium vs a largely speech medium

@od3910

2 жыл бұрын

This needed to be screamed

@Pandaboomina

2 жыл бұрын

@@dartxni astute observation

@JinxSnowOctober

2 жыл бұрын

My ADHD: still play it at 2x

@The_Skrongler

2 жыл бұрын

CJ talks at the speed of my ADHD

You know that feeling you get when you finish a movie and you’re walking out of the movie theatre with a renewed sense of meaning in life? This is probably one of the only KZread videos that ever made me feel that way.

@scribble5463

2 жыл бұрын

I think you've explained it perfectly.

@rhodosu7937

2 жыл бұрын

Fr

@morgaaaaaa

2 жыл бұрын

i keep coming back to this video, you explained it very well

@giantscruffdog2760

2 жыл бұрын

100% agree. Ive shared this on my Facebook, with a "novel" of my interpretation, open for further discussion. This has actually inspired me to start an extended essay on something similar... As Its very true when he says you cant make a point in a Facebook/Twitter post, so Ill go further and get it on paper, referencing this video and other sources. This might have inspired me more than 'The Social Dilemma' has, to get off social media. XD Marathon of CJs videos first though I think

@stxrstrxckmxteo515

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah for reals, I almost had a panic attack but it’s bc everything he said resonated with me so hard it was scary. but I feel like I’ve learned a lot about reality and life now

having this video periodically interrupted by amazon ads is. an experience to say the least

I'm not sure if anyone is going to read this, but I want to say that I've watched this video three times and every single time I learn something new. I recommend it to everyone I can. It has genuinely completely changed how I view the world and myself. The first time I watched it, I had a complete mental breakdown and deleted all of my social media accounts for a couple months and called my mom and dad to ask them what they did everyday in the 60s and 70s before they had the internet because I literally don't know how to live without it. At all. What a mindfuck. 10/10.

@pokeydokey8226

Жыл бұрын

I was going to upvote you, but you're at 69 upvotes.

@swizzili4309

Жыл бұрын

How often do you go on online now? Is it better with no social media, did u actually disconnect ?

@pokeydokey8226

11 ай бұрын

@@swizzili4309 she can't answer. She's off the grid

@joelman1989

11 ай бұрын

Well… what did they say?!

@N03xNemo

8 ай бұрын

imagine gatekeeping the solutions... couldn't be me ;-;

Ah yes, a 2.5 hour breakdown on a 1 minutes song. That is exactly what my adhd brain craves; while your flamboyant presentation is what my goblin heart craves.

@ceph698

2 жыл бұрын

same. i want to find more video essays like this.

@watsoniselementary

2 жыл бұрын

@Xanderqwerty Are you me from a different timeline, yet somehow, exactly the same?

@lilithmotherofmonsters6055

2 жыл бұрын

@@ceph698 the Way is to follow this account, despite it never posting a single video. It's backed by another ADHD-like brain curating shit like this

@polysubstancepro3889

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to be a lowly goblin!!! Grateful!!!

@thescientists4600

2 жыл бұрын

A lowly goblin am I. To indulge in the stimuli CJ gives instead of studying fluid mechanics is what I must

This guy would've been considered an oracle in ancient greece

@namedrop721

Жыл бұрын

Agree

@namedrop721

Жыл бұрын

‘If reality offends you it’s reality that’s offensive and not the person acknowledging it is’ Oracle stuff right there.

@yungguattari4924

Жыл бұрын

Ok, hear me out... what if... we never leaved... ancient greece... ?!

@kyu7206

Жыл бұрын

@@yungguattari4924 present greece

@lucascampelo1973

Жыл бұрын

@@kyu7206 futuristic cyberpunk greece

You and Bo exist in the same timeline. His verse “I want to leave this world better than I found it” and then you making this very real and authentic and enlightening video essay..you’re both simultaneously making the world a better place. That scratches an itch deep in my soul that I can’t describe via text. Thanks for this, I literally enjoyed every second of these 2.5hrs.

part 1: hysterical in concept alone -- 7:00 part 2: lyrical analysis -- 9:33 part 3: the solo -- 19:57 part 4: what's bothering bo? -- 23:10 part 5: we are already cyborgs -- 28:59 part 6: transhumanism & luddism -- 36:37 part 7: customer obsession -- 52:21 part 8: the transhuman souls of children -- 1:06:31 part 9: the performer audience divide -- 1:15:59 part 10: eviscerating inside -- 1:31:56 part 11: wait but i don't want to kill myself -- 1:51:53 conclusion: are you happy? -- 2:14:58

@BearsThatCare

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this 🙏🏽

"I'm just gonna talk about this 56 second song about Jeff Bezos and nothing else." Me, to myself: "Two hours...?"

@yanatarkhaeva

2 жыл бұрын

i expected that at the end of the video СJ will return to the subject of Jeffry Bezos and the fact that it didn't happen is the only inperfection i feel about all of this

@r.katiekane252

2 жыл бұрын

I did a double-take at the time stamp the second he said it too! 🤔💭...😂

@harissales9257

2 жыл бұрын

And I watched the whole damn thing.

@r.katiekane252

2 жыл бұрын

@@harissales9257 Same here 🤣🤣🤣

@itcouldbelupus2842

2 жыл бұрын

That was a lie. "Nothing else"

Jeez you went next level on this one. This legit elevated the genre.

@mocotojam6767

2 жыл бұрын

I really like your content too! You bring a fresh perspective to the essayists on KZread!

@sajidaassaf174

2 жыл бұрын

Oh look one of my favorite video essayists watching another one of my faves

@anuraagkumar978

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a huge fan of your content and I watched your essay on Inside just before this.

@BobDole1216

2 жыл бұрын

Oh shit, super cool to see you here. I recognize the irony of this type of comment responding under a video that talks about parasociality, but it really is cool to see essayists I enjoy watching engaging with other essayists I enjoy watching.

@snoa18

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone go home and close the internet. These are the only 2 definitive Inside video essays.

I... legitimately went through all the stages of grief while watching this. Thank you. I needed this.

the thing i find upsetting about how we're essentially merged with algorithmic technology is how it didn't feel like a choice. like, when i first began using the internet in the early 2000s as like an 8 year old, i don't know if i would have had i known the trajectory of my internet usage was 'parents neglect me emotionally so i get answers and warm feelings from the internet and become reliant on it as though it's a third parent and a close friend'. like...it has exposed so many gaps with how children are raised. it needs to be known that it has such a formative role and provides things parents often cannot - because becoming an algorithmically augmented human needs to be a choice and not something we are forced into like obedient little nodes.

@coloh9928

Жыл бұрын

i don't think working as a node is all that good for my physical body and i don't really remember choosing to do it.

@Eli-fz1rf

Жыл бұрын

Your referring to the internet as kind of a third parent is really interesting to me. The internet is where I learned how to put a name to feelings I had like being trans that my mom would never have been able to name. It's interesting to me how many times the internet has led me to answers for questions I didn't know I was asking until I found them.

