We Love the Internet 2023/08: The Do you know how to behave edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Is “stream” as a design paradigm over?
• I was an App Store games editor – that’s how I know Apple doesn’t care about games
• The Junkification of Amazon

Reference points:

• Do You Know How to Behave?
• What is the Most Successful Hollywood Movie of All Time?

Longer reads:

• Why VR/AR Gets Farther Away as It Comes Into Focus
• How the Xbox got its good looks

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Nintendo-fication of Jazz

Things to look at/read:

• The splashback scandal: should all men sit down to urinate?
• The Dupe Mindset Has Turned Everything On TikTok Into A Replica

Animal corner:

• I thought this was Iggy Pop for a sec
• watch this cute friends
• Aggressive morning cuddles with Daisy
• Now I’ve seen it all
• What is this behaviour?

Tweets of the week:

• Me gassin up the fellas at the urinal
• i forgot about this episode
• Make it stop
• What’s your favourite speed?
• someone hacked into my netflix account last month and watched every episode of cocomelon and then left me a note
• this is the perfect tweet. not a syllable nor a pixel wasted.
• This just popped up for me. I don’t even know how to start doing this
• Earlier today my kid made me hold her balloon for a second and then my wife sneakily took the saddest photo of me that has ever been tooken

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• my year as a hot girl for hire
• Crushed
• The first family of human cannonballing
• Unequality: When inequality changes, our strategies must too

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We Love the Internet 2023/07: The Tipping is weird now edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
• The New (Old) Rules of Hollywood
• The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
• ‘Obsessive? This is who I am!’ How Lesley Paterson funded her 16-year Oscar dream – by winning triathlons
• How “”Battle Royale” took over video games

Reference points:

• What will TV look like in three years? These industry insiders share their predictions

Longer reads:

• The new gatekeepers
• What Happens When You Become Viral Content Without Your Consent

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to look at/read:

• Tipping Is Weird Now
• Cut To The Feeling — The Anatomy of Smith’s Scampi Fries
• For Love or Money
• In defence of mean girls

Animal corner:

• I do not like oranges either. Give me my eggs!
• at least they listen
• So the drama.
• Pray for him.

Tweets of the week:

• eyeing up his next victim
• This is like a ‘meet the team’ section of a media recruitment website
• The florist inside Liverpool Street station is selling a bunch of Valentine’s Day roses for £385 (!), if anyone is looking for a last minute gift
• Q showing james bond his new gadgets:

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• SBF, Bored Ape Yacht Club, and the Spectacular Hangover After the Art World’s NFT Gold Rush
• Life as a 21^st century trucker
• It Came From the Basement
• The Controversial King of Hardcore Climbing
• The Montreal Mafia Murders: Blood, Gore, Cannolis, and Hockey Bags

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We Love the Internet 2023/06: The Jelly is ready for its redemption arc edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why Are You Seeing So Many Bad Digital Ads Now?
• TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral
• Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
• The Work-From-Anywhere War Is Beginning

Reference points:

• FindThatMeme
• The Future 100: 2023
• What the Great Netflix Password Crackdown Means for You
• Meet the TikTok Creators to Watch in 2023

Longer reads:

• Linus Lee Is Living With AI
• Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who’s Winning?
• CES 2023 — More Business, Less Spectacle

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Simpsons as an 80’s Sitcom
• How to cook Healthy Meals and never run out of ideas.

Things to look at/read:

• Jelly Is Ready for Its Redemption Arc
• MrBeast Built A YouTube Empire On Being Mr. Nice Guy, But His Stunt Helping 1,000 Blind People Divided Viewers, Who Called It “Demonic”
• You Don’t Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is
• I disconnected from the electric grid for 8 months—in Manhattan

Animal corner:

• When I let our clingy dog off the lead…
• Unsmooshed. It’s a miracle!
• Stanley showing his teefs
• Still learning about the world and his body
• Zofi blooper, slo-mo Zofi with EvIL laughter mwooohahaha…

Tweets of the week:

• When I complained to Amazon about a missing parcel and they asked me to send photographic evidence.
• cronenberg or lynch or fincher could never
• if my girl got kidnapped by bowser, i would NOT be yelling “wahoo!” no matter how exhilarating my jump was
• I have 4 words that will make your day:

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The frictionless charms of the Ferrante cinematic universe
• It’s Europe’s most successful new neighbourhood. So why is there so much tension?
• A 4-Year-Old Trapped in a Teenager’s Body

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We Love the Internet 2023/05: The Documentary world’s identity crisis edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
• The End of Programming

Reference points:

• The anatomy of a Twitter spat
• We tried to run a social media site and it was awful
• Wonders of street view

Longer reads:

• The Documentary World’s Identity Crisis
• Vigilantes for views: The YouTube pranksters harassing suspected scam callers in India

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• A conceptual vocal synthesizer

Things to look at/read:

• The Radical Design of PizzaExpress
• RIP meme stocks. You were terrible investments

Animal corner:

• Mom forgot the peanut butter!
• Shane the wonder dog wouldn’t listen
• the BUBBLES
• I was actually here eating these before she jumped up and sat RIGHT THERE
• cherry tomato really crossed the line touching his bed

Tweets of the week:

• Gearing up for the Six Nations
• No wonder women end up living longer
• They didn’t respect that man at all lmao
• Totally loving Taylor Swift’s suit, which is designed to break up her shape against the background, thereby making it difficult for German U-Boats to calculate her range, speed and direction.
• Can’t believe it’s been nearly 3 years since covid enabled me to bring alcohol into any venue disguised as hand sanitiser
• What dial-up internet sounded like:
• Simon Amstell’s mum:

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Molly’s Last Ride
• When a marathon isn’t extreme enough, run backwards
• 16 Hours With George Santos: Dunkin’ Donuts, 27,000 Steps and a Scolding

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