We Love the Internet 2019/08: The Mum I’ve made it edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy
• YouTube channels are selling for millions
• How Muchdank won over a million subscribers by dunking on 6ix9nine and Soundcloud rap
• How Death, Dismemberment, and Jesus Helped ‘Baby Shark’ Become a Hit
• Let’s talk about Stories
• The Insidious Device Revolutionizing Piracy in Latin America

Reference points:

• Punpedia
• 2019 Creative Trends
• The economics of streaming is making songs shorter
• How Brexit has created four new political factions
• We Analyzed Every Dang Song That Cracked the Billboard Top 5 in 2018

Longer reads:

• The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution
• Big Business Has a New Scam: The ‘Purpose Paradigm’

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Enter the Snake: Twist of Fury
• David Cameron checks in from Nice
• What Is: Intersectionality
• Men are so easily entertained…
• Cracking Open A Raw Opal That Has Never Been Seen By Another Person

Things to look at/read:

• He Knows the Stars’ Dirty Laundry. Because He Washes It.
• OCD isn’t about being over-tidy. I had intrusive thoughts about sex
• The Bulletproof Coffee Founder Has Spent $1 Million in His Quest to Live to 180
• The Gym Isn’t Usually A Safe Space For Fat Women, But It’s Become My Sanctuary
• Wimp Juice: America’s Long, Strange History of Gendering Tea
• Marie Kondo’s brilliant interpreter is the unsung hero of the KonMari phenomenon

Animal corner:

• Rudy the Bulldog Dominates the Course With His Amazing Speed and Agility
• Belfast Zoo Chimpanzee escapes Belfast Zoo enclosure
• This is the sort of thing you film because no one would believe you otherwise.
• the most important video of the week is @AOC being attacked by a constituent’s dog
• my cat won’t stop licking fucking SHALLOTS
• listen to him munch
• Autotuned the cat because he won’t shut up in the mornings. I don’t know how this helps but I did it anyway.
• Olive the Duck is a mood

Tweets of the week:

• Mum I’ve made it
• What is he training for…?
• This is the creepiest thing I have yet to see on Twitter
• What an amazing journey
• The disconnect between this website’s title and every single one of their reports has ended me
• The Olsen twins look like one of them knows how you die and the other knows when you die.
• My gran and papa arguing over whether it’s bin or Ben laden, she’s acc something else
• Anyone peckish?

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How Do You Calculate The Emotional Cost Of Ghosting Someone?
• Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies?
• When the Oscars Chose Driving Miss Daisy Over Do the Right Thing
• The Plot Against the Principality of Sealand
• The Unbelievable Story Of The Plot Against George Soros
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Crusher of Sacred Cows
• Dance Battle! Meet the Warring Milli Vanilli of Italo Disco
• Can a California town move back from the sea?

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We Love the Internet 2019/07: The Largest vocabulary in hip hop edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• True Detective: How Bullshit Becomes A Fact
• How Geocities Suburbanized the Internet
• Japan’s robot hotel lays off half the robots after they created more work for humans
• Fortnite’s Digital Goods Are Key to the Future of Global Trade
• Publishers like Vox and BuzzFeed seek broader TV and streaming content deals
• The Instagram-Husband Revolution

Reference points:

• The Largest Vocabulary In Hip Hop
• The British-Irish Dialect Quiz
• Ashley Friedlein’s marketing and digital trends for 2019

Longer reads:

• Does journalism have a future?
• The Club and the Mob
• Thinklong

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Freezing Eggs in Minnesota
• The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won’t Use
• Guy Hangs From Truck After Misbalancing and Falling out of It
• Tiny Difference Between Small and Large
• Gyroscopic self-leveling pool table on the cruise ship “Radiance of the Seas”
• DJ Cummerbund – Holiday No. 5

Things to look at/read:

• Where I’ve Lived: Eight homes of a 13-year-old former foster kid
• This Is What Black Burnout Feels Like

Animal corner:

• I know nothing about this but if this isn’t a world record time I wanna know what is
• this might be the greatest video i’ve ever seen
• So a month ago I dropped a ring & a clip down my bathroom sink and I’ve been scared to try to save it because I was scared it would just drop farther down but look at my cat being the fucking GOAT

