I feel the need to address the festering virus that is Buzzfeed or BuzzFeed. Whatever the fuck it is they call themselves. Yes, I'm angry, you should read this in an angry tone.
I literally cannot scroll two posts down my Facebook wall without seeing a shared video from the most pandering, drivel-fuelled website birthed out of the Information Age. Buzzfeed.
Just like that friend that will agree with everything you say, Buzzfeed is a feel-good time, but with the depth and interest of the GIF's it is enamored with. Flashy and amusing, it twirls it's pretty dress around the dance floor, before immediately throwing up all over itself - any guy can take her home, but does he really want to deal with the inevitable mess?
My main problem with Buzzfeed is that it's thoughtless. Any junior high school student could put together the same articles, except probably with less typos. But is thoughtlessness a bad thing? Not really, I mean, a lot of entertainment is rather thoughtless. However, it's the rate at which this thoughtlessness comes spewing out at you.
Like I said, it's all I see on Facebook nowadays. It's not always bad, it's just always terribly annoying.
It also is entirely click-bait. Nothing more. You're not going to leave that article with a refreshing view on the world, instead, you're going to click right on the next flashy title such as: 11 Problems that only Short People will Understand. Tall or short, you're interested because the information is digestible due to it being in a list.
Lists are not bad, it's simply the content in said list that drives me up the wall and smack-dab into yet another Buzzfeed article.
It's GIF's of cats and meme's that are subtitled by intellectual remarks like "Win", "LOL", "WTF", and "Hacks". It's lists that contain similar things in no real order and with no real meaning. It's entertaining, in the way that McDonald's is delicious.
Buzzfeed isn't horrible in the way that one small pimple isn't going to ruin your life - but thirty six of them popping up in various places and with a relentless pace, is surely going to get a little bit tiresome.
I literally cannot scroll two posts down my Facebook wall without seeing a shared video from the most pandering, drivel-fuelled website birthed out of the Information Age. Buzzfeed.
Just like that friend that will agree with everything you say, Buzzfeed is a feel-good time, but with the depth and interest of the GIF's it is enamored with. Flashy and amusing, it twirls it's pretty dress around the dance floor, before immediately throwing up all over itself - any guy can take her home, but does he really want to deal with the inevitable mess?
My main problem with Buzzfeed is that it's thoughtless. Any junior high school student could put together the same articles, except probably with less typos. But is thoughtlessness a bad thing? Not really, I mean, a lot of entertainment is rather thoughtless. However, it's the rate at which this thoughtlessness comes spewing out at you.
Like I said, it's all I see on Facebook nowadays. It's not always bad, it's just always terribly annoying.
It also is entirely click-bait. Nothing more. You're not going to leave that article with a refreshing view on the world, instead, you're going to click right on the next flashy title such as: 11 Problems that only Short People will Understand. Tall or short, you're interested because the information is digestible due to it being in a list.
Lists are not bad, it's simply the content in said list that drives me up the wall and smack-dab into yet another Buzzfeed article.
It's GIF's of cats and meme's that are subtitled by intellectual remarks like "Win", "LOL", "WTF", and "Hacks". It's lists that contain similar things in no real order and with no real meaning. It's entertaining, in the way that McDonald's is delicious.
Buzzfeed isn't horrible in the way that one small pimple isn't going to ruin your life - but thirty six of them popping up in various places and with a relentless pace, is surely going to get a little bit tiresome.
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