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I remember visiting the BuzzFeed office back in '13 and hearing about how the BuzzFeed-y entertainment stuff was just a means to fund the actual hard hitting jo

• hbn 3y ago
  That was the line that was repeated for years, but it just made me wonder why they didn't put out the news under a completely separate branding. The word "BuzzFeed" inherently sounds like low-brow, unprofessional shlock. You should not be experiencing a "buzz" when reading the news. It shouldn't be an endless "feed" of throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks content to keep my monkey brain stimulated.
  • notatoad 3y ago
    i followed a bunch of buzzfeed news people on twitter during their heyday and always got the impression that a lot of it was a vanity thing to prove that buzzfeed could do real news. picking a name that wasn't intentionally buzzfeed-y would have been admitting defeat.
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