Tweets of the week:

• Apple gotta start paying Black Twitter
• Mental to think gorillas don’t know any bodybuilding techniques so we’ve probably not seen any of them at full strength
• Me making different accounts to get that free first month subscription
• Why didn’t I think of that
• Trying to buy supplies after Brexit.
• viral tweets about men attract 3 kinds of dude:
• I don’t want to see a picture of Jeff Bezos’s dick, thank you very much. I’m perfectly happy with dick pics from my local independent bookseller.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• One Couple’s Tireless Crusade to Stop a Genetic Killer
• Creating While Clean

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We Love the Internet 2019/06: The Real story behind the viral ‘poo flip’ edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Digital Media: What Went Wrong
• Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play
• The Rise of the iPhone Auteur
• The public media stack
• Advertising is in crisis, but it’s not because it doesn’t work
• Context is all
• Marshmello just played a live set to 10m people in video game Fortnite
• How Comments Became the Best Part of Instagram

Reference points:

• The Tinder algorithm, explained
• “I made queso” was the breakout meme of the Super Bowl
• How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage

Longer reads:

• Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
• “The Linux of social media”—How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging
• Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Jacob Rees-Mogg’s message for the Common People
• The sky is not the limit
• Mad Men with cigarettes replaced with kazoos
• I think I accidentally made a Nickelback song

Things to look at/read:

• The Real Story Behind the Viral ‘Poo Flip’
• What it felt like when “Cat Person” went viral
• All disses
• No Joke, What’s Happening to 21 Savage Is Pretty Damn Concerning
• Why are millennials burned out? Capitalism.
• ‘You will behave weirdly’: what I learned from becoming an orphan at 25
• The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class

Animal corner:

• SuperDog: Carrot Catching Skills
• Someone posted an advert on Facebook looking for a stud dog for their female, and I am dying at the photo they chose
• swimming? homie in the back is fighting for his life

Tweets of the week:

• This has been rattling around in my head for a couple of years. What do you think?
• I wonder who that is in the back
• So my cousin had to dance on her table in class for losing a super bowl bet…
• oh lawd he coming
• The plan? Make relatable tweets about depression in order to sell more Sunny D
• My brother is 33 and lives at home. He has been taking vocal lessons twice a week since he was 16. My parents have paid $40 a week for 17 years. That’s $35,360. His vocal teacher has pulled the scam of the century
• If I were this commentator, I’d just retire now. The only way is down.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Five Families of Feces
• The True Story of the Lost Sci-Fi Movie ‘Brainstorm,’ Natalie Wood’s Last Film

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We Love the Internet 2019/05: The What is glitter? edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The BuzzFeed Lesson
• How Bots Ruined Buying Sneakers
• I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.
• Is Alexa working?
• All The Times I’ve Secretly Googled Things To Make Myself Sound Smarter
• A Camera is Watching You in Your AirBnB: And, you consented to it.

Reference points:

• You Haven’t Heard Of The First Great Meme Of 2019… And It Shows

Longer reads:

• Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
• CES 2019: A Show Report

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This video of six guys elaborately spitting an object into each other’s mouths is oddly mesmerizing
• I Built a Guitar Out of 1200 Colored Pencils
• Quick-Thinking Pedestrian Outwits Would-Be Robbers In Car
• 1000 People of Dance
• Woman’s Winter Morning Gets Off To The Worst Start
• The Impossible Screw will drive you nuts.
• Public Shaming
• Who Wrote It: Edgar Allan Poe or an Emo Band?

