We Love the Internet 2019/26: The Two types of airport people edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Memes Are the New Pop Stars: How TikTok Became the Future of the Music Industry
• Is America ready for a high school version of Marvel?
• How Trans Actors Are Rewriting the Rules of TV Casting
• ‘Not Great, Bob!’: The Making of Mad Men’s Greatest Meme
• Inside MeWe, Where Anti-Vaxxers and Conspiracy Theorists Thrive
• I Discover All the Best Music in My Life Through Video Games, and I’m Not Alone
• Metadata is the biggest little problem facing the music industry
• YouTube’s Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl

Reference points:

• Does the news reflect what we die from?
• Why Women Are Called ‘Influencers’ and Men ‘Creators’
• What Value do you Create? Marketing’s 3 Types of Value
• The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
• All 21 Pixar movies, definitively ranked
• This Immersive Netflix Hack Turns Your Phone Into A Rumble Pack

Longer reads:

• When Fandom Is the Problem
• Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
• Everything’s Flopping, and No One Is Happy
• The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones
• Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game
• Air France Flight 447: Ten Years On
• What happened when I let algorithms run my life for a week
• Netflix: ‘No amount of data can tell you what to commission next’

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Dump Truck Vs. Traffic Light
• Breakfast club
• Teen Performs Magic Trick with Rubix Cube in School Cafeteria
• GOPRO Goes on Japanese Sushi Conveyor Belt

Things to look at/read:

• There Are Two Types of Airport People
• My secret shame: I am (still) addicted to Pokémon Go
• The Joy of Watching (and Rewatching) Movies So Bad They’re Good
• Kimigayo: A Guide to Japan’s Controversial National Anthem
• The Eternal Revenue Stream of Led Zeppelin

Animal corner:

• Cat Laughs in the Face of Climbing Wall Challenge
• Special Dog Has Beach Fun
• Therapy Dogs For The Parkland Shooting Survivors Got Their Own School Yearbook Page And It’s Pretty Amazing
• Sawfish look like they don’t buy your bullshit excuses

Tweets of the week:

• Being Beyoncé’s assistant for the day: DONT GET FIRED THREAD
• Is it 1995?
• got another capitalism greatest hit. i will give you one hundred thousand dollars if you can guess the brand by the end
• supporting your friends dreams:
• ah shit, here comes the sun
• I drunkenly ordered maccys four times last night because I kept forgetting I’d ordered it, they all arrived at my house before I did
• Anyone know what Boris Johnson is doing in this Chagall painting? Because he’s there and it’s terrifying.
• HOLY SHIT

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The curse of genius
• Two days with Curvy Wife Guy, the most controversial man in body positivity
• Where an Entire Day’s Worth of Food Came From
• ‘A zombie party’: the deepening crisis of conservatism
• The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich
• Can we live longer but stay younger?
• How a cheap, brutally efficient grocery chain is upending America’s supermarkets

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