This sounds like a song a Disney villain would sing shortly after being introduced into the plot.

Imagine being a rural 80-year-old farmer or something, finally being like "fine, I guess I'll try the internet", and then this is the first thing you see.

"Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime." Yeah.

I feel like if you asked artists to design a character embodying the entire Internet, they'd really get to be creative and go all out with the prompts, adding a lot of features and details to the character's design. But I find it interesting how effective this portrayal is: white shirt, black pants, black shoes, round black sunglasses. It's so simple. He just looks like any guy at all. All the weight of the character is in Bo's performance and the cold blue lighting. His outfit would be perfectly unremarkable if not for the sunglasses. We can't see his eyes. The lenses are small, so we can still see his eyebrows, it's not like we can't read his expression. But we can't look into his eyes. There's no window to the soul, just round black discs.

Bo sounds like he’s auditioning to be the next joker or riddler.

The glasses were a brilliant choice The uncaring, unfeeling soulless nonchalance is terrifying

The way he laughed when he said "Color pencil drawings of Harry Potter characters" Got me thinking: Did he actually saw it or he made it up but laughed because he realized how likely it is to exist

The irony of watching this on the internet is not lost on me.

"Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime" The internet's mission statement

This man is one bad day away from becoming a musical supervillian.

Who's here in 2026?

I just found out that this man retired. I swear i almost cried when this came up for a recommendation from youtube. Have a good life, Bo.

This song is so addicting it should be classified as a narcotic.

Bo back then: "And i can't grow a beard, that one's not ironic that one's just sad" Bo now:

My mom walked by when he said all the harry potter characters f*cking eachother 💀 She standed there looking at me like " 😟 "

Man disappears for a couple years. Comes back and drops this banger. Doesn't elaborate. Fear him.

This defines the internet better than a dictionary.

The perfect villain laugh doesn’t exi-

To top it off with “And if we stick together, who knows what we’ll do. It was always the plan. To put the world in your hand.” Then followed by the worlds most evil sounding laughter ever, then switches into fast paced “Could I internist you in everything, all of the time, apathy is a tragedy and boredom is a crime” shows that the lack of care the world has for a single person, YOU. and that the “world in your hand” isn’t always the best thing. You see for how truly terrible and evil people can be and that if the internet connects the world together, then the internet would be the worst place from the start because of that. Bo then covers it in the beginning with a wholesome sounding song, but cracks in the paradise of the internet start to show, and in the end, it all is let loose. The evil of humanity can never be hidden, especially on the internet, no matter what you do.

“It was always the plan, to put the world in your hand” followed by maniacal laughter. That sums up the monkey’s paw that smart phones were. It was one thing when then the sum of human knowledge and consciousness was in a box on your desk that took 5 minutes to load. It’s another thing to have effectively instant access to almost all human knowledge and consciousness in your pocket at all times.

i feel like this isn’t a “welcome” song…it’s more of a “it’s all over now. and look at what happened-what we made happen” song

This feels like something you’d come across in 2012 called “Internet” and the person who made it would never upload again

im old for remebering this as if it were 1 week ago

I only just noticed the blurred layers of words and laughter mixed into the last manic repeat of the bridge...goddamnit this is brilliant.

“And I can’t grow a beard, that ones not ironic that ones just sad” -Bo Burnham He finally did it, he grew one

this is villain song indeed but it's a song of a villain who actually got his message across and won.

3:55 so that’s where that meme came from!

Here’s a tip on straining pasta, here’s a nine year old who died

"Here's a tip for straining pasta, here's a 9 year old who died!" Is way too accurate help

Bo Burnham looks like a totally different person with a beard and sunglasses

This really is a peice of art!!! I do not think I have seen a video that better caputers the danger of the internet so perfectly! More people need to see this!!!

Bro exposed us all in one sitting💀💀💀

"and it did all the things we designed it to do" That line haunts me, every time

The best thing about the internet is that everybody can use it. The worst thing about the internet is that everybody can use it.

"Welcome to the Team Fortress"

The irony that this song plays in the background on my third monitor while having discord open on another and doing homework on the first. Everything, all of the time.

If nobody makes this man a villain/voice act an animated villain and he isn't singing, I do not want it

This man’s maniacal laughter is incredible

This this my favourite song of all time

if the internet is ever shut down permanently (dumb concept but go along ) this should be the outro

No one person has any business being this creative.

Bruh HOW IS HIS VOICE SO ADDICTIVE?? He fr sounds like a very lovable villain

this should be the first video you see when you open up any web browser

I love how he casually says "Here's a 9 year old who died". X3

This sounds like a song from a Disney villain but less censored

This new Spy Kids villain hitting different.

The fact that the line at 1:39 "Could I interest you in everything all of them time? A little bit of everything all of the time? Apathy is a tradegy and boredom is a crime. Anything and everything all of the time." Just works with the topic of Internet it has everything you could toggle all of the time that's a little bit of everything all of the time. If you are ever mean on social media you'll be in deep trouble, and you just get glued to the screen so being bored is unintentionally a crime. This line is such a banger I love the notes that accompany it as well. I think a variation of this line appeared in Goodbye too.

3:52 POV: when my friend asks who is Candice

The difference between Bo these days and Bo during the “I’m Bo Yo” days is insane.

