Bo Burnham: INSIDE - White Woman's Instagram (REACTION)

[@yoitskimmy]

I still tear up during the middle and then I get hit with “a goat cheese salaaaad” while I’m practically crying. Only Bo

[@riverrockmedical]

Seriously.

[@lukeewald6781]

“I’m goat cheese salad crying”

[@jcaps3846]

I love when a reactor is switched on. You nailed it man. Some people miss the fact that we're following ONE particular white woman and her Instagram posts. Yeah, he's poking fun at the cliches but the white woman is not the butt of the joke. If anything, he's highlighting problematic format of social media and how we post these curated snapshots of great moments, which simply aren't an accurate depiction of our lives. Another thing I noticed is that a lot of reactors praise Bo for the shots and how long it must have taken to create each one - but that just proves that these type of Instagram photos do take a lot of work. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's a valid creative outlet.

[@Hey_Jamie]

I hate to break it to you, but a lot of channels do a lot of pre-studying about the things they react to beforehand to make it seem like they’re super “switched on”. Knox Hill is the absolute WORST about that. I don’t understand how anyone takes him seriously. I don’t know whether or not this guy does that, but his “first time” interpretations are a little too conveniently accurate.

[@jcaps3846]

@@Hey_Jamie Seems to me like he just understands it. This seems legit to me.

[@SeventhSolar]

@@Hey_Jamie Fascinating thought. I'm just going to say, this guy's almost unbelievably good, but he would also be a top tier actor if he did that, because he has legitimate reactions to surprises and jokes.

[@kaojinn]

Granted, I may be a bit of a cynical asshole, but bear with me here. Now, theres 2 main segments to White Woman's Instagram. The "posts" and the "story". The posts are the curated snippets, the set up staged shots. But I interpret them as someone being fake. It wasnt spontaneous, by posting stuff like that, you're essentially bragging and going "Look at how great my life is. Dont you wish you had your shit together as well as I do?". But then we have the story, where its finally something real and personal. Then for the first time since the opening shot, it widens back out to show something not staged for instagram. And then the honesty passes, and goes right back into the fake stuff.

[@AllTheArtsy]

@@kaojinn instagram has not been instant in a long, long time. Why does being curated automatically mean 'fake?' There are assumptions you are making and intentions you are projecting if you think the sole reason people post anything is to 'brag.' Also, just because a story is vulnerable does not make it 'real.' To me, Bo strikes the perfect balance in this song because he hits all those points. Her IG feed is at once fake and earnest. It's curated and vulnerable. It's private but public. It's personal but generic. Bo makes her the butt of the joke, but also understands her very well. He showcases how much thought, effort and skill actually goes into her feed. But he also skewers her for how much of a basic bitch she is. He can draw back the curtain so to speak, to show us a personal, earnest, vulnerable side to her, but we can't necessarily trust it because she's sharing it with us on Instagram. It's everything good and bad about the condensation of human interaction into the digital space, which is majority of what Bo talks about and explores in this special.

[@myco9867]

I'm currently 19 years old, and my mum died about 4 months before my 16th birthday. I miss her every single day, and that small segment of this song came out of left field and punched me right in the gut, because I've been exactly there. I'm starting to get my life together, I have a job and a girlfriend, I'm working on saving up for an actual car instead of my garbage can on wheels, but I can't tell her that. I'm looking at going into journalism as a career, but I can't tell her that. I feel that section of the song so personally it chokes me up every single time I hear it. I can guarantee you that when I'm 26 I'll feel the exact same way, the knowledge that no matter what I do in life I can't share it with her is reflected so perfectly here it hurts. I hope she'd be proud of what I'm becoming, but I have no way of knowing. Thanks for the video man, your reaction and analysis really was impeccable.

[@Go4Noctis]

Congrats on getting your life together. Proud of you! Hope things go well it can be hard out there and just going through it everyday is an accomplishment.

[@haydencourtney7419]

My mom died when I was 17 and it has profoundly impacted my life. You seem with it and together but don't try to save your mom through other women. I did that for years and ended up losing 2 more important people to addiction. Peace.

[@Kharazim]

You are, how she is still with us, her living legacy. She was proud of you in life, and she is proud of you now whenever you can bring to feel happiness and a smile crosses your face. That's her smiling proud too.

[@Blarglesnarfe]

I’m 27, this song still made me bawl like a baby. Same, same

[@ghjk9592]

As a father of two my parents never got to meet because i lost my dad at 25 and mum at 28 and has now been over a decade it hit me hard too. I still barely feel like I'm getting shit together.

[@fawng8017]

You're the first reacter I've seen who caught the bit about her being 17 when her mom died. That and her dad being dead too ("give a hug and kiss to dad") chokes me up every time I hear it. 27 is so young to lose both parents.

