We Love the Internet 2019/16: The 15 months of fresh hell inside Facebook edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Disney and the Future of TV
• When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online
• How NYT Cooking Became the Best Comment Section on the Internet
• Have smartphones really destroyed a generation? We don’t know.
• Why parallax scrolling needs to die
• Incognito mode won’t keep your browsing private. Do this instead
• Game of Thrones won’t be the last TV show everyone cares about

Reference points:

• DC Universe: DC’s new TV and comic book streaming service explained
• Free Image and Photo Resizer
• All The Presidents’ Meals
• ‘Game of Thrones’ Meme Bracket: Jon Snow Claims His Crown

Longer reads:

• 15 months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
• Inside The Brand-New Opening Credits For “Game Of Thrones”
• Why HBO Isn’t Worried About Its Post–Game of Thrones Future
• How to escape pseudo-events in America: The Lessons of Covington
• When Your Favorite Streamer Turns Out To Be A Creep (Or Worse)
• The Secret History of Women in Coding
• A Brief History of Porn on the Internet

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Here’s A Perfect, 12-Second Internet Video
• Can You Hear the Difference Between a Cheap and Expensive Violin?
• Van Throws Police for a Loop
• .500 S&W Magnum explodes in his hands
• Car gets away from Police chase at Maddington station

Things to look at/read:

• The magical thinking of guys who love logic
• Would Tony Soprano be a MAGA guy?
• Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein
• Reaction of the rich to the Notre Dame fire teaches us a lot about the world we live in
• When It Comes to ‘Vanilla Sex,’ No Two People Taste the Same Flavor

Animal corner:

• weekend goals: feeling *this* proud of yourself
• People walking around Winterfell: Bran:
• “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MISTER ELTON JOHN!”          
• My mom got her dog’s feet shaved so that they wouldn’t get as dirty when she went outside………
• Therapist: The cicada that shouts “AWW YEAAAH” isn’t real, he can’t hurt you. The cicada that shouts “AWW YEAAAH”:
• Thank you hooman

Tweets of the week:

• my bf just sent me this video of his brother’s house getting “ding dong ditched.” My, how the times have changed – i’m DEAD
• YouTube algorithm vs. Katie Bouman
• Hello my tube is having a breakdown
• Did I respond to this correctly?
• Y’all, my nephew found the electric shaver and went wild
• “Clean your room or I’m taking the PlayStation.”
• Bruh!
• Spare a thought for these two, bloody love their cathedrals.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Financial Windfalls: 15 Stories of the Money That Changed Everything
• The Making (and Unmaking) of Tekashi 6ix9ine
• 17 Indie Artists on Their Oddest Odd Jobs That Pay the Bills When Music Doesn’t

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We Love the Internet 2019/15: The Love in the time of read receipts edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Love In The Time Of Read Receipts
• Spoiler alert! How TV and film are trying to protect their blockbusters
• Netflix to Publish Magazine as It Chases Hollywood Awards
• When Your Shared Netflix Account Outlasts The Relationship
• How TV Pirates Accidentally Pushed a 25-Year-Old Indie Song to the Top of the Charts in Japan
• How TikTok Gets Rich While Paying Artists Pennies

Reference points:

• The Emotions Recognized in Vocal Bursts
• 51 creative logos that use negative space brilliantly
• The Tinder algorithm, explained
• Five damaging myths about video games – let’s shoot ’em up

Longer reads:

• AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform—Call It Mirrorworld
• The Last Popular TV Show
• Why AMC Networks Is Betting So Heavily on Killing Eve
• ‘It’s genuine, you know?’: why the online influencer industry is going ‘authentic’
• The Communal Mind

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Can You Tell Which Paul Rudd Is Older? (We Doubt It)
• Teen in Spain builds his own prosthetic arm out of Lego
• From Romario to Ronaldo, here’s how the list of all-time #UCL top scorers has evolved over time. Will Lionel Messi eventually take the No.1 spot?
• This man deserves an Oscars for this
• Wow, this is amazing and sooooo mesmerizing…

Things to look at/read:

• Game of Thrones, cancer and me…
• Why Does It Feel Like Everyone Has More Money Than You?
• A third of Americans say blackface is ok for Halloween costumes
• The Bizarre Planets That Could Be Humanity’s New Homes
• The rise of the Tinder-themed wedding

Animal corner:

• weekend goals: feeling *this* proud of yourself
• “am i not allowed to sneez?!”
• .. did a dog write this comment?

