It’s more the feeling you get from sensing grand and tragic contradictions. The tragedy being that the contradictions are… either too nuanced for or lost on society. The fireside, folksy delivery commenting how casually society regards the theme in general
It's calm and comforting, because he's already greived. This is the tune of full realization, at the acceptance stage. That just makes it more emphasized. Amazing song.
"That funny feeling" is talking about something that has come to be referred to as "a boring dystopia". It's a primarily American concept, particularly because the dissonance is so pronounced within the U.S. It's the fact that when we hear "dystopia", we think it's dramatic. We think it's explosions and end-time events. We have a cinematic view of robot revolutions and AI algorithm eugenics. The reality is that we are already living in a slowly occurring dystopia. It's just "boring". Bo is pointing out the different, often contradictory aspects of a boring dystopia. The grandness of having the world at your fingertips via the internet, yet global warming bringing "the ocean to your door". The normalization of gun culture manifesting as a gift shop at the gun range, while there is a shooting at the mall--a Mecca of capitalism. 8k resolution on a meditation app--something you're not even supposed to be looking at, something that is supposed to come from within. "Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go" refers to the Climate Clock. International scientists analyze the human impact on the planet and calculate how long we have left before the damage we have done is irreparable and triggers the death of life as we know it. These are all things we intuitively know are wrong, but feel so powerless and anesthetized to do anything about.
I googled is the world ending in 2027 and it came up that there was a predicted 98% chance we would be hit by an asteroid that year. Maybe that's the reference?
@@alicediamond387 I'm wondering what's your source, all I found was a simulated 96% chance and not taken to be real Edit: 2017 PDC isn't a real asteroid
I saw someone on Twitter describe Bo Burnham as the band playing on the titanic as it sinks and that felt like the best description I’d heard. Also I’m a fellow therapist and I love your stuff and how much you really do lean into the therapist vibes to break stuff down. Thanks bud.
It's truly horrifying how accurate Bo showed the world with Inside. How we are succumbing to ourselves and to an end in front of us that we all seem to ignore. I never once thought in my lifetime that I may see the end of anything but myself, but with the way the world seems to be going... We were overdue.
Can you elaborate? Because Trumpers think that the world is going to hell or ending because of "the libs", and they usually point to a bunch of shit that isn't actually happening or isn't a big deal as "the death of our country". If you're talking about climate change, corruption at the highest levels, AI, etc, then yes. I agree. 800k+ people have died in the US alone from something that could be avoided if people just did their part. And that's what will end up being our downfall. The fact that we know what's coming and that we need to do something, but we lie to ourselves and others so we can justify doing nothing.
Capitalism is inherently unstable. The infinite growth upon which it is based is simply physically impossible on a limited planet. it is inconceivable that the ruling class will ever voluntarily abandon that system, and so they respond the only way they can; by desperately attempting to bail water out of the sinking ship. Throwing massive quantities of money at businesses hurt by the pandemic while refusing to give the working class more than a pittance, refusing to consider lockdowns early on in the pandemic when they might have helped, calling "essential workers" heroes while knowingly feeding them into the grist mill, and flat out spreading propaganda that the disease wasn't real and wasn't dangerous; that's how capitalism responds to a crisis. And look what it accomplished! 800k dead so far, poverty and homelessness exploding, multiple critical industries teetering on the edge of total system collapse and propaganda which predictably mutated well beyond homicidal pro-work denialism and into a full on fascist death cult. Even health officials have mostly given up trying to do anything about the pandemic itself; all efforts are now are focused on forcing workers back to their jobs and propping up the profits of private industry. We've got airline CEO's dictating CDC policy for fuck sake. We moved much too quickly towards blaming the unvaccinated for spreading the disease, and away from remembering the decisions to turn retirement homes into charnel houses, or force "essential workers" into a meat grinder for minimum wage, or to cut off direct payments to force people back to work. Yes, people who still refuse to take basic precautions are definitely responsible for a non-zero percentage of those 800k deaths, but never forget that the decisions which caused most of them weren't made by your shitty racist uncle. They were made by people who got vaccines before anyone else had a chance to while publicly spreading anti-vax propaganda, who profited while hundreds of thousands of working class people died, and who will always use their grip on the levers of power to further their own class interests. These are the same people who fight unionization tooth and nail, who doomed us to climate catastrophe and continue to block any action to prevent it, who broke the healthcare system long before the pandemic started, and who pay millions to keep it broken. Never forget that the precarious nightmare of our lives isn't some malfunction or accident; it's the system working exactly as intended. And never forget that these people have addresses and names.
As a teenager, I used to joke about having front row tickets to the end of the world. That it's a show I absolutely didn't want to miss. Lo and behold, twenty years later I don't joke about it anymore because it feels like I was right...
To me that funny feeling is just that feeling you get when things arent quite right ya know. The existential dread you can feel when things are off. All the things he's listing throughout the song aren't quite right or just don't make sense. "A stunning 8k resolution meditation app" for example just doesn't feel right considering you would usually have your eyes closed cutting off your senses to relax and focus and the app being 8k resolution is almost counterproductive.
Beat me to it by an hour. Existential dread. The tickling in the back of your mind that you don't want to focus on too much, because otherwise it turns into despair. It paralyzes you. So instead, you try to numb yourself to it, distract yourself. But it's always there, that funny feeling, silently screaming at you that what you see around you is just _wrong._
Great interpretation! When I think of meditation I think of grounding yourself in nature and the reality of the world around you, so the idea of meditating through an app sounds like shielding yourself in an inauthentic imitation. A stunning "landscape" of 8K digital pixels and yet another screen. Keeping yourself "Inside".
Every time I watch a reaction to this and someone says "Wow" followed by a sigh, it brings that "Quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" line to life. That's that funny feeling.
"20,000 years of this, seven more to go" that line was written when runaway climate change was predicted in scene years. I feel like a building has fallen on me every time I hear it.
One year later it feels like the climate has totally gone out of control and is careening toward near term extinction---"seven more to go" conjured up Guy McPherson in my mind's eye, saying we have 7 years left.
“Googling derealization and hating what you find” is the line that really got to me. It’s knowing somethings wrong with you, trying to find out what it is and then you find it and you’re not better. hurts man. hurts.
I suffered from derealization a few months back. It is truly hard to explain just how uncomfortable it is. The "funny" feeling. A numbness extending to your entire body.
It’s doubly funny when you realize that the derealization was caused by you being constantly on the internet, and yet you go into that medium to find solutions for the problem that was caused by spending too much time on the very medium that caused your problem. You’re chained. You can’t help but laugh at the irony and your helplessness. It’s a funny feeling
I had this exact thing during the worst of the pandemic because I was seeing the same things day after day after day as I was doing online schooling. All I saw were the walls of my room. I was very bored with life as a person that had just graduated to a different school. I felt out of place and was very depressed because I wanted to “wake up”, yet couldn’t. It felt like I was dreaming and living in a haze. I spent a week or two in a state of hazy and depressive sadness. I didn’t even know what was happening. I woke up one day and wanted to ”despawn”. It was scary because that week, I just wanted to fall asleep and not wake up. My mom took me on walks to try and help and I was finally able to smile and snap out of it when I spent a day enjoying the day outside and running around in circles at the park, finally smiling again. It was such a refreshing and reassuring moment. I know that it is different for everyone, but my advice to maybe try out is to step outside of your day to day schedule and do something bizarre and unordinary for you to do on a normal day. Do something new and I hope it gets better
and most the time u find it you caused it / could have done things to avoid it (sometimes you don’t and ur just unlucky that your brain did that shit to you lol) for me personally it was doing too much molly to the point where i don’t feel real n it comes in waves
truly. i suffer from chronic depersonalisation/derealisation disorder (that means i'm constantly in a state of derealisation - it doesn't turn off) and finding out I have it made things 10x worse because there's no known therapy/medication that can help.
I think one of the most important couple lines of this song, the ones where he basically lays out what "that funny feeling" is would be: "Total disassociation, fully out your mind Googling 'derealization,' hating what you find" "That funny feeling" = derealization, where you feel detached from your surroundings and even yourself. Nothing feels real even though you know it is.
Honestly the line "Deadpools self awareness" is pretty underrated it really sets the tone for the song In the comics, depending on which ones you are reading I guess but definitely with sad clown Deadpool he's not just self aware he's harmfully self aware, being aware that his world isn't real canonically makes him insane, or at least leads others to see him as insane in many situations
that funny feeling is something we all experience uniquely. its a feeling that we get when we see the world burn and stand still. its the impending doom. the quiet comprehending. the stasis. the one piece of your brain that is trying to tell you something is wrong that you choose to ignore, but its voice is still just loud enough to remind you it exists amidst the chaos of the world.