@asterling4

Ай бұрын

​@@Eli-fz1rf yeah, same. a bit darker, but i was abused as a child, and i learned the name for sexual abuse and how i could cope with it from the internet, after my mom didn't do anything about it. it's part of why i balk at things like COPPA, which cast a very wide net and shut down sex & abuse education on the internet... i don't know if i could have survived my teenage years, if googling "how to know if i was raped" didn't turn up survivor stories and clinical-yet-gentle child-friendly explanations of abuse. that gave me something to cling to, knowing that it was wrong, that it had happened to other kids, that it had a name. so much regulation misses the mark there. we absolutely have to instill regulations to protect kids, but we also have to protect the GOOD stuff on the internet. if kids are going to go looking for their third parents on the internet, we have to make sure that educational resources like that stay available to them. and lgbt resources too (which consistently get flagged as inappropriate for kids, despite lgbt kids being most in need of support compared to adults)

I cannot stress enough how profound and deeply accurate this video essay is. Yes my soul IS online and dismissing this as “an Internet addiction” is so extremely reductive and fails to recognize the complete lack of control we have over the entire thing

@diandrastithe3186

2 жыл бұрын

YES esp considering it as a natural progression of alienation. We are social creatures.. if u take away our ability to have meaningful community naturally we were gonna fill that void by any means. The internet is one giant toxic and confusing community and without it i truly don’t know if i woulda survived at this point, we cannot survive without other people’s validation/acceptance. It’s survival!

@tand0r

2 жыл бұрын

@@diandrastithe3186 I still think we have the power to work a healthier relationship with the internet even if the cards are stacked against us. I for one have seen some of my friends finally uninstall social media apps from their phones and they get by. Sure, you might need some form of social media for work/studies/etc but if you know people irl you can just forgo social media for social purposes or reduce it to less toxic and alienating platforms, like an active discord with friends, and the thing is we'd probably be way better off if we managed to unplug that little bit from the more dangerously invasive side of the internet.

@catnipevrdn

2 жыл бұрын

@@tand0ri agree, but i think the pandering made this harder tbh. I used to have my closest friendships online and I was starting to work on building relationships more irl focused but I haven't seen anyone other than my boyfriend and his family since early march 2020. If it weren't for social media we probably would've lost touch by now. I don't enjoy my online experience anymore but my friends are there and there only.

@HarmonyScreams

2 жыл бұрын

Qq Luigi

@AndreyRubtsovRU

2 жыл бұрын

you are insane. there is nothing profound here. Hype and clicks. You need some serious soul-searching if this video looks like "deeply accurate" to you

"Profit isn't value. Value is value. Don't let them convince you they're the same thing." might be my favorite quote anyone has ever said

@redneckreviews2285

2 жыл бұрын

But value isn't determined by you, it's determined by what someone will pay no?

@Gel677

2 жыл бұрын

@@redneckreviews2285 that's just monetary value though, that's only one type of value and arguably not the most valuable type of value (damn that sentence reads weird)

@jesseef26

2 жыл бұрын

I screamed and then bowed to my Nietzsche art deco wall poster upon hearing this

@Notmyday2009

2 жыл бұрын

@@redneckreviews2285 The point is that "profit" has no monopoly on what should be consider valuable or at least you shouldn't let it become a monopoly on what is consider valuable. Because monopoly is bad. I hope regardless of politics we can all agree monopoly is bad. Monopoly of what is consider valuable is even worse. That's it.

@nate2604

2 жыл бұрын

@@Notmyday2009 yeah whenever I play monopoly the whole family ends hating eachother

i hate sincerity. being honest about myself especially. i don't just hate it, i almost can't do it. when i try to talk about things i care deeply about with people i feel like a toddler just learning to speak. and that's why i always frame these discussions like they're detached from me. like it's simply objective to care and talk about them, but always with a layer of irony and doomerism. everything is hopeless and simultaneously everything is a joke, but it's no big deal, i don't care. it's like if i let myself talk about it it would become too real for me. i don't know how to redirect this emerging hopelessness into healing. i also don't know how to allow myself to be vulnerable, even with the closest of people, and trust them to not take advantage of it or start to perceive me differently because of it. but i am trying, this year. ineptly, but i am.

@asiunderstandit5717

8 ай бұрын

Revisiting this video and I saw this. I hope it's going well

@pigeondance687

8 ай бұрын

@@asiunderstandit5717 it's actually so much better now. i almost can't believe that I wrote this only a year ago. i think the biggest obstacle was me taking it so seriously, funnily enough. i didn't allow myself to be "vulnerable" with people because I thought it would make me exactly that - vulnerable. but it doesn't have to. i am much more confident and comfortable as me, and talking about myself is not shameful. i do not care much if people will see me differently or not because of it anymore. finding someone i could trust has been the catalyst for this. it's funny how it works, i thought you need to pour your guts out to feel better even if you feel shitty after, when you actually need to gain enough confidence in yourself first, and little by little you're going to open up more

@asiunderstandit5717

8 ай бұрын

@@pigeondance687 oh, I'm so glad to hear that!!! It's a process that I'm going through too, and it's definitely still a process, but I've been finding being bold has tended to pay off.

@pigeondance687

8 ай бұрын

@@asiunderstandit5717 i do genuinely think you can do it. find people you're comfortable with and, most crucially, be yourself. i always dismissed that advice, but it actually works. good luck, friend! i hope to hear from you again someday

@asiunderstandit5717

8 ай бұрын

@@pigeondance687 thanks, you too!

I’m sure this has been said: The “Luddites” were also highly trained and skilled crafts people who feared that machines would bring down the quality of the industry. Funny how right they were

Ben Shapiro has used the song unironically, while praising Bezos, it's amazing and I need everyone to be aware of this.

@chaotickreg7024

2 жыл бұрын

Ben Shapiro missing the satire, that's so classic Ben. Imagine all the people pointing and laughing at Ben (Woohoo Ooooh)

@xp8969

2 жыл бұрын

@@chaotickreg7024 I see what you did there, love it

@chaotickreg7024

2 жыл бұрын

@@xp8969 Hahaha I'm so glad! Thank you! Feel free to use the idea, just make 'Imagine' puns when you mock Ben. I just to say while I'm on the topic: Ben's opinions on music are so bogus because there's this genre of music called Harsh Noise and it's my personal favorite. If Ben would say to my face "Hanatarash isn't music, there's no beat or melody" then I would find that so hilarious, he can't handle new ideas.

@i_am_tomatosoup

2 жыл бұрын

Is there a link to this? Or was it a twitter post or something?

@sara_i3635

2 жыл бұрын

Bro don’t leave me hanging like this. Drop the link

"I'm literally selling my soul. And you? You're giving away your soul for free!" is literally the most raw line I have ever heard from a KZread video I literally had to put my phone down and stare at a wall for ten minutes

@kimatronxx

Жыл бұрын

here's a virtual hug I think you needed it, I think I need it too.

@violetclinger9325

Жыл бұрын

@Kimatron Automaton Here’s one just for you, bud.

@ScarletEdge

Жыл бұрын

You can't sell your soul. Just your precious time.

