Dear BuzzFeed,
You are the newsroom for hipsters. Students everywhere rely on you to tell them the latest news and what “Friends” character suits their personality best. Your witty feature pieces with their endless GIFs make time fly by easier. I usually wander onto your site by an accidental hyperlink, but then I manage to be captivated for hours by your endless possibilities.
Oh BuzzFeed, how could I go a day without watching one of your videos about some foreign food I’ve never seen, yet now desperately want to try? Your promotional posts irritate me when I reach the bottom of the page and find it was all just a ploy to get me to buy products, or like a company’s Facebook page. Whether it is for a car company, or even pizza, it’s like the fun is ruined at the end of it. Your videos carry many true statements in life. They make me wonder if my kitten really is as ignorant as its older, and wise, cat friend makes it to be.
I find myself endlessly clicking on new links to post that I wouldn’t even care about; I simply want more humor. I feel that your newsfeed is probably the most ignored, even though it has some of the best information. After all, it has the pages without funny cat images. Your life hack posts are valuable resources and should be treated as such. Many of them are just as worthy as your news pages, but tend to be hidden amongst the DIYs and strange celebrity posts.
Your fandom posts have their own gravitational pull. Disney fans will have their day, as do Star Wars and 90s cartoon fans. Every corner of your site has something that appeals to everyone’s habits and lifestyles. Your site even has live test dummies to give me insight on hobbies I may never attempt. Whenever you post videos featuring The Try Guys I wonder what sort of wonderful thing they get paid to do next. Sometimes they get paid to drink awful beer, or go shoot guns. Whatever the case may be, at least there’s a boyfriend type represented for everyone watching.
It is always good, BuzzFeed, to take the time out of your busy day of fun and read the comments section. Your “humorous” posts can genuinely offend some people and others may feel that you missed a crucial part of a post. However, with the continuation of some trends, it seems that you aren’t taking your viewers’ advice. Especially when it comes to the headline of a post. Sure, brevity may be needed when it comes to the teaser links, but creating false advertisement can make one lose interest fast.
Many times, BuzzFeed, I visit your site and learn new popular culture I couldn’t expect to find anywhere else. Whether it is a new television series, an advertisement or a trend in men’s beard fashion, I can always count on you giving me the newest information. It doesn’t matter whether I actually had an interest in it, I would still click on it anyway because the thumbnail just looks so interesting.
BuzzFeed, I can always count on you to give me endless entertainment. Be it with actual news or cute animals, I’m sure to learn something new on your site.
Hugs and kisses,
Students bored of Tumblr
