BuzzFeed was sold to BuzzFeed, I think basically for less than a dollar. Verizon basically paid BuzzFeed to take it off its hands. And as the social web has receded and collapsed, I think what they found at BuzzFeed is that like how many post front page traffic stuck around? It did. The old internet behaviors that predate social media are kind of back.

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