There is so much in this video, and it is an instant favorite (though I am late to it). I am 47, so I grew up with books -- lots of books, some of which introduced me to a lot of these concepts (Gibson, McLuhan), and I was honestly excited about the possibilities of Transhumanism and the nascent internet, wanting to have cybernetic implants, wanting to get online and be there and get in touch with all the weirdos, cause, man, my childhood was lonely, and my hunger for knowledge nearly insatiable. I was really into the arts and into performing, but I quickly realized one of the things I valued most was my internal life, and thus my privacy. My biggest joy growing up in a big city was the anonymity, the ability to disappear. Maybe it was borne out of a certain amount of self-loathing, but also when you're constantly having small interactions with everyone you encounter, how does it ever get deep? And while I had a terribly ADHD brain, and I almost always had a book on me, I also took copious notes and spent lots of time daydreaming. I love having a computer in my pocket, but it is also mostly on silent because I cannot deal with the constant interruptions and calls for my attention. I almost never have my phone out while I am hanging out with friends, or when I spend time in nature. Even if I play a casual game or doodle in a notebook while I watch a video, that is actually cause it helps me focus and keeps my mind from wandering. And, again, I don't come at this from an anti-tech place -- I really, really love that tonight I was able to watch you talk about all this stuff for nearly three hours from the comfort of my bedroom while living in a small town and surrounded by trees... I couldn't have lived in a small town twenty years ago -- I would have been intellectually and artistically starved. But what I am saying is that I agree the constant interruptions create an inability to deeply connect to the world around us, and that fame and recognition do pretty much the same thing, as you state. And I was always uncomfortable with it, and I definitely see it all around me now, but I can also absolutely confirm that it is possible to go deeper, to connect with friends in long conversations, to go deep and not miss out. I get constantly caught up by friends on the latest memes or the newest culture, and I am sure I miss things, but if I were busy chasing the internet's fads I would be missing out on actual real life. And again, fantasy, art, tech, all wonderful things as well. I guess my point is that while, yes, making decisions about where to direct our attention does cause us to miss things (it is the literal definition of "decision" after all), we don't have to swing hard one way or another. Life is full of wonderful things, and that hour staring at a tree and listening to ourselves think is valuable, as is that hour spent talking to a friend, as is that moment of laughter when we find a good meme. It's all worth it, and it is perhaps exactly the variety that brings us contentment, if not happiness. A piece of candy is certainly an empty calorie, but it is also a burst of flavor and pleasure for us. Yet we can't live on candy alone. So is the meme an empty bit of data, but it is a burst of pleasure and fun. We can't live on memes alone. We must continue to sample all the good things in life, as well as the bad, to really live, to really feel the full spectrum of everything and get a real sense of what we value and have the bandwidth to think and come up with the solutions we need to make this world a better place. And let me say one last thing about that: because we are so scrutinized, atomized, and individualized, it *feels* like we have to solve all the world's problems, that if we cannot fix them, then all is lost. But this isn't true: we all contribute a little to the puzzle: every conversation we have may be the one that sparks an idea, that will spark another, that will contribute to big change. It is not up to each of us as that one person that will make a huge difference -- it is up to each of us as a collective to contribute to improving everyone's lives. We can do it if we act together, and of course I think that is the enormous power of collectivist politics... But, seriously, not one of us will be able to bring "change for the better" to this world, but we can do it, with the power of art to explore our hearts and point us towards better ideologies and deeper thought, with the power of the engineers who create the things that improve our daily processes, with the power of the therapists and counselors to heal our hearts, etc. etc. etc. Thank you for making this. Fantastic work.

@carina5633

8 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you for this comment

@rodie3602

6 ай бұрын

I want to print this comment

@maruhelm9818

2 ай бұрын

I‘ll be thinking about this for a while, thank you

This video was a wild ride. It made me laugh, it threw me into an extstential nightmare, it prompted a conversation with my husband. And it made me cry. The way you wrapped it up with Dave's story at the end....oof. And now I've developed another parasocial relationship with a creative, witty, thoughtful, articulate human that I will never know. Damn it. Also, I am old and will never make anything of value. I'm going to have to live by Dave's policy of needing to be happy regardless.

@sta._rina

Жыл бұрын

nah, dont sell yourself short. people and our collective boundless creativity dont have an expiration date. there are many people old and young who have made contributions to the world in ways big and small. and besides, some peoples contributions arent fully realised until they're already 6 feet under.

@anndroid5147

Жыл бұрын

Making something of value could be as simple as making a loved one smile. The human experience is true value in my opinion.

god the point you made about little kids not knowing the difference between expressing and performing is so real. When I facetime my baby sister, she talks to me like I'm her KZread audience. She says like "Hey guys! welcome back to my home, today I've been playing a lot of Minecraft" and when she sends me videos or pictures it's like they're little KZread videos she made and it's really uncanny to interact in a personal one on one way with someone who's trying to make our actual relationship into a parasocial relationship instead because they really don't understand the difference.

@ruriva4931

Жыл бұрын

Bruhhh that is really uncanny. Oof by the time I’m ready to have a kid how do I even go about raising them? Like it’s easy to say limit their internet accesses, but is that really going to be feasible? Like by the time a child is school age they are going to need to interact with the internet to be able to interact with their peers.

@crankedfrankie6836

Жыл бұрын

get that girl away from youtube

@lulucool45

Жыл бұрын

@@ruriva4931 This is a obviously a very recent thing so there isn't a lot of research on it but the evidence suggests that proactive parenting and putting in the effort for a lot of face-to-face interaction helps kids from falling down that rabbit hole

@redblue5140

Жыл бұрын

@@lulucool45 most parents cant/wont do that. humans evolved to raise kids as groups, not for 2 people to do all the work. without any big structural changes society is fked, pure and simple.

@joshtownsend8807

Жыл бұрын

Re: vlog brothers ?

After watching Inside, I was pretty hesitant to watch any video essays about it as I felt that most wouldn't really offer a perspective that brought more value to it. I am really glad I watched this one though.

@trevormcvickar6502

2 жыл бұрын

Omg I'm the exact same way

@ioselene9232

2 жыл бұрын

For me it was the opposite, so many people telling their different impressions of the Bo special that i didn't know it's value. But that's a quirk of mine, I usually watch the review, or better, the analysis of something before watching it, specially if it's extremely popular.

@TheEgoify

2 жыл бұрын

RAZBUTEN IN THE FUCKING COMMENTS! Caroline konstnar clip in the first five minutes. God I fucking love CJ the X.

@KartProwler

2 жыл бұрын

The one from f.d.signifier is also a very interesting watch from an entirely different perspective, highly recommend

@soy6505

2 жыл бұрын

I will say most the video essays r just synopses, theyre not great lmao

what is so ironic is that I’m listening to this video on headphones at work. one day I came to work without my headphones, and I was genuinely off kilter and had no idea how I could get any work done. I had the same weird sense of loss you had with your phone. my brain really felt like something was missing. idk. I convince myself that my work is boring as shit and that I need a distraction in the background, but how much of that excuse is covering up a complete addiction and dependence? I don’t know anymore.

