Definition of "BuzzFeed"

Thanks to Facebook I saw tweets, memes, BuzzFeeds, and UpWorthy videos that gave me much-needed comic relief and valuable material you will read more about in the pages to come.

2014, Sophia A. McClennen, “[Preface and Acknowledgments] Sophia’s Acknowledgments”, in Sophia A. McClennen, Remy M. Maisel, Is Satire Saving Our Nation? Mockery and American Politics, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, page xiv

I scroll through my feed, clicking on Amazon links for my next read and also on some Buzzfeeds,[sic] because they make me laugh.

2014, Cassie Mae, chapter 17, in The Real Thing, London: Rouge, Ebury Publishing

Get the BuzzFeeds you actually want to read / The viral content website has launched its own news app for personalised updates

2015, “Tutorials”, in Android Magazine, number 58, Bournemouth, Dorset: Imagine Publishing Ltd, page 36

But with increasingly publicized private lives through a variety of social media, failing at a marriage proposal has now become an event that millions of strangers can watch and even comment on. Indeed, “proposal fails” is an entire genre of YouTube videos as well as the subject of various BuzzFeeds, Tumblr sites, and even Twitter feeds.

2019, Laurie Essig, “Marry Me?”, in Love, Inc.: Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter, Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, page 103

And so I’m—maybe that’s a cautionary tale for print journalism, like do we run the risk of having so many Voxes—you know, Vox.com—that readers are kinds of sick of the BuzzFeeds and the Vox.com “listicles” and analyses, and then we revert back to the AP style with just the facts, like I’ve seen CNN try and make its name.

2019, Kimberly Meltzer, quoting Amber Phillips, “[Journalists’ Thoughts about the Future of News] Predictions about the Future of Newspapers”, in From News to Talk: The Expansion of Opinion and Commentary in US Journalism, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, page 207

“TODAY’S WRITERS,” HAH! I’LL STOP YOU RIGHT THERE! I’VE READ THE BUZZFEEDS, I KNOW ALL ABOUT THESE GEN WHAT-HAVE-YOUs-⁠- / THEY’RE SOFT, SELF-OBSESSED, GLUED TO THEIR PHONES ALL DAY. I DON’T HAVE THE TIME TO CODDLE THEIR DELICATE SENSIBILITIES! I’M LOOKING FOR HARD-EDGED JOURNALISM HERE-⁠-

2020, Nick Spencer, The Amazing Spider-Man‎, volume 8 (Threats & Menaces; numbers 37–43), New York, N.Y.: Marvel Entertainment