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_Published 2018-07-11. Bo Burnham Talks About Adolescence, The Internet & His New Film_


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## Transcript

I'd say that if you want to start a YouTube channel, go for it. Self- expression is nice. Yeah, sure, but don't listen to me. Who cares? Do what you want. [ LAUGH ] From a young age, I posted videos on YouTube, and I'm here because of it. I got very lucky. But they're incredibly embarrassing to me. [ MUSIC ] I'm Bo yo. I'm the greatest rapper ever ever whether you whether whether you think I'm clever or not. Think you're better, you're not. [ INAUDIBLE ] But no I'm grateful. I think they're fun and I think they were good for a 16 year old kid putting himself out there. No one comes out fully formed.

And that's an issue with the Internet. The Internet kinda wants people to come out fully formed and It's a bad place to learn, in public and I hope maybe we get a little better in letting people evolve and grow and change their mind. So the topic of today's video is being yourself. Kids always want to feel accepted and express themselves to be validated by other people, but now just The validation is heightened the expression is heightened the exposure is heightened, the time that you are available to be judged by others is lengthened so, it's just a lot, it's just a lot and that's sort of what the movie is it's just being if I'm being honest with myself I feel like a confused kid drowning in culture grasping for meaning.

So the movie is hopefully just like presenting that struggle. I said one more week of eighth grade, right? Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. If you wanted, [ INAUDIBLE ] to go viral stuff, I would say just try to enjoy making things. If you enjoy making things and putting things out there and expressing yourself, that's chill, but try not to ground your enjoyment of the thing. In its reception because then you're at the mercy of other people and you should try to just be at the mercy of your own creative process, which you have control over. So that or chug a lot of cinnamon and humiliate yourself. I mean it's like you know, yeah.

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