We Love the Internet 2019/24: The When did pop culture become homework edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• When Did Pop Culture Become Homework?
• The Wild-West Era of Streaming TV Is Ending
• We launched a paywall. It worked! Mostly
• Why Amazon is going to be one of the winners of the streaming video wars
• The Problem With IMDb’s Rating System
• AirPods Are a Tragedy
• Why All Eyes Are on Billie Eilish, the New Model for Streaming Era Success
• The TV Is Too Damn Long

Reference points:

• 25 episodes that changed television
• Why Gen Z Loves Closed Captioning

Longer reads:

• Shady Numbers And Bad Business: Inside The Esports Bubble
• Repent, Resent, or Reinvent: How to Survive a Pile-On
• How to scale your brand

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm
• before and after you discover the subreddit for a hobby
• Bohemian Rhapsody but every word is a Google image
• Star Wars SC 38 Reimagined
• Man Interrupts Ceremony In The Most Cartoonish Way Possible

Things to look at/read:

• Is DJ Khaled about to sue Billboard after missing out on no. 1?
• Big picture competition winners
• AirPod survives trip through man who swallowed it

Animal corner:

• Golden Retriever swimming for chocolate thrown from touristcruise in the Norway
• The special friendship between a neighbor and Brody, the St. Bernard
• Turtle Decides To Give A Woman On A Pool Float A Rude Awakening
• My friend: She’s over there. You can look, just don’t make it obvious.
• Saw this on Facebook this morning and the noise this cat makes SENT ME
• How to give a tiger a bath.
• Watch till the end. Trust me on this one.
• Just a dog living his life

Tweets of the week:

• It’s gonna be a long night pal.
• What UI wizardry is this??
• He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say?
• I just put these on. I tried to walk away but I stumbled.
• sorority girl
• this aged well

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Airbnb invasion of Barcelona
• What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right

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We Love the Internet 2019/23: The Future is not what it used to be edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Future is Not What it Used to Be
• The push to break up Big Tech, explained
• Some Amazon Sellers Are Paying $10,000 A Month To Trick Their Way To The Top
• The Problem Isn’t Twitter. It’s That You Care About Twitter.
• An HBO Question Is Giving AT&T Executives a Headache

Reference points:

• A People Map of the UK
• Every HBO Show, Ranked
• The Number Of Fucks In Deadwood

Longer reads:

• Adapt or Die: The Nature of Brand Strategy
• How the news took over reality
• Can an Art Collective Become the Disney of the Experience Economy?
• She was the “queen of the mommy bloggers.” Then her life fell apart.

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Hot Wheels Xylophone
• Manuel Schütz fast catch boomerang training
• The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob
• Danny Macaskill: Danny Daycare
• The truth behind the TV show Cops
• 4 Dopes and a Merry Go Round
• Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?
• Robber Tries To Escape From A Window On 22nd Floor, Realizes He’s Not Jason Bourne

Things to look at/read:

• The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37
• The Socialist Lavatory League
• TED’s “snacks curator” has some advice for shaking up your office pantry
• The Best “Actors Playing Themselves” Cameos in Movie History

Animal corner:

• Black Labrador Jumps off Staircase to Get to the Ocean
• Shiba Inu puppies
• Woman Records How Her Dog And Her Cats React To Her Coming Home, And Yep, That Seems About Right
• You call this a prison Karen ?
• The longer you look at this the better it gets
• It’s a dog help dog world

Tweets of the week:

• You’d think by now after tweeting it every f**king year he’d believe it
• How it looks online versus how it looks when you try it on
• In honor of #Sesame50 I present my favorite outtake ever: Julia Louis-Dreyfus cursing in front of Elmo, who is so method that he just rolls with it.
• it’s pride month so i am legally required to repost this
• Me: You: Everyone: No one: Brands at 12:01am on June 1st:
• The laws of physics are amazing.
• The Joker should have been a woman. And she finally went insane because too many random dudes told her to smile, so now she perpetually smiles while terrorizing Gotham.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’
• The Church of Living Dangerously: How One of America’s Biggest Pastors Became a Drug Runner for a Mexican Cartel
• Why we are addicted to conspiracy theories
• Requiem for a Sports Bettor
• My childhood in a cult
• Faith, Friendship, and Tragedy at Santa Fe High

