We Love the Internet 2018/25: The Inside the binge factory edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The long and short of it needs the wrong and shit of it
• For the World Cup, livestreamed online video is threatening to score the equalizer on traditional TV

Reference points:

• What did Earth look like 750 million  years ago?
• The colors of motion

Longer reads:

• Inside the Binge Factory
• A Company Built on a Bluff
• Why do we care so much about privacy?
• Are Good Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
• State of Digital Ad Fraud Q2 2018

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Top 7 Most Bizarre Musical Instruments of the World
• That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
• Solo: A Star Wars Story Cast Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions
• Slapping championship
• Top 10 Amazing Drawing Tricks

Things to look at/read:

• World Cup kits through the ages
• A Deep Dive Into the England Squad-Suit Photo
• Pop, passion and enemas: how online forums created a new musical culture

Animal corner:

• Asparagus Vs. Dog
• FATMAN THE DOG: Mwadlands with Charlie Birch
• Video games are great, but sometimes it’s nice to unplug and play a game of Jenga with your cat
• Well it was a nice lake day until my dog nearly drowned my sister
• “don’t, Denise, he’s not worth it”
• My boss texted me this video earlier and said “if you don’t like this, you’re fired.”
• The problem with having a black cat is they sometimes go missing and 90% of the time they’re sitting in front of the TV screen

Tweets of the week:

• When you come into work dressed as the carpet. I am MORTIFIED.
• Watch this video of an adorable Pre-K graduate make your day (and the future) a little brighter.
• A friends mum felt that the usual hospital pain scale didn’t relate to her as a patient. So I give you, created by her son, The Work of Art Pain Scale: (genius)
• GREATEST TATTOO OF ALL TIME
• Alexa: remind me to feed the baby
• Just watching Arctic Monkeys at the BBC and can’t help but notice that Alex Turner has come as every character from The Big Lebowski at once…
• I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Olive Garden commercials and then asked it to write an Olive Garden commercial of its own. Here is the first page.
• You all knew this just *had* to happen right?

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Most Hated Bachelor in America Explains Himself
• The spy who came home
• Blood Will Tell
• How 1960s Film Pirates Sold Movies Before the FBI Came Knocking
• The Hidden Queer History Behind “A League of Their Own”
• How the resurgence of white supremacy in the US sparked a war over free speech

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We Love the Internet 2018/24: The Email is dangerous edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Email Is Dangerous
• How Evan Spiegel Fumbled Snap’s Redesign
• With Facebook Live views falling, BuzzFeed looks to Twitch
• As GDPR looms, it’s time to update your personal terms of service
• Data protectionism: the growing menace to global business

Reference points:

• Internet trends 2018
• Gifless
• How Onscreen Sex Sounds Are Made, From Kissing to Hand Jobs

Longer reads:

• How the math men overthrew the mad men
• I pitched the absolute worst ideas for TV shows to Channel 5 and MTV
• Can the cult of Berkshire Hathaway outlive Warren Buffett?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Cyclist Tired of Waiting for Bomb Squad
• KTLA started following the wrong car in a pursuit
• Emilia Clarke Re-Creates Stock Photos
• This Crazy Japanese Slide Is Not Recommended For Beginners

Things to look at/read:

• How did music become so unimportant?
• Why The Internet Is Obsessed With #MealPrep
• The Red Phone Box, a British Icon, Stages a Comeback

Animal corner:

• Dog Jumps for Joy After Owner Returns Home
• Amazing video shows eagle battling fox for rabbit in mid-air
• I’ve been working in TV for over 5 years now, and nothing I’ve helped create has ever topped this.
• Colin tried to hide his smugness at having the banana all to himself.

Tweets of the week:

• Jesus breakdancing to impress his friends, AD20
• before the absolute boy there was
• if you’re really wondering what England is actually like, look no further than this timeless classic
• Men with beards looking upwards for your viewing pleasure. Don’t say I don’t give you anything
• I’m at a loss for words.
• She has ACTUALLY done what I think she has done….
• “Always Follow Your Dreams…” -Jon Hendren

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Sarah Silverman Is the Troll Slayer
• Bhad Bhabie Isn’t Going Anywhere
• Twenty four karat chicken wings and the allure of eating gold
• Own Goal: The Inside Story of How the USMNT Missed the 2018 World Cup
• The trouble with charitable billionaires
• How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money

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We Love the Internet 2018/23: The Recursive recipes edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The decline of Snapchat and the secret joy of internet ghost towns
• How YouTube’s “Super Chat” System Is Pushing Video Creators Toward More Extreme Content
• The Netflix Effect: Publishers see Netflix deals as gateways to more TV work

Reference points:

• Recursive recipes
• A guide to understanding Twitch emotes

Longer reads:

• State of the Digital Nation 2020: Venture Road
• After Authenticity

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This Pool Trick Shot Genius Can Put An Ungodly Amount Of Spin On His Shots
• when you use the internet in 2018
• A flash flood in the desert looks unreal.
• How to Tell If Any Singer Is Lip-Syncing
• How Its Made Rubber Bands
• Space Mountain Lights On Ride Through – Walt Disney World

