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BuzzFeed is known for pulling story from Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, imgur, Facebook, Whatsapp [YEP] and making it CLICKBAIT\/LINKBAIT. Every entity has revenue model & this works best for BuzzFeed. \u00a0One of my friend wrote a nice post Quantifying the Clickbait and Linkbait in BuzzFeed Article Titles<\/a><\/p>\n It was my prejudice that did me wrong at the time:<\/em> https:\/\/twitter.com\/ponnappa\/status\/611811575268163584<\/a><\/p>\n However, I decided to visit the site to find if they are now in fact producing original content. But I found otherwise [30 mins task, because I follow r\/india & Quora]. Check out the stories along with original sources and how BuzzFeed made story out of it.<\/p>\n 1. \u00a0About scoring 33% in exam.<\/p>\n There was a discussion thread on \/r\/india<\/a> about the a kid scoring 33%<\/a> in all his papers, we all laughed commented after seeing the poster and BuzzFeed copied it happily from there<\/a> making story out of it.<\/p>\n 2. On flipkart fake discount.<\/p>\n A user on r\/india posted a picture<\/a> of how one of the seller on Flipkart inflated the price and made fool of buyers by giving discount. The complete discussion thread is here<\/a>\u00a0and there we have BuzzFeed again making story of the same.<\/a><\/p>\n 3. Picking popular post from Facebook & making it Clickbait.<\/p>\n One of the most popular post on Facebook was how outsiders think about India, it was posted on\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thenonsensestate<\/a>\u00a0and this is how BuzzFeed made story out of it.<\/a>\u00a0They had no option but to give credit to original poster.<\/p>\n 4. Destinations in India that look like Europe<\/p>\n There was this interesting thread on quora where users were discussing about good Indian destination that look like Europe<\/a>\u00a0and then you have post on BuzzFeed about same<\/a><\/p>\n 5. Indian Army dogs are killed after retirement.<\/p>\n We all know it was all over social media and then Indiatimes folks wrote detailed story about it<\/a>\u00a0followed by super creative writer from BuzzFeed making story about same.<\/a><\/p>\n 6. Artist in Bangalore drawing crocodile on road to bring attention about potholes.<\/p>\n This discussion was started on r\/india<\/a> with a user sharing \u00a0story which was published on Indian Express<\/a>\u00a0It was all over social media and then our super journos from BuzzFeed wrote the same.<\/a><\/p>\n Incase you folks are wondering how am I so sure about this, well do check the date\/time of original post & BuzzFeed one.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n