I think the porn hub and Grand theft auto lines are interesting, its almost like he's turning to the digital world for a sense normalcy because the real world is anything but that right now.
That's exactly how I interpreted it. The world is so chaotic, that when presented with the sandbox where you can do anything you want (and breaking laws/chaos I encouraged), you create/seek order.
I viewed it as a need for mundanity, not necessarily a return to the digital world. My senses are overloaded, maybe I don't need to be watching people fucking right now type of thing.
@@Valwryn00 It is also using these things that people usually use to get a fix for something they mostly can't experience to get that dopeamine boost in a way most people don't. Instead of looking at all the porn on pornhub, you are reading their terms of service, or obeying all the traffic laws in a game about doing just the opposite. You are so burnt out by this thing that used to be thrilling that you go to them out of habit but have no desire to use them like you used to. It is highly creative and insightful, and also so true it is hurtful.
@@taranyoung4722count me in as part of the group. I've never been good with turning my thoughts and feelings into words but Bo captures and expresses a lot of my general anxiety in ways that doesn't come naturally to me and it helps me consolidate and process these emotions.
I found this song so deeply depressing the first time I watched the special. Now I find myself randomly singing at least a part of it every day. 🤦🏻♀️ Thank you for another great reaction. Loved everything you had to say at the end. I needed to hear some of that.
The end of this song crushed me for a long time. I use to see it in a negative light and went through a break up around the time of hearing it. Listening to it again now over a year later, I have a new positive interpretation of this song. It's not just about content. It's about the ridiculousness of this world. That funny feeling is how we get manipulated into caring too much about things we cannot really help with. In the end he repeats that line over and over again because he wants us to know it will never end and we need to find that peace within ourselves. That is the funny feeling we should actually strive for. 💖
"It's like we're sitting in front of the bonfire, listening to Bo [Burnham] as he calmly assures us the world is ending." - [ 4:26 ] I honestly don't think I have ever heard a better description of this song.
I am forever grateful for Bo and his ability to make people feel not alone. The way he brings attention to these issues to the people who can spread them and change the world the most is amazingly beautiful.
I always thought of it as the "funny feeling" being those moments where we don't feel apathetic, anhedonic, or disconnected. When we actually feel things like hope, companionship, clarity. Like, most people can relate to the cynicism. It's a weird thing to relate to, but knowing we're not the only one still somehow makes us feel better. And that's, well, a funny feeling.
This song is the song that sort of... "cured" my existential dread. It would affect me to the point of being incapacitated for hours, sometimes days. At first it, along with "All Eyes on Me" made it much worse but in time it kinda settled in. The honest truth is yeah, there isn't anything we can do and it will be over soon. Embracing that end seems smarter than fearing it constantly... doesnt always help but at least I can exist in what time there is left.
It actually forced me to find hope. I remember I was listening to this song on loop, and I started to think about Pompeii, and the black death, and the fall of Rome, and every single time in human history people have cried out that "It's the end of the world." You can find a historical record of someone, from every era in humanity, believing its the end. And they were WRONG. Trillions of souls, believing, knowing in their heart, that the world was ending, and every single one of them was wrong. I think we're wrong. Sure, we might suffer, it might be the fall of the new Rome, but we'll be ok in the end. It's the one thing all humans have in common, our dread was wrong.
Same boat. Sometimes this and All Eyes On Me send me into this deep sense of depression, but in a strange way, they're freeing. These songs push you headlong into crippling grief for the future, but also into the sense of acceptance on the other side. Nothing matters and it'll be over soon... so it's okay. Life is what you make of it. Take a deep breath and live it for what it's worth.
"Total disassociation, fully out your mind. Googling de-realization and hating what you find." Dissociation: A mental process of disconnecting from one's thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity. De-realization: a feeling that one's surroundings are not real, especially as a symptom of mental disturbance. What happens when your online life is of equal measure to a real one. Not only do you no longer feel like you belong, but there isn't anything to belong to. That whomever "you" are is a figment of either yours or someone else imagination. And that nothing matters because, in the grand scheme of things, you, most certainly, do not. And hating yourself because of it.
@@TherapeuticReactions Lol, you don't have to but it'd be cool if you explored mental health issues on your channel. Tackling topics you might not be familiar with like derealization or even stuff like depression or suicide prevention.
@@SoraJack That's definitely where this channel is going to grow to as well! I see how much people relate and want to talk about these topics. Thanks for the great comment!
Absolutely no hate, but isn’t this from the perspective of a therapist? I realize this probably comes off rudely, and I absolutely do not mean that in any capacity. I’m really glad you made this commentary video; I love these!
@@allornada9564 100% same. I didn't want to say it outright because who tf am I to talk about what a therapist should or shouldn't know and understand. So I was like, "hey, maybe you can learn about them through producing youtube content." Or something like that. Which is why I was depression and suicide prevention on the get go.
This song, for me, addresses so many things that are contradictory or subtly wrong but pass as normal and how we seek to find normal in weird ways. I find it soothing in the way I might feel relieved after the elephant in the room has been addressed. Though I had not thought of it that way, your reaction to the song really resonates with me too. I almost miss that mild detachment from the suffering of others. I tend to over empathize with all sides (to the point of non action in some areas), or obsess and overreact in other areas. I love observing your stream of consciousness style reaction and the generosity of how you give us these insights to you, truely lovely to me.😊
I think of that funny feeling as existential dread. That sense of impending doom. Only for a moment before your brain switches to something else. The only other thing it makes me think of is the Rick and Marty episode where he tells summer everything is random, no one exists on purpose, so let's go watch TV.
This part of the special, to me, is Bo walking us down to the very bottom of it all - the feeling of apathy in the face of horror. You have to go all the way to the bottom before you can start to come back up again (which is what happens in the next song, all eyes on me)
My favorite example of this in the Inside special is when, after the "Turning 30" song, he reassures us that he's not going to kill himself... but while he's saying it he shows himself just scrolling his phone, because he knows we all just gloss over when people say earnest thing like "hey, don't kill yourself."
"the whole world at your fingertips the ocean at your door" ---> still on the internet as a nor'easter surges the sea over the seawall behind your house and the waves come up onto your back porch all the way to the doorstep.
I've come across you recently through your reactions to Bo, and i gotta say, i look forward to each new reaction from you. You seem so nice, and so insightful. Keep doing what you're doing because it's amazing!
This entire special was heavy, but it was perfectly mixed in with tasteful and perfectly timed humour and really good songs to make such heavy things that we need to hear digestible. And, even with its existentialism, it's almost.. soothing to hear someone else put into words your own anxieties and depression and... Well existentialism lol. Bo is so talented
To me it’s not a follow up to Welcome to the Internet or about apathy. Here he’s talking about that feeling we get sometimes, you’ll be having a good day, good weeks, heck maybe a good month or year. Then that feeling creeps back randomly, sometimes for no reason, sometimes triggered by darkness you see around you. It’s that feeling you get when you get existential. That feeling that puts weight in your chest, it’s worry, dread, a sense of emptiness. Its so much more, and it hits hard.
The pandemic ironically helped me open up. Seeing people come out saying they are depressed and struggling with these "funny feelings" as Bo says so I had something to kinda support me. And it just helped, and thank you for everything YOU do. You help people like me on a daily and I just want you to know you are so appreciated
Also "Depersonalization/derealization disorder involves a persistent or recurring feeling of being detached from one's body or mental processes, like an outside observer of one's life (depersonalization), and/or a feeling of being detached from one's surroundings (derealization)."
The juxtaposition of the content of the song and the melody gets me every time. Bo singing calmly to us about the end of the world as the world is ending. I love your breakdown. It makes so much sense. It feels like the lion’s share of info we are bombarded with is cynical and negative to the point that it feels like I’m being disingenuous when I’m happy. It’s kind of funny because I saw almost the exact thing you did a couple days ago as I was driving home from work. A man had fallen with his bike and a woman who was smaller than him and loaded with a huge purse and a shopping bag ran over to him. He was tangled in the bike and looked upset, but her presence and assistance seemed to calm him. It was a moment that reminded me that, at our core, we’re not cynical; we just live in a society that conditions us to be.
Never clicked on a video as quickly as I clicked on yours. I barely discovered your channel and I have been so curious on your reaction to this song. I find this song very soothing combined with existential dread. I listen to the Inside songs every morning while commuting to work and it has helped me.
This video (and the comments) helped me to understand this song better. It's very sad but the message somehow motivates me to at least resist from being too submerged in the internet and appreciate life more. Thank you for this
I feel like that apathy is a survival mechanism. If you try to really care, it gets so overwhelming because it's daily, it's non-stop, and there are so many things that are so out of your control. When you care a lot, it's just going to start burning you out😔
I undestand the beginning of the song as a list of problems of the "same level" and he is like "we have: this problem, this problem, THIS PROBLEM, this problem, this problem, THIS PROBLEM... All equal, all important, right?"
