We Love the Internet 2020/06: The Year in pivoting to video edition
2 min readFeb 7, 2020
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Inside comedy channel Dave’s TikTok strategy
- Publishers are growing audiences by producing less content
- I Don’t Want to Be the Strong Female Lead
- Can the new Call of Duty League be the NFL of competitive gaming?
- Secondhand screen time may be just as dangerous as secondhand smoking
- ABC News will stream 18 hours per day of live, original shows by end of 2020
- Why Spotify and a casino bought The Ringer and Barstool
- Why Little Women and The Witcher are kind of the same
Reference points:
- Their Words Online
- Tech in 2020: Standing on the shoulders of giants
- Why ‘The Crown’ Is Ending With Season 5 on Netflix
- These are the movies Netflix has removed at the request of governments
Longer reads:
- The Year in Pivoting to Video
- Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral
- CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong?
- ‘High Maintenance’ and the New TV Fantasy of New York
- Murder, We Wrote
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
Things to look at/read:
- What’s a little-known but obvious fact that will immediately make all of us feel stupid?
- Karen: The anti-vaxxer soccer mom with speak-to-the-manager hair, explained
- Why British food is terrible
- The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
- We Asked a Bunch of Strangers to Explain Their iPhone Notes
- I decided to set the record for travelling on the most London buses in numerical order, for some reason
- In Praise Of… Tintin
- Meet Najiah Knight, the 13-Year-Old Girl Upending the World of Professional Bull Riding
Animal corner:
- Of course there’s a YouTube channel filled entirely with Japanese stray cat cuddles
- Husky totally confused by German Shepherd puppy addition
- Dog Enjoys Getting Rubbed by Big Car Wash Roller
- Coyote and badger hunting as a team
- Science Confirms That Dogs Can Recognize Untrustworthy People
- when you’re in an uber from the airport to a new city
- “No prison can hold me.” — Hairy Houdini.
- I’m on the edge of my seat!
Tweets of the week:
- Once you see ALF in this photo, you can’t unsee it.
- The superbowl captions person typing “SINGING IN SPANISH” and calling it a day.
- Idk wtf they sayin but this is sending me
- Was the victim of crime today but I received very little sympathy from the members of this group chat I found on Facebook
- This is why you should NEVER make jokes online
- When the platform is announced at Euston
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- ‘I Believe in Love’: Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Final Year, In Her Own Words
- How New York’s Bagel Union Fought — and Beat — a Mafia Takeover
- The Midlife Crisis of the American Restaurant Review
- Watching My Cousin’s Death Go Viral
- The Tiki Bar Resurgence of the Trump Era
- A world without pain
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