We Love the Internet 2023/41: The What the heck happened in 2012? edition
2 min readOct 13, 2023
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Is TikTok the future of television?
- Why the internet isn’t fun anymore
- How the fight between tech founders and influencers shaped the internet
- If Every Brand Is Funny Online, Is Anything Funny?
Reference points:
- What I learned in year three of Platformer
- The Sound of Gamers: Music Trends in Gaming Content
- Tencent, Apple, Nintendo, Ubisoft made most improvement on carbon reduction last year
Longer reads:
- The Decade ‘Grand Theft Auto Online’ Owned
- How will TV’s streaming wars end?
- How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
Things to look at/read:
- What the heck happened in 2012?
- An oral history of Cyberdog, London’s trailblazing techno-goth utopia
- The Eras concert movie is Taylor Swift leveling up
- America does not have a good food culture
Animal corner:
- Let’s see which pup can get through…
- cryin like we fkin starve him or sum
- I could watch this all day long
- Always wants to know the tea
- Lillie the raccoon 🦝 found a new favorite snack
- the jump caught me off guard
Tweets of the week:
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- My Delirious Trip to the Heart of Swiftiedom
- One Great Rock Movie Can Change the World: An Oral History of ‘School of Rock’
- The Great Zelle Pool Scam
- The Mystery of Long COVID Is Just the Beginning
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