One of the less seemingly heavy lines in the song was "reading pornhub's terms of service, going for a drive, and obeying all the traffic laws in grand theft auto V" That last bit hit me, because GTAV is meant to be kind of a power fantasy game where you can go do anything you want, but i used to do that a lot for some reason. Stop at all the stops, I used to think it was just boredom. But after hearing this song it made me realize that the world is crazy and overwhelming enough so that my fantasy is just to feel some semblence normality.
As another person said, I appreciate the more insightful interpretation you offer as a therapist. I’m sure a lot of therapists and psychologists have had this experience, but when I mention that I am a psychologist people have often asked me if I was “analyzing” them. As if in my college psychology courses they ingrained a need to analyze everyone constantly. And the truth is that most good therapists/psychologists have always observed others, thought about how they felt, and thought about how that influences behavior. It’s just how I think, so it doesn’t feel like “analyzing”. It’s just me. And I have the same feelings about the world as well. The way I try to think about it when I’m more positive is that there are always and there always have been constant tragedies occurring around the world, the only way to live is to make this small bubble around us a little better. The guilt and deep sorrow that comes with thinking about everything horrible doesn’t help anyone. And I have noticed that the less connected I am with the people around me, the more overwhelmed I can get by the horrible things in the wider world that I feel I can’t do anything to change. Thanks again for sharing your thought.
The song is mostly focused in true absurdist happenings. This is why he mentions derealization because each of what he says in the verses is the antithesis to previous mentions. 8k resolution meditation app, what good does 8k do you, youre supposed to be meditating not looking at a screen. Gift shop at the gun range a MS-ING at the mall. You s---where you eat and eat where you s--- type of scenario. A book on getting better hand delivered by a drone, when all you need is human contact and care. These deal so much in absurdity that it starts to detach you from what's real. The true derealization. Noticing something is so absurd it just can't be real.
It’s almost like the “funny feeling” is just knowing something is not right and missing. Like the song is hollow and you don’t know what’s missing but it’s there. Idk if that makes sense but that’s how I feel. Whenever I hear this song I feel empty and confused but also kinda at home.
"that funny feeling" is passive suicidal ideation in the face of a slow apocalypse that everyone who can help seems perfectly willing to ignore or at best pay lip service to, the band playing on while we all watch the planet burn in 8k, knowing in the back of our minds that no matter how much we do to help, the rot in our systems is so deep and intractable that it will all be for naught. The smokestacks will continue poisoning the sky until its too late.
To me he is singing about all the swirling thoughts of gloom and doom and frightening thoughts going through his head before a panic attack. He watches UA-cam and content to make him feel like he belongs to the real world, but they're just a distraction from his scary thoughts for a little while. That "Funny Feeling" is when it spirals into a panic attack. He is basically an agoraphobic never leaving the house, not living in the regular world and watching the state of the world and things on tv, social media and youtube. The picture of the forest behind him and campfire is showing how he lives indoors as an agoraphobic and can bring the outside world indoors as an agoraphobic with bad anxiety and panic disorder. Maybe I am wrong, but as someone with Panic Disorder, Anxiety, PTSD and Agoraphobia I can see this in his song.
I've seen a few reaction videos to this song, and they never seem to get it, and they talk about how he is just saying random things. You instantly got it, and I instantly subscribed.
Exactly. They don't get the crazy randomness of events these days and their inexorable end, particularly in the light of global overheating and possible near term extinction---"seven more to go".
I also, thoroughly enjoy your reactions to Bo. I've grown up with him ever since he was a UA-cam star and felt his same feelings growing up. When he took that 5 year break, it was devastating. This song also talks to me about the digital age, but it also talks about the irony (he has a very good song called Ironic) of everything he is saying. An amazing combination of irony and the digital age. People are even afraid to hug someone anymore because of it being taken wrong or denied. I'd love a reaction to his song Ironic, but I've still loved all the reactions you've done. Keep them up 🤘🤘🤘 especially since it is something you've wanted to do!
Was just on my phone and got this notification, this is exactly what I'm here for, I can relate so much and you help me with these comments to keep going and care as well, appreciate you very much, thank you for being you ❤️
@@TherapeuticReactions thank you for the fast reply, I was thinking how I’m glad I realized this and unfortunately was also thinking how I will still go back to my old habits anyways, but you replying is honestly now making me want to become my best self even more. Currently at a place where I can’t exactly improve to where I want to but I know I have a chance this summer and I will try my damn harder ❤️ much love and keep doing what your doing! It’s inspiring a lot more people than you realize :)
@@krepkos I don't know what's happening this summer but I'd love us to remember this back and forth and for you to comment in the summer as you're trying to be that person you want to be, also, you said at the end that I inspire more people then I realize, I'd like to truly thank you for all that and to point out you've inspired me greatly now yourself. Thank you for that! ❤️
Thank you for your authenticity. You talk about people being so brave to share what we’re going through and being honest about what we’re really experiencing, and I just wanted to say thank you to YOU for being brave. Thank you for being someone who doesn’t just tell others how to do it, but actually showing and being that example. I just really appreciate that, and I felt gratitude and wanted to share. So thank you.
Rose you really moved me. The most important thing for me is not to talk nonsense but to say really what it is I feel and walk the steps as well. Thank you for such a beautiful comment, I don't take your thanks for granted. I'm privileged to have such beautiful individuals with me here ❤️
I think I've watched all your Bo reaction videos at this point and the thing that strikes me most is the authenticity of your reactions, of your feelings and insights. There's an element of performance, because there's a camera on you so naturally, but like Bo does you manage to make your truth shine through that lens and not be shuttered by it. Thank you. You've brought fresh joy to an artist who I adore and watching you fall in love with his truth, the same way I did, has been very moving. I don't know you, but I love your truth too.
I adore this reaction. It's not just analytical but also felt. Understood with passion. I feel so alone in feeling like trying to care is such a problem now. I used to be the kid that helped the elderly lady load her groceries and now people are afraid of me or off put. The more chaos we have and are fed, the more most are desensitized to the pain of reality.
Thank you for saying that ❤️ I relate emmensly to what you said, I too used to be that kid and now, there's so much stuff to care about, you end up not caring. Horrible, let's fight for us, the inner child that still wants to help. Thank you for being you ❤️
You are always thoughtful, kind and brave! Loved seeing your take on one of my favorite Bo songs. I hope we give to you as much as you give to us in these reactions. I've talked about your videos to other Bo fans, too. They say "wholesome and genuine" which describes you well :) I thought your ideas about information overload were spot on!
Terri your comments are always thoughtful kind and brave, so it takes one to know one and I truly appreciate you. Thank you for this comment, with no doubt you're giving me so much ❤️
@@TherapeuticReactions I gotta tell you one more thing. My surgery, Tuesday, was delayed, so I'm waiting in pre-op feeling more and more nervous. I had my phone with me tho, and your video for "We Think We Know You" came up as I was waiting! I had the biggest smile on my face and it was so nice to have you 'with' me. Sure, the internet is "anything and everything all of the time" and SOMEtimes that can be wonderful. Thank you!
Man u hit the nail on the head with that explanation in my opinion. He is listing content, kind of like his own social media feed, and it is so much and blows by so fast that he cant care anymore
I always enjoy seeing peoples interpretations of this song and what that funny feeling is, I always took it to mean that unexplainable feeling I get at my lowest, its a sort of comprehension of my state kinda like the 'quiet comprehension'
I really like your reaction to this. It put words to what I feel about it. We are overwhelmed and desensitized by modern life/digital life. I was introduced to Bo Burnham by my kids (aged 19 & 21) a few months ago and I've become somewhat obsessed with his work (particularly Inside). It has really struck a nerve with me and I know that I don't fit his demographic. There is something about the truth, emotion, intelligence and artistry that he puts into everything he does that has such a hold on me.
Thank you for taking our suggestion! I knew you would have something to sink your teeth into. Keep doing Bo, and if you wanna change a bit, react to Patrice Oneal or Dave Chappelle.
By far the best reaction I’ve seen to this song and I’ve watched a lot. You captured the essence of this powerful song so beautifully this is exactly how the song feels but I haven’t been able to find the words to do it justice.
