We Love the Internet 2023/16: The Everything is Clapham now edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Is TikTok Actually Creating More One-Hit Wonders?
• … And You’re Watching the Disney Channel
• With ‘Love is Blind’ misstep, Netflix inadvertently makes a case for old-fashioned TV

Reference points:

• Do Hollywood Flops Kill Movie Careers? A Statistical Analysis.
• What films should we teach? A conversation about the canon
• How the Rupert Murdoch Family Drama Inspired Succession
• ‘Eighty-nine perfect minutes’: 30 of the best short films and novels
• What is ignored by the media — but will be studied by historians?
• Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks

Longer reads:

• The disgusting food of TikTok: is it designed to eat, provoke — or arouse?
• A Scammer Who Tricks Instagram Into Banning Influencers Has Never Been Identified. We May Have Found Him.

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Journey planner challenge
• AI and Image Generation
• A History Of The World According To Getty Images

Things to look at/read:

• Everything is Clapham now
• How a TikToker Brought Hundreds of Transplants to a Midwestern City
• The Rise of Gender-Neutral Names Isn’t What It Seems
• We’re In The Age Of The Intimacy Trap

Animal corner:

• Nobody is safe
• Certified brush boi
• Bean chooses violence every day
• A coquettish cat
• Unstoppable Chawie

Tweets of the week:

• I’ve had. Enough.
• sorry. I know I overuse it
• Too stunned to speak
• “say goodnight to ya nan, she’s off to bed”

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Waiting for Brando
• Will the Ozempic era change how we think about being fat and thin
• In Search of Lost Time
• The Dream of the Nineties Is Alive at 90s Con
• The New Light Is Bad

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