We Love the Internet 2017/25: The Muscle up edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook
• A discussion about AI’s conflicts and challenges
• Circle Gets the Square
• Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That’s OK. (For Now.)
• Netflix is turning into HBO

Reference points:

• YouTube DJ
• The Lyttle Lytton Contest winner
• UK election analysis
• What Ideas Are Trending Among Tech’s Biggest Influencers?
• The Ultimate Guide To Making Smart Decisions

Longer reads

• A Sociology of the Smartphone
• How The Guardian Lost America
• Susan Wojcicki has transformed YouTube – but she isn’t done yet
• The shelf life of John Mackey
• How the trendiest grilled cheese venue got burnt

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Muscle up
• 27 Styles of Rapping
• Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Ehrenfeld : Daft Punk – “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”
• Woodswimmer
• Weirdo college student supports homophobic preacher
• 35 unbelievable cooking hacks
• Victim uses machete to fight off armed home invaders
• Robot sumo

Things to look at/read:

• 50 States, 50 Beers We Love
• Here’s How 15 Hardcore Athletes Train During Ramadan
• The awkwardness of becoming a teen, laid bare
• When Your Child Is a Psychopath
• A Number of Reasons I’ve Been Depressed Lately
• City of Villains: Why I Don’t Trust Batman
• A nasty name for a nasty thing

Animal corner

• Elephant rescue
• I added some music to this

Tweets of the week:

• “Need to tell this woman she’s wrong and also let her know I’m very horny”
• Have I ever told you how glad I am that these pictures exist?
• Marilyn Manson seen here with his father, Marilyn Mandad.
• Brexit, the movie
• I can’t stop laughing at this
• A Tale of Two Push Alerts
• No caption necessary
• no actor will ever hate their own movie as passionately as robert pattinson hated twilight

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’: An Oral History
• The 50 Best Good Bad Movies
• 35 Years Of American Death
• The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning
• Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time
• How the U.S. triggered a massacre in Mexico
• How Kim Kardashian Pushed The Boundaries Of Celebrity Pregnancy

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We Love the Internet 2017/24: The 101 canonical tweets edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Cable News Wars: Inside the Unprecedented Battle for Viewers in Trump Era
• The Internet Is Where We Share — and Steal — the Best Ideas
• Is social media on the table in 2020?
• The Bizarre Story Of What Happened After The Internet Decided This Picture Of A Horse Was Porn
• TV Is Moving Away From Finale Fever — Which Is Making for Better TV
• Brut Shares How They Went From 0 to 80 Million Monthly Video Views In Just Six Months
• The secret online world of British teens: how streaks, deep likes and ghosting define young lives
• TV’s Age of Entitlement: Why Episodes Are Now So Damn Long

Reference points:

• 101 canonical tweets
• Shipwreck diary of a content marketer
• The Best Stuff to Do On the Google Homepage That Isn’t Googling
• BuzzFeed’s Product Design Principles
• How engaging is your headline?
• TV is not dying – it’s lies, damn lies and bad media statistics
• Pathology of a Fake News Story
• The tech industry is dominated by 5 big companies — here’s how each makes its money

Longer reads

• The secret origin story of the iPhone
• Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for?
• Comedy Actress Roundtable: Emmy Rossum, America Ferrera on Pay Standoffs and Casting by Bikini
• Mallory Ortberg’s Internet
• History by lawsuit: After Gawker’s demise, the “inventor of e-mail” targets Techdirt
• Twenty Years of ‘OZ’: The Show That Changed TV Forever
• If you care about cities, Apple’s new campus sucks

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Floppotron: Take On Me
• Sandwich Bag Fire Starter
• Title drop
• Extreme 99,000 RPM Fidget spinner Launcher Bazooka Thing
• 40 years of hip hop
• See First Video of Most Dangerous Rope-Free Climb Ever
• Undulatus Asperatus Sunset

Things to look at/read:

• This Bathing Suit Covered In Chest Hair Is Actually Genius
• The Internet Killed the Teen Sex Comedy
• The rise and fall of the hi-top sneaker
• How does Batman make all his money?
• Is this the NFL’s first female player?

