We Love the Internet 2021/23: The How Hermés invented hype edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The perfect number of hours to work every day? Five

Reference points:

• Data-driven prioritization of content acquisitions
• The greatest achievements in dumb internet video

Longer reads:

• A mystery cube, a secret identity, and a puzzle solved after 15 years
• Inside The ‘World’s Largest’ Video Game Cheating Empire
• Left alone, together

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• An escalator made of cardboard

Things to look at/read:

• How Hermès Invented Hype
• ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Held an Unflattering Mirror Up to America

Animal corner:

• My own riff
• Two Dogs Have Dramatically Different Reactions To Being Roommates
• Catahoula Helps Stop Golden’s Seizures
• For all the “I’m living my best life” lads. The bar has been raised by this fella
• Bought a triple cat bowl holder so when they’re eating the mogs can line up perfe ,,, Oh never mind.
• gato dwayne johnson

Tweets of the week:

• me tryna cut a tiger loaf
• My doctors office really just screenshotted an insta ass pic, didn’t remove the tag button, blew it up, and hung it on the wall…
• Meanwhile Spider-Man is up for anything
• Game development in action
• Brid
• Coleen Rooney in 2019
• this is a car chase waiting to happen
• The security guard at Tesco making sure you’ve used the hand sanitizer before you do the big shop.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘We are democratising the right to laziness’: the rise of on-demand grocery deliveries
• Young, Male and Anti-Feminist — The Gen Z Boys Who Hate Women
• ‘The Silicon Valley of turf’: how the UK’s pursuit of the perfect pitch changed football

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