Aug 20, 2026

"Lost Boys": Music video by Phoebe Bridgers, with Skyler Gisondo escaping to Middle Earth, or not, plus some not fully clothed dudes

The censors are becoming extremely picky lately. There was nothing inappropriate for a five-year old in the previous version, but they still slapped a "sensitive content" thing on it. I wouldn't mind, except they yell at you for it every time you go to the edit page.

Link to the not fully clothed dudes

I'm not happy with the Gemstone guys since the show ended in 2025. Both Adam Devine (Kelvin) and Tony Cavalero (Keefe) were married to women, but they played a lot of gay-subtext roles, and in their social media, they minimized their hetero interests, even pretending to be into guys.

When the show ended, it suddenly became wife and kids, marriage and family, all through their social media, and their productions are entirely gay-free, even gay-subtext free.

Gavin Munn filled his social media with buddies and grown-up beefcake guys, until the Gemstones ended. Then it was "I'm not doing this anymore, I'm taking a girl to junior prom!"

Skyler Gisondo is the worst of the lot. His social media was full of gay buddy-bonds, with girls rarely if ever mentioned -- until the show ended. Then it was "Here's my girlfriend! Have you met my girlfriend? I have a girlfriend!" And his Superman (2025) involved blatant, slap-in-the-face queerbaiting: "I'm going to pretend I'm gay for two hours, then pull the rug out from under you in the last scene, har har!"

Skyler's latest work is in the music video "Lost Boys" (2026), by Phoebe Bridgers, an American singer/songwriter who has won four Grammies for her "melancholy" songs with complex lyrics mirroring personal issues.

Left: Phoebe's partner, Bo Burnham (not fully clothed on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

Phoebe is bi and an advocate for LGBTQ rights, and "Lost Boys" has a strong gay connotation: the boys are "lost" beause they have rejected the heteros*xist trajectory into job, house, wife, and kids in favor of the infinite joy of the world of men.

We stop the fight right now, we got to be who we are.

So doubtless the song is about that joy.

Right?

Scene 1: Phoebe, dressed as the Elf Galadriel from The Lord of the Rings,, drives with her knight on a motorcycle to a LARP battle in an auto graveyard. The players are dressed as Medieval warriors. But it's a real battle, with people hurting each other.

The first stanza seems to be about joining the army, "Where they make you remove your hair/ Impatient with a rifle and your papers."

Scene 2: They have dinner in a Japanese restaurant, looking not entirely happy.

More after the break

Scene 3: They stop into a convenience store for snacks, and clerk Skyler is awestricken. Phoebe pays with non-scientific activity, smiles, and leaves.

Scene 4: Skyler rushes to the basement, grabs a farm implement and a football helmet, and rushes out. He spies on the group as they practice their swordsmanship and have another dinner at the Japanese restaurant.

The next stanza has nothing to do with the story. Phoebe recounts a time in East Berlin where her ex "threw a tantrum with a 57 (microphone) and broke a body part."

Scene 5: Finally Skyler approaches the group, and kneels before Galadriel. There are women hanging around, too.

Smiling, she accepts him. The guys exchange his football helmet for a knight's helmet, and she zaps him with white light. Everyone dances in celebration. Anybody can join a LARP. You don't need a goddess to sponsor you.

The next stanza has nothing to do with the story: Phoebe talks about a romantic encounter where "all is forgiven" and "we are born again," but the next morning, the partner is gone.

Scene 6: Suddenly Skyler and Galadriel are in the old-fashioned video game Runescape. They walk away during the closing credits.

Lost boys
Never grow up, never go home
Lost boys
Never spend their lunch money, yeah
Lost boys
Never give up, never get old
Lost boys, come find me, yeah

What does this all mean? Is Phoebe encouraging boys to "never grow up," keep their childhood innocence, see magic in the everyday, and escape the job-house-wife-kids trajectory? Lost Boys usually has a gay connotation, and Skyler looks like he wants to worship Galadriel, not date her.

Or is "never grow up" negative? A review says that the Lost Boys are "reckless, emotionally distant" men trapped in "arrested development," playing childish games instead of embracing their hetero destiny. Phoebe says that the three stanzas are about three emotionally distant men in her life, her father, a friend, and a partner. Wait -- what about Bo Burnham?

I'm going to go with the heteros*xist. With all of the previous gay Lost Boys getting my hopes up, it seems a lot like queerbaiting. Yet again. Thanks a lot, Skyler.

Bonus: I researched some of the male extras, like Jackson Bridgers (Phoebe's brother, below), and found two with not fully clothed photos (on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).