We Love the Internet 2020/40: The Enya is everywhere edition
2 min readOct 2, 2020
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- How Netflix Is Selling Itself to the World
- Reddit Squashed QAnon by Accident
- Deuxmoi: The Mystery Gossip Queen Exposing Celebs During the Pandemic
- A Message To TikTok Parents Who Use My Face To Make Their Kids Cry
- I Was Afraid of Virtual Comedy Shows — Until I Went to One
Reference points:
- Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums 2003 v 2012 v. 2020
- How Long It Would Take A Hacker To Guess Your Password, Visualized
- The World’s 50 Most Marketable Athletes
- 34 Designers — From Joseph Altuzarra to Virginie Viard — On the Future of Creating Fashion
- Footways — Central London
Longer reads:
- The Media Learned Nothing From 2016
- Shady Contracts, Raw Deals: Inside the Industry of Managing Video Game Stars
- Inside eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal
- A TikTok house divided
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Cruising after King of the Streets
- Adorable Baby Has A Beautifully Infectious Laugh
- Tire Hits House at 65 mph
- My best tricks from 2020 (so far)
- I couldn’t not do it. (i.e. add piano.)
- What you having for your tea? Sound on.
Things to look at/read:
- The record shop, the taxman and the missing billions
- Hitler’s Plan To Destroy NYC
- Has Covid become less dangerous?
Animal corner:
- Angry Llama Spits On Woman
- Guy Finds Wild Koala In The Back Seat Of This Car
- they were cruising and saw this moose running on water
- Tried this TikTok strategy to stop cats from lying down on your keyboard when doing work — it actually worked on Ram
- She cries whenever I leave her on the floor so here’s what I did!
- This man is a hero
- can’t even think of a caption, I’m just absolutely over the moon about these pics
- A man’s best friend
Tweets of the week:
- Simon Cowell looking like he’s got a mission for you in GTA V
- when yer da hears a packet of maltesers open in the back of the car
- Things are still hard. The world is still insane. But none of that will matter soon because my son is going to be an international soccer star and buy us a new life.
- ‘I’ll tell ye what I’ll dee, I’ll dee a quick fix on it for noo.”
- I’m crying
- i can’t stop watching this
- and now look at us
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
