FuzzBeed – Randomly generated BuzzFeed

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

Gyonka5• 12 years ago

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

jpatokal• 12 years ago

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

marban• 12 years ago

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

minimaxir2• 12 years ago

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

louthy• 12 years ago

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

minimaxir2• 12 years ago

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)

prawn2• 12 years ago

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.

untog• 12 years ago

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

oliyoung• 12 years ago

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

kmfrk• 12 years ago

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! :)

jgalt212• 12 years ago

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

iLoch• 12 years ago

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

jstanek• 12 years ago

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

schmavery2• 12 years ago

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)

brador• 12 years ago

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

peter_l_downs• 12 years ago

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

parski• 12 years ago

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.

joshmn• 12 years ago

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

plaguuuuuu• 12 years ago

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

huskyr• 12 years ago

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

TazeTSchnitzel• 12 years ago

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

FuzzBeed – Randomly generated BuzzFeed

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