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[@gastari429]

One thing I don't understand is why "-zz-" in "Buzzfeed" is pronounced like regular "-z-" like in the word "zoom" and not like "-zz-" like in the word "pizza"?

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

I suspect because "pizza" is Italian. So the spelling and pronunciation reflect that. Just like Spanish pronounces J as H, and uses a tilde over the n, making Jalapeno into Halapenyo.

[@gastari429]

@kateshiningdeer3334 Thanks for the explanation, English is not my native language, so I struggle with words like Jalapeno and others like it

[@ShortFatOtaku]

because then it would sound like "buttsfeed"

[@prose_nineonetwozerofivethree]

​@ShortFatOtaku Apt description though. Also, HI Dev. 👋 😊

[@gastari429]

@@ShortFatOtaku ah, the funny

[@politicaljargen]

I love how we've been in late stage capitalism so long that apparently the capitalism of '96 and the capitalism of 2023 are both late stage. Very impressive.

[@-haclong2366]

The term "late stage capitalism" was coined in the 1930's by a N@zi. The idea was the after Capitalism will inevitably fall people will just embrace National Socialism, later the Communists adopted this terminology, which is interesting...

[@doomdimensiondweller5627]

I think even most socialist hate the concept of "late state capitalism" because it implies that capitalism can worst in a moderated form or for the short term.

[@drewl5221]

Yup... And the south pole is going to completely melt in 10-15 years because of global warming. They said that in 60's, the 70's, the 90's, and now. Weird how it's always gonna happen soon guys, we swear.

[@paulw5039]

@@sneedmasters And they complain about capitalism by Tweeting™about it on their Apple™iPhone™while sitting in a Starbucks™.

[@grafeugenius]

I for one, just want more cool cyberpunk shit instead of the depressing reality of corpo controlling everything in a definitely not capitalistic way.

[@Mathmachine]

The guy who founded BuzzFeed had a degree not in journalism but in environmental studies. That explains everything right there.

[@mattg3484]

That degree pretty much produces activists

[@TheFabledDavid]

​@mattg3484 me studying for my enviro sciences degree: 😮

[@ollikoskiniemi6221]

You dont need a degree in journalism to be a journalist. A journo degree is more of a marker of hard leftism than of proper journalism. This is the age of citizen journalism. Anyone with the proper setup and enough time spent could be a great journalist.

[@Mathmachine]

@@ollikoskiniemi6221 A. What you are describing is correct today but this happened in the late '90s and early 2000s. So you're about 25 or so years off. B. There is a difference between being a citizen journalist that makes videos on KZbin and creating a multi-national billion dollar corporation. I hold one of those to a much higher standard and expect them to be more knowledgeable about the field of journalism than the average lay person.

[@CharlieKellyEsq]

I don't know... I wouldn't trust someone with a journalist degree either

[@diogenesdacynic8656]

"Buzzfeed actually didn't begin as a news outlet..." Didn't end as one either.

[@rwberger6]

The stupidest part of that pee story was it was literally a shitpost from a certain image board. They were laughing their asses off when they saw it actually got printed.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

mongolian basket weaving forum

[@gjtrue]

I guess Trump Derangement Syndrome overpowers one's better judgement...

[@PootisPenserPow]

​@@ShortFatOtakuShadilay!

[@DeadpoolX9]

@@ShortFatOtaku Mainstream news: MOOOOOOM 4CHAN IS BULLYING ME AGAIN

[@MWH12085]

And that was when there was no denying Buzzfeed was a joke

[@masteroogway6660]

"Buzzfeed writer" on a CV should be enough to disqualify someone from a serious position in journalism

[@Treblaine]

It would disqualify them from manning a hotdog stand.

[@themarauding]

We call it 'journlolism'

[@sofaking3113]

there are no serious positions in journalism

[@papal1500]

Dang, I missed the good old days when buzzfeed told me what kind of butt plug I liked based on my personality. Good times man. Good times.