Things to look at/read:

• I Tracked My Whole Life In A Google Sheet For A Year — Here’s What I Learned
• The Weight I Carry
• The millennial men who don’t enjoy porn
• I’m Only 9, And I’m Already In College. Here’s What Life Is Like For Me.
• Terry Crews is calling out celebrities for mocking his alleged assault
• Broad City’s 40 Best Running Gags
• “Closeness Lines”: Lovely Visualizations of Relationships Over Time

Animal corner:

• Talking about food with my dog
• Honeybees Mesmerizing Defensive Wave
• CAN A DOG GET SOME PETS PLZ
• This should make your day a little happier.
• I think I watched this 300 times in a row

Tweets of the week:

• No need for an alarm clock at my Nanna’s house this morning when you have plank wars going off at 8am
• Y’ALL WHEN I SAY I’M SCREAMINGGG
• some earrings i ordered on aliexpress never arrived and they asked for photo evidence???
• Oh my God this baby
• let’s call the whole thing off
• In today’s episode of what you’ve been doing wrong your entire life:
• Haven’t stopped laughing for a good 15 minutes now:
• Found something new to say when I leave a room.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• What Is Glitter?
• How a Career Criminal Broke the Convict Code and Saved Himself
• Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?
• ‘We the people’: the battle to define populism
• How a Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old Into a Rap Legend
• Tekashi 6ix9ine: The Rise and Fall of a Hip-Hop Supervillain
• How a deluge of money nearly broke the Premier League

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We Love the Internet 2019/04: The Tom Hardy noises edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How do you make a sex scene sexy? (And keep the actors safe?) Five intimacy coordinators explain their craft
• Why Online Ads Haven’t Built Brands
• Inside Facebook’s ‘cult-like’ workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time
• Netflix Flexes
• Facebook’s ’10 Year Challenge’ Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?
• Netflix: “We compete with (and lose to) Fortnite more than HBO”
• What Made the TV Show ‘You’ a Hit? Netflix
• As HuffPost and BuzzFeed shed staff, has the digital content bubble burst?

Reference points:

• School Reports: 2019 Trend Reports
• Which is more expensive?
• Year of colour
• The 20 Most Popular Websites, Charted From 1998 To 2018
• Keiichi Matsuda explores dystopian future of the workplace in new film Merger

Longer reads:

• State of the world 2019
• Media Trends 2019: an earthquake in audience engagement, and openness to new business models

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Tom Hardy Noises
• Ak-47 breaks and sticks full auto
• Using rope to remove snow from a roof.
• Adorable: Baby’s Reaction Hearing New Sounds with Help of Hearing Aid
• A brie(f) history of cheese

Things to look at/read:

• Is Juul the Startup World’s Greatest Long Con?
• How to Become a TV Music Booker: An Unlikely Story in 29 Steps
• Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out
• Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and the Era of the Forever QB
• Evolution of the Alphabet

Animal corner:

• Extremely rare 2 Gender Spider
• Crying Puppy Wants to Sleep With Best Friend
• 花布爱上鸟_ on weibo.
• she learn
• Every time. Every single time.

Tweets of the week:

• All of the cool Instagram fashion kids dress like king from tekken 3 now
• Lord forgive me I cannot stop laughing at the discarded baby in the second photo
• I could never forgive myself if I didn’t share this with the world.
• megg-up
• that’s her ear
• Either there’s a @netflix glitch or @MarieKondo’s methods have escalated
• modernity has failed us
• Because I only ever use one emoji, my phone has stored only one emoji as a person of color, and thus I have unintentionally created this work of art I call “Diversity Meeting”.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The French burglar who pulled off his generation’s biggest art heist
• Elwood, Illinois (Pop. 2,200), Has Become a Vital Hub of America’s Consumer Economy. And It’s Hell.
• ‘Crucify me right here’ The post-presidential life of Mikhail Gorbachev
• How Cartographers for the U.S. Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa
• Ellen DeGeneres And The Limits Of Relatability

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We Love the Internet 2019/03: The Empty mason jar of the influencer economy edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Art of the Pan: What’s the Point of a Bad Review in 2019?
• Netflix Is Raising Prices. Here’s Why.

