We Love the Internet 2022/04: The GIFs are for boomers now, sorry edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• GIFs Are For Boomers Now, Sorry
• Was the Viral Metaverse Rave Fun? An Investigation
• The rise of the post-credits scene, explained
• Saudi-backed Savvy Gaming buys ESL and FACEIT for ‘US$1.5bn’

Reference points

• Wiki history game
• 52 Places for a Changed World

Longer reads:

• What If Netflix Raised Its Prices and Nobody Cared?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• So…TikTok Sucks
• The 6 Year Overnight Success

Things to look at/read:

• Is Online “Sad Boy” Culture Covering Up a Legitimate Mental Health Crisis?
• Homes Under The Hammer: Inside Devon’s Housing Crisis
• New breakfast cereals from AI
• How our ancestors used to sleep can help the sleep-deprived today
• Japan’s sumo wrestlers: Meet the women changing the face of the sport
• Why Making Friends in Midlife Is So Hard

Animal corner:

• They bought a blender. Three weeks later, their cats continue to hold it hostage.
• pondering his orb
• no interviews
• So excited to meet new member of the family..

Tweets of the week:

• This has just made me laugh insensibly
• Big shout out to Hamburg’s Panoptikum wax museum for an image that will now haunt my every waking hour
• This probably went through 10 levels of sign-off but still managed to slip through the cracks.
• i aint a magician but i gotta coupIe twix up my sleeve
• I lost
• Image prediction: Petri dish Confidence: 8.96%
• Damn…CAPTCHAs getting hard.
• in case florence + the machine comes on shuffle

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?
• How bad are plastics, really?
• Is the ‘Future of Food’ the Future We Want?
• Tara Reid Deserves An Apology. But She Doesn’t Want One.

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