[@eliasholzheimer8085]

Holy shit I don't think I ever thought about that...

[@camelopardalis84]

To me, it sounds even more as if her father died even before her mother. Doesn't have to be that way, but she only talks to her mother and how her (her mother's) death affects her. This may be since she's simply talking to her mother at that moment and mainly thinking of her, but to me, it felt much more like a "you joined dad in Heaven, mom" than anything else. So she would have been a full orphan at 17.

[@mercyfae17]

That’s so sad 😢

[@made_by_sky]

I've seen the special multiplentimes and didn't pick up on that till this

[@ColieBear18]

Yeah its a fucking gut punch. When he said give a hug and kiss to dad and it sank in that she lost both her parents so young I started crying. He like perfectly encapsulated the idea of sonder. That other people have a deep inner life that we can never see. And that people are more than their social media posts. It was a perfectly aimed gut punch

[@MeisterZeke]

The switch the song takes from just being a silly song to talking about something much deeper is something Bo has done a few times and it always works well. It can really change how you think of the song

[@ISavant]

the fact that he clearly took a huge amount of time on constructing those shots kinda makes me wonder about all the people who genuinely think he's making fun of women with this song. like this is an homage, not a piss-take. also just in case you missed it from the monologue, but both "her" parents are dead, not just her mom.

[@lonedinosaur13]

Great point

[@lonedinosaur13]

I mean I think he is poking fun but it’s coming from a place of respect for them as real people and in some cases artists

[@needlessnoise]

he mentioned the thing about the dad a little after 12 minutes into the vid

[@mordirit8727]

I don't think making fun is really the focus... It's more like he is coming from a place of deep, deep hatred for the depressing effect the faked perfection has on people who follow accounts like these, but the anger at that seems to be disconnected from the people making the content, and more directed to what the site has become. The "real aspect ratio" part is so sympathetic, it clashes so hard with the hard tone against Instagram that it's crazy.

[@ISavant]

@@mordirit8727 I don't think there's any hated there

[@monodescarado]

I love how the first half of the song and the second half are essentially the same (mock Instagram posts and silly lyrics), but we as the viewer are forced to see the second half through a different lens because of the power of the middle segment. It’s like we’re being called out for being judgemental and superficial. On the surface the song feels like it’s suppose to be a dig about white women on Instagram, but because of that one scene in the middle, the song becomes more about us and how we interact with people on the internet. We think we’re going to laugh at white women, but end up having to take a look at ourselves. And all that is perfectly achieved by just a few lines and shifting frame.

[@ColieBear18]

Beautifully said. I agree 100% and it is so damn effective.

[@Caelinus]

It also gets perfectly paid off with the later lines. "Momma I have a Boyfriend, and I am crazy about him" -> "Three little words, a couple of doves, and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves. Is this heaven?" It has moved back into the instagram frame, but that is an additional glimpse into a moment of joy that she wishes she could share with her mom. It is a *real* part of her in the constructed heaven she has created for herself. It is her finding happiness despite it all. Freaking brilliant song. Bo never ceases to amaze me with how deeply empathetic his work is. (Three little words = "I love you.")

[@WargenWalrus]

"I have two Corgi's and they're very loud" I think we need them in an on Camera "interview"

[@Revelryproject]

Corgis react!

[@cindymartinez2152]

That part where the characters sings about her mom made me sob horribly, I lost my mom last year and it still hits every time I listen to that specific part. You nailed it, because idk why many people think that's part of making fun of the "white woman" character, but I think it does show the vulnerability of people that seem to have a "perfect" life

[@damianessing]

I feel so sorry for you. Loosing a close relative is really hard. All the best to you and keep going, its worth it.

[@davidshadow1019]

You actually brought a new view about this clip that I haven't thought of before, the girl having her Instagram as her personal heaven where she can show her mom and dad how she's growing and all, thank you so much for that, your takes were amazing

[@plexus]

You’ll get comments saying they think the middle section is still making fun of the post and saying they’re using family issues and emotional trauma for a vapid grab for sympathy points. Ignore them. You got it right. He’s definitely illustrating that even though these accounts might be silly and derivative, and maybe even a carefully curated persona to present life as perfect, there are real people behind these accounts.

[@colorfulgaming6596]

I think both opinions hold water. I think it is a comment on how Social Media can make an honest moment to look fake, The thought occurred to me when someone commented that the video returned to a "natural" perspective. Like 16:9 is natural and the "Instagram Square" is not.

[@plexus]

See? What did I tell you?

[@colorfulgaming6596]

@@plexus I didn't want to disagree with you. Just saying that both interpretations can exist in the same space. I 100% agree that the break shows the real person coming in. I however, could not fault someone for seeing something different.

