We Love the Internet 2024/48: The Bad influence edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The ‘Suits’ Effect: Why Older British Network Shows Are Doing The Business For Netflix UK
• Why do broadcast journalists look and talk the way they do? Look to the imagined audience.
• Kids TV Is Dead, Long Live Kids TV
• Brands after vibes
• Confessions of a Spotify Vandal
• British television is dying — and Gogglebox won’t save it

Reference points:

• Be Afraid: What Horror Movies Say About America
• Every Single ‘Friends’ Episode Ranked Worst to Best

Longer reads:

• Bad influence
• Against the dark forest

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The “Faceless YouTube Channel” Plague
• Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment

Things to look at/read:

• The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (You Guessed It: Rasputin!)
• We’re in the Golden Age of Garbage Clothing
• The myths that made Elon Musk
• Costa-del-anywhere: how cruising became the ultimate holiday destination
• Elon Musk and the age of shameless oligarchy

Animal corner:

• Pepi simply can’t get enough
• I really need to label this can with Olive’s name cos an accident is going to happen
• Bro just wants a handshake
• The way she slammed his laptop shut
• Everyday is like this
• Hes 27 kg for reference

Tweets of the week:

• The Aberdeen Social Contract
• This would be a great movie poster
• how to filter out baking recipes published march 2020
• oh google, you steaming pile of crap you
• Definite meme potential
• As per my previous tablet…

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The 25 Most Egregious Cases of Category Fraud in Oscar History
• The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride
• How Cheerleading Became So Acrobatic, Dangerous and Popular
• Forgetting Taylor Swift
• A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending
• How Jonathan Franzen Learned to Write a Franzen Novel
• The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

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