Reference points:

• Some video games that are like Bandersnatch, but better
• The 20 best TV dramas since the Sopranos

Longer reads:

• The Empty Mason Jar of the Influencer Economy: The Case of Caroline Calloway and her Creativity Workshop Tour
• How to Lose Tens of Thousands of Dollars on Amazon
• The oral history of the Hampsterdance: The twisted true story of one of the world’s first memes

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Ozzy Man Reviews Best Gymnastics Routine
• When VR Gets Too Real
• Bandersnatch except Stefan is happy, healthy and successful
• El Pollito Pio
• Woman Knocks Over Daughter Trying to do Ballet Spin
• Watch Christian Bale’s Weight Change Drastically Over 12 Roles
• The Best Break 8 Ball Pool Has Ever Seen!
• Liberty Safe of Chattanooga

Things to look at/read:

• Kyler Murray’s NFL Draft Declaration Is an Embarrassment for the A’s—and Baseball
• The Mysterious, Stubborn Appeal of Mass-Produced Fried Chicken
• The Punk Scene in Yakutsk, Russia Turns Isolation Into Inspiration
• Teen Acrobat Shatters Laws Of Physics Into Pieces, Kicks Them Around Gymnastics Gym

Animal corner:

• “Don’t throw hands if you’re not gonna finish it, Janice.”

Tweets of the week:

• how are men still alive
• “ this aint about him “
• If you’re going to get an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, might as well make it count
• You know that bathtub shot in #MaryPoppinsReturns you assumed was CGI?
• com  pretty much summed up in three tweets
• Tinker, Taylor, Solskjaer, Spy
• hello apparently my 57 year old father got into a twitter fight with jiggly caliente

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The hunted
• Jailed, raped, deported, robbed
• Where Have All the Music Magazines Gone?
• When You Give a Teacher a Gun
• Why exercise alone won’t save us
• Protein mania: the rich world’s new diet obsession

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We Love the Internet 2019/02: The Microsoft in 2019 edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• What If Amazon.com Actually…Is A Horrible Website?
• Next Stop, Uberland: The Onrushing Algorithmic Future of Work
• Why are Bird Box memes so popular? It’s complicated.
• “TV doesn’t trust games enough”
• Children Are Using Emoji for Digital-Age Language Learning
• It’s Beyond Time to Rethink Social Media Marketing
• Apple’s Errors
• The Media’s Post-Advertising Future Is Also Its Past

Reference points:

• Human history, in one chart
• Netflix’s upcoming content crisis, in one chart
• 83 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2018
• 52 things I learned in 2018
• The Best Maker YouTube Channels
• The 45 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2018

Longer reads:

• Beyond human-centred design, to?
• Going dumb: My year with a flip phone

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Microsoft in 2019
• Four Generations of moms and dads
• How a Celebrity Trainer Gets Actors in Shape for Movies
• Christmas Candy Broccoli Surprise
• The Man Who Could Take A Cannonball To The Stomach
• Benny Hill/Slayer Mashup Disaster
• Rapman – 2018 Wrap Up
• What Happens When You Pack A Glass Bottle Full Of Match Heads And Set It On Fire

Things to look at/read:

• Your Flaws Are Probably More Attractive Than You Think They Are
• The 5 Years That Changed Dating
• The Bronx Made Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a Congresswoman, but Republicans Are Making Her a Star
• A Shocking Number of Killers Murder Their Co-workers

Animal corner:

• However Good You Think You Are At ‘Fruit Ninja,’ This Cat Is Better
• This is Clyde. He was born with Cerebellar Hypoplasia. There’s no pain associated, he just has to work a little harder to get where he wants to go. 14/10 would wibble wobble with
• Mufasa : “scar, brother help me” Scar: “Long live the king”
• i can’t stop watching this
• Hello clarice

Tweets of the week:

• How ironic that there are suddenly far more Marie Kondo jokes than necessary.
• This is what it’s like to get texts from my fourteen year old while driving.
• Are you a man who has built their career on taking credit for the work of younger women of color who get paid less than you? Now there’s an app for that!
• I missed my flight and it was 4 hours until the next so this is what I did
• having too many tabs open is an age-old problem
• “Tonight’s main story: my outfit looks like balls and a cock, peeing. More at 11”
• I could watch Elvis doing Karate all day.
• Critics are giving it 5 stars

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
• The infiltrator
• How Trump made war on Angela Merkel and Europe
• The Mad Scramble to Claim the World’s Most Coveted Meteorite

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