We Love the Internet 2024/01: The Internet is about to get weird again edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
• What Happens When Ads Generate Themselves?
• Was 2023 the Greatest Gaming Year of All Time?
• What’s your definition of GREAT content?
• First-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to Go
• Why Netflix is turning ‘Yu Yu Hakusho,’ ‘One Piece’ and other manga series into live-action shows
• Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain — and AI is already on the case

Reference points:

• How Big is YouTube?
• AI, and everything else
• The Pictorial C64 Fault Guide
• Walt Disney Studio’s Drawing on the Past

Longer reads:

• When the New York Times lost its way
• The Virus Inside Your TV
• Inside The New York Times’ Big Bet on Games

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• 4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour
• Which YouTube Rewind has aged the worst?
• Steamboat Willie

Things to look at/read:

• My New iPhone Is Making Me Look Uglier
• The People Who Brought You Travis Kelce
• Under Review
• Giant food companies are quietly ruining your favorite snacks — and hoping you don’t notice
• Astronomy Picture of the Day

Animal corner:

• This monkey lmao

Tweets of the week:

• They found the Peloton instructor and she’s brutal
• I will continue referring to him as King Frederik Twitter of Denmark.
• CHARGE
• when ur at a wedding and the dj says alright y’all it’s time we played a lil something for the fellas and it’s mambo no 5
• It’s 2024 and we have Batman shampoo but STILL no Conditioner Gordon.
• Browsing twitter replies these days
• Didn’t think a birthday card could hit so hard. This one hurts

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound
• The Age Gappers
• When I Met the Pope

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