Things to look at/read:

• The Dumb-Bell Economy: Inside the Booming Business of Exercise
• Infatuation: One Man’s Love For Virtual World Cups

Animal corner:

• Chimpanzee Ball Pit Adventure!
• At The Races presenter amazingly catches loose horse
• The race is on.
• the case is solved boys
• Love this new one from Florence + The Machine.
• worth watching for the end
• Nice

Tweets of the week:

• Added the dinosaur filter while singing happy birthday to my dad and it went horribly wrong
• My new favorite thing is Mick Jagger leaving dorky dad comments on his teenage son’s Instagram posts.
• “Let’s go to the park Sheila, I saw this great exercise on the YouTube”
• My poster
• Can’t believe Sterling is getting all this stick for getting a tattoo of his big pal Peter on his leg
• Any man who can do this should be allowed to.
• I can’t stop laughing
• Oh god what is it really

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy
• Chasing the Pearl of Lao Tzu
• Trump vs “The Deep State”
• How a champion boxer got caught in Britain’s immigration dragnet
• The First Family of pinball: Meet the local wizards behind the game’s huge resurgence
• The Untold Story of Robert Mueller’s Time in Combat

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We Love the Internet 2018/21: The Promise of vaping edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• A Mother Wants the Internet to Forget Italy’s Most Viral Sex Tape
• Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as safer bet than Facebook
• Katzenberg’s NewTV Video Startup Raises $800 Million
• It’s A Good Time To Be A Reporter Covering Trump If You Like Money And Going On TV
• Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web
• Body Con Job
• Why ‘Stories’ Took Over Your Smartphone
• Unbundling The Song: Inside The Next Wave Of Recorded Music’s Disruption

Reference points:

• The Missing Building Blocks of the Web
• Welcome to the most Instagrammable museum on earth
• Read the 100 List
• A #HistoryofSocialMedia

Longer reads:

• Inside The Ecosystem That Fuels Amazon’s Fake Review Problem

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Iconic Vines in Fortnite
• Meet the Happiest Guy in the World
• sharpest ice kitchen knife in the world
• Pilot Steps onto Moving Ship
• the world’s deepest lotus
• A Michelin-Starred Meal for $1.50
• Making Counterfeit Bananas
• Crashing a Z4 on the Day You Buy It

Things to look at/read:

• An Enraged Woman Pooped And Threw It At Employees At A Tim Horton’s
• The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents, and we played it
• The Race To Stop The Best Mario Kart 64 Player From Securing Every World Record
• The white woman who called the cops on a black Yale student is waking the US to an ugly truth
• I Went to a Flat Earth Convention to Meet Flat Earthers Like My Mom

Animal corner:

• Like a boss.
• Dog FREAKS when she realizes she’s going to Vet

Tweets of the week:

• lemme bless y’all with this video
• When dads get involved with sports day
• Lion all messy Lion all richie
• Let’s call the whole thing off
• Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
• Wow

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The promise of Vaping and the rise of Juul
• The Life Of One Of America’s Bloodiest Hitmen
• Driven to Despair
• Are We Ready for Robot Sex?
• Japan’s rent-a-family industry
• The spectacular power of Big Lens
• How #MeToo revealed the central rift within feminism today

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We Love the Internet 2018/20: The Street Fighter IRL edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Time Travel on the YouTube Express
• How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity
• Bad TV
• Atlanta, Westworld, and the episode-description revolution
• The rise of Patreon – the website that makes Jordan Peterson $80k a month
• How Vogue is shifting its global Instagram strategy
• Is Peak TV Slowly Killing TV Critics?
• Tech’s Two Philosophies

Reference points:

• The 100 Pages That Shaped Comics
• Research into @CharlieBinbags on Twitter
• Data visualisation: how the FT newsroom designs maps
• How The Economist uses its 12-person data journalism team to drive subscriptions

Longer reads:

• Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself
• Are You Really the Product?
• Inside the Wild Race to Overthrow Every Consumer Category
• Heads up: the oral history of Iron Man’s original HUD
• Univision Is A Fucking Mess

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Street Fighter IRL……
• Pressing Non-Newtonian Fluid Through Small Holes with Hydraulic Press
• Guy Opening Wine With Blow Torch Explodes Bottle
• How Black Panther’s Visual Effects Were Made
• Flash flood in Utah desert
• Warren G ft. Nate Dogg | Regulate | Sesame Street Version
• Guy Tries to Hit Golf Ball Through Trees
• Are Rich People Worse Humans?

Things to look at/read:

• We’re the Good Guys, Right?
• The Famous Soccer Player Hiding in Plain Sight in a California Bakery
• Writer Picks Up Poker For Book Stunt, Wins So Much Money That The Book Is On Hold
• The last man who knew everything
• I Played Fortnite and Figured Out the Universe
• The VICE Alternative Team of the Premier League Season 2017-2018

Animal corner:

• Dog frozen from fear of vet.
• i dont use the words absolute unit lightly but let me say………this is
• This is the most precious thing I have ever seen.
• Every time someone who ordered food after you gets theirs before you.
• Our dog has arthritis, so I made a bus for him
• just make me look like a bad boy.

