We Love the Internet 2023/34: The Fandomization of news edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The fandomization of news
• Why haven’t internet creators become superstars?
• How TikTok Changed the Meaning of a Million Followers
• How TikTok and Tech Gave Kylie Minogue the Song of the Summer
• Google’s Search Box Changed the Meaning of Information

Longer reads:

• Elon Musk’s shadow rule
• David Zaslav, Hollywood antihero
• 20 years on, the Tomb Raider story told by the people who were there

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why Do All Steven Spielberg Movies Feel The Same?
• This London Bookstore Lets You Try the Recipes Before You Buy

Things to look at/read:

• For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic
• The Current State Of Celebrity Thirst With Bim Adewunmi & Nichole Perkins
• The East London teens hiring supercars for prom
• The Real Meaning of Gatekeeping
• How the drunk party anthem sobered up

Animal corner:

• We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this breaking new trend which was made for us
• Thors favorite time of day!
• His little feet
• Sarenki
• HIS ARMS REACHING OUT I CANNOT
• safe to say indie loved it

Tweets of the week:

• Derry / French Derry
• Girl dinner
• Sorry, but the haphazard way the sticks are being launched into the Twister ice lollies (or whatever they’re called here) is killing me
• even community notes told him he has no idea what he’s doing

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Dinner Theater and Loathing in Baptist Vegas
• How an amateur diver became a true crime sensation

sk