[@plexus]

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[@colorfulgaming6596]

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[@babassoonist557]

Easily the best reaction I’ve ever seen of this. This aesthetic is my aesthetic and I never felt like I was the butt of a joke, it’s actually watching white guys react to this that makes me feel like the butt of a joke (but not you

[@iesika7387]

I've seen a few instances of guys showing it to their (white woman, instagram using) partners seemingly expecting them to react - not necessarily badly as if being attacked, but they keep watching the woman's face like they are waiting to see the reaction to a prank. Meanwhile the women keep watching raptly and saying things like "oh he did such a good job with that lighting" or "I took a photo like that last year! I have five photos like that!" (with delight)

[@needlessnoise]

The next one "Unpaid Intern" should be reacted to along with the skit that comes right afterwards, just letting you know! i know you arent doing the skits but trust me on this one, the song is only 30s anyway.

[@wolfmcqueen9153]

*Side note Bo was 27 when he wrote and directed his first feature film called "8th Grade" It's a film about a young girl navigating her way through a world which is so focused on appearances and online presence. The age balloons might be a nod to that film and the subject matter is most probably also a reflection of it as well.

[@mordirit8727]

My favorite part about the aspect ratio is how messy the rest of the room looks, random stuff jammed into a drawer that can't close because of the mess on the left, props, more mess and a mug sitting next to the keyboard on the left... I mean, I worked on marketing before and the "yeah move the frame 1cm in any direction and the illusion of perfection is broken" is true as fuck. Nothing to me, not even the lyrics, sell harder the idea that this person is putting in a lot of effort into pretending they have a perfect life online than the messy areas that were out of the shot before the aspect ratio changed.

[@xanadu6784]

I think the crux of this song is that Burnham is making fun of, but is also empathetic for, these women who take their lives and turn it into a performance for an audience on the internet, because it's no different from what he is doing. This very special could be seen as just as self indulgent on the part of a privledged white person as anything on Instagram. I think Bo knows that he isn't any different from these women, and shares common humanity with them. Which is why it doesn't come across as mean spirited.

[@HarleysCompass]

That's a really great interpretation of it, I hadn't really thought of it that way but you're totally right. I know a lot of people say that he was "poking fun" at these women, even if only at the start and then it kind of shifts slightly for the second half after the middle segment, but when I first watched it I never got that impression. I always felt it was a little kinder than that, after all, we've seen when he pokes fun at things and IDK the songs sound different when he's actually trying to make fun of something, this felt more lighthearted? But it makes sense that he would empathize with these women because he mentions in other specials that his flippant, callous persona is just an act for the stage and he doesn't want people to think that's the real him (look no further than "We Think we Know You"). And this song really jives with that sentiment, so thanks for pointing that out!

[@GraceT]

That part always makes me tear up. I haven’t lost a parent- yet. But that’s the tragic part of the song. We will all lose our parents at some point, and whether it’s when we’re 17 or even 50 years old or whatever, i don’t think we’ll ever be ready to say goodbye to them.

[@plagueofsociety8085]

Oh my god when you mentioned “Is this heaven?” When talking about her caption to her mom I literally got goosebumps like it was a revelation.

[@wolfmcqueen9153]

I've watched this special something like 15+ times and this song doesn't normally hit me. That changed today. Watching how it affected you really put it in perspective for me. I actually feel like I might have a better understanding of the song because of your reaction. Thanks for the great videos.

[@beekind14]

Why does every Bo song have one moment where I get full body chills 😩 Just want to point out the "goats cheese salad" bit hits funny, but also shows how life just goes in despite grief. And she's getting married, but now we know more about this woman, we have the insight of what she will be feeling getting married without her parents. Without that we would just see a random influencer type girl showing off her wedding. But now we know that even if she doesn't post it, it's going to be hard on her.

[@nestigator]

you caught so many details for watching that for the first time, I loved your reaction!One other topic I haven’t seen many people mention is that this women also seems to use her instagram for performative activism (ripping off the ‘hate’ tape, ‘my favourite position is CEO’ shirt, mean vs nice things written on face). She also arguably has some posts that indicate her activism is just from the perspective of a white person, it’s not intersectional. For example: buying a dream catcher from urban outfitters, putting a feather in her hair when posing with the vines (dressing up as a Native American maybe?). I’m not decided on what I think Bo was trying to say by this, maybe just trying to be realistic? Or maybe I’ve just seen this song too many times I’m over analyzing this shit

[@CallOfTheMadMan]

I've seen so many reactions of people who just gloss over the middle part or even laugh during it like "Haha, yea, I've seen those posts". The amount of shallow, low effort reaction channels is staggering. I'm glad you're doing it right, this is one of the better reactions to this songs I've seen

[@lukedecourville4337]

I thought the caption part was meant to be funny as well, it can be both

[@dangkolache]

I appreciate this reaction a lot. The breakdown also got me, as I too am a father of two daughters and I was initially confused by my own reaction to the song. It hit me hard - gut punch, really. I thought it was sadness initially but what I realized after watching it a few times that it's actually feeling proud. I can picture my two girls who are only 4 and 2 right now growing up and having a job that they love and an SO they love and it just makes me proud to even think about that. Of course it's sad to think of my kids out on their own alone without me but that's not the real feeling I felt, I just didn't really understand it. Damn you, Bo... you're making me feel things!

