On: At BuzzFeed, a Pivot to Movies and Television

[teej]

My persepective is completely different. I still see him as a brilliant and hard working guy. I think he was given an opportunity to take something crappy and transform it into something else, something worthwhile. What an incredible challenge! I think he has risen to that challenge and carved out a diamond in the rough that is BuzzFeed.

[QAPereo → teej]

BuzzFeed isn’t even a chunk of dirty glass, never mind diamonds.

[Lazare → QAPereo]

I believe you may be letting your biases run away with you, or you haven't noticed how much Buzzfeed has grown.

They generate a lot of content. Like most large content empires, much of it is bad, but some of it is great.

[QAPereo → Lazare]

They generate masses of content, vast and endless swathes of it; they’re the cancerous clenched fist of Brandolini’s law incarnate.

[katastic → QAPereo]

BuzzFeed is just another gawker.

I mean, who cares if Gawker outed a gay guy just for clicks, or air'd people's sex tapes? THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL, right? They should be admired!

That's what this thread is leaning to at the moment.

[majormajor → katastic]

Has BuzzFeed done either of those?

I don't follow them that closely, but this seems like a pretty huge leap of a comparison.