Tweets of the week:

• I’ve never seen such an unintentionally accurate representation of the way most men treat any woman who talks about football.
• When they ask you to tone down the gay.
• I’ve accidentally set up push notifications for the BBC science magazine and it’s like being followed about by an inquisitive but annoying child
• “The revolution can wait, Barcelona and Man United are playing.” Protesters at Sudan’s mass anti-regime sit-in, watch the footie on screens they set up today.
• Been here for six hours now waiting for someone to take over
• Slutsky got crazy flow
• haven’t unlocked that part of the shop yet
• What a fucking bloke

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Bret Easton Ellis thinks you are overreacting to Donald Trump
• Power-Ranking the Top 25 Villains in ‘Game of Thrones’ History
• The caviar con
• Climate Signs
• Hindsight 2070: We asked 15 experts, “What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?” Here’s what they told us.

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We Love the Internet 2019/14: The Becoming edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• 404 Page Not Found
• Why we’re making the age of our journalism clearer at the Guardian
• With Broad City Ending, Has Comedy Central Already Found Its Next Generation of Hits?

Reference points:

• Gen Z: In Their Own Words

Longer reads:

• PITCH: Innocent?
• How SoftBank ate the world
• The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy
• “It’s Been This Weird Crystal Ball”: ‘Veep’ Stars and Creatives Talk Trump, Chaos and the Series Finale in Dishy Oral History

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Becoming
• I Broke Dumb Laws In Front Of Police
• 4 Levels of Hamburgers: Amateur to Food Scientist
• The Unseen Inefficiency of Escalator Etiquette
• Hilarious Little Boy Raises Eyebrows While Licking Lollipop
• This was so weird …

Things to look at/read:

• “Don’t Know How To Spend Time”: Extra Holidays Confuse Japan Workaholics
• The Real-Life Diet of Aleksei Goloborodko, the Most Flexible Man in the World
• ‘Dumbo’ Flopped, but Tim Burton’s Movies Will Live Forever
• Inside the growing world of vape juice home-brewing

Animal corner:

• Honey Badger Reminds A Leopard Who’s Boss
• Animals reacting to musical instruments
• German ducks really have their shit together
• I just got on the wrong tube so I could spend some time with 10 Labrador pups who are on guide dog training. As London commutes go, it doesn’t get much better.
• WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK

Tweets of the week:

• oh god oh fuck
• Billy Corgan rides a rollercoaster
• “SHE TOOK THE KIDS DAVID!”
• If Pogba did this we’d never hear the end of it but because it’s some lad playing hockey in Malaysia nobody cares
• An erotic short story in three acts
• Ren fotballkunst fra Phil Jones
• This is the most cursed faceswap i have ever seen.
• ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you: twitter

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Women Who Nod At Death And Say Let’s Go
• My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27
• The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged
• Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich
• Justin and Hailey Bieber Open Up About Their Passionate, Not-Always-Easy but Absolutely All-In Romance
• Private Mossad for hire

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We Love the Internet 2019/13: The Lonely life of a yacht influencer edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Jeffrey Katzenberg’s vision for the future of TV is snackable movies
• ‘I met my wife on LiveJournal’: stories of love, friendship and joy from the web’s early days
• How cult movie What We Do in the Shadows went from internet phenomenon to new TV show
• How Podcasts Learned to Speak
• Many popular iPhone apps secretly record your screen without asking
• How long could my murderer pretend to be me online?
• How sex censorship killed the internet we love

Reference points:

• Default filename tv
• The 100 Best Pens, As Tested by Strategist Editors
• There is so much great #SpiderVerse behind the scenes content on Twitter if you start following some of the artists who created the film

Longer reads:

• The ‘Blair Witch’ Extended Universe: How a Tiny Indie Film Became a Horror Sensation—and Invented Modern Movie Marketing
• How a Vermont social network became a model for online communities
• The economic costs and benefits of Airbnb

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time
• Steamed Hams but it’s Basket Case by Green Day
• Charlotte Pickles walked so Kris Jenner could RUN!
• How Animators Created the Spider-Verse
• MarbleLympics 2019 Qualifiers

Things to look at/read:

• The lonely life of a yacht influencer
• What’s the Least Useful Body Part?

