We Love the Internet 2023/04: The Why do British people love to abbreviate things edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The ‘Tumblrification’ of social media
• Netflix’s New Chapter

Reference points:

• 5 numbers that will come to define the music business in 2023
• 2022: The year in weird and stupid futures

Longer reads:

• The Volume of News
• “We Had to Learn Everything Over Again”: How FX Survived the Streaming Wars

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Correct the internet
• Spielberg in 30 Shots
• I made this to explain the Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Joey King cheating rumor scandal to my friends. Hope it helps!
• This TikTok deserves to be in the Oscars

Things to look at/read:

• Why do British people love to abbreviate things? An investy g
• American Nepo Babies Have Nothing on the British
• How Many Clothes Should We Own, Exactly?
• The warm glow of the blog rock era
• A brief history of horrific things space travel does to the human body

Animal corner:

• she goes 0 to 100 real quick
• We were not expecting that!!

Tweets of the week:

• I got to the Airbnb where I’m staying in Vienna this week, and found a framed print out of my profile picture in the bedroom
• incredible how the french have truly *perfected* the art of striking
• Named after your dad attempting to order a large beer on holiday.
• What they would have wanted..
• Photoshop paddington into a movie, game, or TV show until I forget: Day 686
• Shakira’s jam watching Piqué’s mistress reach for the jar
• Senators to tech bosses: “What is internet?” Senators to Ticketmaster:
• Stephanie Hsu will forever go down in history as the first original cast member of The Spongebob Squarepants Musical to be nominated for an Academy Award

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The boring journey of Matt Yglesias
• Negative Equivalent

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We Love the Internet 2023/03: The Extremely hardcore edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• A Writer Used AI To Plagiarize Me. Now What?
• Television Is Going Exactly the Wrong Direction. I Know the Solution.
• Keep It Real or Lose Gen Z
• The internet
• Twitter officially bans third-party clients with new developer rules

Reference points:

• The Best Opening Title Sequences of 2022
• A WIRED compendium

Longer reads:

• Extremely Hardcore
• The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• 10 typos
• Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste
• Magnetic Accelerators
• FPV Dive Burj Khalifa Top to Bottom

Things to look at/read:

• Writing wrongs: how true crime authors can fall victim to tragedy
• The Year We Wanted to Be Fancy Little Bitches

Animal corner:

• “This is the life” – PuppyYoga in Toronto
• Oh Rocky
• Just a dog walking up a ladder!
• Weekend ready

Tweets of the week:

• Danny Ings with Claret & Blue clubs
• Wait a minute…
• “Now we all are aware that her hips don’t lie, and clearly … neither does the jam.”
• I am BEGGING you to watch this TikTok a dude has rarely rocked even half this hard
• I’ve got my eye on you M’threegan
• There’s nothing funnier than a fully grown man carrying a rucksack. Got all your little things in there have you mate? Grow up

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Violent delights
• Last orders: how we fell out of love with alcohol

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We Love the Internet 2023/02: The How much Netflix can the world absorb edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• I open the book with trepidation. My name is on it, but I didn’t write it
• India cinema-goers’ pivot to streaming films online instead: ‘a disaster for Bollywood’?
• The Instagram reels gold rush
• How TikTok Has Changed What Fans Expect From Pop Stars
• Streaming Changed TV. Is TV Changing Streaming Back?
• AI’s Islamophobia problem

Reference points:

• What each streaming service has up its sleeve in 2023
• Sports events account for all but six of the top 100 telecasts of 2022

Longer reads:

• How much Netflix can the world absorb?
• Your stuff is actually worse now

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Jerry Seinfeld in Pulp Fiction

Things to look at/read:

• British Drinking Culture, Meet Cost of Living Crisis
• How the Music Community Is Fighting the Drug Overdose Epidemic
• Here’s How Author James Patterson Writes 31 Books at the Same Time

Animal corner:

• She be on Vibrate
• Pinche firulais

Tweets of the week:

• ITS TOPHER
• This is a frightening visual for me.
• Wout Wout It’s the sound of the set piece
• presenting the Idea Title Slide

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Education of X González
• The truffle industry is a big scam. Not just truffle oil, everything

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We Love the Internet 2023/01: The Why does Taylor Swift hold her pen like that edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround?
• Last Year Was Brutal for Hollywood. Will 2023 Be Any Better?

Reference points:

• 9 Forecasts for The Near Future, With Implications
• 6 reasons for optimism about media in 2023
• 10 Lessons From 10 Years in Email

Longer reads:

• A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I Spent 3 Years Alone Building A Log Cabin
• The 2022 Food Trends We Never Need to See Again

Things to look at/read:

• Why Does Taylor Swift Hold Her Pen Like That?
• Forget the World Cup: The Darts Are the Ultimate Sporting Event
• Why do the rich get richer — even during global crises?
• The Crying Game

Animal corner:

• I love my dog
• Orange?
• Benny enjoying his first cinnamon roll
• Just a reminder ladies, if he wanted to he would.
• Our Frenchie helping my husband hammer

Tweets of the week:

