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RE: Everything is Becoming Buzzfeed
Beautiful, I love these terms and I'm assuming you're from the profession? I must say, your friend's work is incredibly out of place in Buzzfeed and it's a shame the blog puts so much weight behind "work" on 'manspreading' and 'mansplaining' much more so than actual cultural writing like your friend's. Hopefully he's at a place that actually celebrates diversity and deep thinking.
No no. I'm not a journalist, not even close. I come from a background of architecture and urban planning with a bunch of really good writer friends.
The sad part is that Buzzfeed is NOT the worst. (In fact, it garnered a LOT of criticism from its readers for this article about the Urban Poor sparking many debates about the difference between actual poverty and talking about being poor from a privileged point of view. It showed that the readers are paying attention and are not simple consumers of trash. The article made readers hold the site accountable for the content it produces. Which is what readers should be doing with content they click on).
Then there's Thought Catalogue, ScoopWhoop and so many more such sites whose content used to make me wonder why people spend time writing them. But I guess they have a big readership, no? Who's to contend demand for clickbait?