I genuinely think this song is just a list of phrases he heard and wrote them down thinking, “This could be a topic worth exploring one day”.. for a joke or a song, but after reading them later, he realized there’s a theme.. and that became the real story.
the way you described it is perfect. how can we process the urge to care about all of these worldly tragedies when we don’t have time to? there’s too much stimulation from the rapid fire context of the internet being literally “anything and everything all of the time.” developing a sense of apathy because in the end there’s nothing you can do and may as well let things run their course
I liked your take on the things he's listing being what's flooding in digitally. He's basically reading the news feed to us. And while he does that things get more and more awkward, iffy, paradox or just wrong. I feel there is this climax in every verse from the mundane to that thing that makes you realise things are bad. And that's where he says "there it is again", as if he expected it to come at some point. 'Hello darkness my old friend' in a sense. Because that last thing on the list tipped the scales to the uncanny. Triggering "that funny feeling". I also like your take on this being the feeling that we should feel something when we don't. I would differ from that and just think it's the feeling of something being wrong, of things ending, of impending doom. Sitting in front of the newsfeed just waiting for something to awaken that anxiety again. Maybe the funny feeling is what Germans would call "Weltschmerz".
I've always taken almost a weird comfort in this song - after the initial discomfort, there is something about knowing that it's all going to be over eventually that actually makes everything less scary.
worded well and a good interpretation, probably my favourite song of his to date i'd like to see more play-by-play analysis but i entirely understand a lot of people would prefer songs like this uninterrupted, since a lot of the power of this song comes from the hard hitting lines one after another
Your reaction to this song was really refreshing to watch. I reacted the same way when I saw it. I searched reaction videos because I was looking for a human connection about the whole experience… and that could in itself be a line in the song. Oh man.
Thank you for this. I'm overstimulated and have been for a while. Every time I try to get in the habit of stopping and meditating and finding my core again, eventually all the noise comes back and I fall back into that funny feeling. It's hard man.
I will never understand this idea that engaging with the world through a communication device somehow amounts to NOT engaging with the world. We are engaging with the world more than ever before, because of technology
I feel like one of the more underrated lyrics is “in honor of the revolution, it’s half off at the gap.” Even things as human, and ideally based on your own beliefs, as rebellion has a corporate sponsor.
That’s the great thing about music. The entire message reveals a point and reason but the smaller in between stuff, impacts everyone differently because everyone comes from different background. That’s why music, even in different languages, has remained times less.
Just caught myself laughing about how I'm watching a reaction of a song I love, while the TV is on, I'm making coffee while thinking about the things I have to do today... and then you talk about being bombarded by life and the internet and how it creates apathy. Yeah, I guess I'm a bit too busy haha.
This song is so interesting. It is very soothing and chill like you said and yet it is talking about the digital information apocalypse we're currently experiencing with how the internet has evolved, and how it is affecting people and society. Every single day we're inundated with endless amounts of information to distract, outrage, entertain and terrify to the point that we are becoming numb. To both ends of the spectrum. I don't think that we're able to be as saddened by sad things or joyful over joyous things as we've been in the past. Why? Because there is simply too much of everything. Too much entertainment and too much news about horrific things that have happened in the world, to the point where you kind of shut down mentally because you can't deal with it all. The line that goes "Total disassociation, fully out your mind. Googling de-realization and hating what you find." is pretty cool too. I've experienced some light disassociation myself I think. There have been times when I've been feeling like I'm a spectator to my own life and upon seeing a mirror it jolted me back to feeling like me. It goes little something like this: =catches sight of self in the mirror= - "Oh yeah. That's [Name]. That's me." It's a very disconcerting feeling and frankly, I'm not entirely sure where it comes from. I'm pretty damn good at escapism and submerging myself in fantasy of one kind or another so perhaps that is why. Anyway, great reaction as always ;)
That Funny Feeling accurately describes a particular mix of things. A lot of it is climate greif, but it's also part something called Capitalist Realism. Capitalist Realism is not being able to see a better world, not being able to see past the existence of capitalism. That Funny Feeling is realizing that we are hurtling towards several catastrophies at once. The rise of fascism, the climate crisis, and intense exploitation. Capitalist Realism is knowing capitalism is the cause of these things, but not being able to imagine a better system. Seeing the end of the world, before you see the end of capitalism.
I loved your interpretation of the song. And i agree we want to care but when we open the door we are overwhelmed so we close it again and stay inside. I think you are going to love Goodbye, the last song from Inside. I recommend just listening to it and give your full thoughts afterwards, because it had a real great flow and progression meaning-wise. Although i understand that you have to pause from time to time in a reaction video. I cant wait to see your reaction to that one!! Have a good day today.
I've seen in the comments of one of the reactions on this song, "You either know what that funny feeling is, or you're doing ok mentally." I'm in the former, diagnosed with GAD and MDD due to my epilepsy. This song makes tears well up a little bit.
Your therapist friend here again :) Are you familiar with the concept of "hypernormalization"? There's an awesome tik tok that describes it (I'll try to track down the link). I've found it super helpful for many of my clients, and myself. It's really hard to be a human in this world, especially a human who cares, which Bo is so great at highlighting. As always, you're amazing! I wish we could have coffee and talk about all the therapy things
What I've learned on my psychological journey, both through study of my own and other's experiences and my mental health journey itself, is that there's too much. I can care about what is here, I dont have the energy to care about over there, so to say. It's why I don't watch local news. If I can connect on a deeper level with what happened, often tragic, then that's what happens. I connect. And it hurts. There's too much and it's all available in our 24hr news cycle. You can't care on a personal level about it all or you'll collapse into yourself. But you know you should.
great reaction. Im amazed at how many don't get it until the song is over. That funny feeling that although all of these silly things are happening once in a while something happens that makes you face it.
I've listened to this song a hundred times (exaggeration alert). I never caught the line "a whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door" until now.
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"It's like we're sitting in front of a bonfire.. listening to Bo, as he calmly.. assures us.. the world is ending" *nervous giggle*
Nailed it.
It's the nervous giggle that really sells it, tho.
Yeah, I’ve never heard anyone better describe this song. Nailing it indeed.
Accurate.
It’s more the feeling you get from sensing grand and tragic contradictions. The tragedy being that the contradictions are… either too nuanced for or lost on society. The fireside, folksy delivery commenting how casually society regards the theme in general
It’s the feeling of existential to dread that speaks to me when listening to this song.
This song is my generations "We Didn't Start the Fire".
This song, maybe, but the whole album for sure.
The more I think about it the I realize that you are totally right
I was just thinking that the other day.
Or “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It”
It genuinely reminds me of the best of Bob Dylan is a strange way
The most soothing, comforting campfire song about the apocalypse
Exactly
It's calm and comforting, because he's already greived. This is the tune of full realization, at the acceptance stage. That just makes it more emphasized. Amazing song.
Well put. I recommend "Wasteland, Baby" - the song not the album - for another sense of this.
I'm stealing that to describe this song to everyone from now on.
"That funny feeling" is talking about something that has come to be referred to as "a boring dystopia". It's a primarily American concept, particularly because the dissonance is so pronounced within the U.S.
It's the fact that when we hear "dystopia", we think it's dramatic. We think it's explosions and end-time events. We have a cinematic view of robot revolutions and AI algorithm eugenics.
The reality is that we are already living in a slowly occurring dystopia. It's just "boring". Bo is pointing out the different, often contradictory aspects of a boring dystopia.
The grandness of having the world at your fingertips via the internet, yet global warming bringing "the ocean to your door". The normalization of gun culture manifesting as a gift shop at the gun range, while there is a shooting at the mall--a Mecca of capitalism.
8k resolution on a meditation app--something you're not even supposed to be looking at, something that is supposed to come from within.
"Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go" refers to the Climate Clock. International scientists analyze the human impact on the planet and calculate how long we have left before the damage we have done is irreparable and triggers the death of life as we know it.
These are all things we intuitively know are wrong, but feel so powerless and anesthetized to do anything about.
very on point comment!! boring dystopia... :/
What a great analysis, thank you for this!
hit the nail on the head with this comment 👌🏼
I googled is the world ending in 2027 and it came up that there was a predicted 98% chance we would be hit by an asteroid that year. Maybe that's the reference?
@@alicediamond387 I'm wondering what's your source, all I found was a simulated 96% chance and not taken to be real
Edit: 2017 PDC isn't a real asteroid
I saw someone on Twitter describe Bo Burnham as the band playing on the titanic as it sinks and that felt like the best description I’d heard.
Also I’m a fellow therapist and I love your stuff and how much you really do lean into the therapist vibes to break stuff down. Thanks bud.
That's a really good description, Thanks Tom! Appreciate you
That... is... a sadly amazing description.
I have been thinking the same thing : - )
Oh shit that is a great description
We're sinking, but I don't think we'll sink fully, we'll figure it out
It's truly horrifying how accurate Bo showed the world with Inside. How we are succumbing to ourselves and to an end in front of us that we all seem to ignore. I never once thought in my lifetime that I may see the end of anything but myself, but with the way the world seems to be going... We were overdue.
Can you elaborate? Because Trumpers think that the world is going to hell or ending because of "the libs", and they usually point to a bunch of shit that isn't actually happening or isn't a big deal as "the death of our country".