[@Khrada]

Linking schizophrenia and Capitalism together is quite a take.

[@alabastertheunicorn3204]

Schizo take daresay?

[@mrmcscrub9753]

Seems he's projecting his own dogma unto the "big bad" counter economic principal to that which his chosen dogma uses. The nonsensical schizoid calling everyone else a schizoid.

[@LagrangePoint0]

@@alabastertheunicorn3204 Basically.

[@buragi5441]

Leftists projecting?? Is the sky blue??

[@SL2797]

Quiet a moronic take.

[@Le-cp9tr]

I thought buzzfeed was meant to die when Gawker went down but now I guess we’re dancing on the corpse of a corpse

[@Miranox2]

These companies are kept alive by rich people who need them to spread propaganda.

[@613harbinger316]

Necromancy for the win, baby!

[@TheRoseBoy11]

To quote The Rageaholic: It's not "Get Woke, Go Broke". It's Get Broke, Go Woke, Ultimately *CROKE.*

[@name-vi6fs]

Disney disagrees.

[@gestaltblitz8296]

​@@name-vi6fsDisney is literally starting its death throws

[@name-vi6fs]

@gestaltblitz8296 exactly, they went from the biggest studio in Hollywood with record-breaking box office numbers to being on the brink, and the biggest issue is them going woke. They weren't woke before they went broke.

[@musicninja98]

​@@gestaltblitz8296it's throes, probably just spell check.

[@Joseph-v6y]

@@gestaltblitz8296trust me even though they’ve been taking L’s lately. The mouse always finds a way to survive like a rat.

[@Larry]

I got sick of all their adverts disguised as clickbait, literally endless topics titled: "Ten Reasons Why _(Local Business/Product)_ is the best in the world" Etc.

[@LagrangePoint0]

Yo Larry papi.

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

Kind of funny to see so many big names basically fade away Smosh, Buzzfeed, Cracked, Collegehumor, TeamFourStar, Rooster Teeth. And in most case it's their own poor decision making.

[@musicninja98]

What happened to TeamFourStar?? I haven't paid much attention to them after they wrapped up DBZ abridged with the cell games.

[@SconnerStudios]

It's a shaem because Cracked and CollegeHumor 10-15 years ago were great sites. Idk why you put Smosh in there, but they still are pretty big on youtube I think. I haven't watched them in years, but I don't think they ever really faded to my knowledge.

[@spiritpyros]

​@@musicninja98Yeah i would like to know too cause the only reason i watch them now is for the dbza spinoff hell for infinite losers

[@Seority]

Whost next on the Deadpool?

[@Seority]

​@@musicninja98They went woke.

[@ChillyJack]

He should have offered the employees a profit sharing agreement with no guaranteed pay and see how many of them took it.

[@deathpony698]

wait... if a business making money is bad... is a business loosing money good?

[@Yattayatta]

That is me right there at the end, tired of politics in fantasy, gaming and entertainment in general. I follow the news, I stay up to date and read up on the happenings around the world, I do volunteer work for causes I believe in. I do NOT want to turn on the latest episode of the Witcher after that to see "the modern world" reflected, I specifically turned it on to watch Geralt of Rivia explore medieval folklore Poland, and when I instead see modern Cali, I turn it back off.

[@DeadpoolX9]

As a california native, I apologize. We..... should really clean our state up. For everyone's good. Fuck this is going to be hard.

[@TheDive99]

Ever catch an episode of that witcher prequel show? They even spoke with that attitude.

[@alexrexaros9837]

BuzzFeed, the only website whos journalists are hated by all other journalists.

[@SconnerStudios]

It's like the hurtcore videos on the dark web. Even "regular" pedophiles hate those people. And no, I don't regret choosing to make an analogy comparing "journalists" to pedophiles.

[@gjtrue]

"who's urinalists" more like...

[@fixer1140]

Buzzfeed is the cancer of the internet

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

And let’s face it, most of the rest aren’t doing any better in terms of integrity and ethics.

