We Love the Internet 2021/01: The Case for double dinner edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Future of Music Journalism… Is on TikTok
• FarmVille Once Took Over Facebook. Now Everything Is FarmVille.
• The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2021
• Life Without Amazon (Well, Almost)
• A ‘Great Cultural Depression’ Looms for Legions of Unemployed Performers

Reference points:

• The relentless 2020 news cycle in one chart
• Direct to streaming

Longer reads:

• Is Substack the media future we want?
• Where Does Comedy Go Now?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Star Wars Prequel Trilogy **SPECIAL EDITION**
• Student Accidentally Submits Assignment In 360 View
• This Is Unarguably The Best Way To Cut A Bell Pepper
• Time of Our Lives: Songs from EVERY YEAR (1970–2020)
• A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries
• A Man Ate 100 Zinc Vitamin C Gummies Everyday. This Is What Happened To His Spinal Cord
• The Little-Known Patterns on British Streets
• How’d Mom get so many Viewers?

Things to look at/read:

• The Case for Double Dinner
• 74 of Our Favorite Facts for 2020
• Meet The Musician Turning Random Internet Drama Into TikTok Bops
• This Is the Year That Time Lost All Meaning
• 2020 was a difficult year for many, but according to historians, it’s not the most stressful year in U.S. history
• From TikTok to Depop: Fashion’s new trend funnel

Animal corner:

• She wants them to play so bad
• I’m not sure a better video will ever be made.
• I’ve made a special Lockdown Cinema for my laptop to replicate the big screen experience
• Somebody found this Corgi puppy laid out in a shop surrounded by claret. They thought he’d been attacked and was hurt and bleeding…
• another day another ice run
• Partying without me :(
• Sta volta velocissima

Tweets of the week:

• Stoke Newington today. Crying out for a caption.
• Me trynna watch the battle of Winterfell:
• Waving at the end of every Zoom call like it’s the 1800’s and a big steam ship is leaving the harbor.
• all these years on this earth and i’ve never found a feeling that matches this one
• I don’t often get starstruck, but WOW!
• BREAKING NEWS Kendall Jenner just arrived at the U.S. Capitol
• Absolutely losing it over the fact folks think this asshole’s name is “Via Getty”
• Wife has been looking forward to stew in the slow cooker all day. Just realised I unplugged it earlier when I was plugging in Alexa to ask her how old Ronan Keating is.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The plague year
• The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020
• The Eight Pieces of Pop Culture That Defined the Trump Era
• Where will the pandemic take America in 2021?
• How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men
• The mask of doom
• Who Did JK Rowling Become?

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