We Love the Internet 2021/25: The Farewell, millennial lifestyle subsidy edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Farewell, Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
• I’m Scared of the Person TikTok Thinks I Am
• Twitch Turns 10, and the Creator Economy Is in Its Debt

Reference points:

• A Brief History of Netflix Personalization
• The 25 Most Influential Movie Scenes of the Past 25 Years

Longer reads:

• The empty office: what we lose when we work from home
• Caught in the Study Web
• What the Silicon Valley idealists got wrong

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• GET OVER HERE! Scorpion/Mortal Kombat Rope Dart Trick Shots
• 7620 meter jump. With no parachute. World record by Luke Aikins. Not kidding

Things to look at/read:

• Why it’s so satisfying to root for Disney villains
• How the World Ran Out of Everything

Animal corner:

• Benji Is One Down Dog
• this sent me into a coughing fit
• i left my humidifier on all day and now my cat looks raggedy asf
• got any soup

Tweets of the week:

• When someone turns the light on in your room in the morning
• Next thing you know, I’m missing for 5 and 1/2 years
• Highlight of the Euros so far
• Well done, @NYTScience. Absolute A+++ take the rest of the month off
• Great, more unrealistic beauty standards for men
• Weird way to do subtitles for the Formula 1 race
• Every Irish fella when they finish a joke in a pub
• It’s called the baby yoda

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball
• The Rise and Fall of Planet Hollywood
• Why Is Everyone So Mad At Gabbie Hanna?
• The Rise of the $10 Million Disc Golf Celebrity

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