#bo burnham all eyes on me

[manicpixxiedreambitch]

I’m gonna say it-

Bo Burnham’s All Eyes On Me is at the top of my list of songs that have gotten me through some shit. Winter of 2022, I was dealing with seasonal depression and anxiety worse than I’d ever had before. Summer of 22 was the best, but winter was awful. My friend committed suicide at the end of the summer and I was still coping with the fact that I won’t see them again until we meet in the afterlife, and that I will grow old one day and they won’t. I had also been dealing with bad anxiety and panic attacks. It felt like the world was ending and its scary to want kids one day when you have the overwhelming feeling that their futures won’t happen. I was afraid of anything and everything. And then one day I was doomscrolling on Pinterest and found a tiktok of All Eyes On Me posted at the lines “You say the oceans rising-like I give a shit, you say the whole world’s ending, buddy it already did”

That single verse eased three months worth of stress more than anything else. I instantly downloaded the song. Everything about the song is perfect. The story he tells in the middle of the song. The audience cheering for him. The ending where he breaks off into relieved and happy laughter as the audience’s cheering gets louder.

Idk. I just wish I could one day meet the guy and thank him for that.

#bo burnham #bo burnam inside #bo burnham all eyes on me #tw suicide #tw anxiety issues

[toomanyfandomssos]

I'd like to introduce you all to my favorite phrase.

This is what Bo Burnham meant when he said "are you feeling nervous"

#bo burnham #boburnham #bo burham inside #Bo Burnham all eyes on me #inside special #Inside cuts #bo inside #all eyes on me #are you feeling nervous #are you having fun?

[shakirachyanne]

Song: All eyes on me - Bo Burnham

Show: Good Omens

#good omens #crowley #david tennant #aziraphale #crowly good omens #good omens edits #crowly x aziraphale #neil gaiman #ineffable husbands #michael sheen #bo burnham #bo burnam inside #all eyes on me #dont be shy #dont be scared #come on in

[minimuii]

“ha haha hahahahaha ha… HAhahahahahahahhaa a ” (Bo Burnham, Inside)

#second post incoming at some point gotta think of a caption #muii art #bo burnham #inside #inside outtakes #the future #content #jeffery bezos #all eyes on me #artists on tumblr #procreate #film study #1985 #five years #welcome to the internet

[greer-theartist]

Living in the Future 4/4

digital painting

#living in the future #art #digital painting #painting #illustration #green #bo burnham #bo burnham inside #inside #procreate #all eyes on me

[itsthe-tism]

What I wouldn't give to be able to write something so emotionally gut wrenching and devastating as

"You say the oceans rising, like I give a shit. You say the whole worlds ending, honey it already did. You're not gonna slow it, heaven knows you try. Got it? Good, now get inside."

from Bo Burnham's all eyes on me.

Yknow not even that version specifically, any of the reprises/versions of the bridge. The all make me feel hopeless in both the best and worst ways possible somehow.

#like holy shit #dudes a lyrical genius #everyday I thank god for him #bo burhnam #bo burnam inside #all eyes on me #inside bo burnham

[kornelias]

You say the ocean's rising like I give a shit

You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did

You're not gonna slow it, Heaven knows you tried

Got it? Good, now get inside

Bo Burnham — All eyes on me | Inside

Instagram: _idealart

#artists on tumblr #artwork #art #fanart #digital art #digital illustration #artistsupport #art commisions #digital artist #portrait #bo burnham #bo burnam inside #bo burnham fanart #Bo Burnham fan #Bo Burnham art #eyes #all eyes on me #inside #inside outtakes #art is dead #bo burnham what #bo burnham make happy #comedy #musical comedy #standup #standup comedy #idealanaart #stand up

[dogwood-designs]

All Eyes On Me

Acrylic on Canvas

#inside #bo burnham inside #bo burnham #all eyes on me #bo burnham fanart #bo burnham art #inside art #inside fanart #you say the whole world’s ending honey it already did #the inside outtakes #my art #acrylic #painting #art #inside 2021 #all eyes on me art

[thenwedied]

#bo burnham #the inside outtakes #boburnhamedit #all eyes on me #bo burnham inside #my phone makes me sad #*bbobert

[mystical-cinnamoon]

nah because All Eyes On Me came up on my spotify shuffle and istg my heart rate is different now

this song is doing things to my body (NOT SEXUALLY ESRDTRYFUGIHOPUYFTHIJ)

#bo burnham #bob urnham #robert #all eyes on me

[thegreenmetblue]

Starker - All Eyes On Me

i made a starker vid last year- for a friend’s bday

so here it is bsndk 🤭🩵

i got inspired by this post from @spiderlinging

#starker #leah made a fanvideo #starker fanvideo #all eyes on me by bo burnham

[screenpalettes]

Inside (2021)

#inside #bo burnham #all eyes on me #netflix #color palette #cinema palettes #bo burnham inside #scopophobia

[minimuii]

my spotify wrapped this year will never forgive me …

#muii art #bo burnham #inside #inside outtakes #all eyes on me #the future #artists on tumblr #procreate #film study #content #1985 #five years #welcome to the internet

[greer-theartist]

Living in the Future 3/4

digital painting

#bo burnham #bo burnham inside #inside #digital painting #painting #procreate #living in the future #all eyes on me #illustration

[eldritchrach]

Transparent Sticker Set feat. lyrics from Bo Burnham's Inside. (That Funny Feeling / All Eyes On Me)

#bo burnham #inside #all eyes on me #that funny feeling #sticker #stickers #lyrics

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

you say the whole world's ending (honey, it already did) (Trobed)

"It has to be okay for it to get on a boat with Lavar Burton and never come back."

