Wordie Bird, YouTube Drama, and Netflix’s Future

Here‘s everything we published this week.

February 19, 2022

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Happy Sunday!

First things first: Nathan made a word game! Wordie Bird is kinda like the lovechild of Wordle and the NYT mini-crossword, and it’s picking up some serious steam on the socials (we’ve surpassed 10k users!). The goal is to guess each word with the fewest number of keystrokes, and each word is a synonym of the one above it. You can play it here:

Play Wordie Bird

And make sure to share your score with us! We host a nightly thread on Twitter from our Every account at midnight EST/9pm PST. See you there?

Oh, and to read the origin story behind Wordie Bird, check out Nathan’s article from this week:

Introducing Wordie Bird

Nathan Baschez / Every

“The most important thing for me is that [making] Wordie Bird gave me some peace in a difficult time. It gave me a way to remember my Grandma. I think that’s all I really needed. From here on out everything is gravy.”

Read.