Bo Burnham INSIDE astutely identified and predicted basically everything about our currently ascendant oligarch technocracy—which is what the whole movie is really about—but people largely ignored that and interpreted it as being about how quarantine was lonely or something lol
ai is so expensive now but the ai guys are still dickriding it. it’s almost like they never cared about “democratization” - they’re just antisocial freaks with no friends and no talent to make anything for real.
Someone should make a video game that is actively harmful, not like its propaganda for dangerous opinions but just simply playing it somehow measurably deteriorates your physical/mental/emotional health like just booting it up and playing for an hour guarantees you ruin your day
the biggest enshittification that ive seen post-2020 is every customer-facing job running off a skeleton crew cause every company realized that they can *technically* survive off of it and increase their profits in the process
So we’re supposed to go out and do errands and go to work and act like this is all normal while we’re in the middle of a FUCKING male loneliness epidemic.