We Love the Internet 2018/42: The Protagonists edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• A Meme Is Born: How Internet Jokes Turned ‘A Star Is Born’ Into a Hit
• How the Paradox of the Term ‘Original Series’ Explains the Video Industry
• The Battle for the Home
• AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair
• God is in the machine
• The Case for Chaos (revisited)

Reference points:

• The Viral Story About A Competitive Barefoot Runner Demanding People Sweep Up Acorns Is A Hoax

Longer reads:

• The Protagonists
• The Online Gig Economy’s ‘Race to the Bottom’
• The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
• Why Technology Favors Tyranny
• Nuance: A Love Story

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This skier’s parkour training is the greatest game of ‘the floor is lava’ ever
• Insane daredevil jumps nearly 50 feet into water pit
• ‘Shooting Shaina’s Sequence’ BTS of Ep. 3 | Kidding | Season 1
• Pool Delivery Ends In Disaster.

Things to look at/read:

• How the Fleece Vest Became the New Corporate Uniform
• What Does It Mean to ‘Sound’ Black?
• The men who have taken wiffleball to a crazy, competitive place

Animal corner:

• Meanwhile, in Iceland.
• I love the little defeated “marrow” at the end
• This is the best video ever
• I’m Max’s dog sitter and max was very happy to see me today
• This is how unbothered I am when I got my headphones in
• I found my spirit animal

Tweets of the week:

• lmao Kanye’s iPhone password is 000000
• Some glaring differences in these news alerts
• Greatest post fight interview EVER
• The one on the left and the one on the right are languages. That in the middle is me after 10 pints later.
• When you’re overqualified for the job
• The Overton window
• ‘A Star Is Whiplashed’ (2018).

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘I spent seven years fighting to survive’: Chelsea Manning on whistleblowing and WikiLeaks
• How Viagra went from a medical mistake to a $3bn a year industry
• Sperm Count Zero
• The American nightmare
• We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage
• Loser’s lunch
• How Rudy Giuliani turned into Trump’s clown
• Inside the delightfully quirky, absolutely fabulous, and utterly exhausting world of cruise performers

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We Love the Internet 2018/41: The How lies become true on the internet edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Posting Instagram Sponsored Content Is the New Summer Job
• Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music?
• Viral publisher Unilad blames arch-rival LadBible for collapse
• How Do We Talk About Race and Pop Culture Without Going Insane?
• The rise of the wholesome internet meme
• Journalists Just Can’t Quit Microsoft Word. But Some Are Trying.

Reference points:

• A new study suggests that Hulu, not Netflix, is the dominant streaming service for TV shows
• Slightly More Than 100 Fantastic Articles

Longer reads:

• The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
• What makes The Good Place good?
• What is the role of parents and teachers in guiding children through this new age of technological complexity?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How Lies Become True On the Internet – Circular Sourcing
• This Woman’s Limbo Abilities Are Literally Unbelievable
• 135 Mouse Clicks in 10 Seconds | Jitter Clicking
• Hollywood Stuntwoman Breaks Down Her Career in Stunts
• Breathtaking POV clip shows kayaker run 100-foot waterfall

Things to look at/read:

• Where Do Veteran Pop Stars Go? (To the Lower Regions of the Hot 100… If They’re Lucky)

Animal corner:

• in the deer 2nite
• cockatiel playing peekaboo

Tweets of the week:

• excited to announce my data journalism debut
• It’s some creative people out there, man
• Bob Sapp vs Osunaarashi will go down in history as a Super-Hulk classic
• Because they’re children
• A crime has been committed in St Ives.
• He kept the hat.
• A valiant attempt by the American subtitler..
• WHAT THE FUCK

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The 25 year journey of Magic: The Gathering
• Smells Like Teen Spirit: ‘Dazed and Confused’ at 25

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We Love the Internet 2018/40: The Zendaya is Meechee edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why “Zendaya Is Meechee” became the feel-good pop meme of the moment
• Facebook’s Flawed DNA Makes It Unable to Fight Misinformation
• Why You Should Stop Reading News
• How ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Is Changing the Way the World Experiences Music

Reference points:

• The best magazine covers ever?
• 25 years of Wired predictions: why the future never arrives

Longer reads:

• A very Australian coup: Murdoch, Turnbull and the power of News Corp
• How Hollywood Is Racing to Catch Up With Netflix
• Here’s The Woman Behind Britain’s Most Divisive Twitter Account

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Tae
• Toyota FR-S at Georgia Car Show
• Stadium Super Trucks – Adelaide 2018 Race 3 – Finish Chaos
• Closest calls EVER – Compilation
• (The Cranberries) Zombie, covered by Feng E, ukulele
• Blue marble 2
• There I fixed it
• $1 Street Food Around The World

Things to look at/read:

• Do Men Enter Bathtubs on Hands and Knees So Their Balls Hit the Water Last?

