Buzzfeed paid the teen who made its top quizzes in free swag

What kind of insane mental gymnastics did people perform to arrive at the conclusion that kids writing silly quizzes for free is an existential threat to paid content creators? Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems like the average Twitter activist has an obsessive need to frame everything as a societal issue in which someone is the oppressor and someone else is their victim. Notice how the quoted tweet aims to frame the people laid off as struggling underdogs while this girl is ignorant and priveleged because she "can afford" to have free time. It's not BuzzFeed being exploitative that caused the problem, or the fact that a literal child produced better work in her free time than people with industry experience and 40 hours a week - no, this evil is privilege at work!

Rediculous. This is not too dissimilar to claiming that reddit or facebook is profiteering of their users as they submit the content.

"If you create content for free&for fun because you can afford to, there is always the possibility that this content will be used instead of content created by paid creators. It's up to volunteer creators to realize if&how much their work hurts paid creators."

Well, I guess it's time to stop posting to reddit or facebook and time they employed professional content creators...

Social media work is the factory work of today. It largely requires no skill, one is easily replacable, and more and more tasks are automated away.

The difference is, I guess, that the jobs are also appealing. People that do this spend most their time on social media anyway, and now they can see themselves as tech workers. But, in truth, the idea to make your passion into a job, is problematic if that passion does not require skill.

And so, a tech Proletariat creates itself and is replaced by actual child work.

Why is there no venom towards buzzfeed for this? To me they are the ones to blame (if one is to get mad).