We Love the Internet 2021/39: The Unwritten rules of black tv edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Largest Autocracy on Earth
• From the Real Housewives to Love Is Blind: how reunions took over reality TV
• Are the Britney Spears Documentaries Exploiting Her All Over Again?

Reference points:

• The Biggest Album Release Dates in Modern Music History, Ranked
• FanDuel Parlays Fantasy Sports Into a $1.9 Billion Betting Boom
• Openmoji

Longer reads:

• The unwritten rules of black tv
• How This Art Student Became The Weirdest, Funniest Guy On TikTok

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Photographing Babish: The Man Behind the Tiny Whisk
• The Full Story of MrBeast
• How To Cut Every Cheese
• The Most Difficult Shot in Movie History (And Why It Matters)

Things to look at/read:

• Cooperative Overlap
• Disgustingly Beautiful Mold Art

Animal corner:

• Panic! At the Groomers
• never been more scared of a dog
• Cat vs vacuum 3
• if y’all haven’t done this with your dogs yet, please do
• boom
• He’s got too much catitude
• He don’t know it but he’s working out
• Life is good

Tweets of the week:

• Saving up my points for the big prize.
• Accidently called a power point presentation a power point presentation instead of a slide deck and now everyone in this meeting knows I’m 40.
• Raised by the French
• British Museum nicking stuff twitter is the best twitter
• Don’t matter she ready
• I see my mother is now writing copy for the MTA….
• Divine punishment for selling Moses and Abraham and then buying Saul.
• Yo me see this and just scream cause WHAAT!?

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’
• Nirvana In Bloom
• How Do You Follow The Sopranos?

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