We Love the Internet 2021/18: The Year that TV saved us edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Year That TV Saved Us
• Inside the Bizarre World of Celebrity Impersonators on Cameo
• Myspace Tom got it right
• How to Un-Cast an Actor
• A Microsoft Excel influencer quit her day job and is making 6 figures from her unconventional way of teaching spreadsheet hacks, tips, and tricks
• ‘Best, imperfect solution’: Insider’s metrics for measuring success are good for business, but leave reporters feeling frustrated and unionized
• A ‘beautiful’ female biker was actually a 50-year-old man using FaceApp. After he confessed, his followers liked him even more.
• ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ mod adds uncanny photorealism through AI

Reference points:

• How to read stuff posted online
• What is cheugy? The new term Gen Z are using to describe ‘basic’ millennials
• 50 Movie Posters That Changed Entertainment Marketing

Longer reads:

• What Is an Entertainment Company in 2021 and Why Does the Answer Matter?
• “You may never see those numbers again”
• How Basecamp blew up
• How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Michael Moschen performs THE TRIANGLE
• They added a roundabout in rural, eastern Kentucky
• Turkish ice cream guy finally Lost
• The Biggest Fraud on Instagram
• Making a LEGO Domino Machine
• Here’s The Frightening Moment A Swimming Pool Collapsed Into A Condominium’s Garage
• How is tiktok free

Things to look at/read:

• It’s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion
• How thrifting became problematic
• What Happened To The ‘Going-Out Top’?
• Inside the bloody cartel war for Mexico’s multibillion-dollar avocado industry
• How Pfizer Became the Status Vax

Animal corner:

• blows my mind that this guy has massive fangs he could tare me apart with but instead he just looks at me like this
• Ember, my dog, noticed that #GrangeHillSausage was trending and asked me if I fancied accompanying her singing the theme tune.
• That’s not a bark
• Steve couldn’t even finish saying “walkies”
• Bro get out my milk
• Dinky the chipmunk can fit more into his mouth then you

Tweets of the week:

• Me pestering the DJ on June 21st
• like the cicadas
• this means something VERY different in ireland
• I am absolutely losing my mind over this post and therefore I have to inflict it on everyone else
• every time i open instagram all i see is tweets i saw 3 days ago on twitter
• Bugs Bunny won’t accept any files through WeTransfer or Google Drive, the only way to send him something is as a Whatsapp doc
• Why have a first communion dress, when you can have a first communion JUMPSUIT? Proud of our girl for doing her own thing.
• This is called a Nice-osceles triangle

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘F — -, let’s go do it’: An oral history of The Fast and the Furious
• “Would you sell me pictures of your feet”
• The End of Kimye’s Wild Ride
• The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Jailbreak Artist

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