People are saying its a “villain song” or “the end credits to when the internet is over”... but it’s legit the Internet’s new theme-song.

I find that this man has goddamn lore for god’s sake because he mentions everything all of the time in most of his damn songs

3:54 i love this laugh

“Apathy is a tragedy and boredom is a crime” something about that line is so memorable

"And it did all the things we designed it to do." 🙃

Welcome to team fortress gang

I used to say “I was half-raised by the internet,” in the context of this song it makes it uncomfortable realization that my personality was influenced by a mindless entity which’s sole purpose was to get me hooked in and guess what, it worked… I’m gonna go outside 😅

“apathy’s a tragedy and boredom is a crime” god if that doesn’t describe the internet I don’t know what does.

I like to think of it this way: The Internet is one of the greatest advances in human history. Its users, not so much.

Listening to this song everyday for a year day 3: Have a look around

I like how he says all those horrible things on the internet and just moves on, a metaphor for desensitization is what I think.

“Apathy’s a tragedy and boredom is a crime.” That is one hell of a quote.

As an educator for 30 years, mostly at the high school level but at elementary and middle school the last 2 years..... People really need to think how this internet world is impacting these little tikes AND their parents. I wasnt allowed to watch the 3 stooges as a kid because my mom was afraid i would imitate their physical slap stick thinking it was real. Think what these kids are being exposed to 24/7 if they want and if not them, their parents. These kids have grown up knowing about every school shooting, every war is at their disposal and every conspiracy theory. We have to rethink how we teach our children and work with their parents. These kids are being exposed to every horrific event in the world or the people raising them have. Be kind and show them that kindness is in their day to day life.

There is an adult radio station in germany, called "Deutschlandfunk", which normally only has documentaries, news and politics. The only times they play music its normally whenever some Jazzmusician has died. And only at 1am. They played your song at least twice already, which actually means they accepted this song as part of a new culture, as something important that people need to hear. Congrats.

the laugh gives me chills

Who came here from the tf2 spy video called "Welcome to Team Fortress"

Thr way this dude speaks as of he is the internet pretending to fake human emotion. Its just perfect.

It’s terrifying just how spot-on every single joke, jab, and inside joke really is edit: YOOO TYSM FOR THE LIKES WHAT SSBFBHJSFHJSJFS

The mildly unhinged chuckle delivery of "welcome to the internet" after the joke about Harry Potter Rule 34 adds so much to this song to me

When I was first watching this video, I was doing electrical work and a game and that’s all I can think about whenever I listen to this song happens to more songs than you think

The way the music switches is fitting. The beginning sounds like a carnival. Upbeat and fun... the further down the rabbit hole you go the more fast, chaotic, and sinister the circus becomes. Then slowing down and reflecting on the good old days. To conclude with the spastic intensified out of control tempo is just the spiral that has become the internet. So clever

Bo Burnham really is the kind of guy who would write a song specifically for when people ask him for an encore, and all the encore involves is him walking up onto stage, adjusting his microphone, playing one key, and yelling at everyone to fuck off.

The Internet achieves sentience, immediately goes completely insane, and begins violently dressing down all of humanity.

He went from being an 18 year old performing welcome to youtube to looking like he is 30 and taking a bigger step by going up to welcome to the internet.

Man, as someone born in '88 I do miss the internet of the mid-to late 90s / early 00's (got my first computer, a Gateway, purchased in early 1996)... He is 100% right, after 9/11 the internet really DID change..

It's so true how the internet has blurred everything together. You see something tragic and then there's a meme right below. We hardly have a chance to process emotions and so it all turns to be numb

When the world needed him the most, he returned.

0:58 is probably my favorite part

This song reminds me of golden age of internet. Came back to hear this great song again. Thank you.

having a hard time not thinking about this special

I can't believe that this is the person who sang "Is there anything better than 🐱? YES! A really good 📖" i'm shook

still blows my mind that its a single cut and all the lights music lyrics was all created by bo.. in a guesthouse or shed whatever. mind blowing talent. bo fo sho

"share with us your children pictures" is the best

“Would you like to fight for civil rights or tweet a racial slur” Pretty much sums up Twitter

He has the unsettling essence of an oompa loompa in Charlie and the chocolate factory

The "little bit of everything all of the time" just hits hard

Someone: describe society This guy: *inhales*

Don’t mind me just looping this for a few couple of Days

I like how he controls the light all by himself while playing music.

I can’t believe that that one #savetf2 song was so good that Bo Burnham made a parody of it

KZfaq in one song! Mate this is #1

Disney wish they could do a villian song as good as Bo's Mr internet.

This song is comedic, terrifying and tragic at the same time. Bo how do you do this???

I am both sad and terrified at the idea of how many people took these words without realising the deep meaning behind them taking all the words at face value

R34 site in nutshel:

i'm convinced bo made that line "i can't grow a beard, that's not ironic it's just sad" so he could grow one and have us look back saying "that's ironic"

I am never shutting the fuck up about how good this special is.

Style of song from 80's , writting from 90's memeology from 20's . Perfect blend

This is literally the Bohemian Rhapsody of the internet.

"Can I interest you in any thing and everything, all of the time." Now if that's not a way to sum up our current time, I don't know what else will.

Bro got the rhymes, jokes, message, melody, truth and everything. If Internet would have an anthem, I would vote for this