We Love the Internet 2021/17: The King of the geezer teasers edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• NFTs Weren’t Supposed to End Like This
• Mortal Kombat and the end of bad video game films
• How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily Ratajkowski’s new NFT?
• Scale Was the God That Failed

Reference points:

• Failed #SquadGoals
• Click click click
• TikTok users watch the app for an average of 89 minutes per day

Longer reads:

• The King of the Geezer Teasers
• Inside Netflix’s Quest to End Scrolling
• The slander industry
• I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget
• The Mysterious Case of the F*cking Good Pizza
• Delinquent Telephone Activity
• Yahoo, the Destroyer

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Zoom green screen morph suit

Things to look at/read:

• The revolution in classic Tetris
• An Interview With the Man Who Keeps Uploading My Feet to WikiFeet
• 15 French volunteers leave cave after 40 days without daylight or clocks

Animal corner:

• Here’s how you bark
• Disrespecting that gate
• I can’t take a damn piss in peace
• Pizza

Tweets of the week:

• Just discovered the best accidental Partridge in history.
• For the last six years I’ve kept a spreadsheet listing every parking spot I’ve used at the local supermarket in a bid to park in them all. This week I completed my Magnum Opus! A thread.
• made an absolutely devastating typo in the group chat
• When I first got into Gü puddings, I didn’t fully understand the ramekinifications.
• Celebrate your achievements with the absolute audacity of a Samsung washing machine.
• when you read your old messages and see how you used to talk
• I’m literally so obsessed with this video
• Tony Blair, who led three different teams to Africa Cup of Nations glory between 1988–2010

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Steve ‘Mongo’ McMichael is suddenly in a vicious fight against ALS. ‘This ain’t ever how I envisioned this was going to end,’ the Chicago Bears great says.
• Deconstructing Disney: Queer Coding and Masculinity in Pocahontas
• The unlikely rise of the French Tacos

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