We Love the Internet 2021/35: The Welcome to Nestflix edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why games became luxury fashion’s NFT on-ramp
• The Pandemic Has Been Very, Very Good for the Creator Economy
• The viral Milk Crate Challenge has left people injured. Doctors are begging them to stop.
• ‘YouTube magic dust’: How America’s second-largest social platform ducks controversies
• Why no one wants their holiday to last forever
• The Meme Lords Who Are Taking Over the C-Suite
• Newsletters; or, an enormous rant about writing on the web that doesn’t really go anywhere and that’s okay with me

Reference points:

• Welcome to Nestflix
• The Netflix Secret Codes Cheat Sheet
• Which Singers Have the Biggest Vocabularies?
• Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing
• 5 Commonly Used Idioms in the Tech Industry

Longer reads:

• Netflix and Video Games
• A people’s history of Black Twitter
• Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?
• The Jessica Simulation: Love and loss in the age of A.I

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Did Olivia Rodrigo steal from Paramore?
• Drama vs reality
• Type the alphabet
• Learning the Baseball Bat Trick
• The Wildly Lucrative World of Ice Cream TikTok
• Why Mexico City’s Geography SUCKS
• guessing his job on the first try

Things to look at/read:

• A Brief History of Musicians Being Sued by Their Album Cover Subjects
• Why Do American Grocery Stores Still Have an Ethnic Aisle?
• Her Name Is Not Honey Boo Boo

Animal corner:

• Panda Wants A Hug From Nanny, But Nanny Is Working
• Here’s A Supercut Of A Real-Life Garfield Cat On A Food Rampage
• My new favourite WFH problem. I don’t know why, it just gets funnier
• DAY 6 AND STILL NO ONE SUSPECTS!!
• Cat greetings are just incredible
• Me thinking I don’t need a basket when I pop into Tesco Metro
• Because you want to see a doggy, at a bar, watching 101 Dalmatians

Tweets of the week:

• i got fooled. i got fucking clowned on and embarrassed
• “Nobody can tell me to wear a mask but I can tell you must have a child”
• Not sure I’ve ever seen a better sign in a museum
• They saw an opportunity and they took it
• WHAT IS IN THAT BOTTLE
• Uh huh.
• The most incredible invoice ever. Hang this in the National gallery.
• The new 8 Mile looks shit

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• “All Roads Lead to Mar-a-Lago”: Inside the Fury and Fantasy of Donald Trump’s Florida
• “The Truth Doesn’t Recognize Retreat”: The Oral History of System of a Down’s ‘Toxicity’
• The real CEO of Succession
• Good luck, morons
• The Dresden Job
• The Spine Collector

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