We Love the Internet 2020/09: The Meta trending trends edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Cats, Once YouTube Stars, Are Now an ‘Emerging Audience’
• Netflix Seeks Cancellation of “Choose Your Own Adventure” Trademark in ‘Bandersnatch’ Dispute
• YouTube briefly shut down internet chill-out mainstay “lofi hip hop radio — beats to relax/study to”

Reference points:

• The Meta Trending Trends: 2020
• City roads
• Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million High-Res Images Into the Public Domain
• The 50 Greatest Breakup Songs of All Time

Longer reads:

• The Flaws of “Subscription Fatigue”, “SVOD Fatigue”, and the “Streaming Wars”
• Inside the Seething Boardroom Drama That Poisoned HQ Trivia
• My Instagram

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Who Is the Loneliest Person to Ever Exist?
• Incredible trick to fix a zip which is blowing people’s minds
• Why is this every property show ever
• my brother heard my parents having sex and had a complete break down while telling me about it

Things to look at/read:

• We Asked 10 Bartenders: How Do You Make a Good Mocktail?
• ‘I brainwashed myself with the internet’

Animal corner:

• A javelina was caught speeding near 22nd and Kolb in Tucson.
• Kitty Gives Adorable Boop
• These Service Dogs Attended A Relaxed Performance Of ‘Billy Elliot’ To Learn How To Behave In A Theater
• For the love of god UNMUTE THIS
• i just started crying at this am@i ok

Tweets of the week:

• The best headline has arrived at last
• LMFAOOOOO
• Spotted outside a fish restaurant in Buenos Aires. I fear the commercialisation of brand Sussex is worse than we feared.
• I mean
• This is so beautifully intricate I almost want it to be true.
• i’m at the ███████ i’m at the taco bell i’m at the combination ███████ and taco bell
• I went on a date with every presidential candidate so you don’t have to.
• My sister on holiday with the kids, they had a few cute ‘towel animals’ left on the bed during the week but just came back to this

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
• Inside the world of ‘femcels’
• Inside the building of Bernie’s grassroots celebrity army
• ‘Why haven’t you shut down the border?’: inside Trump’s White House
• American Psycho: An Oral History, 20 Years After Its Divisive Debut
• The Mysterious Lawyer X
• The Bizarre Bank Robbery That Shook an Arctic Town
• The prison inside prison

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