Tweets of the week:

• Oh, it’s your first day on Twitter? Here, this is Twitter.
• Here’s a picture of the police escort that Trump got to go golfing (again) this weekend. Do you think they were trying to say something?
• Don’t talk shit online
• when you walk back into the sesh after throwing up
• A saga in four parts:
• This dog looks a bit like Sir Patrick Stewart. That is all.
• I knew he wasn’t dead
• This thread on fake Twitter followers is interesting and entertaining (I have certainly butted heads with the sort of salesmen described)

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• The Rise and Fall of Toronto’s Classiest Con Man
• The Inside Story of London’s Chemsex Scene
• America’s Hidden H.I.V. Epidemic
• How the Self-Esteem Craze Took Over America
• The horrors of getting hit by a pitch
• Who Will Win the Taylor Swift–Katy Perry Feud?
• A Definitive Ranking of Every Tom Cruise Movie
• The hold up

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We Love the Internet 2017/23: The Elle Fanning’s fan fantasy edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• YouTube’s gossip vloggers have created their own tabloid industry
• The TV bubble isn’t about to pop. But there are needles everywhere.
• Apple’s strengths and weaknesses
• The ousted founder of Unilad has won a legal ruling that could force the sale of the site
• Surge pricing comes to the supermarket
• The iMovie president
• How a Florida Teen Became Queen of Gen Z’s Favorite Video Platform—and a Top Brand Influencer

Reference points:

• And now, a brief definition of the web
• Well Told: A conference about longform and narrative journalism
• State world map

Longer reads

• The One Big Reason Why BuzzFeed Needs to Break Into TV
• What Has the Internet Done to Media?
• Secret life of a full-time cyborg
• Andrew O’Hagan on Paul Dacre

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Elle Fanning’s Fan Fantasy
• Why Japan has so many vending machines
• Britney Spears – “Toxic” REAL VOICE (NO AUTO-TUNE VERSION)
• Man Almost Killed After Shooting Fridge Filled With Tannerite
• unique encounter between 2 polyglots in 21 languages
• Election20171
• Trap Raided On Live Jacksonville Fl
• Close-Up Magician Will Tsai Blows Judges Away On America’s Got Talent 2017 Season 12

Things to look at/read:

• The Babadook is now a gay icon because the people willed it to be so
• On the trail with Kane
• Bleecker Street’s Swerve From Luxe Shops to Vacant Stores

Animal corner:

• Elephants Run To Greeting A New Rescued Baby Elephant

Tweets of the week:

• I have a friend who is a crossword setter for The Times and my appreciation of his level of nerdery is high right now.
• guys this is Randy… don’t be like Randy..
• What happens when you drive through an English high street blasting Vengaboys
• How would a Xenomorph wear a hat?
• Confirmed!
• I don’t want to hear anyone claim to be anti social ever again. This is the G.O.A.T
• jesus is real and he is black
• When your impulse to mansplain is so strong you try to mansplain the Bible to the actual Pope.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• The opioid crisis changed how doctors think about pain
• We bought a crack house
• A Definitive Ranking of the Best Movie Makeovers
• 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
• Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race

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We Love the Internet 2017/22: The Every Facebook video ever edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Facebook Will Reportedly Pay Up To $250,000 Per Episode For Long-Form Content
• Notifications: A Tragedy Of the Digital Commons
• The disappearing computer
• The inevitable future of Slack is your boss using it to spy on you
• From Wells Fargo to Fyre Festival, the Scam Economy Is Entering Its Baroque Phase
• Meme Historians Are an Inevitability
• What it’s like to be PornHub’s ad agency

Reference points:

• This is what a brutalist world would look like on your phone
• A year of Google and Apple maps

Longer reads

• Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis
• Football: A deep dive into the tech and data behind the best players in the world
• The botmakers who rule the obsessive world of streetwear
• How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessories game

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Every Facebook video EVER
• The Price is Right – New Plinko Record
• TERMINATOR 2 JD (GTA V cover)
• Where’s Wallace?
• Water pipe explosion
• Domino Chain Reaction
• Angry pedestrian gets instant karma
• I Just Want To Chill…

Things to look at/read:

• What Would Happen If The TV Logos We See Were Actual Physical Objects?
• The neural network will name your next band
• Which of the Rock’s Movie Characters Would Make the Best President?
• Leeds cops issue appeal for man-sized todger