[@MWH12085]

The only thing mire pathetic than a Buzzfeed juro is a Kotaku juro

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

You're right, Dev. It really IS about political burnout. We want to be informed, yes. But we don't want real-world politics in our fake worlds, like video games and movies, or even just in our friend groups. Now, there are fake-world politics that a lot of us still enjoy - Sci-fi and Fantasy have been giving us examples of better-run and worse-run societies forever, and the reading/watching and discussion of those is valuable, IMO. But we're all reaching the point (if we weren't there already) where we just want our hobbies to be a politics-free zone, at least for the most part.

[@alexanderrahl7034]

My favorite line from a socialist was something like "we were supposed to have the utopia where AI would do all our work for us instead its putting writers and artists out of jobs!" This was funny to me, because socialists fundamentally deny reality in their ideology, and refuse to see the world for how it is, in favof of the dreams in their heads. In their minds, they expected robots doing everything for them. Completely oblivious and ignorant to the reality of just how far technology still has to go, to get there. A socialist's idea of the world is like that of Dan Cummin's "Smoothie Stand Guy" comedy bit. The crux of the joke being, how we all imagine ourselves to be amazing fighters in our imaginations, while the person we imagine ourselves beating, knows nothing at all. A false reality where we are superior in every way, and the world (in that dream) revolves around us. And the world just isnt like that

[@ragnarok7976]

They want AI to do their work for them but get mad when AI takes their job... How did they think that transition would come about? Congratulations to them their future is now. Guess you should be careful what you wish for 😂

[@osvaldojaviergalleguillosh8402]

Made me remember me defending an argument and instantly becoming the controled oposition in every place i go, some hard stuff to realize one's uselesness

[@alexanderrahl7034]

@ragnarok7976 they wanted AI to take everyone else's jobs xD The "socialist utopia" always seeks to include them sitting around, writing and making art and doing whatever they want lol

[@maskedbadass6802]

Your comment about the ice cream joke reminds me of my own example that always pops into my head. It's the Family Guy "if that was me" Italian guy.

[@connorshaw-case6030]

Am I the only one who imagines themselves and everyone else as a kung fu master XD

[@Gypsygeekfreak17]

sees title .........such a wonderful day it was

[@anamericangrizzlybear8315]

*Life could be a dream! Life could be a dream!*

[@doyourbest_uwu]

​@@anamericangrizzlybear8315 *doo doo, doo boom shaboom*

[@youwotboi9288]

Life could be a dream *Shaboom* if I could take to a paradise up above

[@dogmasdevil5902]

Interesting thing about this concept of Identity Formation, is that Far Leftists will do it over any insignificant point of Identity. This man was 'revolutionary' for his time, but he was still in the bounds of establishment thinking. His patterns of thought went on to dictate in part the whole schema of Far Leftism over all of the years we suffered it, and he also drove his knife into the heart of Journalism as an industry, along with everyone else like him. Like Caesar getting shanked in the Senate, they all had a turn. BTW Dev, Trucker Video. You do it, or I will, and I won't spare you in the process.

[@darkalleyrambler8520]

Ah, now this is a refreshing take for complaining about the trucker video. Kudos for that and your main point.

[@vedritmathias9193]

"I don't even know who you are."

[@dogmasdevil5902]

@@vedritmathias9193 Oh, he has seen me here and there.

[@junichiroyamashita]

​@@darkalleyrambler8520what do you mean?

[@analogbunny]

Honestly the biggest reason why, at 43, I watch so many Minecraft videos is because it's a space not yet infected by politics. It's wholesome, many creators are entertaining and funny, and largely it hasn't been ruined yet.

[@FriedMetroid]

Just don't play on public servers Many of them are absolute leftoid cesspits

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

Have you watched the AI presidents minecraft videos?

[@buragi5441]

"is because it's a space not yet infected by politics" Oh you sweet naive summer child.