"trying to use a limb that was no longer there" really does hit the nail on the head. Gonna edit this to say that this is such a compelling video essay. I'm not great at conveying how I feel about things I view or ingest, but this held my attention for the full 2.5 hours, and that is saying something. Thank you for creating this.

“He was patient zero” Fucking KILL me when i grow up i want to have half of cjs critical think skills; they got SO much more out the social dilemma than i did jesus christ

@agrace2643

2 жыл бұрын

Ahhh that line hit so hard I forgot it happened. Thank you for quoting it

Okay so I just needed to write this down 7:00 Part 1 - Hysterical In Concept Alone 9:33 Part 2 - Lyrical Analysis 19:56 Part 3 - The Solo 23:10 Part 4 - What's Bothering Bo? 29:00 Part 5 - We Are Already Cyborgs 36:35 Part 6 - Transhumanism and Luddism 52:20 Part 7 - Customer Obsession 1:04:00 The Soul 1:06:30 Part 8 - The Transhuman Souls of Children 1:15:57 Part 9 - The Performer Audience Divide 1:31:55 Part 10 - Eviscerating Inside 1:51:50 Part 11 - Wait But I Don't Want To Kill Myself 2:14:57 Conclusion - Are You Happy?

@anterrobang9298

2 жыл бұрын

amazing, þank you for your work, kind one

@Cold_S0up

2 жыл бұрын

Ty

@kesis7586

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cold_S0up Noice! Needs more likes! Also pin that shit!

@isaacj.elliott2137

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm trying to explain why a 2 minute part of a random comedy movie is 2 and a haf hours fucking long to my SO in Thailand and even with her pretty damn good grasp on English these semibreadtube philosophical videos are just too lost in translation to properly explain. But the having the broke chapters is soooo damn useful

@pinball66

2 жыл бұрын

@@anterrobang9298 Hehe, how’d you get thorn on your keyboard?

Elon pushing for AI regulation was a marketing gimmick for AI. He made it sound like we were on the precipice of a singularity and thinking, feeling machines when all it can do is predict text, not communicate. There’s been a million videos on this and I’m sure y’all know by now, just figured I’d throw this in

@jordanlink7020

4 ай бұрын

Like he’s not that smart and AI’s not that interesting

someone else has definitely had this idea before me, but ive always loved the concept of a social media platform with a big ass long form character limit, where you're only allowed to post _once_ every day. i _really_ would like to see the end results of that, even as a social experiment. excellent video!

@arich20

Жыл бұрын

As someone born just before the 90's, you're describing some of the earliest journaling / social media platforms actually. Maybe not the one-post-per-day limitation, but most people didn't actually post more than once when we had livejournal, Melo, or xanga.

@darkfruit2412

Жыл бұрын

@@arich20 That's fascinating. I'm interested to know though - was the prevalent form of communication of back then (like e-mails) something that everyone was constantly using all the time? or is the Internet an outlier in how much we _need_ to spend every single second on it?

@arich20

Жыл бұрын

@@darkfruit2412 hmm. I'm not sure I quite follow the question. If you're asking if email was the prevalent form of communication, I would say much less than phone calls. Texting wasn't really a common thing either until maybe 2004? I remember chat rooms and especially AOL instant messenger, between 2001 - 2003 but we all basically had dial up (for those who don't know what that means - the computer literally had to dial a phone number over your landline, it made a very funny set of noises) If you're asking if people just spent a Long time online, using the internet (for journals, messaging or emails) throughout the day, I would say that could only have been rich people and folks who had to for work. Being online prevented anyone in the household from using the phone, so it was kept to a minimum in a lot of homes until broadband internet became affordable, physically possible (they had to build out the infrastructure) and available through your cable provider. Tldr: spending every second online was for wall Street workaholics, CEOs and rich people.

@XXPiggyzXX652544

Жыл бұрын

You should look at Slowly. It's a pen pal app that's kinda like this. You send long-form messages back and forth, one at a time. You can't write to the person again until they've replied. It encourages thorough dialog instead of rapid idea exchange

you talking about para social relationships made me realize how alone I am every day. youtubers with smart thoughts are not a substitute for friends who keep up with you

@luccab9875

2 жыл бұрын

Even though I'm a stranger, I can relate to this at a deep level. I also feel like I need to be reminded of that and feel lonely as a result. I spend a ridiculous amount of time on KZread. It's often in the background while I work. And in the spirit of what CJ was talking about, I couldn't possibly keep up with every person I interact with over here, but I hope it means something that we are feeling alone at the same time and for similar reasons. We are not together in the physical space, but we are alone in the same digital space. So my soul reaches out to yours and I honestly hope better days are ahead. Abrazo desde Puerto Rico.

@nickie2483

2 жыл бұрын

I was off the Internet for a few weeks (involuntarily) and it took a while to ween myself off of it then I came back and it feels like relapsing for some reason like my grip has grown tighter & I’m constantly yearning 4 some unknown thing

@dreiaparratt787

2 жыл бұрын

I realized this after the 2016 election... And fell into an addiction. I'm getting better though.

@ImmortalHDizzle

2 жыл бұрын

no don't say this I have to grasp onto the last thing grounding me to this world and an alternative reality of panic. that thing is........youtubers. my friends

@LiterallyMisty

2 жыл бұрын

You dont have to be so loud 🙁

So this is what the ever-increasing length of Contrapoints videos has prepared me for

@alanhegewisch4486

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if one day, down the line, Amazon will sell a stream of an AI CJ the X rants that last for 80 years and that's just that. You let one of your distributed brains watch that for your whole life while you keep going with the rest of your brains.

@tannersievert6885

2 жыл бұрын

IVE BEEN TRAINING FOR THIS

@sharkyjeff

2 жыл бұрын

this is much more insightful and consistently true than contra's monthly nonsense lmao

@darko1295

2 жыл бұрын

@@sharkyjeff fuck you mean 'nonsense'? Her videos are as comprehensible and consistent as you can get when trying to talk about broader concepts on a somewhat philosophical level without being boring. Also, it's been years since she's kept a monthly upload schedule lol

@sharkyjeff

2 жыл бұрын

@@darko1295 Yeah, it's nonsense. Out of touch bullshit written by a woman who can afford to rent a museum, who oversimplifies and outright lies about Marxist theories to serve her own interests, and who thinks the French took the head off Louis Capet and his wretched Austrian because of "envy."

this is my favorite video on the internet, i’ve watched the entirety of it maybe twice, but i’ve countlessly rewatched my favorite bits. the first time i saw it i kept getting these epiphany moments, and i was just overall soooo excited about a subject i’ve never really thought of that much. it just felt so good seeing all the pieces forming a greater picture in my mind. you’re really good at understanding and making people understand stuff deeply. this video has over 2 hours i wasn’t bored for a minute, but also not slightly overwhelmed, its like its perfect

"Why do all your sentences have to end with laughter from an audience? Why does that feel like victory to you" Is incredible. I genuinely had to stop the video and think for a minute

"you're not a customer, you're a person. Don't let them convince you otherwise." Chills, literal chills

So I just need to shave my head...say less.

