By this point I think everyone kind of knows the alleged deal with Trump being a piss guy. I don’t care what Trump is doing in his private time in Russia. For someone as rich as Trump to have a fetish as tame as pissing, that’s a win for the world. Rich people are the ones who have the bizarre murder fetishes and shit like that, so I’m actually pumped that Trump is only into girls wetting the bed.

The pissing isn’t what I care about though, I want to talk about the media’s new moral authority on reporting, Buzzfeed. Since when does the clickbait capitol of the world get to report stories that attempt to incriminate our president elect of being a Russian puppet?

This image says it all.

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The only thing on Buzzfeed that was trending more than the documents that say the leader of the free world is in Vladimir Putin’s back pocket was a magical sandwich designing horoscope.

Buzzfeed is the Internet’s leading producer of garbage. But apparently they now want to get into the news industry by releasing documents that have zero credibility but are a juicy enough topic that everyone will be talking about them. Why not publish a 9/11 conspiracy while you’re at it? Put your stamp of journalistic integrity on one of those and give it an unreasonable amount of public exposure too.

Buzzfeed needs to do one of two things to figure themselves out:

  1. Stop publishing bull shit. If you want people to take you seriously as a news organization and you want to publish documents and act like they are worth the amount of attention that they will undoubtable receive, then you can’t keep drowning the internet in your shitty quizzes and questionnaires
  2. Stop pretending to be a news organization. You’ve found your seat in the cafeteria that is the internet. That seat is a popular one and the people there think you’re funny. So just keep doing what you’re doing because it seems to be working for you. If you all of a sudden start trying to force news down people’s throat when they only want to know what kind of Mcflurry flavor they are, no one is going to think you’re funny and no one is going to trust you for news.

I didn’t need all the qualifiers of “unverified” when Buzzfeed published this, I just needed to see their logo and I was reminded that “hey, this is the internet’s trash can, maybe they’ve never actually published anything that was worth reading.” and I would have taken these documents with the pile of salt that they deserve.

In conclusion, fuck off Buzzfeed.