If you're talking about climate change, corruption at the highest levels, AI, etc, then yes. I agree. 800k+ people have died in the US alone from something that could be avoided if people just did their part. And that's what will end up being our downfall. The fact that we know what's coming and that we need to do something, but we lie to ourselves and others so we can justify doing nothing.
Capitalism is inherently unstable. The infinite growth upon which it is based is simply physically impossible on a limited planet. it is inconceivable that the ruling class will ever voluntarily abandon that system, and so they respond the only way they can; by desperately attempting to bail water out of the sinking ship. Throwing massive quantities of money at businesses hurt by the pandemic while refusing to give the working class more than a pittance, refusing to consider lockdowns early on in the pandemic when they might have helped, calling "essential workers" heroes while knowingly feeding them into the grist mill, and flat out spreading propaganda that the disease wasn't real and wasn't dangerous; that's how capitalism responds to a crisis. And look what it accomplished! 800k dead so far, poverty and homelessness exploding, multiple critical industries teetering on the edge of total system collapse and propaganda which predictably mutated well beyond homicidal pro-work denialism and into a full on fascist death cult. Even health officials have mostly given up trying to do anything about the pandemic itself; all efforts are now are focused on forcing workers back to their jobs and propping up the profits of private industry. We've got airline CEO's dictating CDC policy for fuck sake.
We moved much too quickly towards blaming the unvaccinated for spreading the disease, and away from remembering the decisions to turn retirement homes into charnel houses, or force "essential workers" into a meat grinder for minimum wage, or to cut off direct payments to force people back to work. Yes, people who still refuse to take basic precautions are definitely responsible for a non-zero percentage of those 800k deaths, but never forget that the decisions which caused most of them weren't made by your shitty racist uncle. They were made by people who got vaccines before anyone else had a chance to while publicly spreading anti-vax propaganda, who profited while hundreds of thousands of working class people died, and who will always use their grip on the levers of power to further their own class interests. These are the same people who fight unionization tooth and nail, who doomed us to climate catastrophe and continue to block any action to prevent it, who broke the healthcare system long before the pandemic started, and who pay millions to keep it broken. Never forget that the precarious nightmare of our lives isn't some malfunction or accident; it's the system working exactly as intended.
And never forget that these people have addresses and names.
Every civilisation feels like they are living the end times.
@@tralalalashalalal Sure, but we're literally letting the planet burn right now, as opposed to thinking Ragnarök or similar things are coming.
As a teenager, I used to joke about having front row tickets to the end of the world. That it's a show I absolutely didn't want to miss. Lo and behold, twenty years later I don't joke about it anymore because it feels like I was right...
To me that funny feeling is just that feeling you get when things arent quite right ya know. The existential dread you can feel when things are off. All the things he's listing throughout the song aren't quite right or just don't make sense. "A stunning 8k resolution meditation app" for example just doesn't feel right considering you would usually have your eyes closed cutting off your senses to relax and focus and the app being 8k resolution is almost counterproductive.
Damn that's a great observation, thanks for that! Going to reflect on that
Beat me to it by an hour. Existential dread. The tickling in the back of your mind that you don't want to focus on too much, because otherwise it turns into despair. It paralyzes you. So instead, you try to numb yourself to it, distract yourself. But it's always there, that funny feeling, silently screaming at you that what you see around you is just _wrong._
Another one, “in honor of the revolution it’s half of at the GAP”
Great interpretation! When I think of meditation I think of grounding yourself in nature and the reality of the world around you, so the idea of meditating through an app sounds like shielding yourself in an inauthentic imitation. A stunning "landscape" of 8K digital pixels and yet another screen. Keeping yourself "Inside".
cognitive dissonance
Every time I watch a reaction to this and someone says "Wow" followed by a sigh, it brings that "Quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" line to life. That's that funny feeling.
Well put friend
"20,000 years of this, seven more to go" that line was written when runaway climate change was predicted in scene years. I feel like a building has fallen on me every time I hear it.
Agreed, gets me every time
One year later it feels like the climate has totally gone out of control and is careening toward near term extinction---"seven more to go" conjured up Guy McPherson in my mind's eye, saying we have 7 years left.
“Googling derealization and hating what you find” is the line that really got to me. It’s knowing somethings wrong with you, trying to find out what it is and then you find it and you’re not better. hurts man. hurts.
I suffered from derealization a few months back. It is truly hard to explain just how uncomfortable it is. The "funny" feeling. A numbness extending to your entire body.
It’s doubly funny when you realize that the derealization was caused by you being constantly on the internet, and yet you go into that medium to find solutions for the problem that was caused by spending too much time on the very medium that caused your problem. You’re chained. You can’t help but laugh at the irony and your helplessness. It’s a funny feeling
I had this exact thing during the worst of the pandemic because I was seeing the same things day after day after day as I was doing online schooling. All I saw were the walls of my room. I was very bored with life as a person that had just graduated to a different school. I felt out of place and was very depressed because I wanted to “wake up”, yet couldn’t. It felt like I was dreaming and living in a haze. I spent a week or two in a state of hazy and depressive sadness. I didn’t even know what was happening. I woke up one day and wanted to ”despawn”. It was scary because that week, I just wanted to fall asleep and not wake up. My mom took me on walks to try and help and I was finally able to smile and snap out of it when I spent a day enjoying the day outside and running around in circles at the park, finally smiling again. It was such a refreshing and reassuring moment. I know that it is different for everyone, but my advice to maybe try out is to step outside of your day to day schedule and do something bizarre and unordinary for you to do on a normal day. Do something new and I hope it gets better
and most the time u find it you caused it / could have done things to avoid it (sometimes you don’t and ur just unlucky that your brain did that shit to you lol) for me personally it was doing too much molly to the point where i don’t feel real n it comes in waves
truly. i suffer from chronic depersonalisation/derealisation disorder (that means i'm constantly in a state of derealisation - it doesn't turn off) and finding out I have it made things 10x worse because there's no known therapy/medication that can help.
I think one of the most important couple lines of this song, the ones where he basically lays out what "that funny feeling" is would be:
"Total disassociation, fully out your mind
Googling 'derealization,' hating what you find"
"That funny feeling" = derealization, where you feel detached from your surroundings and even yourself. Nothing feels real even though you know it is.
I agree
Came here to say this. Thank you
Yep
Honestly the line "Deadpools self awareness" is pretty underrated it really sets the tone for the song
In the comics, depending on which ones you are reading I guess but definitely with sad clown Deadpool he's not just self aware he's harmfully self aware, being aware that his world isn't real canonically makes him insane, or at least leads others to see him as insane in many situations
that funny feeling is something we all experience uniquely. its a feeling that we get when we see the world burn and stand still. its the impending doom. the quiet comprehending. the stasis. the one piece of your brain that is trying to tell you something is wrong that you choose to ignore, but its voice is still just loud enough to remind you it exists amidst the chaos of the world.
Amazing, well said.
I think the porn hub and Grand theft auto lines are interesting, its almost like he's turning to the digital world for a sense normalcy because the real world is anything but that right now.
That's exactly how I interpreted it. The world is so chaotic, that when presented with the sandbox where you can do anything you want (and breaking laws/chaos I encouraged), you create/seek order.
I viewed it as a need for mundanity, not necessarily a return to the digital world. My senses are overloaded, maybe I don't need to be watching people fucking right now type of thing.
@@Valwryn00 It is also using these things that people usually use to get a fix for something they mostly can't experience to get that dopeamine boost in a way most people don't. Instead of looking at all the porn on pornhub, you are reading their terms of service, or obeying all the traffic laws in a game about doing just the opposite. You are so burnt out by this thing that used to be thrilling that you go to them out of habit but have no desire to use them like you used to.
It is highly creative and insightful, and also so true it is hurtful.
"Hey, what can you say? We were overdue; but it'll be over soon..." That's THE line of this song
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This song literally makes me cry every time I hear it because I swear it puts into words what I've felt my whole life.
You’re not the only one.. I feel you.
@@taranyoung4722count me in as part of the group. I've never been good with turning my thoughts and feelings into words but Bo captures and expresses a lot of my general anxiety in ways that doesn't come naturally to me and it helps me consolidate and process these emotions.
I found this song so deeply depressing the first time I watched the special. Now I find myself randomly singing at least a part of it every day. 🤦🏻♀️ Thank you for another great reaction. Loved everything you had to say at the end. I needed to hear some of that.
Haha, I found myself doing the same thing Julia 😅 I'm happy that it helped a bit, thank you for your great comment 🤗
is there a word for finding comfort in things that make you more depressed?
it's probably something maladaptive
Every time I see people on the internet I hear the piano part of welcome to the internet getting faster
The end of this song crushed me for a long time. I use to see it in a negative light and went through a break up around the time of hearing it.
