We Love the Internet 2025/35: The end of trends edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The end of trends
• Japan used to be a tech giant
• Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal video business taking over the web
• The death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure
• Sony sold Netflix the rights to ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ in a pandemic-era safety play — and now it’s Netflix’s biggest movie ever
• Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

Reference points:

• 21 Ways People Are Using A.I. at Work
• Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference

Longer reads:

• Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?
• A24’s empire of auteurs

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Lilly Yokoi, ballerina on bicycle

Things to look at/read:

• Ozempic Is Shrinking Appetites. Restaurants Are Shrinking the Food.
• The Grooms Smashing Wedding Cake in Their Brides’ Faces
• ‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken — and lengthened
• With fewer renters than ever having a living room, this is why the death of the communal space matters

Animal corner:

• Guess which one Jesus is still working on
• Pretend to faint and see how the dog reacts
• Do you think Buckeye enjoyed it?
• Shiba screams aboose
• She said “I know that’s not Luther!”
• Who needs an alarm?
• After multiple requests, I got a compilation together of Bakey doing his famous shimmy!

Tweets of the week:

• Define the Manchester United season without using words…
• This man is engaged to the world’s most famous pop star.
• Bill Burr be doing random shit
• im always thinking about this tweet
• Witnessed levels of innovation I had never considered

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Food52 Executive Who Used the Company Credit Card for Everything
• How much is Trump pocketing off the Presidency?
• Patricia Lockwood goes viral

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