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FuzzBeed – Randomly generated BuzzFeed

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Note that there is more to BuzzFeed than listicles (listicles are about 26% of all BuzzFeed articles), although they are certainly the most notable part of BuzzFeed content. In fact, the "The [X]" listicle prefix construction has died off.

I wrote a blog post this week about the subject: http://minimaxir.com/2015/01/linkbait/

(HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893448)

I end up at BuzzFeed content through social media or aggregators. Maybe it's because of who I follow, but I never end up at listicles and at pieces of content like this:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mallorymcduff/hiking-period?utm_term... (Which is not going to be for everyone, but it's more of a Medium-style piece.)

BuzzFeed cops ridicule on one front while covering a few bases and building a (presumably) profitable, capable media venture overall.

I do agree that Buzzfeed does some great stuff, but their homepage rarely reflects it.

I think it's an interesting strategy regardless.

I'm finding they're becoming a decent newswire in Australia at least, they did a good job covering recent hostage incident in Sydney

Nice. The headlines should all be followed with "number X will blow your mind", "You will not believe number X", and other variants.

Wait these titles are randomly generated? I just got "18 Wives with stupendous jugs"

So did I. Makes me suspect it's not completely random...

Hey, I'm one of the guys who worked on this. Once we generate the articles, they're persisted on the website so that you can share them with your friends. If you want to generate a new article, go to the "Write for Us" page (link on the right of the top menu)

I think you guys just created a tool that's gonna be used by actual buzzfeed authors

https://github.com/bsansouci/fuzzbeed

Seems like they committed/pushed their Flickr API key[0] secret? Or is it just a dummy value?

0. https://github.com/bsansouci/fuzzbeed/blob/master/server.js#...

Hackathons ;)

I emailed the commit author to let them know, just in case.

Good. Looks like a job for https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ and a new API key + revoking that one.

This is very well done, especially the fact that the generated articles are not just headlines, but actual real articles!

My tears of laughter have yet to dry and my tummy hurts. This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Is there a way I can archive this to keep it forever and laugh until I die? I'd fork this in a heartbeat and host it on my server so I never have to leave my house again. Remarkable.

https://github.com/bsansouci/fuzzbeed via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908323

>Is there a way I can archive this to keep it forever and laugh until I die?

You could just set yourself on fire while reading it

Presumably because they copied BuzzFeed's HTML without editing, iOS Safari suggests I download the BuzzFeed app. Hah.

That's funny because I always thought Buzzfeed was randomly generated Buzzfeed.

Why is it so slow? Looking at a 30 second load time on ipad...

It looks like there are a few things blocking (slowing) the loading of the page - could be fonts or some social-media stuff.

Great project! :)

Awesome work! I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while – you beat me to it :)

Here's one generated from actual trending and real stories http://popist.com

The original link is a parody of BuzzFeed article construction, which is the point.

Well done :P

I've pulled similar shenanigans, I made one website for my school: http://latestart.cf

Then later: http://slatetart.tk

If you are downvoting my comment, please tell me why so I can improve my comments in the future. Cheers

Your comment does not appear to have any relevance at all to the topic of this discussion.

I thought it did just because of the URL name switching, but I see your point. Thanks.

Someone was the lead designer for a one page website with a handful of words on the page?

Yeah... we both needed resume padding for university.

What is this?

School has late starts on some days, and most people had no idea when they were so I threw this together one day real quick to be able to check; then shenanigans ensued and we had an alternate website set up, see slatetart.tk

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