We Love the Internet 2018/50: The Death of Hollywood’s middle class edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The death of Hollywood’s middle class
• Internet-era ways of working
• Welcome to the Golden Age of Weird Promoted Tweets
• Why Can’t Instagram Get Anybody to Care About IGTV?
• Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem
• Is It Still Okay To Use The OK Hand Emoji?
• Uber’s secret weapon is its team of economists

Reference points:

• A Tribute to YouTube Annotations
• 100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know It
• Internet boy band database
• Automating BuzzFeed
• Atrocities 1-112
• Visualizing Jeff Bezos’ Absurd Wealth, Through A Game Where You Try To Give It All Away
• Two hundred and fifty things an architect should know
• The 100 Scares That Shaped Horror

Longer reads:

• We Asked 105 Experts What Scares and Inspires Them Most About the Future
• It Started as an Online Gaming Prank. Then It Turned Deadly
• The Ultimate Learning Guide via Shane Parrish
• A rocker’s guide to management
• Exploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk’s Neon and Noir
• Did Uber steal Google’s intellectual property?
• The Super-Quick Rise and Even Faster Fall of Groupon

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How do you help a grieving friend?
• The Alt-Right Playbook
• Brilliant Fence Post Invention
• Military Transport Plane Flies Way, Way Too Close To High-Rise
• Nick Offerman in My Tales of Whisky: LIVE
• First Person to Run a Marathon Without Talking About It
• Jelle’s Marble Runs: Sand Marble Rally 2018 – Race 1
• Gymnast in Leeds sets horizontal bar backflip world record of nearly 20ft

Things to look at/read:

• How one man built The Sharper Image into the world’s wackiest gadget store
• These Netflix Comedies Show Teens In All Their Gross, Embarrassing Glory

Animal corner:

• Dog in the sand enjoying his pizza slice
• Presumably Preteen Gorilla Loves To Annoy His Dad
• Wild Elephants salutes the men who rescued their baby elephant from a ditch
• MY CAT IS IN MY CHRISTMAS TREE
• Some random person airdropped this video to me during my bio class and it honestly made my day
• such a happy boy
• This dog looks like she’s called Karen & wants to speak to the manager x
• I, for one, welcome our owl overlords

Tweets of the week:

• Poor homesick lorry
• this is the US Soccer version of he’s 28 until he’s 29
• LOOOOOOOOOL this is trash talking at its finest
• Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg:
• The most intense fight I’ve ever seen
• Perhaps not one to pursue in the UK.
• this is so wholesome
• From my vast experience in watching cartoons, that car is very tired.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The life and times of Allen Iverson
• Inside the mind of a voyeur
• The Man Who Broke Politics
• The perfect wrestler
• Do You Even Bake, Bro?

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We Love the Internet 2018/49: The Gamified life edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Gamified life
• Welcome to the Golden Age of Weird Promoted Tweets
• Meet The Parents Of The Instagram-Famous Mixed-Race Babies
• Not just snapped but irreparable
• The NBA Is Fake Woke

Reference points:

• This is 18
• How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years
• The Recent History of America Trying and Failing to Adapt British TV Comedies

Longer reads:

• The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind An Unlikely Tech Unicorn
• Raised by YouTube

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Super Vision
• Beat The Devil Out Of It
• Guy Learns The Hard Way What Happens When You Overfill Your Car Tire
• Who Named Heavy Metal?
• Pro Mod driver Mike Bowman’s parachutes failed during qualifying at St. Louis

Things to look at/read:

• Enchanted, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Disney princess
• The Bizarre Story Of Jered Threatin, Who Paid Thousands To Tour The UK’s Best Venues Playing To Literally Nobody
• As historic Tsukiji market closes, fishmongers mourn

Animal corner:

• Dinner date didn’t go as planned
• “fuck you and your shitty biscuits, Janice”

Tweets of the week:

• Today I visited a historic American landmark
• This is how I mine my own business
• Whoa Black Betty Anagram
• This workplace safety ad has finished me off
• This drawing from a Heimlich Manoeuvre how-to contains more complex emotion than nearly every novel

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• An oral history of Mortal Kombat
• Unprotected
• Going Hungry at the Most Prestigious MFA in America
• Kelly, the Sassy Dolphin

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We Love the Internet 2018/48: The Existing while black edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Founder’s Big Idea to Revive BuzzFeed’s Fortunes? A Merger With Rivals
• In 2018 culture is being assessed more for its moral correctness than for its quality
• The Neverending Story: Has TV’s Reboot Obsession Gone Too Far?

Reference points:

• How to find hidden cameras in your Airbnb rental
• How good is “good”?

