What kind of insane mental gymnastics did people perform to arrive at the conclusion that kids writing silly quizzes for free is an existential threat to paid content creators? Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems like the average Twitter activist has an obsessive need to frame everything as a societal issue in which someone is the oppressor and someone else is their victim. Notice how the quoted tweet aims to frame the people laid off as struggling underdogs while this girl is ignorant and priveleged because she "can afford" to have free time. It's not BuzzFeed being exploitative that caused the problem, or the fact that a literal child produced better work in her free time than people with industry experience and 40 hours a week - no, this evil is privilege at work!
Their "Quiz Director" was fired and a lot of the salaried staff they let go were replaced with people paid by the hour. That might be their source, although I agree that it's ridiculous.
A lot of these people are panicking because their cozy, well-paid but unprofitable jobs are under threat.
That being said, the irony of Twitter activists complaining to poorly compensated teenagers that "they're taking our jobs" is highly ironic in today's political atmosphere.
Way to impose your own agenda on it. That was a minor point in the article, the reason I posted it was some disgust at the fact that a company make a fortune off advertising then throw some cheap trash at the most productive member of their online community that enriched them.
