We Love the Internet 2020/22: The Party in a shared Google doc edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Party in a Shared Google Doc
• The New Model Media Star Is Famous Only to You
• Quibi Revamps Programming After Rocky Start for Short-Video App
• Wannabe influencers are being trained to film a believable YouTube apology video
• Step inside the Hype House, the LA mansion where TikTok dreams are made
• The secrets behind the runaway success of Apple’s AirPods
• After 25 Years of Streaming, the World Can’t Live Without It

Reference points:

• The Vice guide to 2030
• 2020 Winners and Shortlist Galleries
• How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users

Longer reads:

• The Epic Games Primer: Parts I-VI Directory
• The Prophecies of Q
• OnlyFans, Influencers, And The Politics Of Selling Nudes During A Pandemic
• The Gif is dead. Long live the Gif
• Sony CEO Yoshida navigates coronavirus and activist attacks
• I recreated my local pub in VR
• The hacker who saved the internet
• Motherhood Through The Looking ‘Gram

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Your Dad Teaches Loading the Dishwasher
• Rory Sutherland’s 10 rules of alchemy
• Parks and Roncreation
• The power of vulnerability
• This is what people meant when they said great art would come out of the hardship of the pandemic
• Salam Aidilfitri from my family to yours!

Things to look at/read:

• What your toys say about you: Spanning 58 countries, Toy Stories is a photographic study of the objects children love most
• The reckoning of Tyra Banks
• Here’s your 2020 name of the year bracket
• The Un-Heroic Reality of Being an ‘Essential’ Restaurant Worker

Animal corner:

• Watch This Bobcat Make An Incredibly Long, Nearly Impossible Leap Across The Water
• Have a nice day, everyone. Here is a video of my cat who sleeps with a cardboard cutout of Danny Devito and gets mad when you try to take it from him.

Tweets of the week:

• I will never recover from this
• There’s no fucking way, I’ve been living a lie all this time
• I never understood all the fuss around interfaith marriage. Then I watched my non-Jewish husband cut a bagel like this, and honestly, I get it now.
• Me preparing for the test The questions on the test
• I’m never deleting this app. Y’all can go to HELL.
• Absolute banger
• tonight.. we dine like kings
• when you fire all the arts and entertainment writers so the remaining straight dude on staff who usually just covers sports has to do the tweet

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• My appetites
• Ranking the 101 Best Characters Who Died on ‘Game of Thrones’
• Putin Is Well on His Way to Stealing the Next Election
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: An Oral History
• OnlyFans, Influencers, And The Politics Of Selling Nudes During A Pandemic

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