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    La.M.Mark "Copyranter" Duffy
    11/25/13 5:17pm

    8. I Don't Know How to Make a .GIF

    You laugh, but many of BuzzFeed's most viral post are lists of .GIFs. I will never learn how to make a .GIF. I consider .GIFs the "creativity" of the new Stupidest Generation.

    Hired to write for Buzzfeed... hates Buzzfeed's general readership and overall schtick...Get's fired from Buzzfeed. Sounds about right.

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      phunkshunLa.M.
      11/25/13 5:36pm

      If that's all you pulled from that piece in its entirety then you are definitely acting like a dense as lead dumbass millenial.

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      La.M.phunkshun
      11/25/13 5:37pm

      I didn't even read it. Not enough .gifs.

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    BKPhilMark "Copyranter" Duffy
    11/25/13 5:46pm

    You drum at your desk?

    You're lucky you got fired, not killed.

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      CrewBabyBKPhil
      11/25/13 7:38pm

      Seriously. I could have tolerated that shit for a couple of hours, MAYBE a day at the outside. And bullshit "I can't help myself." You can, you just don't care. I would've been leaving tacks on this guy's chair by day three.

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      emmabrocker2CrewBaby
      11/25/13 9:09pm

      "I can't help myself" is such a fucking cop-out. I hate guys who call themselves assholes as a means to not having to be aware of others' emotions.

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    KorbenDallasBathroomAssMark "Copyranter" Duffy
    11/25/13 5:18pm

    I really wish more of the hyperlinks in this article worked.

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      KorbenDallasBathroomAssKorbenDallasBathroomAss
      11/25/13 5:26pm

      Top four not working hyperlinks on this article - text and intended link. (Don't bother clicking the below - they go nowhere fast.)

      Four: What It's Like Being The Oldest BuzzFeed Employee - http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/wha…

      Three: Twitter - https://twitte/

      Two: servicing - http://www.flickr.com/photos/newfou

      One: The words "Fat Boy" made to look like a link but linking to nothing.

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      La.M.KorbenDallasBathroomAss
      11/25/13 5:30pm

      LISTEN! He has gone his entire career without hyperlinks and .gifs and whatever the fuck else dumbasses (Read: Millennials) are running around doing on the internet these days (who can even keep up, I mean technology? WTF? Amiright?)

      So lets not split hairs. Links that work, links that don't work. What does it matter?

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    Nitasha TikuMark "Copyranter" Duffy
    11/25/13 7:01pm

    "Fired from a place that basically fires nobody." Has anyone else heard that Buzzfeed has (quietly) let go of a handful of people in the past year or so. When they were rapidly launching new verticals and not sure how big they would become or what they would look like? Shift, for example, is now Fashion.

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      Graby SauceNitasha Tiku
      11/25/13 7:24pm

      I can't help you with your questions, but can you help me? What are "verticals"?

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      Rebecca "Burt" RoseNitasha Tiku
      11/25/13 10:29pm

      Nitasha, would Amy Odell be an example of this? I am wrong in noticing that she's gone, too?

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    CascadeHawkMark "Copyranter" Duffy
    11/25/13 5:26pm

    10 Ways I Intend to Burn My Bridges

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      Young Mozzarella SticksCascadeHawk
      11/25/13 5:59pm

      How do you burn a bridge that doesn't exist?

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      talktotalktoCascadeHawk
      11/25/13 6:16pm

      The whole "don't burn bridges" advice is cringeworthy and overdone, and basically means, "don't criticize anyone or any organization ever, no matter how warranted, because one day you might need to kiss their ass for your own personal gain." It's one thing to inaccurately or falsely disparage a former employer because you are bitter, it's another to sweep glaring deficiencies or downright unethical culture and decisions under the rug in the name of personal career advancement. After all, just because we are career driven doesn't mean we should sacrifice our dignity and respect. I spent 3 months in the hiring process with an employer, and long story short, after several rude and unprofessional interactions, false promises, and chronic reschedules, I sent my contacts, and several higher ups in the organization a long email detailing the awful treatment and disorganization I encountered. for all I know they just laughed it off, but telling them off made me feel very good.

