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the BF hate never rly made sense to me tbh. they're all complaining that the media company who hired them to make videos for them is taking ownership of the video and it's just like ? that's your job ? like good for them for going solo but like BF isn't evil for being corporate

I see both sides of it, tbh.

I don't know if the early folks in BF actually knew what they were getting into when they joined the company.

Much of what BF was able to accomplish in the mid 2010s was due primarily to the personalities and hard work of those creators. BuzzFeed was known to not exactly compensate their workers for the equivalent of what they were actually producing/how many hours they were working.

According to a LOT of interviews I've seen from former BFers, they almost always had to work unpaid overtime to get projects done on time. And there was endless pressure to not only achieve and maintain incredibly high numbers/views, but also to outdo those views. Jobs were on the line for people who couldn't deliver.

And, as you mentioned, everything they created was owned by a company and not by the creators themselves. So when they left, most of them also had to leave behind their IP and other major projects. (The Try Guys are an exception, but they spent a lot of money getting their name back.)

That's actually a pretty big deal, especially if you're trying to create a new venture off the success of your old content. I don't know if TTG would've had such a successful launch without keeping their name. Watcher was so slow to get off the ground in part because there wasn't that recognizable branding there anymore.

But the people who started there were also given access to equipment, promotion, brand deals, and exposure that they never would've had access to as solo, independent creators with no money. They also had a reliable 9-5, health insurance, and a certain amount of job security, which is something that independent creators cannot count on, even if they become really successful. The internet is fickle and support can dry up in a split second. Without Buzzfeed's support, many of them wouldn't have the ability to be successful solo creators now.

One of those things that doesn't have one simple answer, I guess!

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