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We Love the Internet 2019/22: The Our incel problem edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The productivity pit: how Slack is ruining work
• Who Will Save Vertical Video?
• How AI is radically changing our definition of human creativity
• Joe Biden’s Bad Announcement Tweet Was a Good Boomer Post
• The age of the influencer has peaked

Reference points:

• Diversity Explorer
• I create presentations at Microsoft. Here’s how I avoid “Death by PowerPoint”
• Every Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Movie, Ranked by Surreality

Longer reads:

• “The Bane of My Existence”: U.K. Sportswriting’s Access Crisis
• The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Former FBI Agent Explains How to Read Body Language
• Kevin Lustgarten – Visual Effects Compilation
• The Original Cinematic Universes
• Brick breaking Epic fail by host tv
• SIMCITY 3000 – MAGNASANTI
• How To Crash Test A $2 Million Koenigsegg Hypercar
• This Guy Really Did Not Think Through His Plan To Empty His Swimming Pool
• People Are Completely Incapable Of Escaping A Simple ‘Ice Jail’

Things to look at/read:

• The death of the 72? Why football outside the Premier League is on its knees
• How a poker expert made his fortune — one cent at a time
• Move Over, Kardashians. Pilots Are the Stars of Instagram
• I Lied. I Made The Whole Thing Up. Now I’m In Huge Trouble.

Animal corner:

• Gorilla Figures Out How To Get Through An Electric Fence, Starts Banging On Zoo Window
• every time i say my cat’s name she looks at me like i just told her that her husband died at sea
• This is illegal in France
• SOMEONE ON FACEBOOK USED THAT SNAPCHAT FILTER ON THEIR CAT I CANNOT BREATHE
• SO THIS JUST HAPPENED

Tweets of the week:

• I think the Queen is a bit lucky to get in this side
• Nothing to see here…just your average shennagains from an Argentina ‘B’ play-off promotion game
• my friend is the chef at an extremely fancy nyc restaurant and this is an order he received today
• Noooooo!!
• Sometimes when I need to laugh, I think about the time my cousin’s son took over a group rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to sing the Imperial March
• Is Duolingo okay?
• Me improvising to Theresa May’s resignation speech
• I have watched this a hundred times and I will never stop.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Our incel problem
• The last of the great American hobos
• “Get out while you can”
• Silicon Valley is awash in Chinese and Saudi cash — and no one is paying attention (except Trump)
• 10 Years of Fuss — 21 Beers that Defined the Last Decade of British Brewing

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We Love the Internet 2019/21: The My Dad, the Facebook addict edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Long Spite: Was the ‘Game of Thrones’ Finale the Most Hated Ever?
• Of course there’s going to be another Game of Thrones-size hit
• The armchair psychologist who ticked off YouTube
• Will Apple Just Kill iTunes Already?
• Instagram needs stars, and its built a team to find them

Reference points:

• 2019 name of the year

Longer reads:

• YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
• The Strategic Independent

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• My Dad, the Facebook Addict
• Marble Race: MarbleLympics 2019 E3 – Balancing
• The Game Of Thrones Theme Song
• Just Your Everyday, Run-Of-The-Mill Subway Commute In Russia
• What’s the Most Isolated City in the World?
• Lads Mess With Countless Drivers With The Elegant ‘Invisible Box’ Prank
• Man Receives Citation, Suspects Police Entrapment
• Guy Falls Into Barbie Display

Things to look at/read:

• Why Extreme Wellness Is So Popular

Animal corner:

• Sleeping rabbit wakes up at the sound of a banana
• Break It Up, You Two
• The Possum Living in My Grill had Babies
• The russian “spy” whale brings a dropped phone back up to the surface.
• i have been thinking about this video
• Goats who won’t stop headbutting have to wear pool noodles

Tweets of the week:

• I’ve never seen something more human from a robot than this.
• I am seriously scared to have sons one day
• David Bowie as League One football teams: a thread.
• VR Soccer looks like so much fun to watch
• please watch this shit
• men ruin everything
• This is quality content
• I’m sorry i just really really love this so so much and i need everyone to know that it made me laugh out loud

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The 25 Best High School Movies
• Breakdown palace

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We Love the Internet 2019/20: The Instagram aesthetic is over edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
• Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet
• Netflix’s Competitive Resiliency Is Here to Stay
• How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’
• The Gentle Side of Twitch
• Paid Email Newsletters Are Proving Themselves As A Meaningful Revenue Generator For Writers
• After Autoplay: “Interactive, Personalized & Immersive” Entertainment
• It’s Time to Delete Your Tweets. It’s Not That Easy.