Listening to it again now over a year later, I have a new positive interpretation of this song. It's not just about content. It's about the ridiculousness of this world. That funny feeling is how we get manipulated into caring too much about things we cannot really help with.
In the end he repeats that line over and over again because he wants us to know it will never end and we need to find that peace within ourselves. That is the funny feeling we should actually strive for. 💖
Awesome interpretation!! Thank you for sharing that ❤️
“It’s like we’re sitting in front of the bonfire listening to Bo as he calmly assures us the world is ending” pretty much sums it up
"It's like we're sitting in front of the bonfire, listening to Bo [Burnham] as he calmly assures us the world is ending." - [ 4:26 ]
I honestly don't think I have ever heard a better description of this song.
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I am forever grateful for Bo and his ability to make people feel not alone. The way he brings attention to these issues to the people who can spread them and change the world the most is amazingly beautiful.
Unbelievable really, truly inspiring
I always thought of it as the "funny feeling" being those moments where we don't feel apathetic, anhedonic, or disconnected. When we actually feel things like hope, companionship, clarity. Like, most people can relate to the cynicism. It's a weird thing to relate to, but knowing we're not the only one still somehow makes us feel better. And that's, well, a funny feeling.
A funny feeling indeed.
This song is the song that sort of... "cured" my existential dread. It would affect me to the point of being incapacitated for hours, sometimes days. At first it, along with "All Eyes on Me" made it much worse but in time it kinda settled in. The honest truth is yeah, there isn't anything we can do and it will be over soon. Embracing that end seems smarter than fearing it constantly... doesnt always help but at least I can exist in what time there is left.
When nothing matters anymore, but you quietly whisper "I'm still here."
I'm grateful you chose to exist.
It actually forced me to find hope. I remember I was listening to this song on loop, and I started to think about Pompeii, and the black death, and the fall of Rome, and every single time in human history people have cried out that "It's the end of the world." You can find a historical record of someone, from every era in humanity, believing its the end. And they were WRONG. Trillions of souls, believing, knowing in their heart, that the world was ending, and every single one of them was wrong. I think we're wrong. Sure, we might suffer, it might be the fall of the new Rome, but we'll be ok in the end. It's the one thing all humans have in common, our dread was wrong.
@@Skrighk An inspiring sentiment to those not living in Pompeii.
Same boat. Sometimes this and All Eyes On Me send me into this deep sense of depression, but in a strange way, they're freeing. These songs push you headlong into crippling grief for the future, but also into the sense of acceptance on the other side.
Nothing matters and it'll be over soon... so it's okay. Life is what you make of it. Take a deep breath and live it for what it's worth.
"Total disassociation, fully out your mind. Googling de-realization and hating what you find."
Dissociation: A mental process of disconnecting from one's thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity.
De-realization: a feeling that one's surroundings are not real, especially as a symptom of mental disturbance.
What happens when your online life is of equal measure to a real one.
Not only do you no longer feel like you belong, but there isn't anything to belong to. That whomever "you" are is a figment of either yours or someone else imagination. And that nothing matters because, in the grand scheme of things, you, most certainly, do not. And hating yourself because of it.
Wow, dropped some knowledge on me thanks for that, that's intense!
@@TherapeuticReactions Lol, you don't have to but it'd be cool if you explored mental health issues on your channel. Tackling topics you might not be familiar with like derealization or even stuff like depression or suicide prevention.
@@SoraJack That's definitely where this channel is going to grow to as well! I see how much people relate and want to talk about these topics. Thanks for the great comment!
Absolutely no hate, but isn’t this from the perspective of a therapist? I realize this probably comes off rudely, and I absolutely do not mean that in any capacity. I’m really glad you made this commentary video; I love these!
@@allornada9564 100% same. I didn't want to say it outright because who tf am I to talk about what a therapist should or shouldn't know and understand. So I was like, "hey, maybe you can learn about them through producing youtube content." Or something like that. Which is why I was depression and suicide prevention on the get go.
This song, for me, addresses so many things that are contradictory or subtly wrong but pass as normal and how we seek to find normal in weird ways. I find it soothing in the way I might feel relieved after the elephant in the room has been addressed.
Though I had not thought of it that way, your reaction to the song really resonates with me too. I almost miss that mild detachment from the suffering of others. I tend to over empathize with all sides (to the point of non action in some areas), or obsess and overreact in other areas.
I love observing your stream of consciousness style reaction and the generosity of how you give us these insights to you, truely lovely to me.😊
Truly
Love to have you here with me and sharing your perspective! That's what we're here for, thank you for that ❤️
I think of that funny feeling as existential dread. That sense of impending doom. Only for a moment before your brain switches to something else. The only other thing it makes me think of is the Rick and Marty episode where he tells summer everything is random, no one exists on purpose, so let's go watch TV.
That makes a lot of sense.
This part of the special, to me, is Bo walking us down to the very bottom of it all - the feeling of apathy in the face of horror. You have to go all the way to the bottom before you can start to come back up again (which is what happens in the next song, all eyes on me)
My favorite example of this in the Inside special is when, after the "Turning 30" song, he reassures us that he's not going to kill himself... but while he's saying it he shows himself just scrolling his phone, because he knows we all just gloss over when people say earnest thing like "hey, don't kill yourself."
"the whole world at your fingertips the ocean at your door" ---> still on the internet as a nor'easter surges the sea over the seawall behind your house and the waves come up onto your back porch all the way to the doorstep.
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I've come across you recently through your reactions to Bo, and i gotta say, i look forward to each new reaction from you. You seem so nice, and so insightful. Keep doing what you're doing because it's amazing!
That's such an awesome comment! Thank you Christian! Glad to have you here with me 😄
This entire special was heavy, but it was perfectly mixed in with tasteful and perfectly timed humour and really good songs to make such heavy things that we need to hear digestible. And, even with its existentialism, it's almost.. soothing to hear someone else put into words your own anxieties and depression and... Well existentialism lol. Bo is so talented
To me it’s not a follow up to Welcome to the Internet or about apathy. Here he’s talking about that feeling we get sometimes, you’ll be having a good day, good weeks, heck maybe a good month or year. Then that feeling creeps back randomly, sometimes for no reason, sometimes triggered by darkness you see around you. It’s that feeling you get when you get existential. That feeling that puts weight in your chest, it’s worry, dread, a sense of emptiness. Its so much more, and it hits hard.
Well put, thank you for sharing ♥️
The pandemic ironically helped me open up. Seeing people come out saying they are depressed and struggling with these "funny feelings" as Bo says so I had something to kinda support me. And it just helped, and thank you for everything YOU do. You help people like me on a daily and I just want you to know you are so appreciated
Thank you for that Patrick, really, this helps me feel appreciated and helpful ❤️
Hello amazing people 👋👋
Reaction starts at 1:18, hope you enjoy it and that you're doing good!
Also "Depersonalization/derealization disorder involves a persistent or recurring feeling of being detached from one's body or mental processes, like an outside observer of one's life (depersonalization), and/or a feeling of being detached from one's surroundings (derealization)."
The juxtaposition of the content of the song and the melody gets me every time. Bo singing calmly to us about the end of the world as the world is ending.
I love your breakdown. It makes so much sense. It feels like the lion’s share of info we are bombarded with is cynical and negative to the point that it feels like I’m being disingenuous when I’m happy.
It’s kind of funny because I saw almost the exact thing you did a couple days ago as I was driving home from work. A man had fallen with his bike and a woman who was smaller than him and loaded with a huge purse and a shopping bag ran over to him. He was tangled in the bike and looked upset, but her presence and assistance seemed to calm him. It was a moment that reminded me that, at our core, we’re not cynical; we just live in a society that conditions us to be.
Never clicked on a video as quickly as I clicked on yours. I barely discovered your channel and I have been so curious on your reaction to this song. I find this song very soothing combined with existential dread. I listen to the Inside songs every morning while commuting to work and it has helped me.
That's awesome to hear! Bo helped me a lot with his work as well. Thanks for the great comment Angie!
This video (and the comments) helped me to understand this song better. It's very sad but the message somehow motivates me to at least resist from being too submerged in the internet and appreciate life more. Thank you for this
Same here Brye, my pleasure friend.
I feel like that apathy is a survival mechanism. If you try to really care, it gets so overwhelming because it's daily, it's non-stop, and there are so many things that are so out of your control. When you care a lot, it's just going to start burning you out😔
I totally agree.
I undestand the beginning of the song as a list of problems of the "same level" and he is like "we have: this problem, this problem, THIS PROBLEM, this problem, this problem, THIS PROBLEM... All equal, all important, right?"
“That funny feeling” aka Existential Dread
Exactly
It is the calming, dulcet tones of a collective and casual existential crisis.
