We Love the Internet 2020/47: The Meet the professional memers edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Meet the professional memers
• In Twitch’s fight with the music industry, streamers are paying the price
• Ink-Stained Wretches: The Battle for the Soul of Digital Freedom Taking Place Inside Your Printer
• Can Spotify be the one to convince people to pay for podcasts?
• A Teen’s TikToks Are Changing the Way Her Record Label Looks at Marketing
• At The Ringer, Staff Writers Say They Are Second-String

Reference points:

• Ofcom and FT competition for students: winners announced!

Longer reads:

• Times Change
• How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet
• One Clear Casualty of the Streaming Wars: Profit
• How Amazon became a pandemic giant — and why that could be a threat to us all
• Elon Musk’s Totally Awful, Batshit-Crazy, Completely Bonkers, Most Excellent Year

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The joy of messing up: in praise of the TV blooper reel
• Keeping your refrigerator stocked will get you many women
• Satirical ad for Dunning-Kruger Alcohol by Dr. Rohin Francis
• Abandoned Mega Mansion — Indoor Waterslide, Home Theater & more
• Grant Holloway’s Head Stabilized Through the Hurdles
• This PS1 Secret Feature remained hidden for 26 years… Until now

Things to look at/read:

• The Death of the $15 Salad
• Hanson Is Facing a Mutiny From Its Own Fans
• A Surreal New Bookstore Has Just Opened in China
• Zillow Surfing Is the Escape We All Need Right Now

Animal corner:

• Golden Retriever VS Very Terrifying Kitten
• Dog Has Goofiest Reaction To Being On A Diet
• Dog’s epic reaction to owner after coughing
• i would take a bullet for this cat
• This is my tree
• Caption this
• Zählt das als „Köpper“?
• Run fast and fly fast！

Tweets of the week:

• This Maori baby learning the Haka Dance is everything i want to see from the internet
• I’m sorry but the fact that Dionne Warwick tweeted this is making me HOLLER
• dunno how Beverly Callard’s gonna do with cockroaches when she gets frightened by someone doing sign language
• Fox News and Facebook did to our parents what they said video games would do to us.
• Oh no, not my calculator too!!!
• Me watching the opening of The Simpsons
• PAPA SHANGO PUT THE CURSE ON RUDY GIULIANI
• In case you’re confused- here’s how to tell the social media apps apart.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy
• Under pressure: why athletes choke
• The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
• A Nameless Hiker and the Case the Internet Can’t Crack
• Conspiracy theories, explained

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