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He didn’t do it for the news, or the movie gossip, or the cute pictures of pandas. Peretti wanted to fabricate memes, and after years of experimentation, he built BuzzFeed as a shop to do so. Successful memes self-replicate, like genes in the cultural ecosystem. Why, Peretti wondered, was it so difficult to spread some worthy ideas when spurious things like urban myths and dancing-baby gifs took on inexplicable life? “They’re memes,” Peretti told an interviewer, using a then-obscure academic term coined by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Facebook did not yet exist nor did cell-phone cameras nor most of the other components necessary to create the “Harlem Shake.” But Peretti’s debate with Marlow hinted at a central question of the future. This was a time when “weblogs” were still a novelty, and celebrity sex tapes came on VHS. He lost interest in his thesis subject (an earnest study of new teaching software) and immersed himself in network theory. on viral phenomena he believed they were impossible to engineer, that the universe of human relations is just too complex to predict what people would share. “I challenged him to do it again,” Marlow recalls. Throughout the experience, Peretti related his amazement to a friend, a fellow student named Cameron Marlow. The rush of creating something viral was vertiginous, intoxicating. Six weeks later, Peretti found himself on the Today show, debating a Nike spokesman about its labor practices. It went forth and multiplied, taking on irresistible momentum as it was forwarded from in-box to in-box. Peretti forwarded the chain to ten friends. Nike was promoting a new customizable sneaker Peretti ordered a pair imprinted with the word sweatshop, prompting an amusing exchange of e-mails with a customer-service representative. In 2001, Peretti, then 27, was supposed to be writing his master’s thesis but instead diverted himself by goofing off online.
Like a lot of tales of discovery on the Internet, this one begins in a moment of procrastination. Perhaps the best way to understand BuzzFeed, though, is as the culmination of a wager its puckish founder, Jonah Peretti, made twelve years ago as a graduate student at MIT. If this sounds like an awkward living situation, it is Gawker Media’s Nick Denton, a cantankerous competitor, has predicted that BuzzFeed will “collapse under the weight of its own contradictions.” But venture capitalists have put $46 million into it, and it’s not because they adore kittens. But you’ll probably never visit that section, because, like odd-couple roommates, BuzzFeed’s articles only nominally live on the website, spending most of their time out of the house as links on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. You can also find an enormous amount of stuff like “ The 40 Greatest Dog GIFs of All Time.” If you’re into that, in fact, there’s an entire section devoted to animals. You can find news there, really serious news by first-rate journalists, about subjects like lobbying scandals and killer drones. The site is a hyperactive amalgam: simultaneously a journalism website, a purveyor of funny lists, and a perpetual pop-culture plebiscite where you can vote on articles with bright-yellow buttons reading lol, wtf, and omg. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the website BuzzFeed-though this is increasingly unlikely, as it’s currently enjoying a viral moment. Late last month, Business Insider published a story detailing former BuzzFeed employee Tim "Treadstone" Gionet's journey from video producer at the company's Los Angeles office to alt-right troll who clashed with other pro-Trump personalities over his anti-Semitic comments.Peretti in the BuzzFeed offices. "Releasing that fake dossier on Trump (for which they were sued) showed that their editorial standards and fact-checking are weak," Cernovich said. Right-wing provocateur Mike Cernovich acknowledged that while BuzzFeed has "a couple of talented writers," many on the right would not forget about the site's decision to publish the dossier, which contained some claims that were used by law enforcement as a "roadmap" in its investigation into Russian interference. It often indicates a user profile.īut while the far-right media landscape is constantly enraged with mainstream news publications, in recent weeks, the timing of several stories published by BuzzFeed and about them brought what reporter Charlie Warzel dubbed the " upside down media" to bear against the millennial news giant. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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