We Love the Internet 2021/22: The Greatest achievements in dumb internet video edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Tone of voice: A very important waste of time
• How Snapchat became the forgotten social platform
• Khaby Lame, the Everyman of the Internet
• The Rise Of The Appuccino: How TikTok Is Changing Starbucks
• My Quest to Make My Dog Internet Famous
• Google is reinventing Docs to fight a two-front war
• Integrated Apple and App Store Risk

Reference points:

• The greatest achievements in dumb internet video
• River runner
• A Guide to the Rap Social Media Universe

Longer reads:

• The human factor — why data is not enough to understand the world
• How SoundScan Changed Everything We Knew About Popular Music
• The Curious Rise of Twitter Power Broker Yashar Ali

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Explosively hydroforming a steel sphere
• Most Expensive Construction Mistakes in the World
• Axe Type Boomerang
• Guy smokes a pickle

Things to look at/read:

• Confessions of an Overnight Millionaire
• This Is The Story of the World’s Greatest Soccer Team
• What makes a beautiful word?
• Here’s How People Tried To Buy Happiness During The Pandemic

Animal corner:

• The Long, Strange Life of the World’s Oldest Naked Mole Rat
• Reporter Busts Accused Dognapper on Live TV
• Backyard Squirrel Maze 2.0- The Walnut Heist
• murphy ate our buns
• A Journalist adopted innocent abandoned puppy
• Weird name for a cat but I’ll take it
• Yeah, I was classically educated

Tweets of the week:

• There is so much I want to ask Conditioned Les.
• Cuatro leches?! En este economia?!
• Bought a BBQ from Tesco today. Only a quid.
• This sign knows it has lost.
• My thic journey
• Post Malones moustache looks like 2 Capybaras kissing
• Me enjoying my Twitter friends I’ve never met in real life for over 10+ years
• a decision was made here

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• On Finishing Finnegans Wake
• The strange story of “Dagobert”, the Ducktales bandit
• Travis Barker Isn’t Afraid of Dying

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