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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