Beautifully painful
him saying "first of all, THANK YOU" in the beginning of his content reminded me of that part in the show
Seems to me he's listing all the things he tried to distract himself with during the lockdown, but the existential dread kept creeping in.
One of the less seemingly heavy lines in the song was "reading pornhub's terms of service, going for a drive, and obeying all the traffic laws in grand theft auto V" That last bit hit me, because GTAV is meant to be kind of a power fantasy game where you can go do anything you want, but i used to do that a lot for some reason. Stop at all the stops, I used to think it was just boredom. But after hearing this song it made me realize that the world is crazy and overwhelming enough so that my fantasy is just to feel some semblence normality.
As another person said, I appreciate the more insightful interpretation you offer as a therapist. I’m sure a lot of therapists and psychologists have had this experience, but when I mention that I am a psychologist people have often asked me if I was “analyzing” them. As if in my college psychology courses they ingrained a need to analyze everyone constantly. And the truth is that most good therapists/psychologists have always observed others, thought about how they felt, and thought about how that influences behavior. It’s just how I think, so it doesn’t feel like “analyzing”. It’s just me.
And I have the same feelings about the world as well. The way I try to think about it when I’m more positive is that there are always and there always have been constant tragedies occurring around the world, the only way to live is to make this small bubble around us a little better. The guilt and deep sorrow that comes with thinking about everything horrible doesn’t help anyone. And I have noticed that the less connected I am with the people around me, the more overwhelmed I can get by the horrible things in the wider world that I feel I can’t do anything to change.
Thanks again for sharing your thought.
Very well put, thanks for this Matthew
I love how you put that, so calmly and gently reassuring us that the world is coming to an end.
Love this one , so beautiful , thank you ❤️❤️
I’m gonna say it again and again “That Funny Feeling” is just “Self Aware Derealization” but I like to call it S.A.D
The song is mostly focused in true absurdist happenings. This is why he mentions derealization because each of what he says in the verses is the antithesis to previous mentions. 8k resolution meditation app, what good does 8k do you, youre supposed to be meditating not looking at a screen. Gift shop at the gun range a MS-ING at the mall. You s---where you eat and eat where you s--- type of scenario. A book on getting better hand delivered by a drone, when all you need is human contact and care. These deal so much in absurdity that it starts to detach you from what's real. The true derealization. Noticing something is so absurd it just can't be real.
🔥🔥 Great comment thank you
It’s almost like the “funny feeling” is just knowing something is not right and missing. Like the song is hollow and you don’t know what’s missing but it’s there. Idk if that makes sense but that’s how I feel. Whenever I hear this song I feel empty and confused but also kinda at home.
"that funny feeling" is passive suicidal ideation in the face of a slow apocalypse that everyone who can help seems perfectly willing to ignore or at best pay lip service to, the band playing on while we all watch the planet burn in 8k, knowing in the back of our minds that no matter how much we do to help, the rot in our systems is so deep and intractable that it will all be for naught. The smokestacks will continue poisoning the sky until its too late.
To me he is singing about all the swirling thoughts of gloom and doom and frightening thoughts going through his head before a panic attack.
He watches UA-cam and content to make him feel like he belongs to the real world, but they're just a distraction from his scary thoughts for a little while.
That "Funny Feeling" is when it spirals into a panic attack. He is basically an agoraphobic never leaving the house, not living in the regular world and watching the state of the world and things on tv, social media and youtube.
The picture of the forest behind him and campfire is showing how he lives indoors as an agoraphobic and can bring the outside world indoors as an agoraphobic with bad anxiety and panic disorder. Maybe I am wrong, but as someone with Panic Disorder, Anxiety, PTSD and Agoraphobia I can see this in his song.
That funny feeling, when it clicks in just how F'd we are. Hey what can you say? We were overdue....It'll be over soon
I've seen a few reaction videos to this song, and they never seem to get it, and they talk about how he is just saying random things. You instantly got it, and I instantly subscribed.
Don't know how one can think he means nothing, happy to have you here with me ☺️
Exactly. They don't get the crazy randomness of events these days and their inexorable end, particularly in the light of global overheating and possible near term extinction---"seven more to go".
An online therapist reacting to Inside by Bob Burnham ... There it is again that funny feeling 0.0
I also, thoroughly enjoy your reactions to Bo. I've grown up with him ever since he was a UA-cam star and felt his same feelings growing up. When he took that 5 year break, it was devastating.
This song also talks to me about the digital age, but it also talks about the irony (he has a very good song called Ironic) of everything he is saying. An amazing combination of irony and the digital age. People are even afraid to hug someone anymore because of it being taken wrong or denied. I'd love a reaction to his song Ironic, but I've still loved all the reactions you've done. Keep them up 🤘🤘🤘 especially since it is something you've wanted to do!
Awesome comment man thank you for sharing that! I think about it so much, the digital world. Bo irony is amazing.
He literally saved me , especially the lyric in Get you hands up , when he says where going to go where everybody knows everybody.
id like to thank you for the ending and putting this all into depth and just reopening my world view
Was just on my phone and got this notification, this is exactly what I'm here for, I can relate so much and you help me with these comments to keep going and care as well, appreciate you very much, thank you for being you ❤️
@@TherapeuticReactions thank you for the fast reply, I was thinking how I’m glad I realized this and unfortunately was also thinking how I will still go back to my old habits anyways, but you replying is honestly now making me want to become my best self even more. Currently at a place where I can’t exactly improve to where I want to but I know I have a chance this summer and I will try my damn harder ❤️ much love and keep doing what your doing! It’s inspiring a lot more people than you realize :)
@@krepkos I don't know what's happening this summer but I'd love us to remember this back and forth and for you to comment in the summer as you're trying to be that person you want to be, also, you said at the end that I inspire more people then I realize, I'd like to truly thank you for all that and to point out you've inspired me greatly now yourself. Thank you for that! ❤️
Thank you for your authenticity. You talk about people being so brave to share what we’re going through and being honest about what we’re really experiencing, and I just wanted to say thank you to YOU for being brave. Thank you for being someone who doesn’t just tell others how to do it, but actually showing and being that example. I just really appreciate that, and I felt gratitude and wanted to share. So thank you.
Rose you really moved me. The most important thing for me is not to talk nonsense but to say really what it is I feel and walk the steps as well. Thank you for such a beautiful comment, I don't take your thanks for granted. I'm privileged to have such beautiful individuals with me here ❤️
I think I've watched all your Bo reaction videos at this point and the thing that strikes me most is the authenticity of your reactions, of your feelings and insights. There's an element of performance, because there's a camera on you so naturally, but like Bo does you manage to make your truth shine through that lens and not be shuttered by it.
Thank you. You've brought fresh joy to an artist who I adore and watching you fall in love with his truth, the same way I did, has been very moving.
I don't know you, but I love your truth too.
It's the most important thing to me - authenticity, thank you for saying that! It takes one to know one :)
I love your thinking and the way you explain your mind. I feel you. Thank you 🙏
Thank you! I appreciate you saying that and strengthening my confidence ❤️
Thank you so much for reacting to this song! I was looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this, and you didn’t disappoint!
I adore this reaction. It's not just analytical but also felt. Understood with passion. I feel so alone in feeling like trying to care is such a problem now. I used to be the kid that helped the elderly lady load her groceries and now people are afraid of me or off put. The more chaos we have and are fed, the more most are desensitized to the pain of reality.
Thank you for saying that ❤️ I relate emmensly to what you said, I too used to be that kid and now, there's so much stuff to care about, you end up not caring. Horrible, let's fight for us, the inner child that still wants to help. Thank you for being you ❤️
You are always thoughtful, kind and brave! Loved seeing your take on one of my favorite Bo songs. I hope we give to you as much as you give to us in these reactions. I've talked about your videos to other Bo fans, too. They say "wholesome and genuine" which describes you well :) I thought your ideas about information overload were spot on!
Terri your comments are always thoughtful kind and brave, so it takes one to know one and I truly appreciate you. Thank you for this comment, with no doubt you're giving me so much ❤️
@@TherapeuticReactions I gotta tell you one more thing. My surgery, Tuesday, was delayed, so I'm waiting in pre-op feeling more and more nervous. I had my phone with me tho, and your video for "We Think We Know You" came up as I was waiting! I had the biggest smile on my face and it was so nice to have you 'with' me. Sure, the internet is "anything and everything all of the time" and SOMEtimes that can be wonderful. Thank you!
@@terrigarrett1701 Thank you for that! Such heartwarming comment, I'm here with you! 🤗🤗
A song about the generational dissasociation. I love it
I love your opening speech, it feels genuinely honest and I hope your channel grows! Good luck and keep it up.
