We Love the Internet 2021/41: The Couch guy and the nightmare of going viral edition
2 min readOct 15, 2021
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Couch Guy and the nightmare of going viral
- You shouldn’t have a favourite murder
- Facebook Will Not Fix Itself
- The dying art of the hatchet job
Reference points:
- 197 TikTok trends from early 2021
- Seven principles of effective marketing communication
- What I Learned About My Writing By Seeing Only The Punctuation
- Pitchfork Reviews: Rescored
- The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History
Longer reads:
- Slackers of the world, unite!
- Dave Chappelle vs. trans people vs. Netflix
- How This Founder Closed the Deal That Changed Esports Forever
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Prank finds its way into Henrico School Board meeting
- Guy Launches Himself From One Swing To Another
- Exposing FRAUD And DECEPTION In The Retro Video Game Market
- for the last 45 years cinema has been living in the shadow of these 42 superlative seconds
- Coldest vid I’ve seen today!
Things to look at/read:
- What if We Aren’t the First Advanced Civilization on Earth?
- Ready, steady … oh. Can a life coach shake me out of my pandemic-induced ennui?
- Give Phoebe Robinson the Title She Deserves: Boss
Animal corner:
- Camels Get the Hump When Man Refuses to Share Bread With Them
- 16-Foot Python Is So Gentle With Her Favorite Girl
- this cat just asked me to go in the shop and get him 20 lambert and butler
- Go to the petting zoo they said, it’ll be fun they said
- Cat interacts with toddler. Lolll
- It’s a love/hate relationship with fruit
- Parrot winding up the neighbours cat
Tweets of the week:
- Kid really sells it.
- I think we can guess which crew members aren’t coming back
- Sally Rooney books but they’re Wayne Rooney tweets.
- I just know u ain’t fart underwater
- [*Profuse sweating*]
- Babe are you okay you’ve not even opened your Heinz sauce selection box
- when you try putting tresemme through as a bread roll
- I love the internet fr man
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship
- John Mulaney and the Great Celebrity-Sympathy Overcorrection
- The education of a part-time punk
- Cases of missing trans people are rarely solved. A married pair of forensic genealogists is hoping to change that
- Ben Affleck Plays Himself
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