We Love the Internet 2023/19: The Is there life after influencing edition
1 min readMay 12, 2023
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Is There Life After Influencing?
- People Are Grinding Netflix Shows To Prevent Them From Getting Canceled
- RIP Metaverse
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- The Ultimate Oral History Of BuzzFeed News
- CEO Andy Jassy’s 2022 Letter to Shareholders
- To Monopolise Our Ears
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Lion City Rising. Watch Singapore Grow. 8 years in 5 minutes — A Singapore Timelapse
- 3 Olympian Fencing Masters vs 50 Opponents
- I’m Usually Pretty Good At Naming Things
Things to look at/read:
- How Lawyers Became Celebrities on The Rap Internet
- Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags
- Car thefts are rising. Is a TikTok challenge to blame?
Animal corner:
Tweets of the week:
- no one: roman roy:
- So nice to see Libertines fans and My Chemical Romance fans coming together like this
- I refuse to believe that this isn’t one of the Beastie Boys.
- Damn they done gentrified hotdogs
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- Crooks’ mistaken bet on encrypted phones
- Yes, Nick Cannon has 11 kids with six women. He also makes $100 million a year
- Inside Superiority Burger: The Buzziest Restaurant in America
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