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That was the takeaway I got from reading this thread, a BuzzFeed person discussing BuzzFeed contributions: https://twitter.com/katienotopoulos/status/1089629940

That was the takeaway I got from reading this thread, a BuzzFeed person discussing BuzzFeed contributions: https://twitter.com/katienotopoulos/status/1089629940226629632 https://twitter.com/katienotopoulos/status/10896299402266296... > Wonder why suddenly quizzes took over your Facebook? That was because of @LouisPeitzman, who made one viral quiz that unleashed everything else (he probably can apologize to you personally for that). This isn't a layoff of journalists, its a layoff of custodians of low-brow content farm writing. If that's all, then the main problem in the journalism-apocalypse is that these people were called journalists in the first place.

gnhrgkai 8y ago
Ah, the sexist editor. http://i.imgur.com/nnLvJxa.png http://i.imgur.com/nnLvJxa.png
- SquareWheel 8y ago
  I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I've flagged this comment because it's the sort of drama bait I'd expect to see on other sites.
rdtsc 8y ago
I clicked on the twitter link, I don't know why really, I probably shouldn't have > "A bunch of people were laid off (and more to come! Fuck!) who quite literally created and shaped the internet as we know it today." I think this what people mean when they talk about Poe's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law. For a short while I thought I was reading a parody. > "BuzzFeed changed the internet, for better or worse (if you say worse to me right now please eat my ass)," ... "They gave moral clarity, heart, and a mission that was never craven click-lust, but driven by serious consideration of humans" It seems the team builders there failed on the moral clarity bit. At least there is more work to be done, but time has run out it seems. It's interesting to observe how confident they are that they shaped the internet for the better. Something tells this is not an anomaly and most of them share that belief. This is a great example self and group brainwashing. And notice the part where if you disagree with them, you get immediately attacked. Clearly the qualities of a sophisticated investigative journalist, ready to report news in an unbiased and objective manner.
surge 8y ago
From what I'm hearing, the people producing listacles are keeping their jobs, because they can just shovel out content at low cost and sell ads. Meanwhile, real journalism takes time and doesn't always pay off, so its high cost. It's also very important to delineate between Buzzfeed the site (which is effectively a trash tabloid the likes of what you are likely to find near the grocery store checkout), and their news org, Buzzfeed News, which is probably at least decent (except for their recent reporting on the Mueller investigation with no evidence) and where the layoffs seem to be happening. In either case, these are venture capital firms without a working profit model, I think the main Buzzfeed site has resorted to selling cooking ware to capitalize off the popularity of their recipe sections.

gnhrgkai 8y ago

Ah, the sexist editor. http://i.imgur.com/nnLvJxa.png http://i.imgur.com/nnLvJxa.png

SquareWheel 8y ago
I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I've flagged this comment because it's the sort of drama bait I'd expect to see on other sites.

rdtsc 8y ago

I clicked on the twitter link, I don't know why really, I probably shouldn't have > "A bunch of people were laid off (and more to come! Fuck!) who quite literally created and shaped the internet as we know it today." I think this what people mean when they talk about Poe's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law. For a short while I thought I was reading a parody. > "BuzzFeed changed the internet, for better or worse (if you say worse to me right now please eat my ass)," ... "They gave moral clarity, heart, and a mission that was never craven click-lust, but driven by serious consideration of humans" It seems the team builders there failed on the moral clarity bit. At least there is more work to be done, but time has run out it seems. It's interesting to observe how confident they are that they shaped the internet for the better. Something tells this is not an anomaly and most of them share that belief. This is a great example self and group brainwashing. And notice the part where if you disagree with them, you get immediately attacked. Clearly the qualities of a sophisticated investigative journalist, ready to report news in an unbiased and objective manner.

surge 8y ago

From what I'm hearing, the people producing listacles are keeping their jobs, because they can just shovel out content at low cost and sell ads. Meanwhile, real journalism takes time and doesn't always pay off, so its high cost. It's also very important to delineate between Buzzfeed the site (which is effectively a trash tabloid the likes of what you are likely to find near the grocery store checkout), and their news org, Buzzfeed News, which is probably at least decent (except for their recent reporting on the Mueller investigation with no evidence) and where the layoffs seem to be happening. In either case, these are venture capital firms without a working profit model, I think the main Buzzfeed site has resorted to selling cooking ware to capitalize off the popularity of their recipe sections.