[@ChrisReactsToThings]

Reaction starts at 0:42 Had to blur a couple parts because of copyright. If anyone has any tips on how to avoid that, let me know! 🙂

[@Deathsinger99]

Unironically some of the best react content in KZbin. I hope you enjoy this enough to keep going and hopefully get the support you deserve continuing into the future with other content beyond Inside.

[@SuperNovaKat64]

I heard someone explain that this song is mocking the pointlessness of instagram posts, but also cautioning that even though it is stupid, it's important to remember that these are real people on the other side.

[@Brut3cnvntion]

I think he’s trying to play off of the pre assumption that the Instagram is shallow but then shows how it all is just a way for this woman to deal with existential dread and the knowledge that life ends. Purposely creating “cliche” moments to capture little moments in time before it’s all gone

[@caitlinvest]

I personally think that the "is this heaven" is in reference to how people try to portray their life as perfect in social media, but then he shows the "real" bits of life with the death of her parents and her engagement etc etc

[@socialgh0st]

My mum passed away about a month before Inside came out, and this song hit hard. Thinking about all the things she'll never be there for - meeting the person that I spend the rest of my life with, being there for my wedding, when I get my first house, etc. etc. It's hard knowing all the big things she'll never see, but sometimes it's the tiniest things that hurt the most - me wanting to show her a new book I've read, or wanting to pick her flowers, or going to chat with her after I've been out all day...

[@palpablenotion]

I just realized you're the first person who reacted to this that I've watched and took it as a narrative instead of random fictional women. I like that interpretation. This is one of my fav songs of his because what seems to be satire gets pulled inside out (and Bo knows waaaaasy too much about structure ect that I think inside out is the intended idea) with her love letter to her mom and then it's almost like satirizing the satire. Like no these aren't always just random pics to seem deep. Like you said, there's a person behind that. Some of the images are just aesthetics but some have a lot of meaning and we don't always know which pics have that meaning.

[@dariajustdaria2292]

You are one of the few who watched this and got hit in the feels, and rightfully so🥺 we are all people behind the screen, and you never know, maybe those cutesy pics are the only things bringing this person joy, even if they're cliche. The heaven thing can also be interpreted as refuge, the place where its all good, so all the pics are beautiful and joyful...and mom is there too 😔You'd be surprised how many dudebros thought Bo gave them a green light to mock and how many women just got offended 😅 this song is beautiful, and Bo is a genius!

[@thanatos101b]

Bo really does have beautiful eyes.

[@Brooke-rw8rc]

Crazy thought I had today: This song is about Bo. He is the "white woman". The jokes are about the superficial and "basic" production tricks and emotional hooks on social media, but that's exactly what Bo does with the production values and techniques used in this special. Going deeper, in All Eyes on Me, there's the canned laugh track laughing at inappropriate moments when he takes his deepest pain and "produces" it for entertainment. In All Eyes on Me, we're on the Inside (pun?) of the experience, sympathizing with Bo, wagging our fingers at the tone-deaf "audience" in the laugh track. But this is the same song. This is a highly produced, curated artist who's a real person with real struggles. Except now we're on the outside looking in, laughing at the finished product because we're so divorced from the actual person behind it. In this song, we ARE the laugh track. "And then the funniest thing happened." "A goat cheese salad." These are the same line in the same part of the song. And the audience gives awkward, stilted laughter, wondering if it's ok we find it funny, but not sure if we want to think about how sad what we were just told is.

[@Illessan]

Watching through all your Inside reactions in order, and I have to say you're obviously incredibly perceptive picking up so many elements on your first watch, but what made me happiest was you marking the 'Three little words, a couple of doves, and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves' line. I've found so few people register it, but I definitely don't think it's an accident that it comes after the bridge, and is the *only* line in a verse that references the person directly rather than being pure passive description. It really melds the double meaning of the song, and just epitomises Bo Burnham for me - poking fun at the cliche of it all whilst this deep seam of empathy runs underneath. Anyway, loving your videos and I'm excited to see what you do after Inside!

[@Siggav]

Best take on this song I’ve seen from any reactor. Keep doing what you’re doing :)

[@yuyuyashasrain]

I might not be a basic bitch, but I feel so much love in this song. I was almost everyone in nerds, aside from the jocks, so I loved that support. And in this song, it’s just, Hey, basic bitches are people too! They have feelings and that’s okay! If they’re not hurting anybody, let them be happy, damn!