Reference points:

• Colorism in high fashion
• Swole, buzzy, among new words in Merriam-Webster dictionary
• Creative types

Longer reads:

• We Are Gen Z
• The golden age of YouTube is over
• Rom-Coms Were Corny and Retrograde. Why Do I Miss Them so Much?
• The world’s greatest delivery empire
• What Seven Years at Airbnb Taught Me About Building a Business

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Cleganebowl Hype Rising: Confirmed Edition ft. Bobby B
• How Lil Nas X Took ‘Old Town Road’ From TikTok Meme to No. 1
• Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Chalk
• How Game of Thrones uses costumes to show power
• How are Underwater Structures Built?
• How My Makeup Looks Under a Microscope
• Absolutely Insane Drone Footage of Oklahoma Tornado
• How heavy metal and Satan gave us this sticker

Things to look at/read:

• James Charles, Tati Westbrook, and the feud that’s ripping apart YouTube’s beauty community
• When Did Celebrities Get So Bad At Taking Criticism?
• How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books?
• The VICE Alternative Team of the Premier League Season 2018-2019
• Your cotton tote is pretty much the worst replacement for a plastic bag
• A Man Created An Instagram About Church Leaders In Expensive Designer Shoes. It’s Sending People Down An Existential Morality Spiral.
• Listen up bitches, it’s time to learn incorrect things about someone you’ve never heard of
• The DMV Reviewed Thousands of Hilarious Vanity Plate Applications Last Year. These Are Our Favorites

Animal corner:

• Doggie School Bus picks up pups for ‘school’
• Doggy Devours Drink
• Parenting tips from the cat…
• He’s so grateful
• These gorillas try to wait out the rain before making a run for it. Sometimes animal kingdom is just like us.

Tweets of the week:

• Just me or is this one helluva high five?
• Very much enjoyed this poster in the loos of my local last night.
• Things I have learned about the general public whilst working at the library:
• Hey @bt_uk we’ve just spent a £1 updating our logo to be just like yours.
• “We don’t have balls. But we know how to use them!”
• Squad goals.
• Here Lies Brad, who died of Brad.
• I see everyone has found my man Bigtime Tommie, who is responsible for the greatest piece of television ever created

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret
• My Search for a Boyhood Friend Led to a Dark Discovery
• The heavy metal grifter
• Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels
• What’s Behind the Elective-Sobriety Trend
• Virgil Abloh, menswear’s biggest star

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We Love the Internet 2019/19: The Re-creating Facebook on Instagram edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Re-creating Facebook on Instagram
• Notes on AI bias
• The Instagram trap: Social influence is helping women build brands—as long as they follow the rules
• Deep blue sky thinking: The cutting edge of legal AI
• The Kids Use TikTok Now Because Data-Mined Videos Are So Much Fun
• Samsung thinks millennials want vertical TVs
• Instagram Memers Are Unionizing
• No, YouTube Cannot Reasonably Moderate All Content On Its Platform

Reference points:

• The Most Hyped Technology of Every Year From 2000-2018
• Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few
• Bellingcat’s Invitation Is Waiting For Your Response: An Investigative Guide To LinkedIn

Longer reads:

• What the hell is going on?
• Red Dead Redemption 2: six months later
• How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World
• How Kevin Feige Super-Charged Marvel Studios Into Hollywood’s Biggest Hit Machine
• The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program
• ‘They Thought It Was Black Magic’: An Oral History of TiVo
• The urgent quest for slower, better news
• YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Cersei As a Billie Eilish Song
• Which Is The Better Fight Sequence?
• Free Food from Maccas
• Play That Funky Music Rammstein
• The Raconteurs Reveal New Album Mixing Technique
• Jet Skier Effortlessly Swerves Through Tight Utah Canyons At High Speed
• Inside an $88M Bel Air Mansion with a Hidden Car Elevator
• tom holland spoiling stuff for 4 minutes straight

Things to look at/read:

