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• Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:26:46 +0000: Jasmine Wallis: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) - Internet | The Guardian
  

  The writer and podcaster has made a career from dissecting the lore of 2010s memes – many of which she shares here

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  My adolescence can be bookmarked with internet and pop culture tomfoolery. Puberty began with Potter Puppet Pals: The Mysterious Ticking Noise (grade 6, 2007) and ended with the Harlem Shake (grade 12, 2013).

  Maybe that’s why I’ve (somehow) made a career out of knowing the lore of 2010s memes and am the go-to pop culture analyst in about five different group chats. A truly underappreciated job, might I add.

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• Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:55:22 +0000: Everyone Knows That: internet music mystery solved via 1986 adult movie - Internet | The Guardian
  

  The search for song that has consumed thousands of Reddit users is over, with discovery that it was written for pornographic film

  It’s a musical mystery that has been confounding the internet for years. But an ultra-catchy 80s-sounding song that seemingly no one could identify has finally been tracked down – in a 1986 adult movie.

  A snippet of the song, known as Everyone Knows That – a low-quality, warped recording that nevertheless showed off the song’s huge pop appeal – was uploaded to YouTube in 2021 and shared on Reddit, where it sparked a hunt for the creator. Some 47,000 people became dedicated to the quest in a subreddit community. Theories abounded that the song was a lost demo by artists including Roxette and Savage Garden, or had been written for a forgotten advertisement. The Guardian, Rolling Stone and Radio 4’s Today programme were among those reporting on the search.

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• Sat, 27 Apr 2024 20:00:47 +0000: The demise of Twitter: how a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’ - Internet | The Guardian
  

  In the early days it was seen as a place for ‘genuine public discourse’, but users have fled since Elon Musk took over. What went wrong?

  If anything is emblematic of the demise of Twitter, it is the rise and stall of the account of Oprah Winfrey.

  Oprah joined the platform in 2009, tweeting for the first time live from her wildly popular TV show: “HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY.”

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• Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:45:41 +0000: Best podcasts of the week: The reality show that duped women into falling for a fake Prince Harry - Internet | The Guardian
  

  In this week’s newsletter: TV journalist Scott Bryan looks back at the making of I Wanna Marry “Harry” – and the dubious ethics behind the show. Plus: five of the best podcasts hosted by pop stars

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  When Shima Oliaee was a teenager, she flew to Mobile, Alabama, to compete for a lucrative scholarship. She didn’t win. More than 20 years later, she returns as a judge and goes behind the scenes of the tough two-week event, which sees one girl crowned Distinguished Young Woman of America and win a $40k education. It’s a harsh, competitive tale that Oliaee tells so well. Hannah Verdier

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• Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:18:16 +0000: The dangerous fallout from Baby Reindeer: should Richard Gadd have been less honest about his abusers? - Internet | The Guardian
  

  The internet is rife with speculation about the real-life stalker and real-life abuser from the Netflix hit. Is this show about exploitation starting to seem uncomfortably careless – even exploitative?

  Baby Reindeer was only released a little over a week ago, and already it has become a sensation. Richard Gadd’s adaptation of his 2019 Edinburgh festival one-man show, which in turn was a dramatisation of the ordeals he had been through at the hands of a stalker and a powerful abuser respectively, has not only been the most watched Netflix show in the UK, but made the top 10 in 12 other countries.

  And quite right too, since it’s as gripping and queasy and uncomfortable a show as you’re ever likely to see. But unintended consequences can come with success. The narrative surrounding Baby Reindeer has moved away from the show this week and into the real world. Besides its lead, the show is essentially about two people: a middle-aged woman who spent years inundating Gadd with thousands of unwanted messages to the detriment of his wellbeing, and a successful older writer who subjected Gadd to a prolonged period of sexual abuse. And while Baby Reindeer attempted to gloss over the true identity of these figures, the internet has, unfortunately, been busy.

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