[@entropy2134]

meanwhile official Minecraft splash texts: "Your gender is valid" "Contains infinite genders" "Educate your friends on anti-racism" etc. XD

[@leuse5614]

Bro the dream smp is probably single handedly responsibly for 50% of trans kids lol

[@rustyshackleford1062]

How many creators are going to have to chart buzzfeed fall before they finally die and give me all that schadenfreude I've been blue-balled on for years now? Who keeps propping them up at this point, seriously?

[@SporkyMcFly]

I thought they died. It shocks me to hear they are still alive.

[@jimmysaint8539]

Good video but one quick thing was that the editor of Buzzfeed went on Tucker and explained (convincingly imo) his reasons for publishing the dossier. Prior to its publication the media and intelligence agents in the media kept alluding to it, treating it as a serious intelligence document. The media lashing out at Buzzfeed was because publishing this absurd-on-its-face document put a stake into the heart of their fun. And the timeline bears this out, Buzzfeed’s publishing of the document really did put an end to any allusions that it’s a serious document. A lot of journalists who maliciously treated it as serious were embarrassed that it saw the light of day.

[@jaysmall5586]

Thank you. I was thinking this exact thing, but I'm terrible at putting these sorts of things into words. Buzzfeed "undermined all journalists" with the publication of the dossier by showing how meritless the whole thing really was.

[@Hammerhead547]

It wasn't so much a "rise and fall" as much as it was a: "Rise, Fall & Plumet"

[@harbl99]

"Only tell the Buzzfeed writer that he will never work for the NYT, and see how he recoils, how injured he is. I am found out!" -- Sam Hyde

[@LedZedd]

Should've hired Hasan's Anti-Sam Hyde task force smh

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

I wonder how long it will take until they become self aware that they have been saying late stage capitalism for decades nowm.

[@paulseifert6598]

They never become self aware - they'll believe in the tenants of their philosophy completely, no matter how debunked. Like their belief that the mythical "general strike" they call for to paralyze the capitalist west will one day be answered by the very people they expressly want dead for opposing them? Or that capitalist nations are inherently weak and on the verge of collapse? (Despite the fact they all survived COVID-mania?) The proof in front of their eyes is not enough, they'll believe Marx was right and that their personal utopia is just around the corner until it comes true, or they die, whichever happens first.

[@ASpooneyBard]

Probably right after they realize that they're the establishment and not the revolution.

[@PootisPenserPow]

They'll figure that out right after they realize the world has been 10 years from doomsday due to global warming for the past 70 years

[@613harbinger316]

@@PootisPenserPow Politicians and activists are too smart to say 10 years (oh wait, strike "activists" from that). They say 30 years so most people will forget when their adult lives take over.

[@NightimeInDeepSpace]

I think there's a few stages in an econ cycle so the whole thing to run through would be a couple decades

[@tiobridge841]

Last time I was this early Tumblr was synonymous with this kind of behaviour

[@CircleOfTheSeptagram]

3:30 "MTV is schizo, therefore Capitalism is schizo". Lmao that's like basing your philosophy on economic models and the world on the "Annoying Facebook Girl Meme". "My Reddit feed says lol so random. Capitalism has failed."

[@compatriot852]

Surprised Buzzfeed even lasted as long as it did

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

Why are socialists always better and more ruthless capitalists than normal people?

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

They have studied the shittiest cases of it, learned what they are supposed to be against.

[@kindlingking]

Honestly, those people just have no idea what communism was supposed to be or how it came to be. They just liked the esthetic and adopted everything else without thinking whether it fits into modern context.

[@aazendude]

I think that whether or not someone is a socialist, when you are on some sort of mission beyond making money, but you need to make money to support that mission, it becomes easier to make more and more of it than if you are just trying to make money for its own sake. For instance, evangelical preachers also make a lot of money and (ostensibly) see themselves as on a mission from God. When you only want to make money, like a normal person woould, to buy things in the near future, instead of focusing on a long term goal, you never end up accumulating it. Especially when you don't stay dedicated and instead allow yourself to become distracted by things in the present...