[@unblorbosyourshows9635]

I love how you take the time to apreciate the visuals of every video

[@Prometheusforliberty]

Dude feel free to talk over it. We are here for the reaction. We could just go watch the video if that was what we were after. I have seen a lot of your other reactions and this is my favorite one so far

[@peterjackson6011]

I love that he included that serious part in the middle. It changes the entire scope of the song, and about much of Instagram and its users. Sometimes social media is not a deceptive veneer so much as it is a coping mechanism. This is a great example of a comedian punching up instead of down. Anyone could make a satirical song about white women and instagram but very few of them would actually try to make a genuine point while doing it. Another reason Bo might actually heal the world with comedy, no matter how ridiculous he might think that sounds.

[@RealRedRabbit]

I unironically love the rose taped to a wall and the shadow hand. I think it'd be a good album cover lmao

[@jeffreyallanrich]

I love when you get emotional bro. But watch the special. There’s a narrative arc. The first half is lighter, observations and social commentary during lockdown. This refrain is about another IG post from an attention seeking white woman, with “her favorite photo of her mom” and a “caption” that is long winded for sympathy. She misses her mom. She moved out 10 years ago. We’re meant to believe it’s in memoriam, but “give a hug and kiss to dad” is the punchline. Mom and dad are alive and well my man. Dark, introspective, but always funny and poking fun at privilege. That’s BB.

[@broncoo787]

"I love like the blue lighting" oh I already know you're gonna love 2 more songs 😂😂

[@dubproduction879]

This is not a self promotion, but I made an Inside Medley Cover with 13 songs from the movie and I wanted to ask If you could react to it when you saw all the songs here. It's not online yet, because I upload it at the end of September.

[@ChrisReactsToThings]

If you remind me again when you upload it, I’d be down!

[@dubproduction879]

@@ChrisReactsToThings Okay, I decided to upload it tomorrow. I live in Germany, I don't know your time but I will upload it ca. 3 PM.

[@dubproduction879]

@@ChrisReactsToThings It's online now: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWiTgoCLe7ytY6c I'm hyped to see your reaction to it. Love your videos. ^^

[@skadoodlezz420]

Probably my favorite video so far! Keep up the nice work 🙌🏻

[@YesThatNeal]

Please react to "All Eyes On Me", which he goes right into after having a breakdown on camera. It was at that point that I too lost it. The entire special "Inside" is a masterpiece.

[@VintageStrawberry85]

Great news! He's doing the whole special song by song, in order!

[@Wanttofanta]

I like your take on the 27 Club aspect. I just thought he chose it cause it rhymes with heaven, but your take seems better

[@garettguenot808]

I feel you on how it hits having a daughter. The Last of Us games really got me at parts- highly recommend if you haven’t played it yet.

[@pantsumancer]

i lost my dad when i was 20, and my mom six years later. i always had a safety net, you know? i would fail and i knew someone was there to pick up the pieces. when my mom died, i knew i was truly on my own. this kills me every time i hear it. reminds me of a line from another song, not by bo - "leaving me was the best thing you ever taught me." life continues, the pain doesn't go away, and you have to keep going. bookended by the vapid positivity, helps ground you, understand people cope differently.

[@sonofthor5761]

bro your making me fucking cry with the part talking about her mom

[@clau6972]

Yesss!! You caught everything! So satisfying to watch

[@tag180rotax]

You're the first reactor Ive watched that caught the hug and kiss to dad part

[@Larathen]

"Its this heaven?" is a statement how people typically and especially the person in the song displays their Instagram as showing everything is fine and dandy, and once broken out of the aspect ratio and it gets REAL further emphasizes that everything taken on the internet is just face value to how the person behind it really is.

[@miguelzarate8618]

For sure brings some emotions up! I have a daughter and to think about it, is crazy... I Love my daughter so much and just wish her the best. ❤

[@RoM271290]

I choke up everytime too

[@Laura-ol5mt]

Great reaction, I think you got it right. The part is this heaven or a white human instagram is that people post only the happy things in their lifes, so looking to them is just happy and perfect lifes, but like you said is a real person behind them with real problems. Is a girl that uses social media to relax and focus on the good thing and find confort in photos and help her dealing with her problems. This is just my opinion, so don´t take it so serious. Again great reaction continue the good job!

[@SleepySigh]

It is a projector. Maybe I'm reading into it but I do think it's funny that pumpkins show up so many times in this song with kind of similar motifs. The pumpkin candle illuminating his face is like we're looking at him in that light, he mentions them again in the scene where he's literally about to paint something white/paint over something to make it nondescript/"basic", and then he's naked under the pumpkin projection but we can't see him, only the projection. There's something there about the light we shine on "basic" women, or maybe the light they choose to shine on themselves, when in reality they are all unique and vulnerable people with their own individual tragedies and joys

[@facebookwasdown]

hey man! I've watched several of your reaction videos back to back and I'm really enjoying them. You seem to really grasp the essence of the content that you react to, which is rarely the case with reaction videos in my experience. I'd even watch you react to content I haven't seen before which I don't usually do. Subscribe! Keep it up!

