We Love the Internet 2019/20: The Instagram aesthetic is over edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
• Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet
• Netflix’s Competitive Resiliency Is Here to Stay
• How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’
• The Gentle Side of Twitch
• Paid Email Newsletters Are Proving Themselves As A Meaningful Revenue Generator For Writers
• After Autoplay: “Interactive, Personalized & Immersive” Entertainment
• It’s Time to Delete Your Tweets. It’s Not That Easy.

Reference points:

• Colorism in high fashion
• Swole, buzzy, among new words in Merriam-Webster dictionary
• Creative types

Longer reads:

• We Are Gen Z
• The golden age of YouTube is over
• Rom-Coms Were Corny and Retrograde. Why Do I Miss Them so Much?
• The world’s greatest delivery empire
• What Seven Years at Airbnb Taught Me About Building a Business

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Cleganebowl Hype Rising: Confirmed Edition ft. Bobby B
• How Lil Nas X Took ‘Old Town Road’ From TikTok Meme to No. 1
• Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Chalk
• How Game of Thrones uses costumes to show power
• How are Underwater Structures Built?
• How My Makeup Looks Under a Microscope
• Absolutely Insane Drone Footage of Oklahoma Tornado
• How heavy metal and Satan gave us this sticker

Things to look at/read:

• James Charles, Tati Westbrook, and the feud that’s ripping apart YouTube’s beauty community
• When Did Celebrities Get So Bad At Taking Criticism?
• How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books?
• The VICE Alternative Team of the Premier League Season 2018-2019
• Your cotton tote is pretty much the worst replacement for a plastic bag
• A Man Created An Instagram About Church Leaders In Expensive Designer Shoes. It’s Sending People Down An Existential Morality Spiral.
• Listen up bitches, it’s time to learn incorrect things about someone you’ve never heard of
• The DMV Reviewed Thousands of Hilarious Vanity Plate Applications Last Year. These Are Our Favorites

Animal corner:

• Doggie School Bus picks up pups for ‘school’
• Doggy Devours Drink
• Parenting tips from the cat…
• He’s so grateful
• These gorillas try to wait out the rain before making a run for it. Sometimes animal kingdom is just like us.

Tweets of the week:

• Just me or is this one helluva high five?
• Very much enjoyed this poster in the loos of my local last night.
• Things I have learned about the general public whilst working at the library:
• Hey @bt_uk we’ve just spent a £1 updating our logo to be just like yours.
• “We don’t have balls. But we know how to use them!”
• Squad goals.
• Here Lies Brad, who died of Brad.
• I see everyone has found my man Bigtime Tommie, who is responsible for the greatest piece of television ever created

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret
• My Search for a Boyhood Friend Led to a Dark Discovery
• The heavy metal grifter
• Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels
• What’s Behind the Elective-Sobriety Trend
• Virgil Abloh, menswear’s biggest star

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