Longer reads:

• Existing while black

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why your Netflix thumbnails don’t look like mine
• Base Jumping Catastrophe
• Teens Figure Out Foolproof Method To Beat ‘Deal Or No Deal’ Arcade Game

Things to look at/read:

• Inside the guts of the world’s strongest men
• Choose Your Own Adventure: Friday Night Edition!
• The Insane Physics of Airbags
• I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It.
• Tundra-trailblazing beavers shaped how we co-exist

Animal corner:

• Such a powerful voice from such a small creature
• This Is A Very Good Prank To Play On Your Dogs Next Time You Take Them To The Lake
• Cat sees rat….
• Me: I am not dramatic and I never exaggerate. Also me:
• This is Thorin, he had cerebellar hypoplasia, which basically means his balance is way off. He lives a totally happy life, he just falls over a lot.
• “The look of betrayal”
• A video to start your weekend: a young woman in #Moscow, #Russia, travelling on the underground with her pet fox

Tweets of the week:

• Straight friends: We’re going out tonight, wanna come?
• me on twitter vs. me on linkedin
• therapist: there’s no such thing as “kirby griffin.” he’s not real and he can’t hurt you kirby griffin:
• 何作ってるんかなーって思ったら… これはすごいな！！
• If at first you don’t succeed, fuck it, it’s just not worth the effort.
• When people ask me what my plans are for the weekend.
• OH MY GOD
• Mark Zuckerberg always looks like the guy in a zombie movie who’s been bitten but is trying to keep it a secret from everyone.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
• “He Actually Believes He Is Khalid”: The Amazing 30-Year Odyssey of a Counterfeit Saudi Prince
• The Movie Assassin

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We Love the Internet 2018/47: The Existential void of the pop-up ‘experience’ edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Raised by YouTube
• User research is a team sport
• The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job
• Is social media addiction in the NBA out of control?
• The Future of War Will Be ‘Liked’
• Why is British media so transphobic?

Reference points:

• On an On-Demand Platform, Channel Logos Help Viewers Decide What to Watch

Longer reads:

• The AI Cold War That Threatens Us All

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Construction Truck Driver Has No Idea He’s Slamming Other Drivers With A 12 Foot Pipe
• Forklift Operator Gloriously Screws Up Loading A Car Onto A Trailer

Things to look at/read:

• The Existential Void of the Pop-Up ‘Experience’
• This Is All Donald Trump Has Left
• The Elevator-Phobes of a Vertical City
• Let Teenagers Sleep In
• The Dad-Joke Doctrine
• How It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Pulled Off Mac’s Jaw-dropping Dance

Animal corner:

• Dog Fetching Fail | ‘That isn’t the right rock!’
• Amazing Footages Shows Bears Catching Fish Underwater
• Conejo rescata a su amiga gatita
• A museum in Japan spends most of its day refusing entry to 2 cats trying to get in
• ตัวอะไรทำไมน่ารัก
• WHY IS THIS PIGEON PRETENDING TO BE A CHICKEN

Tweets of the week:

• A lovely tribute
• New painting. The Portrait of Bobby Gillespie.
• If you blended Merkel and Macron together in this photo you would end up with Bowie on the cover of “Low”.
• House Republicans-elect look pretty different from House Democrats-elect.
• There is literally nothing funnier than this interaction
• A first snowfall for Eritrean children new to Canada
• The original version PARKLIFE
• did the spice girls write this

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The million-dollar brownstone that no one owned
• ‘This guy doesn’t know anything’: the inside story of Trump’s shambolic transition team
• The Cartel Next Door

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We Love the Internet 2018/46: The secret life of teen scooter outlaws edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• I.P., the Celebrity Profile
• Jet Li Turned Down ‘The Matrix’ Films Because He Didn’t Want Warner Bros. To Own His Mo-Cap Martial Arts
• Cyclist who had five bikes stolen says thieves are looking for quick times on Strava to try and find high-end bikes – warns other users to check their privacy settings

Reference points:

• Making government as a platform real
• The New York Times is on pace to earn more than $600 million in digital this year, halfway to its ambitious goal
• America can thank Black Twitter for all those new words
• The 13 people you meet in Refinery 29’s “money diaries” comments section

Longer reads:

• The deliberate awfulness of social media

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Gifaanisqatsi
• The Most Satisfying Video In The World!
• Why Unboxing Videos Soothe Our Materialistic Brains
• Why we say “OK”
• Truck Repossession Fail
• (The Cranberries) Zombie, covered by Feng E, ukulele

Things to look at/read:

• Would Perfect Memory Be a Burden or a Superpower?
• Juuls, Glossier, and thrift store clothes: 6 high schoolers on what they’re buying right now
• How the Jacob Wohl saga explains what is deranged about MAGA
• One small change to New York’s intersections is saving pedestrians’ lives

Animal corner:

• Drop it!
• Gulper Eel Balloons Its Massive Jaws
• Elephants Demolishing Pumpkins
• please enjoy this video i found on reddit of a dog trying to steal another smaller dog
• I’ve watched this video about 20 times now and it has made me smile more each time
• Have the self belief of this llama taking a taxi.
• “fucking HELL, Gary”
• ‘I have a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career’