[@defth]

During the emotional part, when the aspect ratio widens, you also see the rest of the room - like open drawers and random stuff on a table - not just what youd see in the ig photo. I like.

[@atomiccrouton]

kudos for picking up on the aspect ratio change. A lot of reactors miss the age and the ratio change. Also, he frames himself incredibly small in the shot which makes him appear more vulnerable and with less control

[@nicolashunter4131]

so many people miss that part when the screen changes and Bo sings deep stuff about the girl and they think that he is mocking about it and it´s not that way,so i appreciate your point of view,you´re right,cool video man

[@brockmeade4450]

Whoa I never thought of that possibility that the “is this heaven” quote is the mom speaking. Interesting

[@gamecatharsis9600]

Part of my first read of this song; is that while Bo is sympathetic to the woman and wants to call the audience out on dismissing a white woman’s IG as vapid or basic; he is also showing his dislike of how social media forces us to limit ourselves. A lot of people talk about how the screen widens during the middle; but I think that the shrinking is also important. The fact that it goes right back into “basic” posts made me think that the song is told as if you are just scrolling through social media. Something so deep and personal that almost is too big to fit on a social media platform is juxtaposed with basic everyday life.

[@NecroPotatoYT]

Interesting thing. I have talked to many people about the middle of the song. Its in there on purpose. It causes debate. I find if you ask someone 30ish or under will think its a tribute to her mom and real life. 40+ They think its monetizing an emotional moment and may not even be true. Which in this day an age, people are not above the cash grab. So this can been seen either way. Only BO knows what BO ment this to be.

[@jojoo1702]

You seem super authentic and in touch with your emotions! Really love your reactions!

[@UpToLevel6]

27 is in reference to “The 27 Club”, a famous group of musicians that tragically died because of over use of drugs and alcohol usually, and I love your breakdowns but you missed one here probably because I’m older than you but google “the 27 club” and it’s a bunch of very famous music and acting stars, but mostly music, group of people that died by living hard and the personality that has “hate” and all that with black tape and says “FU”, that character points to the 27 club. He probably (he being Robert) wondered if he would die at 27. Off the cuff, the 27 club is made up of people like Any Winehouse, Kurt Kobain (Nirvana), Jimmi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison (The Doors lead singer/writer), Brian Jones and a crazy amount of others but those are the meat of them above. That’s why he’s point to the birthday balloons of 27. Its I suppose possible that there is a reference that has to do with the death of the mother but yeah, a decade is a long time until you’re in your 40s and I’m near my 50s. Decades eventually sound like a few years rather than a lifetime ago. Kids help bro. So yeah, the reference is direct to “The 27 Club” or some of our most famous and classic musicians basically drinking and taking enough drugs for the party. I’ve always thought it was a odd reference to it but it’s obvious when you know that 27 number. Caught it the first time. Perhaps she was 27 when her mom died, showing a rebirth of the daughter at that age. Shrug; unless Bo says something one day, it’s anyone’s guess but again, definitely in ref to “The 27 Club”. ✌️😎

[@hika_ariel]

When the ratio starts shrinking again, is when she switches from talking about her mom to "bragging" about her accomplishment. I find that brilliant.

[@OGDickus]

I get how that could make sense but I don’t see it as bragging. I feel like that whole thing was the post about her true feelings and thought about missing her mother & it opened the curtain on her real life away from the “heaven” posts. I think the closing was just to get back to the Instagram posts. Instead of it closing back to that ratio instantly. Just my thought ✌🏼

[@hika_ariel]

@@OGDickus i get the post about remembering life with the mom, but why literally talking about "and look at me now I'm doing so good" if that part would have been in any other context we would have just know bo was making fun of it

[@OGDickus]

@@hika_ariel if you’ve gone through loss you’d say the same thing. It’s not bragging it’s saying “mom I wish you could see me now, I have a job I love & I got my own apartment, mom I have a boyfriend & I’m in love with him.” I don’t know why some people would see that as bragging. It’s just saying mom I wish you could see me now.

[@hika_ariel]

@@OGDickus I've gone through loss. I didn't made a post of grieving about how my life is so good because I've got a new apartment tho, that's why I don't really see it that way, but still. Is a song everyone can think what they want

[@whitneylevis]

I honestly didn't know what to make of this song until I saw you put the pieces together. One thing that I like is the camera changes. Like how it expands when she is talking about her real life and past that is just raw and isn't curated and then collapses again to social media size when she's back to focusing on her audience.

