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Ange Lavoipierre: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

Link [2022-04-07 16:34:10]

The ABC journalist and comedian has reached a kind of peace with the internet – in the form of John Mulaney routines, nonsense memes and TikTok parodies of period dramas

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For me, the internet is like a fetid lake that looks uninviting from the shore – but surprise! The temperature is perfect. I enjoy swimming in the lake, but my enjoyment is undermined by the fact that I am often forced to swim for long periods of time, because of my job as an ABC journalist. Once or twice, I have nearly drowned. Sometimes I have to swim to shore without a lifejacket.

What I’m saying is that I have a complicated relationship with the internet. I’m quite active on Instagram, a minimalist on Twitter and a lurker on TikTok. I never made firm friends with the YouTube algorithm and I read an unholy amount of news and analysis, which is just such a bummer. I vacation on Reddit and the occasional Substack. Crypto scares me, even though I own some. I’m banned from games because I’m such an addict that I once failed a semester of university by playing that much Mario Kart.