Animal corner:

• Kratu The Happy-Go-Lucky Rescue Dog Has A Mind Of His Own
• These goats on a slide is the start to your weekend that you didn’t know you needed
• Bird plucking fur from my dog for its nest
• Dog doesn’t let a fight break out between 2 cats
• Albert and Delta Playing a Board Game and Discovering the Secret of 2-dimensional movement.

Tweets of the week:

• Bit of an unfortunate camera angle in one of our reports yesterday.
• Brooo we did the emoji challenge in my group chat and I’m cryinggg watch til the end
• Every now and then, I wonder why I’m still on this website. Then I see a piece of content like this.
• i cannot believe this is my city’s news station…i cannot believe this is real
• I’m now so obsessed with Bercow saying “Mr Peter Bone” that I’ve spent a period of time setting it to the opening of Beethoven’s 5th. Brexit is literally driving me mad.
• Best film I’ve seen in ages
• Mum won’t buy us a dance mat so we make do with the kitchen tiles
• an educational diagram i made

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• A suspense novelist’s trail of deceptions
• Meet the Safecracker of Last Resort
• The ugly — and, yes, slightly gross — truth of stadium bathrooms
• Why thieves target gun stores

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We Love the Internet 2019/12: The Head scratches before bed edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Netflix Clarifies Love, Death & Robots Episode Sequencing: “This Is a Test”
• Inside the secretly effective–and underrated–way Netflix keeps its shows and movies at the forefront of pop culture
• Big Media Isn’t Ready to Fight Back (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 5)
• Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think
• How the epic ‘Lord of the Rings’ deal explains Amazon’s slow-burning media strategy
• TikTok Can’t Save Us from Algorithmic Content Hell
• BuzzFeed Paid the Teen Making Its Top Quizzes in Free Swag
• “We’re killing our capacity for creativity”

Reference points:

• Explainer Shows, Explained: A Brief Survey of the New Streaming Subgenre
• Your digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them
• Nine Reasons Why Disney+ Will Succeed (And Why Four Criticisms are Overhyped)
• Generation Z’s 7 Lessons for Surviving in Our Tech-Obsessed World
• Google trends maps

Longer reads:

• “Men are scum”: Inside Facebook’s War On Hate Speech
• Strategy needs good words
• A prison film made in prison

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Nuclear Weapon Effects on Vehicles
• Kid Tosses A Small Firework Down A Manhole, Entire Sidewalk Explodes
• Landing in Maniitsoq, Greenland

Things to look at/read:

• The Wetherspoons App Is Now Being Used By Financial Dominatrixes
• A Guy Created His Own Pornhub Channel And Has Been Sharing Hilariously Wholesome And Uplifting Videos
• The White Flight From Football
• A battle for my life
• You Don’t Need Sports Drinks To Stay Hydrated
• Great-gran’s anger at being left to sit on chair for weeks as new sofa still hasn’t arrived

Animal corner:

• Head Scratches Before Bed
• Rabbit learns he is adopted
• Super Excited Dogs Crash Tackle Their Human
• This Bird Keeping Perfect Balance On A Boat In Rough Water Is Mesmerizing
• so my sister just sent me this and-
• go on girl do your thang
• I’ll be damn if I go on vacation only to get held up by some damn monkey
• “HA HA LOOK I AM A HUMAN AND CAN WALK ON TWO LEGS LOOK AT HOW INEFFICIENT THIS IS FOR TRAVELING”

Tweets of the week:

• Socially liberal, fiscally conservative
• So a couple days ago, one of my coworkers accidentally let 22 quarts of ranch dressing slip out of her hand…
• the Grad Student Shuffle
• NYC is different man
• I’m gonna start using this with new sexual partners
• Here, check out Jim Furyks dome!! Baby lotion on the face and neck, factor 2000 on his skull!!
• Peanuts | Why I’ve Reluctantly Decided To Leave The Labour Party
• My mom was wishing my friend a happy birthday and this happened. PLEASE watch till the end

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Shoot Someone In A Major US City, And Odds Are You’ll Get Away With It
• My Gucci Addiction
• The 50 Best Sports Movies of All Time
• The Deported Americans
• Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy?
• Meth, Murder, and Pirates: The Coder Who Became a Crime Boss
• White gold: the unstoppable rise of alternative milks

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We Love the Internet 2019/11: The Can you dust my wets edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Who Was Lil Tay?
• You May Have Forgotten Foursquare, but It Didn’t Forget You
• What the Cancellation of ‘One Day at a Time’ Says About Netflix
• A false alarm over Twitter likes and retweets caused panic — but it was justified
• RuPaul’s Drag Race helps turn queens into stars — and savvy marketers
• Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the world wide web: ‘We can get the web we want’
• This Woman Found Revenge Porn On Google Drive — And Now She’s Fighting Back
• “It gives you the freedom to be violent to other people”: what has the alt account become?

