We Love the Internet 2019/51: The decade, explained edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days
• Louie was my favorite show of the decade — until it very abruptly wasn’t
• Even the simplest metrics require forensic analysis

Reference points:

• The 100 Memes That Defined The 2010s
• The 50 Best Comedy Sketches of the Decade
• Predictions for journalism 2020
• Twenty tech trends for 2020
• GLAAD: LGBTQ Series Regulars on Broadcast TV Hit All-Time High
• It’s not just you. Netflix really is doubling its Christmas content every year

Longer reads:

• The age of Instagram face
• Can monoculture survive the algorithm?
• How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online
• How Mary-Kay Wilmers Became Britain’s Most Influential Editor
• Bosses at Vice and The Fader Ignored Sexual Misconduct, Employees Allege, Until Women on Twitter Began Exposing It
• Stab a Book, the Book Won’t Die
• Does the Movie Industry Need an Unsafe Space?
• In the 2010s, BuzzFeed Made the World a Meme

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Former Jewel Thief Reviews Famous Heist Movies
• Best Optical Illusion Chair
• I gave strangers €5 if I didn’t speak their language
• Kid gets in fight with trash can

Things to look at/read:

• Foul play: how racism towards black footballers is moving online
• The crisis in physics is not only about physics
• Portion size

Animal corner:

• 4 puppies walking to Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive
• The best thing you will see all day
• best. tiktok. ever.

Tweets of the week:

• focus on a different child every time you watch
• What’s On TV seems a pretty chill place to work
• Time for a thread of weird Victorian Christmas Cards
• Me in Argos
• Last night I saw one of the craziest damn things I’ve ever seen in all my days.
• i fkn did it
• Beyonce off to do her shift in Sainsburys
• cut my pants into pieces these are my hand made jorts

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The decade, explained
• Stammer time
• Cosmic Triangles Open a Window to the Origin of Time
• Who is the real Dice Man? The elusive writer behind the disturbing cult novel
• The Chorus of #MeToo, and the Women Who Turned Trauma Into Songs
• How Ring Went From ‘Shark Tank’ Reject to America’s Scariest Surveillance Company

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