We Love the Internet 2024/41: The Gen Z broke the marketing funnel edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Substack wants to do more than just newsletters
• Apple Slowly Moves Away From Its Annual Product Release Strategy
• This little robot is helping sick children attend school
• Artist appeals copyright denial for prize-winning AI-generated work
• The Most Sought-After Travel Guide Is a Google Doc

Reference points:

• Gen Z broke the marketing funnel

Longer reads:

• How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library
• From baking to MrBeast: Meet the YouTuber taking on the platform’s biggest creator

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I don’t usually spend this much time talking to @colbertlateshow audience members
• First Ever REBIRTH in NES Tetris

Things to look at/read:

• 23andMe is on the brink. What happens to all its DNA data?
• What Was Indie Sleaze? (And What, If Anything, Is It Now?)
• How The ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ Melody Came To Represent Asia
• The Most Translated Song from Every Country, Mapped
• ‘They rob you visibly, with no repercussions’ — the unstoppable rise of phone theft

Animal corner:

• Enjoy watching me play with an egg for the first time
• I cannot handle this dog he is a literal human being…
• My husband pretended to faint to see if his geese would notice
• Maggie loves the puppucino
• Can’t help himself

Tweets of the week:

• My mate just sent me this picture of a Roy Hodgson statue in Lisbon.
• I’ll never forget when they attended nicki’s concert FRONT ROW
• Someone got carried away with typing ‘Stevenage’

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• New Name, Same Game: How Kate Scott Became a Face of Soccer in America

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