We Love the Internet 2021/28: The Bloody bubble edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The great American cool
• The Rise of Elevated Stupidity
• How should an influencer sound?
• The Chinese content farms behind Factory TikTok
• Hollywood is Disguising the Results of Its TV Shows and Movies
• What Does Gen Z Have Against Question Marks
• Inside Facebook’s Data Wars

Reference points:

• The 19 best virtual museum tours in the world

Longer reads:

• The Bloody Bubble
• The Sound of My Inbox
• Why Can’t We Be Friends
• The Internet Is Rotting
• A Unified Theory Of Online Anger

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Magically Turning Into Random Objects
• Musical chair game in high school
• best interview ever

Things to look at/read:

• The Scream Gap by Celia Mattison
• Introducing Bistro Vibes, the Throwback Lifestyle for the Happily Washed
• Inside MSCHF’s Bold, Brilliant, Slightly Unhinged Plan to Shake Up Streetwear
• Great Jones cookware and the illusion of the millennial aesthetic
• 18 Forbidden Places You Can’t Visit
• Shannon Lee: Does Quentin Tarantino Hate Bruce Lee? Or Does It Just Help Sell Books?

Animal corner:

• By far my best drunk shopping purchase to date
• I guess they didn’t see that comin
• My god she’s good.
• In Finland they paint deers’ antlers with reflective paint to prevent cars from hitting them and this will be my album cover if I ever do a solo project
• In case you ever wanted to know what happens when a dog gets hold of a box of Sugar Puffs.
• Come back with a warrant

Tweets of the week:

• this guy on tiktok rated emergency alarm sounds from different countries and there’s no reason it should be this funny
• Laughing but also crying at this
• Guys I found it
• We all have our role models.
• Good luck sitting next to him on the subway in 20 years ladies
• literally congrats everybody
• At last, a new Pope.
• Actual war crime

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X’s Gay Pop Stardom
• He Thought He Could Outfox the Gig Economy. He Was Wrong
• The fall of the billionaire Gucci master
• ‘It Wouldn’t Have Been Done By Anyone in Their Right Mind’ — The Oral History of ATP
• The secret history of Gavin McInnes

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