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> I guarantee you he's not directly ripping anyone off.

You can understand why people might be less inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt, given that in the past Buzzfeed has extensively plagiarized:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/editors-note-an-apology-to...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/buzzfee...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/buzzfeed-vi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Stopera



Your citations quite literally mentions two people who wrote for BuzzFeed as far back as 2008, not even for Tasty.




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