We are living in a golden age of content
Good evening, everyone. My name is Bo Burnham
I am a lifelong content creator and
I am absolutely thrilled to be speaking
With you tonight about the current state of our industry
Where we are, where we've been, and most importantly
Where we are headed, Now
All of us in this room are working day
And night to help create a lively landscape of content
A self-sustaining system of consumption and production centered on the user
This is the lifeblood of our industry
This ever-changing public discourse
This eternal conversation – born anew at every moment
Happening everywhere across all platforms
Between all users. This feeling!
This – this steady, formless feeling
That hangs over everything
This untamable aimless urgency.
This sense that all of this is going to burst at any moment
It just has to, it can't sustain like this
Not with this much speed
Not with this much force
The fear of what will happen when it ends
When it hits the brick wall
And the other fear
The deeper fear
The unspeakable fear of never hitting the wall
Of this feeling never ending, Never slowing down
But rising forever, like a shepard's tone
An endless and pointless climb towards a terrible and dense nothing