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From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible

episodes.

I'm your host, Cole Kuchna. Today we crawl. There we met the story's protagonist, the boy, an immature internet troll whose moral and mental

infancy seems to represent society's early stages in the internet era. In the album's screenplay, the boy had just gotten home from

summer camp. He lives in a gigantic mansion with his disconnected dad, his mother

is dead, and he spends most of his time trolling strangers on the internet.

The script then flashes forward 15 years and we find the boy now in his late 20s

doing the same things he did when he was an early teen, partying with his friends, eating

pop-tars, and trolling on the internet.

During this exposition of the narrative, two key questions were posed, questions that will be explored throughout

because the internet. First Gambino opened the album asking,

Who am I? Which clued us into the exploration of identity and modern existence

in the age of the internet.

Second, Gambino asked, what's the rationale?

That is, why live at all?

How do we justify our existence?

It's with these existential questions in mind that we continue our exploration of

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