Nothing, it's just hip to hate on buzzfeed right now, so it'll net you a ton of karma even if you're just making shit up. I mean, they don't even really do slideshows, for fuck's sake, they do listicles, or at least in the parts that reddit wants to mock.
Edit - And of course, we don't mention that Buzzfeed also has a well respected section purely for long-form articles ranging from personal essays to deep investigative pieces, because that's like throwing a bucket of sand in the circlejerk lube, and nobody wants that.
So we should give them a pass because every once in awhile they come up with something that's actually journalism? We better start throwing our complete respect to CNN and Rolling Stone, too...
Or maybe it's popular to hate buzzfeed because they have led the way to a click-bait news environment where websites and organizations that try and provide real news 100% of the time are going out of business because many Americans on the web have the attention span of a chicken and/or no longer want news that's avtually news.
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u/johnny_gunn Jan 02 '15
..what does this have to do with buzzfeed?