We Love the Internet 2020/18: The I miss the office edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Influencer Economy Hurtles Toward Its First Recession
• Early thoughts on post-corona content & storytelling
• China’s Hit Video Site Serves Teens Anime With a Side of Marx
• People are paying real money to get into virtual nightclubs
• How Chvrches Scored the Netflix Deal of the Music Industry’s Dreams
• We’ll All Be Social Media Sellouts Soon
• Coronavirus Is Driving Celebrities to Cameo in Droves
• The Rise and Fall of the Mockumentary Sitcom

Reference points:

• I miss the office
• Rave
• Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries
• 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
• Which is the best thing?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I Can’t Stop Watching Contagion
• Wes Anderson’s Social Distancing
• See the moment of the massive Jay, Maine mill explosion
• How I made a basketball hoop that always goes in
• Toilet paper hoarder’s request for a refund spurned by supermarket
• Quarantined stuntmen, bruh…
• Shooting a Nerf Gun Backwards While Driving At The Bullet’s Speed Forward
• Gymnast Breaks The Matrix, Pulls Off A True Standing Double Backflip On Grass

Things to look at/read:

• The world’s most insane coffee drinker
• Ten Years of ‘Miracles’
• Thousands of People Are Building a 1:1 Recreation of Earth in ‘Minecraft’
• Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting
• How video dating is developing its own etiquette
• A 64-year-old man accidentally ejected himself from a fighter jet at 2,500 feet
• The Surreal Sight of Disinfecting Historic Sites
• The Quarantine Chess Tournament That Could Change the Game Forever

Animal corner:

• Dog Confused By Owner Playing VR Game
• My Dog Tries Steak For The First Time
• Mother duck watches on as pit bull inspects her duckling
• Dog Shows Off Its Virtuosic Athleticism On The Trampoline, Completely Overshadows Its Owner
• still thinking about this video of my bunny looking for me than me scaring her
• This is just the pick-me-up I needed Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes My sister made Huxley a carrot whack-a-mole…
• fuck it… dog vibin’ to kylie minogue
• You didn’t know you needed to see this!

Tweets of the week:

• I’ve been laughing at this meme for maybe 6 months now.
• I’ve finally found it. The best tiktok of all time.
• Me at the first restaurant I step into after this lockdown
• This “clear lemon meringue pie” picture that I saw on Reddit is fucking me up, it haunts me
• Keeping in shape with my favorite workout video, the critically-acclaimed 1984 Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense
• made a Rube Goldberg machine
• im a bitch / im a plumber it’s-a me / luigi’s brother
• My daughter had a Zoom class yesterday. The teacher’s internet went out, so one of the kids was made the default host. He muted everyone, pretended to teach the class, and then just said “fart” over and over until the teacher was able to join back. It was amazing.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• I’m an E.R. Doctor in New York. None of Us Will Ever Be the Same.
• ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ 2.0
• The Lawyer Whose Clients Didn’t Exist
• The golden quarter
• Donald Trump’s Greatest Escape
• ‘If one of us gets sick, we all get sick’: the food workers on the coronavirus front line
• 30 Fascinating Early Bands of Future Music Legends

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