Animal corner:

• ‘Mate, what just happened?’ Seal slaps kayaker in face with octopus
• Goats Climbing on a Near-Vertical Dam
• “My cat just found his ears…”
• Baby bear with a baby deer
• here is a video of a baby otter making the cutest noises while being bottle-fed
• When your more social capable friend invites you to a party and you know no one
• LOOK WHATS ON ME HEAD

Tweets of the week:

• Jose Mourinho greeting his ex players and players
• I’ll be honest, I’ve never had this before
• The annoying thing is: I’d definitely listen to thier soundcloud. They’d be like an East German Yazoo.
• Tiger Woods walking to the 18 like he’s Goldberg in the 90’s
• A series of unfortunate events:
• reminder: never try ex-footballer banter unless you’re an ex-footballer

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Sex, Steroids, And Arnold: The Story Of The Gym That Shaped America
• A few words about fake breasts
• New cars, new cameras, new CEO: Inside F1’s race to reinvent itself
• The inescapable weight of my $100,000 student debt
• The Water Crises Aren’t Coming—They’re Here
• American Daredevil

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We Love the Internet 2018/39: The Do songs of summer sound the same edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Instagram is supposed to be friendly. So why is it making people so miserable?
• Pornhub wants to be a lifestyle brand

Reference points:

• Do songs of the summer sound the same?
• A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Literary Canon
• The map we need if we want to think about how global living conditions are changing

Longer reads:

• How TripAdvisor changed travel
• How WhatsApp Destroyed A Village
• Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs: An Oral History of Frasier

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Every Owen Wilson Wow In Chronological Order (1996 – 2017)
• Shaolin Monk Casually Runs 125 Meters Across A Pond
• Poker Players Replay Their Most Memorable Hands

Things to look at/read:

• 25 Years Ago The Virgin Suicides Kicked Off the American Obsession With Teenage Tragedy
• The first paragraphs of It Girl articles throughout history
• We Use Sports Terms All the Time. But Where Do They Come From?

Animal corner:

• A tale of five squirrels: vets untangle ‘Gordian Knot’ of rodents
• Beagle Barks At A Deer, Gets Way More Than It Bargained For
• Monkey Casually Jumps Off The Top Of A 100-Foot Tower
• Zoo visitors prank penguins using pictures of fish on their phones
• Ranking Every Kind of Pet by How Capable It Is of Loving You
• The Charmed Life of Esther the Wonder Pig
• i’m not sure what you’re doing but i love you and just want to be involved.
• There’s a cat and an owl outside my window

Tweets of the week:

• 55 today! Happy birthday Jarvis Cocker.
• Wow ANOTHER remake?
• *to the tune of Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name”* SPELL MY NAME, SPELL MY NAME IT’S RIGHT THERE IN THE EMAIL IT’S NOT A HIDDEN DETAIL THE SPELLING DOESN’T CHANGE
• The sort of content which makes paying for Sky worthwhile
• smuggle vibranium
• Guess I left my tv on when I set the alarm.
• I wonder if any coach has ever told Wolves’ left-wing-back to “take ’em to the Matthews Bridge”
• Shakira: Telling lies? Hips: No Papa

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• When You Have Crohn’s Disease, Public Bathrooms Can Be A Nightmare
• Community Plumbing
• Introducing Soon-Yi Previn
• Equal fights movement
• Who’s Afraid of Tom Arnold?
• The Great Chinese Art Heist
• Virgin Galactic’s rocket man
• Lily Allen: ‘I was pretty brazen with all my behaviour. I just didn’t care’

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We Love the Internet 2018/38: The Flash games mattered edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views
• Dollar Shave Club’s men’s magazine “Mel” grows up
• Fortnite Is so Much More Than a Game

Reference points:

• 2018 Planning Dirty Brand Actions Library
• CinemaScore, Rotten Tomatoes, and movie audience scores, explained
• The Joke I Most Regret
• Deepmoji

Longer reads:

• The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won
• Chasing the Bitcoin Boys in the Crypto Capital of the World

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Flash Games Mattered
• Hakkuh with Style
• This man flew to Japan to sing Abba in a big cold river
• Professor Splash sets Guinness World Record Highest Belly Flop
• This Toddler Is Absolutely Ruthless

Things to look at/read:

• What so many men are missing about #MeToo
• Someone clever once said women were not allowed pockets
• Confessions of a Failed Ronaldo Fan
• Sperm Count Zero

Animal corner:

