We Love the Internet 2020/31: The Mischief managed edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How to Report on Internet Culture and the Teens Who Rule It
• What comes after Zoom fatigue
• Is This Amazon Review Bullshit?
• The Data-Driven Tech Engine at the Heart of Hollywood’s Content Factories
• This Too Shall Pass: Unassailable Monopolies That Were, in Hindsight, Eminently Assailable

Reference points:

• 40 creative moments that changed culture
• Defining the ’90s Music Canon
• You May Not Know These 15 Songs. But You’ve Heard Them.
• The Hollywood Stars That Have Been Rejected The Most Times, Visualized
• Media changes from the perspective of a 16 year old

Longer reads:

• Mischief managed
• Nintendo, Disney, and Cultural Determinism
• The Media and the Virus

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• 12 Year Old Terrarium — Life Inside a closed jar, Over a decade in isolation
• I Accidentally Became A Meme: Success Kid
• Karens Gone Wild: COVID-19 Edition!
• Why You Couldn’t Afford To Fly Concorde
• It’s time we had an adult conversation about PornHub’s free pass in ad land
• Today I discovered Japanese skateboarder Isamu Yamamoto. Just when you think he’s done the video gets better and better.
• I’m crying…

Things to look at/read:

• The death of nostalgia
• The Whiners Who Earn $200,000 and Complain They’re Broke
• How Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves
• What it’s like to lose a loved one to QAnon
• The VICE Alternative Team of the Premier League Season 2019–2020

Animal corner:

• Woman Cooks Her Rats Miniature Versions Of Her Meals
• ants trying to steal my mail
• Sir, your tail
• The baby

Tweets of the week:

• I have no idea who to credit for this. But they deserve a Pulitzer.
• Glad to see Nicholas Cage is wearing his mask whilst shopping
• two garys, locked in an eternal struggle, pursuing each other across the globe forever.
• That moment of horror when Facebook crops your logo.
• the bread look like it hit Steve Austin with his car
• the good news is my custom facemask arrived, the bad news is that they printed my face 20% too large
• I didn’t know what I was looking at for awhile lmao
• Today will go down as the day I got drawn into an epic Twitter battle between a Microsoft employee and a “cheese” company

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• I Went to Disney World
• The Power of Black Lives Matter
• Why Britney Spears’s fans are convinced she’s being held captive
• The Conspiracy Theory About Wayfair Is Spreading Fast Among Lifestyle Influencers On Instagram
• Inside the World of Black Market Bourbon
• How Trump is helping tycoons exploit the pandemic
• The true story of the heartthrob prince of Qatar and his time at USC

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