It is time to stop. We must stop this! If you are writing about BuzzFeed, please consider not making a listicle in homage (or using a “BuzzFeed-y” headline).
- “The 16 Most BuzzFeed Facts of All Time” (Gawker, Aug. 19, 2014)
- “21 things you need to know about BuzzFeed’s success” (The Guardian, Aug. 11, 2014)
- “50 Million New Reasons BuzzFeed Wants to Take Its Content Far Beyond Lists” (The New York Times, Aug. 10, 2014)
- “4 Reasons Why BuzzFeed Makes You Click on Their Super Awesome Articles” (Scripted Blog, April 22, 2014)
- “5 Times BuzzFeed Hated Israel in 2014” (Communities Digital News, April 6, 2014)
- “9 BuzzFeed Posts About Things You Missed In Clueless” (Gawker, March 7, 2014)
- “10 Reasons Why BuzzFeed Sucks” (The Crossover, Jan. 29, 2014)
- “3 lessons from BuzzFeed’s Twitter swarm during the Golden Globes” (Poynter, Jan. 15, 2014)
- “4 Must-Read Buzzfeed Articles About Mean Girls” (Her Campus, Oct. 5, 2013)
- “8 Reasons Buzzfeed Is Just Plain Awful” (The Vassar Chronicle, October 2013)
- “22 Stories We Can’t Believe BuzzFeed Hasn’t Written Yet” (Cracked, Sept. 27, 2013)
- “40 Signs You Are a BuzzFeed Writer Running Out of List Ideas” (Vanity Fair, July 9, 2013)
- “Three lists about BuzzFeed’s serious journalism” (Poynter, April 4, 2013)
- “11 things you need to know about Buzzfeed” (The Guardian, Jan. 6, 2013)
- “Here Are The 13 Most-Viewed Buzzfeed Posts Ever (And Its 13 Best-Reported Posts Too)” (Pando, Sept. 20, 2012)
- “Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral” (Both Sides of the Table, April 11, 2011)
- “25 Articles That Prove Buzzfeed Is Running Out Of Ideas” (Post Grad Problems, undated)
- “33 Things To Do Instead Of Reading BuzzFeed Articles” (The Odyssey, undated)
This article will almost certainly be updated. (I have a nagging feeling I may have done something like this myself.) Send me BuzzFeed list-style headlines: abeaujon@poynter.org
Honorable mention: “You’ll never guess how much BuzzFeed raised from Horowitz” (FT, Aug. 11, 2014)
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