[@613harbinger316]

Because, as capitalism proposes, everyone has their own self-interest. Socialists too. But socialists like to pretend they're heroes and representing the little guy, and a lot of people like to believe it. So a socialist is better at self-interest because he can manipulate more people to work for, and provide capital for, his benefit.

[@HereTakeAFlower]

Maybe that philosophy is very attractive to morals impaired people

[@dangrimes388]

So wait, Buzzfeed isn't a beekeeping website?

[@nickchavez720]

That would explain why I don't see any articles on the latest trends in apiculture.

[@chillstoneblakeblast3172]

Dev is Killing it with the videos lately. Nice

[@hagnartheviking6584]

​@@AB0BA_69don't

[@LagrangePoint0]

@@AB0BA_69 for what?

[@flibbernodgets7018]

ZeFrank1 was the best thing to ever come out of BuzzFeed. Glad he seems to be doing well on his own.

[@mrshmuga9]

I had no clue he came from Buzzfeed.

[@AndreaRodolfoNadia]

Me neither!

[@theALTF4]

nah fam you're msitaken... zefrank was out of buzzfeed since his begining, then he was hired by them and was when his channel was abandoned, but luckily, he QUITTED! and his regular content kicks

[@flibbernodgets7018]

@@mrshmuga9 The earliest True Facts have the BuzzFeed logo at the end, more recent ones do not.

[@FaolanHart]

Trolling Nike by pointing out their obvious immoral business practises is something I can really get behind. Its a shame how far they fell. Because I honestly enjoyed Buzzfeed early on. Same with a few websites. I mean I am left wing so I obviously would. But maaaaan did they all go insane & outright evil as time went on.

[@joji8725]

I worked for one of the largest unions in Canada, I lost hours because I wasn't allowed to do anything other than my job title. I wasn't even allowed to sweep the floors. I would get 4 hours a week so that the floor sweepers could get their own 4 hours a week.

[@joji8725]

The job was also on call and they'd write you up for having a second job's shift already scheduled..

[@MakkenziKreiga]

Your experience sounds like a cog-in-the-machine corpo satire. Unions, making fantasy reality.

[@shoeflytoo]

Yup. sounds right. You were "stealing someone else's work" I was on a project once where someone decided to stash their material directly in the way of where I needed to work so I moved it out of my way and onto a rack it would be installed on later by someone else. Oh, Lord, one of the guys was pitching a fit because I was "stealing his job." Even worse, and I don't know this from personal experience, but I've heard it said that in the movie business you can't even reposition a light on a desk unless you're the right union. Seems ridiculous enough to be true.

[@LagrangePoint0]

@@shoeflytoo It IS true.

[@everythingthrice2582]

I forgot all about BuzzFeed until this video

[@han3wmanwukong125]

The part I loved the most was about the unionization failing miserably.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

The death of Buzzfeed was such a great event. Goodbye to bad rubbish

[@Bopperann]

The carnival music gets louder every day, and now the organist is into indie jazz.

[@Trid3nt861]

"Say it loud say it proud Its not get woke go broke. Its Go broke get woke and ultimately CROAK" - *Razorfist*

[@bradoneil536]

The Buzzfeed founder’s paper quoted at the beginning feels like it was begun in 1996, then sat forgotten on the dude’s computer for decades, and then finished in 2020 without updating what had been written before. But really it just shows how long “Current Year” ideological nonsense festered underground before bursting forth to plague us all.

[@Spahki]

13:40 "I don't think a union is right for Buzzfeed" sounds like Vaush saying that a co-op isn't right for his channel.

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

5:18 You're not going to tell us what outlet Brietbart founded?

[@jr2904]

He founded Breitbart lol

[@ShortFatOtaku]

lol

[@charlesblackman7491]

As usual well researched ,analyzed and articulated. Keep up the good work Dev

[@MMDelta9]

Late stage capitalism looks a lot like socialism.... Just saying.