This wasn't supposed to be a tragedy. This wasn't supposed to end like this.

He was supposed to end up with Britta. Or Annie. Anyone, really, it didn't matter, as long as he stayed. As long as the Dreamatorium still functioned.

(As long as you got to love him through movie nights and pillow fights and butter noodles and Armageddon.)

You don't know when you began to lose Him. It wasn't to the Air Conditioner Repair School. It wasn't to the Great Pillows-And-Blankets war.

It wasn't Pierce. Not truly. Pierce was never important enough to sever that tie.

He needed to be his own man. He needed to go on his own adventure.

And you?

You are floating. Drifting. You cannot find your plot. You cannot thread together the character arcs that once guided you. You are pulled and pushed and the world falls apart. He turns and hugs you and the one person who you counted on to always understand you, all of the tangled film reels making up your brain, gets on a boat with Lavar Burton and never comes back.

The color seeps from the world. The color grading fades to a grayish, sickly shade. The wide shots disappear in favor of mid-range shots centered around one location, the study table, but it's not a bottle episode in the fun way. It's not. The apocalypse has arrived, not in fire and nuclear war, but instead The Road style, all depressing grays and cold blues.

The shenanigans continue, sure. Of course they do. The show is barreling towards something- or, perhaps, it's limping. So many parts of it have been chewed away, stolen by other networks. First Pierce, a wound to the arm you could sustain and sew up with a few stitches and then move on.

But then Him. Then the other half of yourself, the part you clung to throughout so many potential apocalypses before, gets on a boat, stepping into freedom and his own spin-off, and you are handcuffed to a filing cabinet for the crime of being strange. Of your senses being too sensitive. Of you being finally understood and- not loved, not appreciated, but shown kindness.

It's wrong for others to show you kindness. It's wrong for others to accommodate you.

You are not made to be accommodated. You are made to mocked and shoved and forced into the cookie-cutter hole that society has forced upon you.

You stop getting up to adventures. You stop searching out whimsy. Your delight got on a boat and abandoned you.

You retreat behind your camera. You enter your corner and you never leave. You lock away the corner of your mind that contains the Dreamatorium.

You are still handcuffed to the wall of that locker, aren't you? He found you at Inspecticon, but he lost you in the lava. A clone emerged, a perfected copy, who is bound by metal and lava and zombie bites and the knowledge that you were a whole person before Him but a jagged wound after Him.

You stop reaching out. You leave him at an unanswered "I love you." You cannot bear to seek and not find, to be rebuffed in person once again by the one person you once gave your bleeding heart to.

He doesn't come back. He is never coming back.

Pierce is gone. Shirley is gone. He is gone. Frankie and Elroy are here, and they're nice, but it's not the same.

You wish the lava had cauterized the wound in your heart. You wish that the world had allowed you to move on without a constant pain tearing itself into your chest.

There is only one answer you can give yourself now. There is only one way your story can end.

You leave the study room for the final time and you look back and the table has so many empty seats. So many holes that need to be filled.

You close your eyes, tears burning the backs but refusing to fall, and you lay his name behind you. You will not take it with you. You cannot bear to take it with you. You cannot carry this weight alone. You must leave this hurt behind, even if it means abandoning your heart in Greendale just like He once abandoned you.

The door falls shut. The curtain falls. The credits play.

The show is over. The tragedy has run its course, you at the center, you the fool, you the crushed body, you the director who packs everything up and ends the story.

No one is interested in seeing your heart anymore, if they ever were in the first place.

***

(Years later, a man will step foot off of a boat. He is late. Far too late. He should have returned ages ago. He has a beard and a few new scars and he is wiser and more worn but his eyes shine like they always did.

He stops in Greendale and is told that you left years ago. That he has missed his chance. That he is better off returning to Air Conditioner Repair and not wondering where you went.

You have drifted. You have left. You have turned your back on a world that turned its back on you.

But He is far more stubborn than you give him credit for. He turned the world over for himself, but also for you. For the spin-off you always begged for.

He picks up your heart from beneath the study table, cradles it close, and resolves to return it to you. He will bring you the keys to the handcuffs. He will bring you understanding. He will bring you butter noodles and a smile that never wavers. Not for you.

It will take time to reestablish trust, to unravel trauma and an ache as deep and old as the life you have survived, but he will do it. He would follow you anywhere, you know? He was delayed, detoured, but you were always the end goal.

He will eventually return his hands to repair. He likes helping people, and likes fidgeting with his hands, so why not?

But right now, he turns on his heel and heads straight for the airport. He has a plane to L.A. to catch.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48569731

#community #trobed #angst #internalized ableism #abed nadir #troy barnes #ambiguous ending #meta #geothermal escapism #bo burnham #crossposted on AO3 #fanfic #aletterinthenameofsanity #emotional consequences of broadcast television #character study #trauma #autistic abed nadir #i've got a lot of feelings abt the tragic quality of late-community abed #listening to all eyes on me really sets the mood #all eyes on me #heavy angst