• very likely the most cursed thing I will see all 2023
• bro what is tom brady on these days
• Dunkin’ Donuts near me in Cumming Georgia
• it’s nearly that time
• guy in the airport has a henry hat like the hoover

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Cheesecake Factory knows what you want
• Why Not Mars

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We Love the Internet 2022/52: The Most people names for dogs edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How Reality TV Got Meta
• How TikTok warped the fame game in 2022
• A community isn’t a garden, it’s a bar.
• Instagram Is Over
• The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet
• AI
• A24 Did Right By Gen Z in 2022

Reference points:

• Why the super rich are inevitable
• my favorite trends of the year!
• Jealously list 2022
• How DALL-E works, plain English, no math
• 99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2022

Longer reads:

• Web3, the Metaverse, and the Lack of Useful Innovation
• Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup
• ‘Made My Blood Run Cold’: Unmasking a TikTok Creator Who Doesn’t Really Exist

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste

Things to look at/read:

• Why Hot Wheels are one of the most inflation-proof toys in American history

Animal corner:

• The most people names for dogs
• Noodle, The Pug Who Went Viral For “No Bones” Days, Has Died
• This went on for a while. Our cheeks hurt from laughing so much
• You guys asked to see the dogs getting on the bus
• Lmaoo this cat

Tweets of the week:

• I watch a lot of TikToks (you might have noticed). Here are my favourite ten from the year
• Happy 6th birthday to the time my parents brought over wine in a plastic box because Mum was “increasingly wary of glass”.
• Getting ready to tackle the 5th Yorkshire pudding of the day
• what if we pronounced bob iger like we pronounce bon iver
• 🚨🚨 #DHOTYA2022 Entry & Group Stage Draw Announcement 🚨🚨
• 2 multiplied by 10 plus 1..
• Andrew Tate’s Wikipedia has been updated …

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The despair of generation “Notti Bop”
• The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies
• Nicolas Cage and John Carpenter are cinema’s most studious eccentrics
• The enduring metal genius of Metallica
• Quinta Brunson Missed the Quiet-Quitting Memo

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We Love the Internet 2022/51: The Golden age of streaming TV is over edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The golden age of streaming TV is over
• A Totally Normal Interview With Author Emily St. John Mandel
• Can you get sued for using a meme?

Reference points:

• The 20 Best Memes of 2022
• An All But Definitive Guide to the Hollywood Nepo-Verse

Longer reads:

• Is Live Music Broken? It’s Not Just Ticketmaster, It’s Everything.
• You’ve Met MrBeast, the YouTuber. Now Meet Jimmy, the Business Mogul.
• How Did We Get So Obsessed with Streaks?
• How Facebook designed the like button—and made social media into a popularity contest
• Bob Iger vs. Bob Chapek: Inside the Disney Coup
• Picture Limitless Creativity at Your Fingertips

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• CX Conversations: The Launch of ITVX
• Every Bone in the Human Body and How they Break (Explained Using John Wick)

Things to look at/read:

• The billionaire vibe shift
• Who Really Owns/Brews Your Favourite Beer?
• Inside the Wild Life of Footballers’ Luxury Assistants
• London life is now made-to-order – and it’s nauseating

Animal corner:

• OVER AGAIN
• The attitude
• Just a #birthdayboy enjoying his #birthdaycake. Happy 45th birthday Azy!

Tweets of the week:

• asked for cheesy chips and basically got chip lasagne, chippy shop in its icon era x
• Love being your Christmas Danny.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How a Nepo Baby Is Born
• The beautiful, brutal world of Bonsai
• Putin’s War
• ‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today
• Life in the Slow Lane

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We Love the Internet 2022/50: The Has the internet reached peak clickability edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?
• What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
• Defector’s most successful promo email was too “creepy” to repeat
• Elon Musk Is a Far-Right Activist
• She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed.
• The Streaming Era Pauses for an Ad Break
• The Age of Social Media Is Ending

Reference points:

• The best inventions of 2022
• Clip interrogator
• Tesla has lost almost $700 billion of market value in the past year – the equivalent of 3 Disneys, 4 Nikes, or 6 Starbucks

Longer reads:

• Bad Reputation
• How to Build A Winning Paid Membership Program
• How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The pickleball craze, explained
• What Were America’s Christmas Monorails?
• Downloading Music on the Internet in 2000
• How 2 Million Children Are Fed Daily By The World’s Biggest Free School Meal Provider

Things to look at/read:

• My Eight Deranged Days on the Gone Girl Cruise
• Last of the Cockney criminals
• The mysterious rise of food allergies
• How to Be Unremarkably Average

Animal corner:

• Get a staffy they said.. it’ll be fun they said
• Scarlette is droppin it!
• Poor fatty

Tweets of the week:

• Just remains a great list
• It’s the time of year we must all take a quiet moment to remember the “Leave it, Tony, he’s not worth it” Christmas card.
• Stanley Tucci is the best-dressed man on telly. Why? Because he dresses like the best-dressed people on earth: Italian pensioners. Here’s how he does it…

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Weirdest Roadside Attraction in Every State
• The $30m lottery scam
• Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century
• An American Girl
• “It’s Going to Be Epic”: The Oral History of James Cameron