@nas6246

2 жыл бұрын

this is quite literally the best crossover event :o

@starsandmoonsabove

2 жыл бұрын

I think I recognize your voice at 1:06 ? ♥️

@anaisnintuition

2 жыл бұрын

Just came here from your livestream

@brunowerneck945

2 жыл бұрын

between CJ and fiq the signifier it seems KZread is recommending me a lot of channels you've commented on and I hope that streak continues

@Jsjdn3555

2 жыл бұрын

@@starsandmoonsabove really? I didn’t hear her?

iv watched this video before. i didn’t realize until the end. somehow the last couple years of my life changed enough to make this video feel completely different.

Una de las cosas más bellas de poder entender Inglés (aunque no pueda hablarlo ni escribirlo tan bien como escucharlo) es poder ver video ensayos e ir poco a poco entendiendo los conceptos que se plantean. Este de aquí dura dos horas y media, ¡por Dios!, pero aún así estuve sentado durante todo ese tiempo frente a mi computadora, escuchando lo que este chico tenía que decir. Y ha sido una gran experiencia, maldita sea.

@user-qv2qf1jk5o

Жыл бұрын

Siendo en el mismo situación con el español (que es mi primer idioma, pero ni mi lengua materna… o si lo es? es complicado, y yo no entiendo nada), por FAVOR dime que tienes algunos recomendaciones por vídeo ensayos como este solo en español…? Y ahora que lo has mencionado tú (seguro que alguien más tmb, pero como te veo hablando en otra idioma, y sobre esto, ya confío en el hecho que entiendes esto mejor que cualquier otro desconocido aqui) - una de las cosas más bellas del internet es como te deja conectar con varias culturas y tal. En este momento es la única razón para que puedo justificar mi usage de ello, la verdad. En mi caso concretamente es raro pq soy un inmigrante/“third-culture kid” (mas o menos…? Menos. Pero más, tmb) y en algunas maneras el internet no es mi hogar pero CONTIENE mi hogar, y mi familia. Mi hogar ‘real’ no es mío y lo he visitado pero ya no es realista volver, si fuera posible en primer lugar. (Una cosa que me sorprende un poco es el hecho de que no menciono en absoluto algo que es uno de las primeras cosas en que pienso cuando pienso del internet - que por el internet, no por tumblr pero probablemente por una cultura seguramente creado por tumblr, conectaba a una cultura queer que me ayudó lograr un ‘entendimiento’ de yo misma; algo fuera de mi me dejo encontrar un hogar en mi propio cuerpo. Cyborgs! Cíborg, tmb, me dice GOOGLE - y …la trama… espesa… engorda… o algo) Si este comentario no es entendible puedo intentar traducirlo a inglés…. Que ya puedes entender - y muy muy bien, claramente - de todos modos… y NO lo haré a las 1 por la mañana. (Eso es un ejemplo de una hora a que NO debes escribir comentarios de YT, especialmente cuando tienes que levantarte a las 6, que eligió totalmente al azar).

@nestorcsamacho6328

Жыл бұрын

@@user-qv2qf1jk5o Perdona por no responder, lo haré en comentarios separados, primero la recomendación y luego lo otro:

@nirbanana013

Жыл бұрын

@@nestorcsamacho6328donde esta la recomendacion bro

@nestorcsamacho6328

Жыл бұрын

@@nirbanana013 era un comentario muy largo y youtube lo borró. Otro día lo intentaré volver a subir, sino pondré mi discord a ver si lo paso por ahí

@nestorcsamacho6328

Жыл бұрын

@@user-qv2qf1jk5o sigue bloqueando...

"Don't be intimidated by music theory it's just names for noises you already know" -CJ This is a very comforting thing to say when I'm trying to learn music theory for a WIP and it's kicking my ass. I genuinely appreciate it

When you realize "I promise to never go outside again" isn't about COVID. It's Bo's reluctant but inevitable return to comedy, once again re-entering the business of commodifying his self for an audience after his 5 years "outside". And the paradoxical tragedy is that he's really fking good at it, and it's what his audience has wanted this whole time. I hadn't understood this until now, so thank you for the phenomenal video

@omnidiscord

2 жыл бұрын

porque no los dos? 🤷🏾‍♀️

After a few years have passed, I just wanted to say that the question, "How much of yourself would you feel you've lost if every archived post and chat history and all your social media accounts vanished tomorrow?" has completely changed my life and the way I perceive my identity and relation to pretty much everything. I put a lot more of my energy into things I really care about now. And I also do scrapbooking, lol.

The fact that I came here just because I recently watched Inside, and during the video I forgot that was the concentric topic of this odissey of feelings and literal "fuck you"s, is just breath-taking. How they flowed between references to literature and their own thoughts; how they transition from point to point; just the overall way of performing is charming. I tried using this video as a "podcast" and it lured me into watching it, focusing solely in it. They made a video that I was feeling like I was Inside (pun intended), even though it was a monologue, I was capable of "being talked to". Im happy of having found this channel, and as so, thank you for making this content, which I may like to call art.

i usually try to comment something witty or meaningful but i’m incapable of performing rn via comments. i just really like this video. thanks for ur services.

@Cream12345Ice

2 жыл бұрын

This channel makes me question reality

@miafethiere2366

2 жыл бұрын

i love your vids

@franciscaribeiro949

2 жыл бұрын

Retweet

@dontcall9912

2 жыл бұрын

Oh it's you.... 😒 the skinny shamer

@beverycarefuljohn586

2 жыл бұрын

@@dontcall9912 what did she say?

when you hyped up Kill All Normies i was like "cool i should buy this so i can read it" and immediately went to amazon and then just had to lay down due to the several thousand layers of irony

@nekolover881

2 жыл бұрын

library gensis is ur friend :3

@soy6505

2 жыл бұрын

@@nekolover881 the author doesn’t make money if u pirate, and they also don’t get to make more books if their first book does badly~ its better to try and buy from independent bookstores in ur area piracy should be a last resort unless the authors problematic or dead!~

@kingnorkaiser

2 жыл бұрын

Ignore all arguments discouraging piracy. Steal everything, don’t spend money on anything you can get for free.

@premiumsockets

2 жыл бұрын

Also, I get it, pirate when you can, give money to deserving independent creators, avoid giving money to corporations unnecessarily, im on board with that. but sometimes you just want a new thing fast, and that's amazon.