• Buy Yourself a F*^king Latte
• I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles
• The Dreams Of A Man Asleep For Three Weeks
• The musical genre is dead, gen z killed it
• Science Says Cheese is Basically Cocaine
• Squaring up: how Insta-fashion is changing the way we shop
• A brief history of the ball pit
• People Wearing AirPods Are Making Things Awkward For Everyone Else

Animal corner:

• Could they snore any more?
• German Shepherd hits the brakes
• Spot the Poodle
• This is Remy. She’s a jenga legend. Not sure why anybody doubted her. It’s a simple game when you’re good. 14/10
• Y’all’s fish could never

Tweets of the week:

• “Who’s your least favourite child?” Sandra Bullock in Bird Box:
• My dad was drunk and wanted to prove to us he can do a backflip lol
• When someone asks me what Doctor Who is about
• Met Gala: the theme is camp Me:
• crying with laughter that masterchef’s Gregg Wallace comments on every pic his wife posts on insta demanding she print it.
• Crazy Vince McMahon Stories [thread]
• Is everyone in Brussels drunk?
• Bittersweet Symphony feat. Neil Warnock

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How to Turn a $1,000 Art-Auction Pickup Into a $450 Million Masterpiece
• The Legend of Keanu Reeves
• The Truth About Dentistry
• Why People Love To Hate Kris Jenner, The OG “Momager”
• The Mortician and the Murderer
• What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend
• The Best Cartoonist You’ve Never Read Is Eight Different People
• The challenge of going off psychiatric drugs

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We Love the Internet 2019/18: The I Faked Going to Coachella edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Human contact is now a luxury good
• The fight for the bundle is the war for the future of TV
• How the Intercept Is Fueling the Democratic Civil War
• Avengers, MCU, Game of Thrones and the content endgame
• The Internet’s Endless Appetite for Death Video

Reference points:

• The stupidity of sameness, and the value of difference
• The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present
• From poppy fields to Icelandic canyons, all the holiday destinations ruined by Instagram this year
• The world wide web turns 30: Our favourite memories from A to Z
• What even is vice anymore?
• The Best Value Restaurants in London

Longer reads:

• How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea
• The Heavily Armed Millennials of Instagram
• The Good Bad Wives of Ozark and House of Cards

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I Faked Going To Coachella…
• Wu Tang Collection
• $50,000 Tiny House Vs. $165,000 Tiny House
• More adventures in replying to spam
• This Russian Slapping Competition Is Nuts
• Inside The Belarus Chernobyl Zone
• Very Unique Knife
• Satisfying Horrible Nasty Gooey Restaurant Carpet Coming Clean

Things to look at/read:

• How The Matrix universalized a trans experience — and helped me accept my own
• A Couple That Got Married After 2 Weeks On How It Went Down
• Is Marriage Obsolete?
• Darts for Darts’ Sake

Animal corner:

• Monkey Watching Himself On Instagram & Scrolling thru Videos Like A Boss
• Octopus Changes Color to Resemble Ocean Floor
• if there is an animal anywhere, there is a house cat who has slapped the shit out of it. the sea is no exception
• Am honesty sitting here in tears at this
• This pregnant cat getting an ultrasound might be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen
• Me, consuming content on this website (eucalyptus: a poisonous food source that provides little to no usable energy)
• when I need my space but I also want attention

Tweets of the week:

• I cant afford a gym membership so
• I’m trying, bin. I’m trying.
• Are we just going to ignore that somebody’s murdered John Higgins
• Jim Nhock 3
• captain america: the winter soldier highway fight scene but with toxic by britney spears playing in the background remains one of my absolute favorite things on the internet. just… unmatched
• S C R E A M I N G
• “Ok ladies, now let’s make this caucasian”
• Mic drop from the reservations manager of the hotel I’m about to book.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Can the world quench China’s bottomless thirst for milk?
• “The Big Error Was That She Was Caught”: The Untold Story Behind the Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the World’s Biggest Movie Star
• On the Trail of the Robocall King
• The Tiger and the Tragic Trick: Siegfried & Roy’s Animal Handler Breaks Silence on Mauling, Alleges Cover-Up
• Song for My Father
• How to move a masterpiece: the secret business of shipping priceless artworks
• Good enough to eat? The toxic truth about modern food
• How the World’s Biggest Brewer Killed the Craft Beer Buzz

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