[@jesuschristbutafab9923]

can i just say he pulled off all of those outfits flawlessly

[@MrSquare]

There's a really clever thing that happens there after the 'serious' bridge - the entire first half of the song is pretty typical 'hah poking fun at instagram women', and then as you said, the bridge happens and it's there to remind everyone that those are still real people who have real problems and grief, but then when it goes back to the normal lines AFTERWARDS the content of the lyrics has changed slightly, the guy making the jokes sounds more hollow and cynical, especially with the line about the engagement ring; "fuck you for being happy and sharing it online". That coupled with being emotionally hit by the bridge, makes the last part of the song flip perspective from being harmless 'haha millenials' jokes to a little bit more mean and sinister, like he's revealed the song is ACTUALLY about needlessly attacking people online, rather than posting vapid things to social media like it appears in the first half. At least that's what I took away from it.

[@HarveyLu_]

I like in the lyrics the part "Is it just heaven or a white womans instagram" it says alot like something is this a perfect world even in RL? Or is ist just a simple human beeing like everyone else :>

[@acacialee2673]

I took this as him saying that yeah people make fun of the stuff that these woman enjoy because it’s “basic”, but maybe those little things are the things that get you through hard times. Little victories/happinesses are the things that heal you.

[@sunnyscript1224]

I see this song as tackling humanisation and how we are treating people based on broad assumptions like what they post on IG. Most people listening were making fun of and maybe stereotyping and slightly deshumanizing this white woman for posting "basic" stuff on the internet until they realised she was using social media to cope. They needed a justification, a backstory to humanise her. And then they got it! In real life tho, it doesn't work that way. Social media is a façade. It's not 100% _genuine_ if anything people do their best to show their best moment in fear of receiving overbearing judgements from strangers whose opinion was never asked like wtf?! I just wanted to show my art pieces to fellow artists. Chill out💀😟...etc etc Truth is, being "basic" isn't a real thing and even if it was you can't make it someone's whole personality or use is as a reasoning to justify your biases. People who use the term basing are just beating up other people who take times to do things they enjoy. Like buying/making candles and immortalising the moment with a picture. They believe that what they have/make is worth being posted. Who are you to tell them it isn't? Your opinion isn't needed. I remember going through aoc then reading a fanfiction that went on hiatus. It was very silly and self indulgent but when the author came back they talked about how life has been hell, that 4 of their family members died to covid and that their landlord kicked them out, which led them to be homeless for a few weeks, but now they were back! Writing silly selfindulgent stuffs. It made them happy, it made readers happy. So yeah, Some people genuinly believes that they're smarter or more unique than others because of what they do/don't post or listen to. People need to realise they're allowed to just enjoy things. We're here to relax, get a little escapism, maybe pretend our lives are better than they are. Don't ruin it. Don't be reductive.

[@PigeonFodder]

I got choked up at that part, too.

[@mattstanford9673]

The first time I listened to this song, when it go to the "give a hug and kiss to dad" I took it as how some people post dramatic things for the sake of posting dramatic things, and lie about their parents being dead and contradicting themselves later by accident, since Instagram is really more or less just Look-At-Me Inc. Granted, I'm probably just being extremely cynical. But that was legitimately my knee-jerk reaction.

[@combogalis]

I agree with the idea that the part about her mom is also a look at the real person behind the social media posts who we can't see, and how even if they feel TOO perfect or absurdly shallow depending on your take, they are just as much a complicated person as the rest of us, and perhaps we shouldn't judge to badly. BUT, the fact that at the end it still goes back into the 4:4 resolution I still take as a bit of a jab. Like, sure, the feelings are real, but you still used them to make a post for attention on instagram. Followed by a picture of goat cheese salad. It's both a condemnation of us for turning EVERYTHING into overly simplistic content, and also the platforms and audiences for not being very interested in giving that sort of sharing the space it deserves. Fit your grief and love into a single square picture and a caption then move on to aesthetic inanity.

[@angryman...]

In the line "three little words a couple of doves and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves" the words are probably "I love you"

[@pepethefrog6809]

Ohh, that's an interesting conspiracy theory about the "27 club". Kurt Cobain was also 27, I believe, when he died.

[@HunterLikesSoda]

dude you absolutely nailed the aspect ratio thing. it widens as she is finally being fully vulnerable and honest with no regard to the portrayal of it on social media. then when it becomes about the presentation again and what SHES done and doing, it starts going back to the performative aspect

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

As someone who rarely cries because of songs, Bo almost got me with "Your little girl didn't do too bad, Mama I love you give a hug and kiss to dad." At the end of the day, we should all be grateful for our parents; we take them for granted way too often.

[@42Mrgreenman]

I''m still wondering...is that 27 a reference to Weird Al or something else...anyone with any info, I'd appreciate it...

