The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
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Hello, everyone. I'm just curious to start off with, did any of you hear about the latest project at the British Film Institute? No. So there is an archive of 430 viral videos covering 30 years of online culture. All of the clips come from Britain, but I think you might know one of them.
Charlie bit me.
And that really hurt, Charlie, and it's still hurting.
Thank you for playing Charlie bit me.
I forgot it was a British kid.
Heartwarming.
Big moment in British culture.
World culture. Why has the internet never been so good again?
It was an innocent time. No one was broadcasting themselves. It was like America's Funniest Home Videos, but in the UK, so it's funnier.
What do you think would make it into the American Film Institute's top videos of the last 30 years, do you think, online videos?
I think we have a lot of vines. I think it would be a lot more than 400.
Oh, I'm thinking of the little girl saying, I smell like me.
I smell like me. I smell like beef. I smell like beef.
Do you know this one? It's so good.
There's another British poem which I like with a girl getting into the car with her mother and she's saying, I'm in my mum's car.
I'm in my mum's car.
Vroom, vroom.
I think that one, when I get into the car with my mother, when I'm visiting my parents, I literally think of that every time. It's just like how every time I take a shower, I think shower time or diesel, Adderall, diesel, glass of whiskey.
Shower time, Adderall, a glass of whiskey and diesel jeans.
Welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Oz Veloshian, and this is The Week in Tech, where I'm joined by the world's most plugged-in reporters to break down what's really happening in tech right now. Today, we're joined by Taylor Lorenz of UserMag, Kyle Chaker, who writes the Infinite Scroll column for The New Yorker, and Natasha Tiku, tech reporter at The Washington Post. Welcome, all. Hello.
Thanks for having us.
Hi.
Taylor, your most recent newsletter was titled, quote, The Bounty Economy is Breaking Reality. It reads honestly like a dystopian nightmare. What's going on?
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