We Love the Internet 2022/22: The TikTok Boom edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• TikTok Boom
• Who Owns 4chan?
• How TikTok’s Irreverent Humor Became Hollywood’s Indispensable Tool for Reaching Gen Z
• Spotify vs Netflix — Contrasting the User Interfaces
• An Anonymous TV Writer Offers An Inside Look At Why Special Effects Seem So Bad Right Now

Reference points:

• Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
• deuxmoi’s digital trail

Longer reads:

• TV at Unprecedented Scale: How Dick Wolf Rebounded to 198 Hours of Drama a Season
• “We’re going to disrupt”: A year inside GB News
• How goes the revolution?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Water Margin — A 1976 Mash-Up
• Is This the Best Modern House in the World?
• First and last drinks
• don’t let this die

Things to look at/read:

• Are We In The Most Boring Era Of Celebrity?
• How My Meme Made It To ‘Moon Knight’ And Basically Became Marvel Lore
• The Smash-and-Grab Economy
• What Did Medieval Peasants Know?
• Why Do Harry Styles Fans Hate Olivia Wilde?
• The Rich New York Women Who Love Their Fake Birkins
• Searching for the Notorious Celebrity Book Stylist

Animal corner:

• Ants vs. Chili Sauce Time-lapse
• Hi Todd!

Tweets of the week:

• TOP GUN MAVERICK was so good that I showed up first thing this morning to enlist
• I don’t understand how a snake even begins to organize a trip like that.
• I like my men like I like my Edwardian townhouses
• exactly like paris

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Chaotic Nightclub Photos
• The young Yankees fan who lost his autographs
• Why is it so hard to control our appetites? A doctor’s struggles with giving up sugar
• London’s lost ringways
• Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face
• “I’m Tired Of Being Accepted”: John Waters Is Only Getting Grosser
• Exposed by a Strava Kom: The Many Lives Of A Fake Pro Cyclist

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