Tweets of the week:

• HULK SAD
• you haven’t experienced life until you’ve seen Muppet outtakes
• tfw there’s no-one Irish on your rebranding team
• Which Ted Hastings are you today?
• Oooh shit, TV camera. Best keep out of shot
• this remains as one of the best vine series of all time
• The moment my mom decided I was no longer her daughter anymore
• My culture is NOT your goddam prom dress

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Meet The New California Counterculture: College Republicans
• Alex Jones’ Protegé, Paul Joseph Watson, Is About to Steal His Crackpot Crown
• The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
• All-American Nazis
• The Doting Boyfriend Who Robbed Armored Cars
• The Mobster Who Bought His Son a Hockey Team
• Murder at the Alcatraz of the Rockies

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We Love the Internet 2018/19: The How likes went bad edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why Netflix and Amazon are experimenting with short-form programming
• China’s millennial backlash
• OK No
• I Drove Myself Nuts Trying to Unravel the Mystery of Seemingly Unparented 9-Year-Old Instagram Shit-Talker Lil Tay

Reference points:

• The 459 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List
• Amazon Is Defined by Billions and Millions; Median Salary Is $28,446
• Welcome to the Who-niverse

Longer reads:

• How Likes Went Bad
• Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
• Fake it till you make it: meet the wolves of Instagram
• Why we should bulldoze the business school
• From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors into stars

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Cyclist with huge knife knocked off getaway bike in Cardiff city centre with police in pursuit
• Flying Cement Lid Nearly Crashes into Cars
• The Plays of the Sword
• Canal Boat Ninja

Things to look at/read:

• I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye
• The Five Types Of Nicolas Cage Movies
• New erotica for feminists
• Meghan Markle Is Going Royal—Can Her Friends Come, Too?
• Model And “ANTM” Winner Nyle DiMarco Hilariously Caught A Woman Taking Creeper Photos Of Him On The Subway
• The quest for the next billion dollar colour

Animal corner:

• Dog interrupts Josh Judge’s live forecast
• you know what… i am a good boy and i deserve a day off. fetch your own ball today, becky.
• When you’re doing fuck all at work and your boss walks in.
• When it’s too early to come in
• my mom put oil on her bird feeder to keep squirrels from stealing the bird food and
• It looked a long way and for an ordinary cat it would be impossible but Glenn was no ordinary cat.

Tweets of the week:

• Next level Japanese ad
• cutting through the bullshit
• me scrolling through twitter
• If Cardi B did sound effects for Star Wars
• There’s a superhero at Stamford Bridge
• You will never look at a calendar the same way after you watch this
• she really won huh. she got the full set
• Thanos gathered all 6 infinity stones but still couldn’t save stoke from getting relegated

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The rise of Russia’s neo-Nazi football hooligans
• The Great High School Impostor
• My bright-lights misadventure with the magician of Manhattan
• How Hollywood failed Brad Renfro

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We Love the Internet 2018/18: The Style is an algorithm edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• PSA: The Marvel Trailers Are Lying to You
• Publishers are treating Instagram Stories like episodic TV
• When algorithms surprise us
• Real People Are Turning Their Accounts Into Bots On Instagram — And Cashing In
• Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history

Reference points:

• The science of Netflix, and why it always knows exactly what we want to watch
• Two years since the launch of i’s website, we’ve seen something rare: a growth in print and online readers
• 2018 Q2 Global Digital Statshot
• The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user

Longer reads:

• Can This Man Help Uber Recover From the Travis Kalanick Era?
• How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley
• The Young and the Reckless

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• What To Do If You’re Too High On Weed
• 10 Mississippi
• The Price Tag Hasn’t Always Existed, It Had To Be Invented
• The Killers For Reasons Unknown with Jose Luis on Drums Mexico 2018
• Silo Demolition Does Not Go According To Plan

Things to look at/read:

• 2018 Photo Contest
• Book Dedications Dump
• New York Teens Created the Biggest Vape Trend (and Now They’re Over It)
• What ever happened to the mashup artist?
• Giant Angel Formed With Over 100,000 Knives Confiscated by Police
• Got my days wrong and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.

Animal corner:

• When you’re doing fuck all at work and your boss walks in.
• Just accidentally recorded My cat dropping my damn laptop and it looks hilarious
• He was bored at the pub so we put squirrel videos on YouTube.

Tweets of the week:

• cutting through the bullshit
• oh my god
• This is the scale that I will be using for everything from now on.
• keep getting banned from the mario wiki for editing myself in as luigi’s gf
• THE INFINITY STONES WERE HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
• Diversity panels be like:
• benedict preventing tom from leaking spoilers: a thrilling saga
• Sorry but I love this badly phrased memorial bench so much

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Style Is an Algorithm
• Billion-Dollar Blessings
• Inside the worst US maritime disaster in decades

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