Coca-Cola & Ramen 🍜
This Week in Review☕️ : Coke and Ramen | Tech Giants tackle Internet Trolls | Art Fanatics and Ethereum Holders | The Pandemic a vaccine cant fix | France changes the color of its flag | Plastic Waste
Quick Bites:
Tech 📲 : Youtube is hiding "Dislike" counts from its videos to tackle the negative impact on content creators, Axios reports.
The "creators" they discussed this with👇🏻
You guys know this is for the White House account right? They get ratio'd on EVERYTHING and let's be honest.. Biden's Dislike/Like Ratio is a gazillion to 1🙈
YouTube says the platform wants to "curb harassment" and concluded it was being "weaponised".
It also adds, the dislike button will still be available to the creator, so he/she will be able to get feedback and evaluate their content, in private.
Our Thoughts💡: YouTube's removal has more to do with protecting Capitol Hill and tech behemoths like Disney. In reality, we've taken a step towards censorship.
PS. Screenshotting all the most disliked videos, this very moment. The internet never forgets.. and nor do we.
Consumer Goods 🥤 : Coca-Cola is pivoting to a digital future as consumers move online.
The 135-year old beverage giant recently launched its e-commerce platform: Yourcoca-cola.co.uk.
From personalizing cans to setting up a subscription for monthly deliveries, customers will now have a range of options, Marketing Week reports.
Our Thoughts💡: The good news is that, despite the offline-to-online transformation, all Coke's will continue to be sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame, so they'll still taste like cans of metallic-flavored artificial sweeteners 🙏
PS. We've been surviving on ramen and Coke Zero this pandemic. Messing with the recipe could have catastrophic results for us... and everyone within a 1-mile radius..
“Coca-Cola’s digital ecosystem is no longer an experiment, it’s a real business. There are 50 categories now contributing significantly to the sales of this platform”
-Coca-Cola VP of Europe- Aedamar Howlett
She predicts it will serve 500mn people in Europe and serve the future needs of customers.
Art 🖼 : Calling all art fanatics, billionaires- and Ethereum holders!
Christie's hosted a fall auction in New York last week and the work that sold for the highest price was by Vincent van Gogh.
Meanwhile,'CryptoPunk #9998', part of a collection of 10,000 NFTs, sold for $530mn the same day.
To put that in context, the van Gogh bought in "only" $70mn..
Van Gogh's 'Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès' (Wooden Huts Among Olive Trees and Cypress Trees) is a landscape painting from 1889. (shown below)
After a tense bidding war, the work went for a whopping $71mn to a bidder in the room, ARTNews reports.
While Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime, he became famous after his suicide. He dealt with years of mental depression and poverty which was likely worsened by bipolarity, insomnia and alcoholism.
A classic example of the underdog who his acknowledged after his death.
Another work that achieved a high price was Andy Warhol's orange-oxidized portrait of Jean Michel Basquiat from 1982. (shown below)
The portrait sold well above its estimate of $20mn for a final price of $40mn.
Culture 🇫🇷 : Macron changes color of French flag.
The French presidency has reverted the lighter EU shade of blue to a navy color. (shown below)
Why not just a plain, white flag with a picture of a croissant? 🥐
Key Highlights, according to Euronews:
💡Macron has chosen the navy as a tribute to the 1914 French Revolution
💡"It is also the blue of the flag that has always flown under the Arc de Triomphe every Armistice Day (November 11)"
💡The cost of this symbolic change is 5000 euros
Ok, so Macron has changed the flag as a tribute one of the rare times in history where the public was livid with the government?
Hmm.. not a good reminder for Macron given the upcoming elections 🙈
Environment 🌎 : The pandemic has generated more than 8 million tonnes of plastic waste globally, Business Insider reports.
Out of this, 25,000 tonnes has entered the oceans.
Hmm.. as terrible as Covid-19 has been, the climate crisis could be worse. And the scariest part? There's no damn vaccine to fix this pandemic! 💉
Key Highlights, according to Business Insider:
💡From the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 to August 2021, most of the global plastic waste has come from Asia
💡Out of this, Hospital waste represents a significant portion
💡Some of this plastic will become garbage patches, trapped in the centre of ocean basins, and accumulate in the Arctic ocean
💡Asian rivers account for 73% of total discharge of plastics with the top 3 being: Shatt al-Arab, Indus and the Yangtze rivers
💡Researchers urge for better management of medical waste in epicentres
Quicker Bites:
Taylor Swift is dropping a new music video directed by Blake Lively.
Italy misses out on direct qualification for the World Cup and will head to the play-offs.
Xbox adds more than 70 new games to its backward compatibility theory.
Boris Johnson holds emergency Cobra meeting after Liverpool terrorist attack.
The US says Russia conducted a 'dangerous and irresponsible' missile test creating debris.
Gaddafi's son registers candidacy ahead of Libya's election.
Three people killed and hundreds injured from scorpion bites during thunderstorms in Egypt.
Lewis Hamilton disqualified from qualifying, Max Verstappen fined 50,000 euros ahead of Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
A person cannot remove a vaccine from their body once they have been injected, doctors say.
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