We Love the Internet 2022/25: The Influencer creep edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• It’s TikTok’s world. Can TV live in it?
• The Open Secret of Google Search
• Inside The Washington Post’s Social Media Meltdown
• ‘Duke Smoochem 3D’ creator Dan Douglas on capturing Britain’s weirdness
• Game Design Mimetics (Or, What Happened To Game Design?)

Reference points:

• Filmot
• Big picture competition 2022

Longer reads:

• Influencer creep
• The rise of the internet’s creative middle class
• How harmful is social media?
• The numbing rise of IPTV
• A trip to the GaryVee convention, where everyone is part of Crypto’s 1%

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Our 10 Year Anniversary

Things to look at/read:

• The End of the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
• Who decides what the drink of the summer is?

Animal corner:

• His little legs look soo silly when he goes up on his tippy toes
• One of the only ways to get him to drink water
• Lincoln got his tonsils out
• when your friends want a photo with you but you dont

Tweets of the week:

• the morgue gets a pop up every day that its mcafee is expired
• You’re not a history buff if you can’t name all 6 wives of Henry VIII
• and you could have it all my empire of Bert
• What connects them all?
• Incredible what they can do nowadays
• this is the best breaking bad meme i’ve ever seen holy shit
• Lol whose name is Toblerone

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Teenage justice
• The follower

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