@essendossev362

2 жыл бұрын

libraries are a good resource, if you have access to one

I've had various bits of this video playing in my head on loop ever since I watched it a few days ago, immediately after rewatching inside with a couple of good and smart friends. there's a lot, like a /lot/ in it that has changed me but now I have reached this point where I'm sitting here thinking about how when I was 14 and me and my siblings discovered bo burnham in the first place, it was "art is dead" that really reached into me and ripped my soul out for the examining I was a kid growing up on the internet in the modern world. I was depressed, anxious, dissociative, and clinging to art as the only thing that meant anything to me. my friends were all the same way. we all wanted to be artists, and some of us even are now but that existential dread of what it meant to make art and be an artist in this world was hanging the fuck over us and the anxiety of becoming little attention whores who only cared about ourselves was inescapable. your self is a performance, therefore it must be good, worthy, and meaningful. and your art is a part of your self, therefore your art must become part of the performance and the performance must be sold. because everything costs. everything has to pay. "art is dead" brought out of me that sensation of feeling like there was no fucking justification in the world good enough to want art, to want to make art and be an artist, in a time where everything has to pay and everything has to cost. how can you, as a child on the internet, justify buying and selling your own silly little existence? when there are problems so much bigger and more real than your entire life? when the entertainment that you provide ends up costing more than another person's entire life? more than a family of four for forty fucking fortnights. I guess inside brings up some of the same things to me. the question of the frivolity of art, why performance and the creation of art are fulfilling and what kind of a justification that is for doing it; the way that art as a discussion of our existences happens now in the context of the internet. being in the spotlight and what it does to you and why we all want it (money). what's inside all of us? the free fucking market, I guess. even then, when art was literally keeping me and most of the people I loved alive in the least material way it possibly could, none of us could /fail/ to be aware that most of it could only exist if it could be sold. maybe more accurately, if the person behind it and the people now in front of it could be sold. why are we living like this? why the fuck have we been living like this? anyways, thanks for the video. good stuff. really makes u think

I'm only halfway through this video and its already one of the most profound things I have ever experienced. You are the voice of a generation, keep it up my friend

"when the medium of discussion becomes reductive jokes, a walking joke will be our leader." honestly, this video made so many great points so quickly that i couldn't write down all my favorite quotes if i tried, excellent analysis

@Mystician

Жыл бұрын

You know what the most reductive joke of them all is? Monetizing being an insecure bully by pretending your sense of taste is superior to everybody else's.

@novachromatic

10 ай бұрын

Just dropping my favorite quote from the video here: 1:47:18 "Self-consciousness, constant performance, and cyborgian transhumanism are eating us alive. The corporations that control the mediums only care about profit. The parents still don't fully understand what a dab is. And the kids are so lost in irony and despair that they can only meme the pain away."

the amount of times during this video that i went "oh fuck right this video is about bo burnham" makes it exactly the kind of video that scratches my brain just right

anyone else come out of this video feeling like they need everyone in their life to have seen it so they can discuss it? I'm half tempted to send this to my therapist just so we can really address my relationship with the internet.

"It was trying to use a limb that was no longer there" BRO

"he was patient zero" jesus fking christ this gave me chills like crazy

@tomemeornottomeme1864

2 жыл бұрын

that line hit like a fucking truck

@goldendew5759

2 жыл бұрын

GOD YEAH

@hunnygoblin

2 жыл бұрын

that part

It took me a couple times watching "White Woman's Instagram" to really get it but once it did it hit me like a ton of bricks. The whole song is shot in a square aspect ratio to mimic the Instagram aspect ratio. It cuts from one performative action to the next, never breaking that format. Then it gets to the point where she's mourning her mom and the aspect ratio expands to fill the frame. She's finally opening up a little about the challenges she's facing, but as the 'caption' goes on to exclaim her accomplishments, it too becomes part of the performance and the aspect ratio shrinks down to the square again in time for a joke. The platforms encourage us to open up about things and 'get real' which then just becomes an additional part of the performance. We are encouraged to never say our lives are hard, unless it's followed by how we're actually doing ok, or a joke. If you've ever tried to say something is emotionally challenging to go through on social media, you are met with a wall of people saying a quick "you can do it!" or some other platitude so we largely just don't. Also "Some random quote from Lord of the Rings incorrectly attributed to Martin Luther King" is just a really solid joke.

@frogman1

2 жыл бұрын

I had a more optimistic interpretation of White Woman's Instagram, where that heartfelt story and the return to the Instagram format showed how people can be genuine in online spaces and that the same people can also be very performative at times. I get your comment, though, and really I think the song encapsulates all of these ideas.

@mirindi2398

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but

@stephaniegalliart859

2 жыл бұрын

I definitely interpreted it more like @frogman did, but I actually really like your analysis too. That makes a lot of sense in the context of performance.

@JC-yy8iv

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t you think it’s a little hacky and outdated? Let me be clear, I hold Burnam in very high esteem as a creator and I love this special, that’s why I felt almost shocked at what a huge miss that one was. The whole thing seems pulled straight from 2014, the entire concept has just been done to death over and over, it’s not even remotely insightful at this point

@Mojojojo85757

2 жыл бұрын

I would say the LOTR quote joke was only solid in the sense that it’s literally a meme… and since it’s a meme it’s been told over and over and over which is the definition of unoriginal… so in that sense to me that part was actually a really “easy” joke. Of course people laughed at that part, so as a joke goes we could say it did it’s job… but did you REALLY laugh that much ? Or just kind of grin or chortle at the fact that this concept (of an incorrectly attributed quote on the internet) is such a well-known trope? I would argue that that specific joke wasn’t actually that solid… but then again if we look at all the other lines they’re also very meme-ish. So clearly the idea was to appeal to the “white woman on social media” tropes that were all familiar with. That’s what makes it so poignant when the character opens up about the loss of their mother and the deep pain associated with it… for those of us watching that can relate to that pain, that part “hit like a ton of bricks” as you said. To me it was a portrait of “a random person on the internet”, in other words anyone, despite all the stereotypes they may display on the internet, is a real person going through things, and often we can be completely ignorant and unaware of this truth because we are so focused on the memes they embody. Sure it says something about the performance of social media, but it also says something about the audience, the viewers, us people watching. We can all sit and laugh at the performers “false” projection of a perfect life, and the meme like behavior, but we all too easily forget that it’s a performance we’re watching, and that the individual characters are merely performing.

this guy could talk for 11 seconds and say more information than i could in an hour

this video contains 22 of the top 35 most excellent sentences i have heard this week

you made me actually want to have a real conversation with my friends about this but my vocabulary is shitty and i just ended up saying something like 'corporation bad' and started crying i wish i was joking...

@no-gy9uk

2 жыл бұрын

This happened to me before i only vaugley remember it was me coming to the real8zation that my vovab was small after x years of not reading (after school). I got a library card and read abit i think.

@VegaNorth

2 жыл бұрын

Cultivating a skill like nuanced coversation takes years of practice. Just ask your English teachers. Please have patience with yourself-we’re here with you.

@hoaheoua

2 жыл бұрын

same, i couldn't even speak without getting my tongue tied

@hoaheoua

2 жыл бұрын

but you know, wanting to improve is already very nice, I hope you can work to achieve it :>

@neoclassicalder

2 жыл бұрын

Same I think maybe just convince all your friends to watch it and then sit there in silence and have a moment until something that feels right comes up. That’s what I’m going to try.

this is just as existentially draining as watching inside, if not more…

@ashe.7945

2 жыл бұрын

I feel the same.

@ruliak

2 жыл бұрын

Also...existentially fulfulling though I think, especially at the end. I think it benefits us to take away those "materials" and produce our own for these conversations.