Thank you! 🤗🤗
Your one of those rare reaction UA-camrs that i appreciate when you pause and talk.
Man u hit the nail on the head with that explanation in my opinion. He is listing content, kind of like his own social media feed, and it is so much and blows by so fast that he cant care anymore
Exactly!
I always enjoy seeing peoples interpretations of this song and what that funny feeling is, I always took it to mean that unexplainable feeling I get at my lowest, its a sort of comprehension of my state kinda like the 'quiet comprehension'
I really like your reaction to this. It put words to what I feel about it. We are overwhelmed and desensitized by modern life/digital life. I was introduced to Bo Burnham by my kids (aged 19 & 21) a few months ago and I've become somewhat obsessed with his work (particularly Inside). It has really struck a nerve with me and I know that I don't fit his demographic. There is something about the truth, emotion, intelligence and artistry that he puts into everything he does that has such a hold on me.
That's what I find amazing in his work as well! Thanks for the great comment!
I think you fit his demographic perfectly, you're human ! Truth shines through if the art is great.
Thank you for taking our suggestion! I knew you would have something to sink your teeth into. Keep doing Bo, and if you wanna change a bit, react to Patrice Oneal or Dave Chappelle.
By far the best reaction I’ve seen to this song and I’ve watched a lot. You captured the essence of this powerful song so beautifully this is exactly how the song feels but I haven’t been able to find the words to do it justice.
❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for making this guy. Anyone reading this who's having a hard time, just breath, you got this.
Amazing. You're the best.
(You, and everyone reading this as well ❤️)
I genuinely think this song is just a list of phrases he heard and wrote them down thinking, “This could be a topic worth exploring one day”.. for a joke or a song, but after reading them later, he realized there’s a theme.. and that became the real story.
@@Shabatwo And what a beautiful story it is ❤️
It's scary the ability of this music to trigger dissociation on me
the way you described it is perfect. how can we process the urge to care about all of these worldly tragedies when we don’t have time to? there’s too much stimulation from the rapid fire context of the internet being literally “anything and everything all of the time.” developing a sense of apathy because in the end there’s nothing you can do and may as well let things run their course
Well put Hannah, well put. ❤️
I liked your take on the things he's listing being what's flooding in digitally. He's basically reading the news feed to us.
And while he does that things get more and more awkward, iffy, paradox or just wrong. I feel there is this climax in every verse from the mundane to that thing that makes you realise things are bad. And that's where he says "there it is again", as if he expected it to come at some point. 'Hello darkness my old friend' in a sense. Because that last thing on the list tipped the scales to the uncanny. Triggering "that funny feeling".
I also like your take on this being the feeling that we should feel something when we don't. I would differ from that and just think it's the feeling of something being wrong, of things ending, of impending doom. Sitting in front of the newsfeed just waiting for something to awaken that anxiety again.
Maybe the funny feeling is what Germans would call "Weltschmerz".
Best take/reaction I’ve seen. To anything on here. Period. Thank you.
Whoa, thank you! ❤️
I've always taken almost a weird comfort in this song - after the initial discomfort, there is something about knowing that it's all going to be over eventually that actually makes everything less scary.
We're all in that boat together ❤️
worded well and a good interpretation, probably my favourite song of his to date
i'd like to see more play-by-play analysis but i entirely understand a lot of people would prefer songs like this uninterrupted, since a lot of the power of this song comes from the hard hitting lines one after another
@@li2tera Thank you for saying that, I agree and often feel it myself and have that inner battle between keep on going or saying something about it ❤️
Your reaction to this song was really refreshing to watch. I reacted the same way when I saw it. I searched reaction videos because I was looking for a human connection about the whole experience… and that could in itself be a line in the song. Oh man.
Thank you for this. I'm overstimulated and have been for a while. Every time I try to get in the habit of stopping and meditating and finding my core again, eventually all the noise comes back and I fall back into that funny feeling. It's hard man.
I will never understand this idea that engaging with the world through a communication device somehow amounts to NOT engaging with the world. We are engaging with the world more than ever before, because of technology
I feel like one of the more underrated lyrics is “in honor of the revolution, it’s half off at the gap.”
Even things as human, and ideally based on your own beliefs, as rebellion has a corporate sponsor.
Agreed
I really don't understand some of the things but it still makes my eyes water.
That’s the great thing about music. The entire message reveals a point and reason but the smaller in between stuff, impacts everyone differently because everyone comes from different background. That’s why music, even in different languages, has remained times less.
I have to return your "thank you", you made a very special and cosy corner here on youtube that makes it easy to partake in. so: thank you.
Just caught myself laughing about how I'm watching a reaction of a song I love, while the TV is on, I'm making coffee while thinking about the things I have to do today... and then you talk about being bombarded by life and the internet and how it creates apathy. Yeah, I guess I'm a bit too busy haha.
This is your most insightful reaction so far ! Thank you so much for your frank openness and honest opinions........you do a great job !
This song is so interesting. It is very soothing and chill like you said and yet it is talking about the digital information apocalypse we're currently experiencing with how the internet has evolved, and how it is affecting people and society.
Every single day we're inundated with endless amounts of information to distract, outrage, entertain and terrify to the point that we are becoming numb. To both ends of the spectrum. I don't think that we're able to be as saddened by sad things or joyful over joyous things as we've been in the past. Why? Because there is simply too much of everything. Too much entertainment and too much news about horrific things that have happened in the world, to the point where you kind of shut down mentally because you can't deal with it all.
The line that goes "Total disassociation, fully out your mind. Googling de-realization and hating what you find." is pretty cool too. I've experienced some light disassociation myself I think. There have been times when I've been feeling like I'm a spectator to my own life and upon seeing a mirror it jolted me back to feeling like me. It goes little something like this:
=catches sight of self in the mirror=
- "Oh yeah. That's [Name]. That's me."
It's a very disconcerting feeling and frankly, I'm not entirely sure where it comes from. I'm pretty damn good at escapism and submerging myself in fantasy of one kind or another so perhaps that is why.
Anyway,
great reaction as always ;)
I believe I experienced that as well, it's hard not to with everything that is going on! Thanks for the great comment!
That Funny Feeling accurately describes a particular mix of things. A lot of it is climate greif, but it's also part something called Capitalist Realism.
Capitalist Realism is not being able to see a better world, not being able to see past the existence of capitalism. That Funny Feeling is realizing that we are hurtling towards several catastrophies at once. The rise of fascism, the climate crisis, and intense exploitation. Capitalist Realism is knowing capitalism is the cause of these things, but not being able to imagine a better system.
Seeing the end of the world, before you see the end of capitalism.
I loved your interpretation of the song. And i agree we want to care but when we open the door we are overwhelmed so we close it again and stay inside.
I think you are going to love Goodbye, the last song from Inside. I recommend just listening to it and give your full thoughts afterwards, because it had a real great flow and progression meaning-wise. Although i understand that you have to pause from time to time in a reaction video. I cant wait to see your reaction to that one!! Have a good day today.
Well put as always! I'm looking forward to reacting to that 😊
I've seen in the comments of one of the reactions on this song, "You either know what that funny feeling is, or you're doing ok mentally."
I'm in the former, diagnosed with GAD and MDD due to my epilepsy. This song makes tears well up a little bit.
@@tinferbrains ❤️❤️
“Their life is a big habit”
Dave Matthews was singing about that in Ants Marching, and that was like 1994. He didn’t know the half of it!
Your therapist friend here again :) Are you familiar with the concept of "hypernormalization"? There's an awesome tik tok that describes it (I'll try to track down the link). I've found it super helpful for many of my clients, and myself. It's really hard to be a human in this world, especially a human who cares, which Bo is so great at highlighting. As always, you're amazing! I wish we could have coffee and talk about all the therapy things
So I appreciate this man’s reactions and I find his accent charming and comforting.
Thanks Jen! Appreciate you saying that 🤗
With how I feel with Derealizaiton sometimes I’ll snap back into the world around me and it feels so good but it’s just as quick to disappear
Well said, I can relate to that feeling so much ❤️
What I've learned on my psychological journey, both through study of my own and other's experiences and my mental health journey itself, is that there's too much. I can care about what is here, I dont have the energy to care about over there, so to say.
It's why I don't watch local news. If I can connect on a deeper level with what happened, often tragic, then that's what happens. I connect. And it hurts.
There's too much and it's all available in our 24hr news cycle. You can't care on a personal level about it all or you'll collapse into yourself. But you know you should.
Exactly
the power of art is that we can all see the same thing and take away from it a different interpretation, and then we can talk about them.
Yeah
great reaction. Im amazed at how many don't get it until the song is over. That funny feeling that although all of these silly things are happening once in a while something happens that makes you face it.
I've listened to this song a hundred times (exaggeration alert).
I never caught the line "a whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door" until now.