We Love the Internet 2020/53: The Our shared unsharing edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Our Shared Unsharing
• The Dub Conundrum
• Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?
• The Harold Hill of Movie Making
• The New Influencer Capital of America

Reference points:

• Top 25 News Photos of 2020
• The 39 Most Defining Memes of 2020
• YouTube Provides Answers on Common Reach and Algorithm Distribution Queries
• Fjord trend 2021
• Year in Review: Most-Watched Television Networks — Ranking 2020’s Winners and Losers

Longer reads:

• The Tyranny of Terrazzo
• How venture capitalists are deforming capitalism
• The Sound & The Flurry: How Podcasts Are Becoming A Hollywood Gold Mine
• ‘Heroes’ Was Supposed to Be Leonard Roberts’ Big Break. Instead, It Nearly Broke Him.

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Funniest Joke In The World (statistically)
• Props you never knew existed
• Someone Put On Cardi B’s ‘WAP’ In The Family Car And Their Mom Nearly Had A Heart Attack
• Best News Bloopers 2020
• A Taste of Los Angeles
• This Is Why The Verrazzano Bridge In New York City Was Shut Down On Monday During A Storm
• Sky Drop Waterslide at Plopsaqua De Panne
• 13 Minutes of Cringy Influencers Caught in the Wild Compilation

Things to look at/read:

• What Explains the Decline of Serial Killers?
• Seriously, it’s time to get a ring light
• The Most Interesting Underpants in London
• Texas Wedding Photographers Have Seen Some $#!+
• How One Man Created The Biggest Virtual Pub Quiz In The World
• The rise and fall of the bank robbery capital of the world

Animal corner:

• Dog’s Mom Decorates His Cone Every Day To Help Him Feel Better
• Doggy slide.
• This Woman Thought A Cat Had Somehow Gotten Stuck In Her Christmas Tree. Turns Out It Was Very Much Not A Cat
• Somebody Inserted Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ Into This Video Of A Golden Retriever Sliding Down A Ski Slope And It’s The Best Video Ever
• BOOM fuck you pal, I AM Christmas.
• Because you want to see a man saving a deer that is stuck on a frozen lake back to safety.

Tweets of the week:

• Think you had a bad tweet once? You have no idea
• I read this tweet entirely wrong and I want you to also
• Flavortown // Flavourtown
• I always awkwardly struggle to get to the end call button on video calls. So I made this
• Lol just passed through Oxford circus station
• Enjoying the German title of Bob Woodward’s “Rage”
• Morning lads, time for another gorgeous day in the UK
• Stoke Newington today. Crying out for a caption.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn’s Treasure
• The Party That Failed
• Super cubes: inside the (surprisingly) big business of packaged ice
• How Iceman Wim Hof Uncovered the Secrets to Our Health
• Bro Culture, Fitness, Chivalry, and American Identity
• Life Was Not a Peach
• Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth’s Hazing Abuses
• The Full(est Possible) Story of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping Press Conference

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