@razagan1343

2 жыл бұрын

To each their own, but I found it almost, clearing. Like how a diagnosis can take worry away. (Although even that description I am not even on board, but after this I just feel so much less, stressed, like air has been in my lungs after months.)

@DANAXfantastico

2 жыл бұрын

It took me 2 days to finish watching it

@leality_is_here

2 жыл бұрын

I think its honest and hopeful

You, sir, are a modern day philosopher. You have taught me so much at once, I'm going to have to process this for weeks to come... give or take. Thank you.

Talking of sincerity in opinions - as an autistic young person who is always genuinely 100% passionate in opinions I hold, and always willing to share them, I find it incredibly difficult to find and make friends with people who also share genuine sentiments about *anything*. I love to discuss what I think, but I always get the sense when I talk to anyone else my age that they are afraid to hold a sincere and genuine opinion, unless I am talking to another neurodivergent person. It's a phenomenon that baffles and frustrates me - someone can almost always tell you how they feel about something as a reaction, but almost always refuse to engage in why, and justify something passionately or with any real feeling about it. If I am talking about something I love, hate, whatever, I'll tell you why I think that, but it seems like it's become impossible for others to do. It's despairing that sincere discussion seems to be so dead, and it's isolating as well. It makes me feel as though I am the only one with real feelings, which I know can't be true - and as such I worry for how much that is bottled up inside other people.

kind of ironic that they gave young people a world that we routinely want to escape from... and then gave us a way to escape it that also gives them money

@SnailHatan

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t see what’s ironic about that. Seems like standard capitalism to me.

@mollymay7760

2 жыл бұрын

@@SnailHatan good point

@verybarebones

2 жыл бұрын

Capitalism creates the problem to sell you the solution. Tale old as time.

This is phenomenal.

@TheIrshNinjaaa

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this!

@phillipelenor7831

2 жыл бұрын

This video, Jangles ScienceLad’s video, and your video are my top 3 video essays on Inside. My immediate thought after seeing Bo’s special was, “I can’t wait to see the art and analysis this inspires.” And y’all didn’t disappoint.

@SnailHatan

2 жыл бұрын

No u

@trs4184

2 жыл бұрын

@Grace The first word that came to mine was "important". I think Inside and some of the video essays about it (including this one) are the earliest steps of the real conversation about the internet.

@soothingbreakdown9878

2 жыл бұрын

Watched this because you said it was good. Thanks for the heads up about this video

Watching this at work. I work at Amazon.

Okay, now I'm finished and this video essay stays with me. I think it's fascinating how, in two hours and twenty-six minutes (spelled out for gravitas), CJ manages do go through a review of Bo Burnhams works to Amazon business tactics, to an outlook on Transhumanism and Luddism to AI and corporation's data Krakens and echo chambers, to a debate about the essence of human self-identity and about internet-nativism and meme culture and parasocial relationships and the growing divide in political discussions ... and I definitely skipped a few. But the fascinating point is, that I could not only follow it all but understood the connection between these seemingly different subjects. CJ has an amazing didactic talent. Should have become a teacher.

“as if you people know what you want”. that was a little TOO ACCURATE.

"I'm not here to give, so I must be here to recieve" - I am crying.

KZread video essays can be so effective. Breadsword makes me nostalgic and teary-eyed, in praise of shadows inspires me to create weird art, and you send me into downwards existential crisis mode that never ends and just gets more momentum every video.. except the water ranking video. That gave me so much genuine joy.

This has generally been one of the most entertaining video I’ve ever watched. Thank you for making it

"Profit isn't value. Value is value" that deserve a like and a comment.

@canaldeAloja

2 жыл бұрын

And a long form discussion

@spikeyferret8613

2 жыл бұрын

YOO I LITERALLY SAW THAT COMMENT AS THEY SAID THAT

This shit is gonna be wild. I’m stoked.

@DanielCohen447

2 жыл бұрын

that shit was wild

@wizthrift

2 жыл бұрын

I've been waiting for something for this.

@baronblackdragon9078

2 жыл бұрын

This shit has already been wild

damn dude the end made me cry, thank you for your art

this video made me find you, and I just have to say I’m so happy it did! I love your energy and pacing of your video.

As a disabled and chronically ill person, I completely feel like I live inside the internet a lot of the time. Even before the pandemic, I couldn't physically interact with people or go to social events very much. A lot of abled people see this lifestyle as sad and while, yes, I do wish that I COULD do more, I CAN'T. And the internet offers me solace in that.

@CryptP

2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't help that abled people think disabled people exist only to overcome and do things that even they can't to inspire them So when we eventually choose to not do that and just live in the way that's best for us, and that doesn't match up to their perception of the absolute most they think we should do they're actively disappointed in us Idk what the point of this reply was I'm quite drunk

@isthataspider7410

2 жыл бұрын

@@CryptP don’t worry your point made very good sense

@CryptP

2 жыл бұрын

@@bellac6311 Yes!!! Like explaining to people that not all disabled people *want* to work because it's just not really worth all the extra effort we'd often have to put in to do so. They think you're lazy for not working, but apparently you're an inspiration just for being disabled and nothing else. They can only conceive the hardships of disability when it's convenient to them.

@qwitchyy

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. I see you. 🖤

@jennahumphrey1

2 жыл бұрын

Same. Here for you. xx

"capitalism will force individual humans to embrace transcendence as a profit motive" was not the mindfuck I was expecting today but it's definitely appreciated

Cried at the end, a beautifully well crafted video. Thank you CJ 💖

the massive combo sponsor ad at the end (set to the same music that bo used in his knife monologue) was actually a perfect way to end this video holy shit

"I'd say it to his face and he'd agree with me" is so powerful

@4dultw1thj0b

2 жыл бұрын

It's 100% true! I really think he much prefers thoughtful criticism to glowing praise of himself, and I appreciate that about him.

"and don't take that out of context to be a TERF" I was already feeling this essay but this earned a sub

@disasterjones5798

2 жыл бұрын

UMMMM I DID NOT HEED THE WARNING TO ADEQUATELY PREPARE

@lynnclaywood4043

2 жыл бұрын

@@disasterjones5798 HAHAHA FELT THAT

Underrated joke of the video: "When I reached a crossroad, I would simply look at my little strip of paper and follow directions...like a soldier in Nazi Germany."

I've got a kid and this is. So much of what I've been thinking and had no words for watching him grow up. I'm very thankful for all your videos but this one especially has been a goddamn train ride above the mountain and through the ocean.

"You have to be happy, it's not a life if you're not" Dave you absolute lad

this man single-handedly defeated weeks of procrastination and actually made me start writing my script, what a chad

@mixinmasta

2 жыл бұрын

bro same. I just started writing the first page of the Ap4rth3us books i wanna write

Really needed something like this over the past few months. Thank you so much.

You are ridiculously articulate and so easy to follow, and even during bummer topics, you genuinely make me laugh, out loud, not just exhaling through my nose. I had to subscribe after one video lol

Watching this as a 19 year old with almost no social media presence is a trip.