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    VirilityUntoTheeMark "Copyranter" Duffy
    11/25/13 5:33pm


    I got through most of this and then saw "How that's for editorial integrity?" - It's Buzzfeed. I don't think I've ever seen an article on there, they may have them but everything I've seen is a long list of either animated gifs or still images with a single sentence for each one or nothing written at all. That's fine, shit like that has its place in some people's worlds but Buzzfeed is never going to uncover the next big scandal.

    It's a site for teens and twenty-something and their main goal is to make money from advertisers. The readers certainly don't care about the 'integrity', neither should the 'writers' of Buzzfeed.

    Anyways, just in case you want to lay it down on your resume, here's an online gif maker.

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      ByrdVirilityUntoThee
      11/25/13 5:39pm

      Def agree. To his last point — he probably shouldn't have been hired in the first place. Not a great fit for the company/brand.

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      Graby SauceVirilityUntoThee
      11/25/13 5:50pm

      They do actually have articles and occasionally break news. You have to look in their news and politics section. I follow a couple of their political reporters on Twitter, so I don't have to go through the visual vomit that is the Buzzfeed main page to get to the substantive articles.

      The fact that they have substantive news hidden behind a phalanx of gif listicles goes to your point about it being a site for teens and twenty-somethings, at least on its face. I suspect they don't quite know what they want to be which is a problem a lot of sites seem to be having these days.

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    ThunderstuffMark "Copyranter" Duffy
    11/25/13 5:25pm

    The idea that it takes 12 hour days, 7 days a week to produce the crap buzzfeed puts out is horrifyingly hilarious.

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      emmabrocker2Thunderstuff
      11/25/13 9:11pm

      Maybe they're counting every moment of being on the internet as "work"? i.e. Reading Cracked on the toilet = "Sigh, yet another hour at the office."

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      Velveeta®Thunderstuff
      11/25/13 9:16pm

      Seriously. I want everyone to map out what they do hour by hour because...I don't understand.

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    MagisterMark "Copyranter" Duffy
    11/25/13 5:53pm

    I'm sure the Copyranter will land on his feet. I rarely look at Buzzfeed, but I'm aware of him and I appreciate Gawker giving him a place to post an FU (or whatever it is we're calling this), but it would be really terrific and would make my day, if he'd post his Ronald McDonald blowjobs pics to Kinja.

    It sounds like something I'd like to see.

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      swedesMagister
      11/25/13 7:19pm

      Here's the College Humor one. You have a great day Magister.

      http://www.collegehumor.com/article/692254…

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      Magisterswedes
      11/25/13 7:23pm

      A couple of those are real winners.

      Thanks!

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    MisterHippityMark "Copyranter" Duffy
    11/25/13 6:39pm

    "I'm sorry if the Cute sticker upset him."

    Worst. Non-apology. Ever.

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      sui_generisMisterHippity
      11/25/13 7:02pm

      Yeah, but it is kind of funny. Especially considering it seems like everything about the place upset him, really. I imagine he was kind of a running joke, that the CUTE sticker was the perfect stinger of.

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      NefertittiesMisterHippity
      11/25/13 8:18pm

      Could have been worse:

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    destor23Mark "Copyranter" Duffy
    11/25/13 6:52pm

    Ben Smith seems like a real jerk in his response. I don't know anybody involved but, guy writes about why he was fired, basically says good things about the place that fired him and Smith's response is that the guy wasn't a very good reporter? Oh, and what are Buzzfeed's standard's, exactly? You can't say that Axe body spray commercials contibute to "rape culture?" Look, I happen to think the whole notion of "rape culture" is kind of ridiculous and we can debate that if you want to. That Axe advertises its products by objectifying women as sexually obsessed bimbos who will jump on you if you smell a certain way, however, is not really up for debate. "Rape culture" is kind of a mild charge, given the substance of the issue.

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      netflixdude303destor23
      11/25/13 10:57pm

      Yeah but to be fair most people don't have to address their employee's termination on two of the most visited websites in the world. It's only natural that he's defensive of his prized LOLs and WTFs.

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      erikgraddestor23
      11/26/13 9:09am

      Yeah, I don't think Ben Smith's response serves him well. I don't think Duffy was even that harsh about his dismissal in the first place. I can see the reasons why someone might be fired for going against the grain like he did. The response defending the takedown of the Axe Body Spray article makes Smith look like a douchebag...and I really don't think he is one.

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