We Love the Internet 2024/44: The Can the media survive edition
1 min readNov 1, 2024
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- The Rise of Ending Explainers, Explained
- Did That Song Go Viral on TikTok Organically — Or Was It Paid For?
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- Can the media survive?
- Meta’s AI Abundance
- ‘We Were Wrong’: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
Things to look at/read:
Animal corner:
- I laughed way too hard at this
- batcat
- Top 10 Dog Halloween Costumes!
- He’s so cute but why does he have a receded hairline?
- Lil’ couch potato
Tweets of the week:
- Hellsite, yes, but it’s free
- nicole kidman being in a film called babygirl is actually perfect cause it’s like another version of her last name
- why do they look like pokemon evolutions
- peter griffin… no…
- LinkedIn is a disease
- Talk about a bad egg
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- Once Top Advisers to Trump, They Now Call Him ‘Liar,’ ‘Fascist’ and ‘Unfit’
- The Future of Film May Just Be Old Movies
- Don’t Fall Asleep: The Oral History of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’
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