We Love the Internet 2021/03: The Why content is king edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Baked Alaska’s clout-chasing spiral into white supremacy is an internet morality tale
• Trump’s ban from Twitter creates the ultimate case of link rot in posts across the internet
• Netflix Investors, We Need to Talk About Churn

Reference points:

• Why Content is King
• Ashley Friedlein’s digital & marketing trends 2021

Longer reads:

• The Fight to Win the Pettiest Edit Wars on Wikipedia
• An Oral History of Wikipedia, the Web’s Encyclopedia
• What TikTok’s 2020 Says About the State of the Music Industry

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Siblings
• The Story of ‘Last Resort’ by Papa Roach
• Peanuts Gang Singing “Roundabout” by: Yes

Things to look at/read:

• The word “Orwellian” has lost all meaning
• How Much Is AJ Soprano’s Nu-Metal Wardrobe Worth Today?
• Marvel’s The Union is a grim metaphor for post-Brexit Britain

Animal corner:

• Hamster escapes the awesome maze for Pets in real life
• This bloke spent £300 on vets fees and X-rays and it turned out nothing was wrong with the dog, was just copying him out of sympathy
• Sleeping, Bubbling Sperm Whales
• Golden Retriever puppy does not know what to make of a door stop
• Who let the dogs out
• Food time
• When you see your other favourite human
• Dora meets skyler

Tweets of the week:

• Women in their 30s only want one thing and it’s disgusting
• Kylie Jenner lives in a $35m mansion, and this is the water pressure…
• The fact that Newcastle briefly had an upmarket sit-down version of Greggs called “Greggs Moment” truly was peak 2010s
• me showing my mum my latest asos order
• Greta Thunberg waiting in the tall grass for as long as it takes.
• Anyone want a 2, 3 or 4 bedroom house designed for living?!
• “This could’ve been an email”
• when memes collide

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
• It’s a Mad World: The ‘Donnie Darko’ Oral History

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