• If you need some positivity in your newsfeed today, here’s Bradley the baby kangaroo practicing his first hops at a kangaroo sanctuary in Australia
• このニャンコ柔道の達人かよw

Tweets of the week:

• When you book a room but the last meeting runs over.
• You can always tell when Sting has been in to return his books.
• Be careful who you bully in highschool
• Eat your heart out, CNN!
• I bloody love how Justin Bieber is slowly morphing into Paul Calf
• I will never get over how much Steven Seagal looks like a badly rendered computer game character from 1996
• It is pretty bold tbf
• Colm Meaney           Colm Friendly

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• A Field Guide to NYC’s Working Stiffs
• Inside the delightfully quirky, absolutely fabulous, and utterly exhausting world of cruise performers

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We Love the Internet 2018/37: The How millennials killed mayonnaise edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How Funny Does Comedy Need to Be?
• If a Group Text Gets Read and No One Reacts, Did It Happen?
• Finding new music in the algorithm age

Reference points:

• “Johny Johny Yes Papa”: the meme born from YouTube’s hellscape of kids’ videos, explained
• The Future of HBO, Pt. I and The Future of HBO, Pt. II
• Wiki death
• What Makes a Hit
• Amazon, Airbnb, and Asos are all investing in this one simple design idea

Longer reads:

• Spotify’s $30 billion playlist for global domination

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This ‘Rick And Morty’ Green Screen Tattoo Might Actually Be Genius
• Tandergee soapbox race 2018. Worst crash ever

Things to look at/read:

• How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise
• ‘All In’ Just Showed Us the Future of Pro Wrestling
• Every Shit You’ll Ever Do
• The Sad Boys of Sadcore

Animal corner:

• Incredible moment ONE MILLION army ants worked together to build a bridge in order to attack a wasp
• I love this !!
• When you’re out for dinner and everyone gets their food before you.
• My dog has a FEW weird habits. Here is one of them.

Tweets of the week:

• Me walking past white people in my Nike’s
• Can’t stand y’all
• This video will forever have me weak
• I Can’t Masturbate to This Videogame: A Tragedy in Four Acts.
• this transcends languages
• I have made a new bathroom door lock of finest European oak, featuring what I believe to be the best ever use of boggly eyes.
• This lady reacting to a skateboarding trick is the wholesomeness the internet needs today
• The best decathlon ever

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
• My Life As a Psychopath

We Love the Internet 2018/36: The Gender nation glossary edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Uber’s Bundles
• As Memes Evolve, Apps Are Struggling to Keep Up
• Meet a new kind of book, designed for the age of Peak TV
• Decision Fatigue: What it is and how it’s killing your focus, motivation, and willpower
• For IGTV, Instagram needs slow to mean steady
• Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms

Reference points:

• Gender nation glossary
• Here’s How Successful People Avoid Information Overwhelm
• Can You Tell If Your Favorite TV Show Is Secretly Sped Up? Take Our Quiz.
• My ultimate Facebook post

Longer reads:

• Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth
• The World’s Most Peculiar Company

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Darth Vader: An Icon In 34 Minutes

Things to look at/read:

• Welcome to hotel millennial
• Who Really Owns the ‘Blaccent’?
• I Say LOL, You Say Ek Number: How People Around The World Laugh Online
• Some Guys Are So Bad at Sexting They Copy and Paste Sexts From the Internet
• Meet ‘Reluctant Hamsters’ and ‘Pork Wallets’ in the hilarious ‘70s Adult Titles’ Twitter feed
• 10 of the best words in the world (that don’t translate into English)
• The decline and fall of Diet Coke and the power generation that loved it

Animal corner:

• The Snoring Fox
• Border Collie enthusiastically watches herself win agility competition on TV
• Great White Shark Launches Itself Out Of The Water, Nearly Takes Off Researcher’s Foot
• Rhino Learns The Hard Way That Bull Elephants Don’t Mess Around
• My dog has a FEW weird habits. Here is one of them.
• A master hunter at work!
• Their dog was bit by a rattlesnake, so they made the best of the situation
• have not stopped thinking about this since I saw it. it’s so good

Tweets of the week:

• they’ve written it as if it’s his occupation
• I’ll just walk on this lily pad like I’ve seen frogs do.
• Grant Holt has given his children  some very strange names
• Such a good tshirt.
• I made a book review bingo card. Critics are hailing it as ‘a remarkable achievement’.
• IS THIS GONE GIRL
• What are you wearing?  Jizz…I’m covered in Jizz.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The art of stealing
• The Viral Video Star Behind the Fitness Fad That May Replace CrossFit
• Inside the Very Big, Very Controversial Business of Dog Cloning
• The Jackie Robinson of Rodeo

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