We Love the Internet 2019/31: The Books for the ages edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

· For Men Who Hate Talking On The Phone, Games Keep Friendships Alive

· Chinese vertical dramas made for phone viewing show the future of mobile video

· Netflix and software

· Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau’s over-the-top ‘wedding’ is part of a bigger YouTube phenomenon

· A Wikipedia for Generation Z

· Have We Hit Peak Podcast?

· Blame Pewdiepie when someone dies raiding area 51

· Plex makes piracy just another streaming service

Reference points:

· Books for the ages

· Internet trends 2019

· 2019 new workers of the world

· 11 Years of Top-Selling Book Covers, Arranged by Visual Similarity

· Five Times Spotify Has U-turned on Its Content Strategy

· The 25 works of art that define the contemporary age

Longer reads:

· The Streaming Wars: Its Models, Surprises, and Remaining Opportunities

· The Mirage of Cloud Gaming (And How to Reach the Oasis)

· Viral and Loving It: The Thoroughly Modern Comedy of Demi Adejuyigbe

· YA Twitter Can Be Toxic, But It Also Points Out Real Problems

· Is Belle Delphine, a.k.a. Bathwater Gamer Girl, the Greatest Troll On the Internet?

· Can comedy survive in an age of outrage?

· Andy Ngo Has The Newest New Media Career. It’s Made Him A Victim And A Star.

· The Fight for the Future of YouTube

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

· Marvel Studios The Room

· Every Major Stranger Things Movie Reference Explained By the Duffer Brothers

· Fascinating Mysteries Solved by the Internet

· Woman Firebombs House Next Door — And Films Herself Doing So On Her Own Security Camera

· Guy Tries To Show Off The Acceleration Of His Vintage Chevy Chevelle, Instantly Regrets It

· Guy Lets His Kid Play With A Roman Candle Firework, Quickly Regrets It

· This Crazy Japanese Slide Is Not Recommended For Beginners

· What Happens When You Put Soda in a Humidifier?

Things to look at/read:

· Woodstock ’99: Remembering the Chaos 20 Years Later

· Inga Saffron and Stu Bykofsky Absolutely Savaged Each Other at Stu’s Farewell Party

· The 1% Nightmare Class Politics of Taylor Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down”

· Stirred Not Shaken: How Do You End Up With 50,000 Swizzle Sticks?

· Why Kevin Smith’s infamous wife tweet is still breaking brains — 10 years later

· It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology

· The big scoop: what a day with an ice-cream man taught me about modern Britain

· Ten Juicy Secrets About Restaurants I Learned Working as Nobu’s Maitre D’

Animal corner:

· Deep Sea Researchers Stunned When They Film A Grouper Swallowing A Shark Whole

· I couldn’t not add audio to this gif.

· therapy: expensive this video of a cat being bathed and blow dried: free

· Heard a sound come from the kitchen and noticed four fresh cookies went missing.

· Daisy puts herself to bed like this at least three or four times a day

· this dog has an important message for you … SMILE MORE

· Look how happy this puppy is, since he learned he is adopted

· I, a large wrinkle, have made these smaller wrinkles.

Tweets of the week:

· I have no friends so I like to take famous dance scenes from movies and put songs that are the same tempo on top of them.

· THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE

· Our gate can play ‘Mull of Kintyre’

· You throw like a girl

· yo this is some looney tunes logic and I love it with all of my chest

· CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES, THIS IS MY LAST RESORT

· Holy moly

· my poor dad was so proud of the watermelon he grew… turns out it was a big ass cucumber

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

· Can a Dance Sensation’s Viral Moment Last Forever?

· Kanye’s Second Coming: Inside The Billion-Dollar Yeezy Empire

· Road tripping with the Amazon nomads

· Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery.

· The electrifying rise and fall of tazer ball

· New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered

· The rise and fall of French cuisine

· Inside JoJo Siwa’s Glitter-Covered Empire

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