BuzzFeed News VS eBaumsWorld

The terrible part is they completely poisoned the name "buzzfeed" because buzzfeednews.com (not buzzfeed.com) does some amazing journalism. Among other stories they are the ones who received the leaked "FinCen Files" which showed that FinCen (the US govt agency in charge of monitoring suspicious financial transactions) was basically not doing anything and money laundering was freely happening under their watch and... Source: about 1 year ago

Someone shared a post from buzzfeednews.com on r/science. Source: over 1 year ago

But, given that we're trying to separate their garbage content from their news section, I'll take a look at the buzzfeednews.com site. Currently, the top story is, "How Lin-Manuel Miranda Went From Cool to Corny." Again, the Pulitzer story is off in the sidebar, albeit this time around, w/ larger font a picture of the journalists who actually won the award. Under the "Latest News" heading, these are apparently... Source: almost 3 years ago

This is buzzfeednews.com....i mean, its hard to take anything they say as actually happening. Source: almost 3 years ago

Not sure if Im more shocked about the title or that ebaumsworld.com still exists. Source: 12 months ago

To be fair, the "whole internet" was very different in the early 2000s. This was before social media was really a thing, before internet connection was even a thing for many people. A stream like that would have meant that maybe a few dozen or hundred people got to see you and maybe a portion of your clip ended up on ebaumsworld.com. It's not really comparable to videos going viral nowadays. Source: over 1 year ago

He grabbed early memes and Web 1.0 content from all over the Internet and slapped it with an "ebaumsworld.com" watermark. He was one of the only people profiting from the original meme culture, and he was doing it basically by stealing it and declaring it all his own. Source: over 1 year ago

Ebaums world. I used to visit that place every damn day. Source: over 2 years ago

Not sure were it came from in the first place or how old found it on ebaumsworld.com which is a memes archive some pretty horrid crap on there. Source: over 2 years ago