Tweets of the week:

• Just me seeing Steve Bruce on Ronaldo’s abs?
• I can’t stop watching this. Dad of the year
• i made this bc i’m an asshole
• There goes the Virgin Mary down a flooded street in Venice, Italy…seems about right.
• I want you to look at me the way this guy looks at his pint

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The secret life of teen scooter outlaws
• Who really killed Avicii?
• Inside Barstool Sports’ Culture of Online Hate: ‘They Treat Sexual Harassment and Cyberbullying as a Game’
• The death of consensus: how conflict came back to politics

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We Love the Internet 2018/45: The Leave no dark corner edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• You Don’t Need to Go to the Dark Web to Find Hateful Conspiracy Theories
• The Office That Became a Circus of Barking Dogs
• The Secrets You Learn Working at Celebrity Gossip Magazines
• Robots to make robots at ABB’s new factory in China

Longer reads:

• Leave no dark corner
• An Oral History of Apple’s Infinite Loop
• Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy
• How Auto-Tune Revolutionized the Sound of Popular Music

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Every 90’s Commercial Ever
• Nut Milking EXPOSED
• Joaquin Phoenix’s Forehead (Rotated)
• Adorable Toddler does perfect rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody
• BASE jumping into a plane mid-air
• Hot 8 Brass Band – Love Will Tear Us Apart
• Real flamethrower vs. “Not a Flamethrower” by Elon Musk.

Things to look at/read:

• How Jennifer’s Body went from a flop in 2009 to a feminist cult classic today
• 50 Cent Bought All the Best Seats at Ja Rule’s Upcoming Concert, Just to Leave Them Empty
• Why Some Men Find It So Hard to Use Urinals

Animal corner:

• This Halloween doggo needed to be recharged
• so i officially found the goodest doggo on the internet today
• Everything is awful so I added tap dancing noises to this.
• Squirrel and Halloween
• “fucking drama queen, I never touched you”
• “…and that’s why I’m gonna need you to turn it over to Homicide…” “BULLSHIT, THIS IS MY COLLAR”

Tweets of the week:

• When a black person is minding their business
• This video is the exact feeling of what it’s been like trying to keep up with the news for the past two years
• Who wore it better, Baroness Fookes or Jorge Campos?
• 1 new message
• “White people dont have culture” OK THEN EXPLAIN THIS
• Not how I expected him to come back but okay.
• I see you Jean-Ralphios. Please sing in people’s ears responsibly. Happy Halloween. Be safe out there.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s Battering Ram
• Carrie Coon’s existential journey to TV stardom
• Can the manufacturer of Tasers provide the answer to police abuse?
• Hollywood’s New Golden Age
• Finally, a cure for insomnia?

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We Love the Internet 2018/44: The Most unflattering swimsuit of all time edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How Disney’s Netflix Rival Will Actually Work
• Google wants to kill the URL
• Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo?
• Despite Resistance, Crunch Continues to Define the Video Game Industry
• Film fans see red over Netflix ‘targeted’ posters for black viewers

Reference points:

• How the Media Would Have Covered the Events of A Star Is Born
• 99 Things That Robots Were Supposed to Be Doing by Now

Longer reads:

• The new troll: how bots and puppets make internet outrage seem louder than it is
• Why ‘The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’ Will Always Be the “Best Game Ever”

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Man Buys His Girlfriend The Most Unflattering Swimsuit Of All Time
• Former CIA Chief Explains How Spies Use Disguises
• background extra
• Bowling Ball Bounces out of Gutter to get a Strike
• Hey Zuckerberg, ‘well shucks’ isn’t enough from a billionaire
• Bus Ignores Weight Limit on Bridge

Things to look at/read:

• Dangers of dating in the Tinder age: “If you called someone you’d probably get labeled a psychopath”
• The 2016 election was so stressful it gave college kids symptoms like they had PTSD

Animal corner:

• Wiggle Wiggle Boxer Dog
• Stop thief! Dog steals man’s wallet as he plays cards with friends
• Gentle German Shepherd watches over baby quails
• PILE OF LEAVES PILE OF LEAVES PILE OF LEAVES PILE OF LEAVES
• Dog Growls at Toy Puppy

Tweets of the week:

• Me applying for jobs while I’m at work
• This is amazing.
• This is not photoshop. Repeat: This is not photoshop! This is an actual cricket trophy.
• Well this caption really takes a turn
• Every website in 2018
• When you’ve lost your API key
• Y’all ! This might be the funniest thing I have ever saw in my life
• “marilyn manson looks like nicholas cage dressed up as marilyn manson”

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Dulwich Hamlet: the improbable tale of a tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back
• Can good teaching be taught?
• The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney
• The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world
• Does WWE Really Want a Revolution?
• ‘Human impulses run riot’: China’s shocking pace of change

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