We Love the Internet 2021/43: The Facebook’s lost generation edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Facebook’s lost generation
• Good vibrations: tapping in to the benefits of ASMR
• ’90s Sitcoms Shaped Me as an Immigrant Child. What if They Hadn’t?
• Discovery+ Cuts High-Profile Shows in Programming Shift
• From Friends to Squid Game — why Netflix viewing figures matter
• Scream broke all the rules of horror — then rewrote them forever
• Netflix scrambled internally to suppress a controversial movie from search results
• No Subscriptions, Big Money: How Free Streamers Are Changing TV’s Business Model

Reference points:

• The Key Art Edition

Longer reads:

• The Huge Hidden Cost of Holding a Blockbuster
• What Dave Chappelle gets wrong about trans people and comedy

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Clickbait genius
• Samurai qualifications
• Just pour the egg on the tortilla and the result will be amazing!
• Contortionist Performs On A Surfboard

Things to look at/read:

• The legend of Stallone’s horny hot mic

Animal corner:

• Correlation is *not* causation
• when you leave the yoghurt unattended…
• New puppy pretty pleased with itself for retrieving a third slipper for his growing collection
• Orange. 8 liter bottle or what?
• He over there thinkin “Better you than me”
• When your 120+ pound dog is scared of a green bean
• Theory was right, my dog has been drinking my coffee

Tweets of the week:

• “incorrect username or password” BITCH, WHICH ONE IS IT!!!!!!
• THAT MEANS YOU, JESUS
• How you Dune?
• oh go on then, it’s Christmas
• You call it trauma, I call it . . .
• A girl from a hen party who came to drag brunch today showed us this video from their air bnb last night and I’ve watched it 763,876 times and I am deceased deceased deceased

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• “I Was Out of My Mind”: How Samuel L. Jackson’s Battle With Addiction Inspired His Breakthrough Performance
• Revolt of the Delivery Workers

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