Buzzfeed vs Thought Catalog

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/207291/buzzfeed-stole-my-article-so-im-stealing-it-back/

Is there anything that can actually be done to kill the Buzzfeeds and HuffPos?

uhh lol

I started making BF quizzes in 2017, in HS. That was my initial bio after I got my first quiz promoted. I was happy and couldn’t believe my quiz was good enough for BF to promote it. I know it’s not gonna happen, i just thought it was funny & i haven’t really thought of it since https://t.co/pCPqGb5pbu

— rachel (@rachelmcmaho) January 28, 2019

worth checking the thread the quoted tweet is from

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isn't that an ilxor?

So how much of their quiz revenue is reliant on this one unpaid user not stopping?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/raechilling/describe-your-pet-and-well-tell-you-which-dinosau-2x863

this is interesting work

also--i know it's a moot point now--but why wouldn't they higher this woman who gets them a whole ton of traffic

*hire

because they can get the content without paying a cent

ah

yeah that makes sense.

i don't know what i'd do if these ilx paychecks stopped.

I must be sending to the wrong Venmo address, mea culpa

Oh good, Twitter seems to be persuading her to leverage her traffic and ask for payment.

Between April 2017 and December 2018, Rachel drove a conservative estimate of $3.8m in revenue for BuzzFeed (or 1% of their entire 2018 revenue). For free. https://t.co/H5U0xhnDPZ

— Ryan (@RyanHoulihan) January 29, 2019