We Love the Internet 2023/19: The Is there life after influencing edition

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:

• How companies make it difficult to unsubscribe

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:

• Who needs humans?

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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