@garbage-boitrash-man1489

2 жыл бұрын

I turn 20 in a week and I’m in the same boat yet just the other day I found myself thinking how I wanted to share an incredibly personal and intimate moment with my brother to a twitter or intsagram. I have neither. The poison is endemic.

@chana7276

2 жыл бұрын

I turned 20 2 days ago but same

@antonizajkowski9698

2 жыл бұрын

I can relate so much. I don't understand half of the things they're saying

@jessecoombs

2 жыл бұрын

Heh. Y'all know this thread counts, right?

@sagecolvard9644

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessecoombs It really doesn't. If you think it does, that's part of the disconnect we're talking about.

I got emotional when cj started talking about how my gen is called the me generation. I didn’t do this to myself. I don’t want to feel this way. This is everything I know

@Metguy123

2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely know what that's like and boomers were gaslighting us (millennials) for the exact same thing too. They even made the Time magazine person of the year "The Generation of You" And it's like "hey... You gave all this to us wtf." And then when they had the chance to catch the next gen from the absolute beginning (infants growing up on iPads/social media) they absolutely exploited that. And now they're chastising you for it. It's sick.

@hexane360

2 жыл бұрын

Ironically, the "me generation" was originally Baby Boomers: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation

@heartpng

2 жыл бұрын

When every generation reaches the teen/young adult age, they get called the "me generation." It happens like clockwork and it's so frustrating. Like that's literally the age you're building yourself and making big decisions about your life. For a healthy person, this is the time you SHOULD be the most self involved!

@Dynamigatas77

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the me generation were the baby boomers (lord google and lady wikipedia agree with me)… lawd, u kids aren’t getting the right info…love, gen X

I think what sets CJ's video essays apart from others with a similar vibe is that while they have that witty clever comedy and hilariously aggressive attitude, at one point or another, sincerity is brought into the equation, and a point is made of its value. It's not cool to be apathetic, what are you doing if you don't care? Do you want to be doing it? And that respect for being human and emotional and sincere is problably the reason these essays not only present me with new facts and opinions but also make me change my mind, sometimes. I don't click off the second a statement is made that I dont agree with. Because I know it's going somewhere meaningful.

Thank you for your commitment to creative integrity ; this video articulated a lot of tummy feelings I needed words for.

"If you can't beat it, join it." //laughs hysterically whilst washing dishes alone in my house

@starrychan33

2 жыл бұрын

Wow me too lol

@supakawaii69

2 жыл бұрын

i feel so fucking hard

@dishfishes

2 жыл бұрын

Watched this alone while baking bread the past like 4 hours and it was an Experience

@lordbuddybear

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I love you for that comment

It's always interesting seeing people talk about Tumblr as someone who's been using the site since I was 16, lived through the rise and fall of the "SJW" culture that had such an effect on modern discourse, and still uses the same account now a literal decade later. All social media is terrible but if I could be a filthy tumblr apologist for a moment I do find it fascinating in how it's the only platform I know of that doesn't really have any mechanics that discourage long-form written expression. There's so little you can fit into a tweet or facebook status or insta post but on tumblr I'm regularly reading essay-length posts and there's no algorithm stopping me. Again, it's still very much Not Good, but there has to be something that can be said for just... being able to use more words than can fit in a single snappy comeback.

@bleachitwhite

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about this too! Also a long time tumblr user, and while tumblr isn’t exempt from cj’s critiques, i definitely read a lot of longer form stuff there-it isn’t JUST a hot take generator like twitter (though it still also does that lol)

@madisonarsenault629

2 жыл бұрын

Tumblr is my favourite of and really the only social media platform I still use bc of this and also because it's one of the only places on the internet where u can be anonymous

@liswane

2 жыл бұрын

i think that's because tumblr offers the user a blog rather than an "account", and so it favors that sort of diary-like posts that give the website the personality other platforms lack. also, i love that the focus is on the content and not on the creators themselves, so there's barely any ego on the site. we're all rats meeting at the trash cans and vibing.

@Gloommix

2 жыл бұрын

I read a post about this once on Tumblr! About how it was this miracle in the internet that couldn't be monetized for the longest time. Because everyone was anonymous, you couldn't expect to be individually famous like an influencer. You could only recieve attention for your ideas and often your art. It also welcomed long posts, art posts, videos, altogether which was part of what gave it such an active culture. You couldn't get a Tumblr user to pay for themes, to pay for premium accounts, to pay for special posts, and there was absolutely no idea how to advertise to Tumblr users when they finally did install ads. That was part of the appeal. If not for the whole nsfw fiasco, Tumblr would likely still have a very large active base. Tumblr had a lot go wrong but I was always proud that there was never any confusion between who ran the space, the users or the staff. Once the users were no longer happy, we mostly abandoned ship.

@benjisaac

2 жыл бұрын

I think a big part of it is also the reblog culture. There are individual creators who you know what they look like, and certain communities might see as an authority, but like 90% of their posts will be reblogged from other people too. Every space on tumblr is more of a community conversation than a performance from any one person

This is without a shadow of a doubt the greatest 2 hours of video I have seen this year. Thank you kindly.

I’ve been diving through your channel, saved this for last and WOW.

The ending of this video remeinded me of this quote "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”

@courtneys.7113

2 жыл бұрын

very raw quote. brb, will be thinking about this forever

@daviedarling

2 жыл бұрын

this is going on my mirror

@savannahtapia841

2 жыл бұрын

this is a reference to a verse from the Bible- Micah 6:8 "what does the Lord require of you? to act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" its a really good one

@doctorwholover1012

2 жыл бұрын

That quote in my mind always pairs with the end of a poem (I forgot it's name) "Put down your gun and have a sandwich" Just...... the acknowledgement of the overwhelming amount of work required to fix things + the moral obligation to participate, paired with the reminder that you can't just live for the work; you need to put it down, and have a sandwich 😭 hits every time

@Mateo-ph9js

2 жыл бұрын

@@doctorwholover1012 That is also such a good quote, I'll think about this

God I fucking love listening to you. This is the future of KZread. When everyone's copying you in five years I hope people make two+ hour video essays about how your energy and syntax was the original.

@dharmatycoon

2 жыл бұрын

Contrapoints did it first, wouldnt be surprised if someone did it before her either

@phantom-K

2 жыл бұрын

@@dharmatycoon conrrapoints brings a very different energy than this

@dharmatycoon

2 жыл бұрын

@@phantom-K I beg to differ

@pandoratypography

2 жыл бұрын

@@dharmatycoon tbh I love contrapoints and this is definitely a distinct energy, but honestly they’re both the future of long form entertainment

@phosphenevision

2 жыл бұрын

@@pandoratypography contrapoints is like going into the theater but the screenplay is an academic essay, CJ is like you’re at a party and a friend of your friend starts ranting about something that tangents about 15 different times but magically it all connects into an overarching meaning while about 5 people listen quietly

this is such an incredible video that put so many of my thougths and anxieties into actual words, thank you so much for this!

I am so glad I clicked on this. As someone who is a Christian, had wandered into the shallow end of the memable "political" space of folks like shapiro, i felt the same longing for soul you've expressed here CJ. Thank you for putting voice to an ache I'd been feeling for years