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 buzzfe

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.