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We Love the Internet 2022/49: The Growing old online edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Growing Old Online
• What if failure is the plan?
• This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it.
• TikTok Is Changing the Way We Talk About ADHD—For Better and Worse
• At the Athletic and New York Times, a marriage with promise and tension

Reference points:

• 52 things I learned in 2022
• “The Curse of ITV”: A Deeper Dive

Longer reads:

• Tech futurism’s blind spot
• Two minutes of the Simpsons

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Most Popular Social Networks 2003 – 2022
• Abraham got to meet Jack Black and sign his favorite part to his Favorite movie “School of Rock”

Things to look at/read:

• Hacked to bits
• Why Are Kids So Sad?
• The Good Morning America anchors made cheating scandals fun again
• Your Section-by-Section Guide to Storing Foods in the Fridge, From the Upper Shelves to the Crisper Drawers

Animal corner:

• never change
• Excuse me ??
• We’re gonna share our daily Pidge wrangling
• Don’t think their new sweaters are going to work out

Tweets of the week:

• FINALLY found the commemorative manhole cover celebrating the defeat of the Whitechapel fatberg, after 5 years of looking for it.
• boss makes a dollar i make a dime thats why i make babybel cheese wax crab on company time
• Mind games already won ahead of the quarter-final here
• If you haven’t seen this yet, great Christmas movie for the whole family
• hereditary (2018)
• Bruh Stephen a smith & Michael Irvin got me crying on first take
• SEND THEM TO THE HAGUE
• Europe, 1918-23:

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Rod McKuen Was the Bestselling Poet in American History. What Happened?

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We Love the Internet 2022/48: The Someone is pretending to be me edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• This is why streaming Netflix, Disney Plus, and HBO Max keeps getting more expensive
• Stop watching movie trailers
• Pop Stars Are Mugging for TikTok. Fans Are Loving It.
• Streamers Use Playlists to Control the Music Industry

Reference points:

• Predicting The FIFA World Cup 2022 With a Simple Model using Python
• From quitting to blocking: How to protect yourself on Musk’s Twitter

Longer reads:

• Someone is pretending to be me.
• Better Call Brad: Hollywood’s Secret Problem Solver Speaks

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why Japan’s internet is weirdly designed
• Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Sixth Year
• The Cruelest Rulers In History

Things to look at/read:

• The Complicated History of the ‘Magdeburg Unicorn’
• The New Vocabulary of Beer
• How to film a burger falling “per-fect-ly” into a model’s hand: Chuck Studios explains all

Animal corner:

• Cheeto!!!
• Oh no
• Excited for thanksgiving dinner
• The workout journey is starting slow
• Don’t think their new sweaters are going to work out
• i swear shes a smart dog….lolll

Tweets of the week:

• He hit him with the reverse card
• Phil Foden as a cat.
• This made me laugh so hard and I don’t know why
• We’re all thinking it right?
• “For Iran it’s probably their biggest win since Iron Sheikh beat Bob Backlund at WrestleMania!”

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Why inheritance is the dirty secret of the middle classes – harder to talk about than sex
• ‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to power
• Collision course

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We Love the Internet 2022/47: The Disney Channel’s theme: A history mystery edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why can’t pollsters reach Gen Z?
• Mastodon’s Eternal September begins
• Twitter king Dril on Musk’s chaotic reign
• Last.fm turns 20 and now has a following on Discord

Reference points:

• Twitter’s Worst-Ever Tweets, According To Twitter
• World population to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022
• Ten trends to watch in the coming year
• Media Trends and Predictions 2023

Longer reads:

• Narratives
• The unbearable lightness of BuzzFeed
• The scary truth about AI copyright is nobody knows what will happen next

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Disney Channel’s Theme: A History Mystery
• Can A.I. Generate the Perfect Thanksgiving?
• Being Black in ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’
• ASMR [Un] Chopping Tomatoes
• Howling
• I’ve always wanted to put Kevin Webster from Coronation Street punching people to The Beastie Boys.

Things to look at/read:

• From Hong Kong to a peeling suburban apartment block: How American candy stores took over London’s Oxford Street
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever unearthed deep colorism within Latino communities
• Gayle, and the rise of meta pop

Animal corner:

• There was a baby chimp born at The Sedgwick County Zoo, the baby had to be put on oxygen for a few days. This is a clip of it being reintroduced to its mother for the first time.
• today mr jingles is with his friend row
• Cat vs m&m’s
• Did i just induce an eating dream?!
• Ava with the no-bounce catch and Penny still doesn’t care
• Help me up

Tweets of the week:

• Times are hard and friends are few.
• Iran bringing on Hariq Mahguire
• bless her little heart
• viewing the Chinese McDonald’s menu through Google Translate produces some of the best fast food names i’ve ever seen
• TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY’RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU-
• What a flex
• Only one ‘Van’ in the whole list, game’s gone
• My job gave me this

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Planes, Trains and Automobiles at 35: An Oral History of One of the Most Beloved Road Movies Ever Made
• Bed habits
• ‘The more we pulled back the carpet, the more we saw’: what I learned when I bought a house with a dark past
• The Demon River

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