Animal corner:

• This Bond Between A Four-Year-Old Boy And His Foal Is Just Adorable
• Ransom and extortion? It’s just monkey business

Tweets of the week:

• *FBI knocks on the door* “Nigel Farage? never heard of him”
• This is very much My Kind of Content
• Can we agree as a species that this needs to be the loading icon for everything from now on?
• festival lineup posters are like eye tests for indie kids; the smaller the writing you can understand, the indier you are
• If you are having a bad day just watch this.
• And genuinely, my first thought was “yeah, that’s not a degree course I’d go for”
• Some girls enjoying themselves
• CLIENT: Basically we’re telling people we’re a cut above the mustard AGENCY: But that’s not a phras– CLIENT: Run it

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• The Complete, Untold History of Halo
• Dead by the Sword of the Former Red Power Ranger
• We Asked What It’s Like to Have a Mental Illness in Prison
• The Education of ‘The Wire’
• Jared Kushner’s Other Real Estate Empire
• Hillary Clinton Is Furious. And Resigned. And Funny. And Worried.
• The Exquisitely English (and Amazingly Lucrative) World of London Clerks
• The great London property squeeze

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We Love the Internet 2017/21: The Snapchat shows edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Snapchat Shows: Inside the Plan to Reimagine TV for the Mobile Era
• What Copa90 learned from its ‘Saturdays are Lit’ Snapchat Discover series
• Why influencer football teams will change the face of football entertainment
• Google’s CEO Doesn’t Use Bullet Points and Neither Should You

Reference points:

• Netflix viewers like comedy for breakfast and drama at lunch

Longer reads

• How He Used Facebook to Win
• Apple Originals
• What Happens When Work Becomes a Nonstop Chat Room
• ‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
• Pet project
• Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America
• Apple’s New Campus: An Exclusive Look Inside the Mothership

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Dispatches from the Ruins
• Iraqi Journalist’s GoPro Deflects a Sniper’s Bullet
• Bad news
• Professional parking lot striping linelazer 3900

Things to look at/read:

• The Cost of Avocado Toast, Explained by a Restaurateur
• Roger Ailes Was One of the Worst Americans Ever
• An AI invented a bunch of new paint colors that are hilariously wrong
• Meme becomes reality as Netflix orders Lupita Nyong’o and Rihanna’s con artist movie
• Florida woman calls police worried semen in thermos might explode
• Global penicillin shortages are bringing back old diseases, and creating new, deadlier ones

Animal corner:

• Baby Emu Playing With Basset Hounds
• Big Friendly Dog Demands Attention From Anchor During Russian News Segment

Tweets of the week:

• I photoshopped in the kid from THE OMEN and it’s so perfect it’s unnerving.
• LMAO! Even Pope Francis made the “Would you look at this f*cking guy” face that everyone makes when they meet Trump.
• South Korea’s Kim Moo-sung arriving like an absolute boss
• “Who paid for you?” he whispered. But the old wall keeps her secrets.
• They fused and made something of greater evil.
• Can’t get knocked out by Bayern if you’re not in the Champions League…
• everything about this is a cinematic masterpiece
• I see a little silhou-

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• A Definitive Ranking of Movie Training Montages
• The world is running out of sand
• My time at Margate – where do I start?
• Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in
• Johnny Depp: A Star in Crisis and the Insane Story of His “Missing” Millions
• The Dark Decline of ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’
• The biggest movie from the year you’re born
• Chris Rock in a Hard Place: On Infidelity, His New Tour and Starting Over

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We Love the Internet 2017/20: The Trouble with woke pop stars edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The outrageous (and totally necessary) lengths TV and film creators will go to to prevent leaks
• How YouTube latecomer Vox beat the odds and built a big channel
• The Weird Thing About Today’s Internet
• The MP3 Is Officially Dead, According To Its Creators
• On Surveys
• How a hoax story about betting on Le Pen fooled the internet

Reference points:

• Ten Myths About Machine Learning
• The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I.
• Introducing the Citymapper Smartbus
• How much is a Facebook partnership worth?
• Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic

