I have managed to not be a huge baby about the end of BuzzFeed News for the last 2 weeks, but SORRY now its 9pm on a Friday and I'm allowed to spew on the timeline.... I want to thank @markyarm who I begged to come be our tech editor this summer with the promise that "this place might shut down in a year, but I guarantee it'll be the most fun year you could have." I like to think that @PranavDixit @ellievhall @TomBWarren made good on that vow.

Today is the last day of BuzzFeed News. I wanted the last word on it to be from the people who worked there. Here's the final post, the Oral History of BuzzFeed News: buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfe… Note: This is notable for how incomplete it is, there are SO MANY more people who I wish we had time to get to tell their stories, and we had to cut a LOT for it not to be a book. @ellievhall and I had to do this in a week while union bargaining over severance. I have excuses!

Before they were frequent profile subjects, that pro-natalist elite eugenicist couple were both big time Redditors. Here’s the wife showing off the anime body pillow of herself she got custom made for her husband imgur.com/a/A7QDZ And of course yes, the husband is a brony, and has some uh confusing questions

This open enrollment video for Facebook employees is as damning than anything in the Haugen leak imo vimeo.com/622520807/1e34… The video has been made private now, which is probably for the better since watching it gave several people Havana syndrome

Getting mad about a bog man story this morning. what the heck is goin g on herre nbcnews.com/science/scienc… Apparently because some crummy not-usually-eaten seeds were found in his stomach, the scientists assume that means he was shamed into eating gross food as part of a human sacrifice.... OR he was just hungry. And somehow option #1 is what they go with?

Forgive me for being weepy but I want to talk about what BuzzFeed layoffs mean not just to ~the state of journalism~ but to the internet at large. A bunch of people were laid off (and more to come! Fuck!) who quite literally created and shaped the internet as we know it today. It’s easy to know what news reporters and editors do. But there were also people who did jobs that never previously existed, creating forms of writing and content that previously never existed and are hard to define.

I propose to social scientists The Calloway Point: the point at which stans don’t believe they’re getting scammed, even if they are, and does that even mean it’s a scam? buzzfeednews.com/article/katien… This influencer promised all sorts of things to her fans to buy $165 tickets to a “creativity workshop”. She failed on many of her promises, yet nearly all the attendees I heard from (about 50 young women) said they enjoyed it and didn’t feel scammed.