The video itself is an animation for of the homonymous Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning fan-song, featuring an original story with original characters that uses similar basic concepts to Baldi. The animation follows various students in a school where failing results in more than just a bad grade...

The animation provides examples of:

• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The animation uses many 3D effects to make an atmosphere of a real life paper cut-out characters. The effects include real life paper like characters, paper bending, 3D backgrounds and 3D door opening. The drawings in the animation are in 2D through.
• Absurdly Sharp Claws: Teacher have claws as their hands and some students have them.
• Accidental Hero: When Claire gets murdered by ∆lice by entering ∆lice's room, the bullies Zip and Oliver reveal that they have taped a fake exit sign on ∆lice's out of victory. Then the teachers catch them and this bully trick was solved because Claire fell for it.
• Aerith and Bob: Characters have normal names like Claire, Oliver, Edward and then there's Miss Circle, Bubble and ∆lice.
• Art Evolution: The new style for the paper school is more horror compared to the one used in music video.
• Art Shift: At the end of the animation the paper style switches to a colored non paper style by transition.
• All There in the Manual: Most of the characters' names are revealed on the creator's YouTube community posts and Twitter.
• Black Blood: When the students in their paper form get murdered, they bleed black which represents ink.
• Black Sheep: There is a trio where are three murderous teachers, however one of them is different, Miss Bloomie. Miss Bloomie appears to be the only teacher who feels guilt for her actions.
• Brand X: In the animation "Chips" and "Cola" is seen whose obviously represents brands.
• Bully Brutality:
  • Zip and Oliver disguise ∆lice's room as an exit, leading to the unwary Claire's doom.
  • Edward uses his drone to toss Claire down a pit in the library.
• Crapsaccharine World: The setting is a vibrant school with a cutesy paper art style, where failing classes or opening the wrong door is pretty much a death sentence.
• Dark Action Girl: Miss Circle and her Co-Dragons, if you get a bad grade you know what happens...
• Death Is Cheap: Implied by the lack of reaction to Bubble being eaten by Oliver, or to Abbie and Lana being killed.
• Downplayed Trope: Claire thinks that it she found exit because it was written on the door, but no, It was actually another door.
• Downer Ending: The three teachers continue to lord over their classes despite the deaths of several students by their hands, and Claire is killed at the hands of ∆lice, who's now escaped her room.
• Evil Teacher: While many of the teachers are actually shown to be pretty decent, three of them will not hesitate to kill students if they fail their tests: the Big Bad, Miss Circle, and her Co-Dragons, Miss Thavel and Miss Bloomie.
• Failure-to-Save Murder: Engel tries to save Claire, but she dies other way.
• First Day of School Episode: The music video is Claire's first day at school.
• Four-Fingered Hands: All characters have four fingers, but sometimes characters appear to incorrectly have five fingers.
• Funny Animal: There are funny animals in the animation like Cubbie, Petunia and Skell.
• Gender Bender: Oliver is male when he is in the paper school, Katie is female when she is anywhere else.
• GIS Syndrome: In the animation there are stock images of objects used to represent school.
• Horrifying the Horror: The three teachers that chase down Claire are violent brutes willing to kill (and in Miss Circle's case, eat) students who fail their grades, but they all share a terrified expression when Claire opens ∆lice's door. Given what ∆lice did to Claire, they're not wrong to be scared.
• Idiot Hair: Atleast half of the characters have ahoges on top of their heads to not make the heads look empty.
• Just in Time: Before Claire is killed by Miss Circle, Engel blocks her attack and tells Claire to run, allowing her to escape. Engel survives the encounter himself with only some bruises to show for it.
• Masculine, Feminine, Androgyne Trio: The bully trio. Oliver is masculine, Zip is feminine and Edward is Androgyne.
• Medium Blending: ∆lice is animated in a more fluid manner and appears almost 3-dimensional, in contrast to the other paper-like characters. Claire becomes animated in the same manner after she enters ∆lice's room.
• Nervous Wreck: Abbie is always like that, in any scenario.
• Noodle People: Many characters have this.
• No Name Given: All minor characters are unnamed, except for a few.
• Paper People: Almost all the inhabitants of the Paper School are fully made of paper, though they still have ink as blood and organs. One known exception is ∆lice, who looks much more realistic and human-like in comparison.
• Pet the Dog: Miss Circle, a sadistic cannibalistic teacher does bad things to students when they fall tests, but when the students pass their tests then she appears to be very proud of them and congratulates them.
• Scenery Porn: Everything is carefully drawn, uses a consistent style, has very decorated backgrounds and is very similar to a real life paper cutouts. All of the characters have great recognizable design and are visually appealing. At the end of the animation there is paper to color transition and it is very smooth and every object is carefully colored
• Self-Harm: Some characters are seen with possible self harm scars on their wrists and legs and in some artworks Oliver is seen after doing self harm on his entire body with a blade and Riley is seen with self harms scars on her face.
• Shout-Out: There are multiple references to Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning due to video and idea being inspired by it.
  • Miss Circle, the teacher obviously based on Baldi.
  • At the start of the video Miss Circle is seen spinning, which is a reference to You're Mine.
  • There is Lana, a student who wears socks puppets who is reference to a character Arts and Crafters.
• Subverted Kids' Show: The animation looks like a kids school project, but then you see what actually happens in the school.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Played with. Most of the girls wear dresses, have eyelashes and wear bows. However this doesn't apply to all characters, Edward (a male) seems to wear something similar to a dress, Miss Circle and Miss Sasha being two only female teachers out of six in total which are not wearing dresses and not having other traits for the trope (Miss Sasha had eyelashes, but the idea was removed).
• The Hero Dies: Claire is killed by ∆lice offscreen, with her corpse shown after the fact.
• The One Guy: In the animation, all teachers are female except for Mister Demi who is a male.
• Token Minority: The only naturally black human character is Miss Emily.
• Two Guys and a Girl: The bully trio has two boys, Oliver and Edward and one girl, Zip.
• We Need a Distraction: When Engel saves Claire from Miss Circle by holding her compass, she also gets distracted and Engel tells Claire to run, which Claire does.