We Love the Internet 2024/42: The Dookie demastered edition
2 min readOct 18, 2024
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Why Is My Fave TV Show Taking So Long?
- She explores the world ‘until it’s ugly.’ The internet is obsessed
- MrBeast can’t shake his controversies — and it’s costing him his fans
- ‘Terrifier 3’ Not Clowning Around: How the Uber-Gruesome Pic Upended the Movie Ratings System
- What Gmail did to email
- AI helped the feds catch $1 billion of fraud in one year. And it’s just getting started
- We Created a Monster: Trump Was a TV Fantasy Invented for ‘The Apprentice’
Reference points:
- Who gets shipped and why?
- The Creator A-List: The 50 Most Influential Influencers
- Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information
- The 85 Best Quentin Tarantino Characters Ever, Ranked
- A Syllabus for Generalists
Longer reads:
- Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics
- Is a Chat with a Bot a Conversation?
- Franchises took over reality TV. Now they threaten its success
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
Things to look at/read:
- Waffle House has its own hurricane index and storm center. Milton is Code Red. Here’s what that means
- Who died and left the US $7 billion?
- Confessions of a Hinge Power User
- Icarus also flew
Animal corner:
- Why absolutely everyone is obsessed with Moo Deng
- Here are the finalists from the 2024 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards competition
- His purring
- I thought Aussie shepherds were meant to be smart
- Every single time the Hoover comes out the cupboard
- was the survey anonymous??? because i have a potential suspect
Tweets of the week:
- C3-PO was a menace in his time
- i thought that was Donald Trump
- Scrolling through Twitter this weekend
- me googling a phone number instead of answering it
- And next month he’ll propose again to his girlfriend of 4.01 years to break his own record.
- Somedays I just love AI so much
- “Shall we proofread this before posting?”
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
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