Longer reads

• The Rise Of The Alt-Left British Media
• How to Prepare for the Twin Peaks Revival: A Guide to the Essentials

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Maddie Waiting for the Beat to Drop
• 30 Liverpool U9s v Coutinho & Wijnaldum
• Red Bull F1 vs Mercedes SL63 vs Supercar V8
• Silicone rolling is so satisfying to watch
• Police stopped the fleeing car using spike strip

Things to look at/read:

• The Trouble With Woke Pop Stars
• How Pixar Lost Its Way
• The Inside Story of Chelsea Manning’s Unlikely Release From Prison
• Why Angry White Men Love Calling People “Cucks”

Tweets of the week:

• Stop what you’re doing. Please show respect to this cover from Spanish magazine ‘Tapas’.
• When you’re struggling to reach the word count whilst writing an essay
• Optimus Prime has fallen on hard times
• When a woman tells a good joke online
• rt pls i wanna
• Remember when the Times of India printed the worst headline of all time
• seeing this video took my day from like a 4/10 to a solid 9.
• this is the most perfect, wonderful tattoo cover-up that has ever existed, help me i cant stop laughing

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• My family’s slave
• What Happens When The World’s Most Famous Teen Activist Grows Up?
• America reloaded
• Donald Trump after hours
• ‘2 Girls, 1 Cup’: An Investigation Into the Web’s Shittiest Mystery
• Inside the Insane Feud Between a Vegan Strip Club and the Steak House Next Door
• Up in the Air: Meet the Man Who Flies Around the World for Free
• How Missy Elliott became an icon

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We Love the Internet 2017/19: The History of the entire world, I guess edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Vice News Issues takes a “homepage-isn’t-dead” approach to big topics
• The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence
• Video Game Raised $148 Million From Fans. Now It’s Raising Concerns.
• Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable
• Spotify acquires blockchain startup Mediachain to solve music’s attribution problem
• Snapchat is stifled by its un-algorithmic feed
• The secret Instagram accounts teens use to share their realest, most intimate moments
• Instagram’s CEO is not very good at Instagram—and that’s why he’s good at his job

Reference points:

• Top 8 Things I Learned at TED 2017
• When a ‘Remix’ Is Plain Ole Plagiarism
• Data is giving rise to a new economy
• 4 ways to create Facebook Video wins from Channel 4 News

Longer reads

• Is the gig economy working?
• The last picture you’ll ever take

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• history of the entire world, i guess
• Diving into 1000 Mousetraps in 4K Slow Motion
• Best Shots of All Time – Pt. 1
• What Facebook is doing to your brain is kind of shocking.
• Two Years of Dancing: 700 Hours of Practice!
• When a male gymnastics coach tries uneven bars.
• Workers’ comp fraud caught on tape
• Rally Islas Canarias 2017

Things to look at/read:

• ‘Avocado Hand’ is a real, recognised injury and it’s incredibly middle class
• The Four Types Of Vin Diesel Movies
• My Father Spent 30 Years In Prison. Now He’s Out.
• The Story of Spice, the Street Drug That’s Not Going Away
• How the Unwilling Gentrifier Buys a Home

Animal corner:

• the bucket
• This bizarre video of a clam digging in sand has gone viral
• Bear on the Bikepark
• People Are Loving This Dog Who Climbs On Another Dog To Beg For Treats

Tweets of the week:

• i must go, my planet needs me
• This Pikachu dancer’s costume started to deflate and it looked like the dancer was urgently bundled off by government security agents.
• my inner nerd loves this map 🚃 finally made sense of London’s train stations
• my flatmate has just peaked
• I had no idea you could buy this, I’ve been just using alcohol
• This dog watched through the window as a wild fox found a toy he’d left outside — and went crazy with it
• I wanna buy this guy a beer
• A crashed advertisement reveals the code of the facial recognition system used by a pizza shop in Oslo…

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• Dwayne Johnson for President!
• Re-entering Twin Peaks: A catch-up guide to its cast and characters
• Where oil rigs go to die
• How Trump could get fired
• The Love and Terror of Nick Cave
• The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
• How Long Can I Listen to The White Stripes Without Losing My Mind?
• The U.S. Gymnastics System Wanted More Medals, And Created A Culture Of Abuse To Get Them

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