[@douglasstewart4790]

Buzzfeed's height of relevancy to me was that article the one lady did documenting her last day with her dog. It's still a gut-punch to think about.

[@selinnazsur2328]

The sun shines brighter and the birds sing louder when a rétarded company shuts down. PETA next, for the doggos! 🤞

[@johnwatts3862]

It’s sad that I feel special when Dev actually releases a video. Because it’s not my trucker video

[@BlueArremer]

Just commenting to let you to know I appreciate this deep dive. Research well done.

[@Tigreuh]

I remember being made fun of when I commented on a John Oliver video that "According to buzzfeed news" was the best joke of the episode. That's when I knew I was talking to fanatics.

[@tuskiomisham]

I'm not sure this dude knows what schizophrenia is...

[@joshuawadsworth6417]

Arguably you would find more paranoid in a socialist society and ESPECIALLY in a nationalist one.

[@priapulida]

yeah, the usual mix-up of the literal and the psychopathological meaning

[@SL2797]

To Jonah and his schizo paper: Under a free market system, you certainly have the CHOICE to be a mindless consumerist, and attach your identity to particular brands. However, with a bit of self-awareness and self-discipline (concepts most leftists run away from like the plague), you can make the choice to NOT participate in mindless consumerism. If you consume mindlessly, that's YOUR OWN FAULT due to your own lack of self-control. I'd MUCH rather live in a free market system where there is so much prosperity I could choose to be a mindless consumer if I wanted to, than a socialist to communist system where the system itself severely restricts what you can consume due to the poverty such a system produces.

[@highlandsprings5752]

The cancer complaining that the body is dying.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

LIVE NOW, on youtube, twitch AND kick! please follow me on these alt sites: Twitch: twitch.tv/shortfatotaku Kick: kick.com/shortfatotaku (need more followers for monetization!) KZbin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKK3XoWMiMRohrs

[@-cams.]

WHERE TRUCKER VID YOU C V C K ???

[@jasoncooper4737]

Hey Dev, what do you think about the recent UPS union contract? I work with Amazon through a logistics company, and have heard about their pay. I don't know, though... shipping prices through them might kill the progress the union made getting their contract through. I share your stance on workers needing advocates, but I don't think unions always do that as a function of their existence.

[@kaizokujimbei143]

Link is a white, heterosexual, Christian male.

[@millennialchicken]

fare thee not well Buzzfeed, we won't miss ye

[@DankPogchamp]

Normally I don't watch Rise and Downfall videos because I think a lot of the time they're very predatory and prey on people who had very insignificant controversies or merely had an incorrect opinion, but this time around, I approve because BuzzFeed has been deserving of Karma for a very long time. Both for the website's stupidity and their utter slander.

[@Snipermac99]

Still hitting it out of the park with these long forms Dev!

[@kikodekliko1209]

I have the feeling Jonah Peretti doesn't know what schizophrenia is.

[@Psycopathicus]

I used to follow BuzzFeed back in the day - not their journalism, just the silly stuff. They were tolerably entertaining for a while, but I started losing interest at the point where they started promoting period-blood art exhibitions and other such craziness. (I will say that their cooking videos are still pretty good; there's never been any politics there, from what I've seen.)

[@Kickstart_KDE]

A 6000 word paper of fancy 5 dollar word vomit

[@firebreathingcow]

Buzzfeed shuts down on Hitler’s birthday? CoInCiDeNtS?

[@low_vibration]

real revolutionaries search for rules that if broken lead to death

[@jaimemarrero3982]

Lol... @3:48, you mean like the chaotic nature of tiktoks? So when is the argument that tiktok and social medias like twitter are schizophrenic in nature?

[@artisanmage5378]

The title of the paper, "Capitalism and schizophrenia" is also actually a reference to the work of philosopher Gilles Deleuze' books with the same title. Deleuze is a post-modernist, he is anticapitalist but not really a Marxist. So it might be incorrect to classify the paper also as Marxist. Just a thing I thought might be relevant.