[@foolishdonut]

I think the "is this heaven" bit is a reference to how you only see the best parts of someone's life on social media. Instagram is notorious for happy, energetic, and asthetic pictures so "is this heaven" is in reference to this atmosphere. But I actually quite liked your comment about how maybe she's hoping heaven is as nice as the pictures she's posting? Or something similar. Very interpretive.

[@MalkuthSephira]

for this girl & pumpkins (not white though) they taste and smell good and once a year i get to brutalize them with an edged weapon and then use their hollowed out carcass as a creepy light source more seriously, haven't lost a parent yet, but have lost enough people (most but not all of them family, some who were close) all in all that this still gets me right in the soul and it hurts like hell. and as for the parents, i was born when they were about as old as mom could physically be and still pop out one last mistake, so i don't know how much of them i've got left. i'll regret not spending more of my adult life with them, but if i had done more of that and/or tried to do more of it now, i would probably end up killing myself, so i guess it's just one of those things that's going to be awful no matter what i think the part of me that knows how to mourn is broken or maybe never existed in the first place. i can cry about video games and anime but when i lose people i just... bury them as deep as my head as i can and try not to look back. i genuinely do not know how to do it any other way. i can't look at the hurt head-on, i just... i can't. it might literally be too much for me to take, and some kind of semi-maladaptive instinct recognizes that and shuts things down any time i start really feeling it. yeah, there have been a few that i cried over a couple times, but after that it's just... a void, and all the little scraps of survival instinct i've managed to cling to somehow are screaming that if i look into that void for more than a couple minutes a month, it'll swallow me whole i think i've cried more over kentaro miura than i have about family members i knew from when i was too young to form clear memories. what a weird world

[@salvatorelucania6725]

About mom's death line. Don't you think it is also an aspect of everybody's bringing all their insides for everyone to see. Which is mentioned several times in Bo's "Welcome to the internet". Your interpretation is more kind and touching which is certainly not a bad thing

[@Odd_Bunny]

I love that when the ratio starts to widen, you go from seeing the "perfect photo" to seeing the messiness of the room that's lived in and kind of shows behind the scenes of the girls life outside of what she posts

[@mercyfae17]

I don’t get the obsession with pumpkin either. I do like anything that has strawberry in it from Starbucks, though. 😂

[@LadyKuroneko13]

The switch of the song nearly gave me whiplash and the part with the dead mom hit me like a ton of bricks, I don’t know why I keep searching for this song reaction because it makes me cry every time

[@christopherwalsh2368]

That moment hit me hard as a Dad too, dude. Amazing reaction as always 👍

[@craftwitch8168]

i lost my mom at 15 and then my dad a few years after her.This song makes me cry so hard. i got married without my parents, had my babies without my parents, every day i wrestle with the fact that my kids will never meet my parents, or my favorite aunt, or anyone on my mothers side because that whole side of my family has died already before they were born. this is the only social media i have, but if i did still have other social media,who that hell would want to hear about the hard, sad stuff? so i get why she keeps it light on her instagram. people are mean if you dont grieve how they want you to, or if you grieve for too long in public. just look at the folks that are saying mean stuff about the fictional woman in this song

[@simonward-thoms7564]

This song has a happy ending though! Three little words A couple of doves And a ring on her finger from the person that she loves I hope the wedding is lit and I hope it's all over this White Woman's Instagram

[@ayveri_8167]

my dad passed away when i was 15. this came out when i was around 12-13 and when i rewatched the special a few months ago i first realized what the song was actually meaning. what was a funny song now became something sad to me

[@mercyfae17]

Yeah, I think that overall, it also shows how little we allow ourselves to get vulnerable on social media. It goes back to the real life and basic posts really quickly.

[@riptidev10]

This guy used to record in the exact same room as moistcritikal penguinz0 room, mind blowing

[@vampilinaa]

pumpkin flavored things are great but tbh fuck those nasty weird seedy things.

[@marykatedoyle9574]

The added “give a hug and kiss to dad” letting us know she’s been orphaned at the last second? Absolutely destroys me.

[@Tulip_bip]

Losing one or both of your parents must be horrible... I don't know what I would do if mine were gone, I hate thinking about it

[@sadie6219]

Bro…the slurping at the beginning trigged me so hard. But then your attentive, interesting reaction won me over. New sub.

[@nGUNNARp]

it took me so many listens to figure out WHY the shot was widening and then shrinking during that middle part, and when i finally got it i felt so dumb.

[@doctorteethomega]

Yeah, I'm a dad of daughters and my mother has passed. So That verse hits for me. The rest of the song is funny as hell, though.

[@rickhammer7204]

Awesome videos. Best reactions to inside I've seen yet!

[@giant_pigeon]

I love that man. I hope your little girl knows how much you love her. I can't wait to have kids