We Love the Internet 2024/48: The Bad influence edition
2 min readNov 29, 2024
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:
Longer reads:
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
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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