[@pressb]

The whole "we speak for the masses" thing has been playing out since 1848. "Workers of the world unite" is a command from on high, the m@rxists never spoke for the masses, they talked down at the masses. What is happening is that circumstances are unfolding such that the workers of the world are uniting. Those who formerly spoke down at the masses without fear of contradiction and with the expectation of unquestioning obedience are not happy that they are 1) being questioned at all 2) being questioned without respite (no one is above the law? where is 3pstien's client list? where are those prosecutions?) vox populi vox dei

[@JadedWarlock]

You used the acronym in the right way. Nice.

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

I've been going around saying zeFrank founded Buzzfeed, but looking up now he was in charge of their movie division? I'm calling Mandela effect. Stupid CERN.

[@MakkenziKreiga]

Don't worry, other people have been making the same mistake.

[@casualspawnpeeking3680]

Trust me you aren't the only person to make such a mistake

[@RwandaBob]

i can’t believe buzzfeed’s demographics aren’t just a fraction of gays and teenage girls

[@charlesferdinand422]

Summary: The guy who founded Buzzfeed was another rich white champagne socialist basically had a degree in Lesbian Dance Theory. That's all you really need to know.

[@mikesmith542]

I swear to god my great great grandchildren will still be hearing about "late stage capitalism". Seems like we've always been in that wonderful "late stage", eh?

[@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer]

Nothing of value was made. Nothing of value was lost.

[@ninjaartist1235]

People who be hate consumerism mad that regular people won’t consume their crap and now are downsizing. Lol

[@supermodestmouse]

I never understood where buzzfeed, vice, etc gained any sort of journalistic credibility. They started as gossip and"buzz" with their lists and such and then suddenly started pumping out slanted journalism. And this was way before tds took place.

[@SomeJerkOnTheInternet]

I hope Kotaku is next

[@Supernova2464]

I love seeing that mug!

[@2IDSGT]

I’m just hoping they take the Huffington Post down with them when they finally run out of money. 😆

[@safetyzoom7754]

You can tell this script is slightly dated or you would have mentioned the Disney strikes in it.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

I did, at the end!

[@diseabronx5075]

Veer’s correct. Not necessarily in this case but in general in regards to your overly length descriptions. To be fair though, I believe most of us are here because you strive for accuracy and brevity, not discussion length.

[@blepblep469]

Only OGs remember watching stupid random videos like the liquor taste tests

[@JJKane01]

Buzzfeed and Family Guy loved the piss dossier

[@yeez13]

This man’s equating of revolutionary ideas to Schizophrenia is baffling and somewhat offensive. I’m not one to get offended much at anything, but it truly does take someone without context for the thing that he’s co-opting for his means (like anyone who takes Theory/Studies at face value) as a means to get across some sort of pseudo-philosophical BS to get me on that path. Sure, he kind of has a point about how Schizophrenic people are in essence stuck in their own reality and have, over time, no means to escape or even intuit what’s real Vs. what isn’t without some sort of medical intervention (Medication & Therapy IRL; Socialism and Communism in the Paper’s description). Same thing with how hyper-consumption of media/advertising is effectively changing peoples’s perceptions of themselves at record levels like something out of Transmetropolitan (great series). However, the equivalency falls apart when you consider that most who are born with it as part of their mind like some sort of insidious timebomb (that slowly kills the person with it) still do participate with Capitalism in various levels while never thinking too hard about how it affects them or others. It DOESN’T cause it nor does it seem like it…at least, unless you’re terminally online and allowing yourself to be shaped by media/opinions all day everyday 🤷🏽‍♂️ It’ll still be around even without Capitalism bombarding us with all these options/opinions and with the potential onset of another system of governance; it’s just a Pandora’s Box of sorts that we’ve kept archiving and keeping track of media to add to our civilization’s history/culture as a whole, with newer Disorders coming along the ride as an unintended consequence. Curiosity is just something that makes us human, so wanting to quash it out completely is pretty insidious no matter how it’s put. No wonder this guy ended up finding the equivalent of the Sixth or Seventh Seal, dooming us all…

[@momomomocensoredbyyoutube9085]

Freddy is not a middle class business owner. He's clearly an elite outsider.