Reference points:

• What’s the most influential book of the past 20 years?
• The 25 Most Influential Movie Scenes of the Past 25 Years
• Digital 2019: Global Digital Overview
• The clueless parent’s guide to understanding TikTok

Longer reads:

• Rethinking how technology uses our personal data
• The art of decision-making
• 2019 Creative Trends
• The facts about Facebook
• The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Old man parks his car
• Straight outta the Commons… it’s Still M.A.Y. (featuring Snoop Mogg)
• Bel-Air (2019) | Official Trailer
• Rocket League Documentary (Part 1)
• Sounds inside a nuclear power plant cooling tower.

Things to look at/read:

• The world is falling apart. And so is my mental health
• Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike — then learns it wasn’t him
• How Kylie became the wealthiest member of the Kardashian-Jenner family
• Five Questions for… the Westfield Stratford Ice Cream Shagger
• Inside Dau, the ‘Stalinist Truman Show’: ‘I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me’

Animal corner:

• He couldn’t hack it as a drug-sniffing dog. Now he’s conservation’s best friend
• Owl Spooks Cat Off Couch
• Dog needs a little help after massive dumping of snow
• Stray cats expressing joy loudly when stroking
• I almost killed my boyfriend with a slice of cheese
• You come at the king, you best not miss
• I go upstairs for 3 minutes
• Just when you think it can’t get any better, it does

Tweets of the week:

• me: can you dust my wets?
• This baby shark got my lil niece possessed!!
• I can see why they need to hire a content writer.
• Cancel the search party. The best human has been found.
• I’m close to breaking this whole thing wide open
• you: liking craft breweries isn’t a personality trait. your mentions:
• Robyn Afterparty at the E train station after the @robynkonichiwa show at MSG
• When you don’t have exact change

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Fantasy’s Widow: The Fight Over The Legacy Of Dungeons & Dragons
• ‘Centurians of Rome’: How a Bank Robber Made the Most Expensive Gay Porno of All Time
• Sidney Wants to Be Someone Else
• The bicycle thief
• Stealing from the dead

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We Love the Internet 2019/09: The Face value edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Last Glassholes
• “Brand purpose” is a lie
• Stop calling Trump “medieval.” It’s an insult to the Middle Ages.
• TikTok Has Created A Whole New Kind Of Cool Girl

Reference points:

• Facebook’s Spam Notifications Are Driving Us Nuts
• How to Read 80ish Books a Year (And Actually Remember Them)
• The four types of music subscription model in 2019
• Seven rules for perfect Japanese typography
• Cheap TVs and Exorbitant Education, Modern America in One Chart

Longer reads:

• The trauma floor
• The Tinder swindler

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• GoPro on an Arrow
• Urban BASE Jumper Surprises Man In A Parking Lot With His 50-Story Building Jump
• I hid a secret song in my videos
• Pouring lava in my pool!
• On exactitude in science

Things to look at/read:

• Face value
• ‘I’d get 400 toilet rolls at a time’: how it feels to win a lifetime supply
• Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
• Women Aren’t Ruining Food
• Calculating the Exact Amount of Banter in That Photo of The Independent Group at Nando’s

Animal corner:

• Dog Pet Puppy Pomeranian Grooming Teddy bear style
• High Fence No Match for this Dog
• I can’t stop watching
• Tell me something girl…
• Attempting to battle rap my son…
• “Mufasa’s death is one of the most heart-wrenching movie scenes ever. There’s no way to make it any more sa-“
• If Messi or Ronaldo did this we’d be hearing about it for month but because it’s dog….

Tweets of the week:

• we stan an intern with no self awareness
• The final boss at topman
• Someday they’re gonna make a movie about the PR team for “The Green Book”, and it’ll probably win an Oscar.
• This works too well
• Everyone tried so hard…
• this is the greatest interaction in the history of twitter
• UN-DELETE THIS TWEET YOU COWARDS
• Paul Scholes’ reaction when Steven Gerrard says he hasn’t won the Premier League is probably one of the greatest TV moments of all time.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The business of kidnapping: inside the secret world of hostage negotiation
• The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time

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