[@Karasamune]

What a weird cutoff on the end there. Daddy didn't tell us he loves us

[@tindekappa9047]

It bares mentioning how it got popularized. By every big YTer taking the pi$$ out of it. Pretty significant moment in its history.

[@thexdatabase]

1:52 that kinda checks especially in june

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

Now we just need Kotaku, CBR, Wired and a bunch of other sites to go belly up like Buzzfeed.

[@an-animal-lover]

I thought Kotaku already had?

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

@@an-animal-lover No Kotaku are still operating, at least I see people mention their articles every now & again, I’ve never actually went to their site, I wouldn’t give them traffic.

[@an-animal-lover]

@@InfamyOrDeath-__- I only loosely get "news" of them through other people mentioning their articles, so I'm not surprised if I didn't have all the facts on that

[@astk5214]

4:50😂😂😂😂 bro is an accelerationist

[@vane909090]

Interesting to know these things' history.

[@counterstructure4908]

"or Cracked" Wow, that hits deep. Now i feel old somehow.

[@kingofcards9516]

Great video.

[@amj.composer]

I'm telling you, buzzfeed used to be incredible like 10 years ago. Really good content and surprisingly good scientific stuff. I used to watch them every goddamn day after coming from school. Then I saw them slowly worsen, they added more people I couldn't care less about, it became more and more opinionated, more cringe content, more "try" content. I could notice the shift even as a blind BuzzFeed fanatic. One of the reasons they were so popular was because they lived off their legacy. I almost puke when I see anything BuzzFeed related.

[@MWH12085]

His entire thesis comes off as a schizo post

[@Darkfreed0m]

I legit forgot they existed

[@TheAurgelmir]

People want Escapism. Which is: Entertainment that's easy to digest and let's you get away from the real world for a while. Which makes what I said somewhat ironic since "The Escapist" more or less went the same way of Buzzfeed. I think that's why social media, for all it's flaws, wins out as long as it remains relatively possible to ignore the politicing when you want to. KZbin is a great example. If I feel like watching a guy solve sudoku, I do that. If I want to watch a videogame video, I will. If that video suddenly starts spouting politics, I might move on. Unless I watch the video for the political view too. Same with reddit. I don't use it myselv, but it has a lot of the same escapism that BuzzFeed etc were selling, but it's desentralized. If I want to read about a certain topic I can go to that subreddit. Heck, for all it's fault Twitter... erm sorry Elon, it's Xitter now right? For all it's fault, one of the most ingenious thing it has is word filtering and also muting of accounts. Which let's you curate your Timeline to feature things you want to, and ignore - for the most part - things unrelated to your topics of choice. Because people need to be able to escape the lunacy.

[@wombraider7796]

Jesus Christ seeing 2007 as another age is depressing. i was in highschool and just enlisted in grade 11...

[@giin97]

Still one of the best jokes I've heard in years: BuzzFeed "News" 😂

[@kenelt]

i remenber i used to love buzzfeed react videos trying food drinks and things like that. then they when into the shit so fast it was amazing.

[@j3zter618]

Cool vid, but when is the trucker video coming?

[@ShortFatOtaku]

+1 day

[@badxxxmonkey5541]

I saw the thumbnail and thought we were getting the How the Truckers Burned Ottawa video. 😂

[@nikoclesceri2267]

And nothing of value was lost

[@jeffjoestar4245]

i wanna disagree on the union thing. i'm a welder, which is supposed to be pretty sought after, and people aren't headhunting besides shitty jobber shops and people are still paid shit for what the trade is worth.