I’ve gotten messages telling me @buzzfeed featured my post on their snap today and my question is, once again, where’s my cut of the check going to whoever’s job it is to literally screenshot my content and repost it?
@buzzfeed why do you pay your employees to copy+paste my content? why not hire creative people instead? just wondering.
@buzzfeed either start paying me, or stop using my stuff thanks!
I genuinely do not care when people on reddit or facebook or somewhere else screenshot and repost my content, because they’re not getting paid either.
What bothers me is that @buzzfeed has paid employees who have at least ten times now reposted my content to earn their paychecks. Whereas I am blogging for free on a platform that offers virtually no opportunities for content creators to profit from the time we spend.
I clearly offer something Buzzfeed wants and values as marketable, but rather than reach out to me to discuss how I could be an asset to them, or to at least ask permission to repost my content for free, they just pay their employees to scour my blog and make money off of me without benefiting me in any way.
It’s bullshit, and I’m genuinely tired of it.
@buzzfeed stole one of my posts for a listicle and apparently it was so good they quoted it verbatim for the article header to get clicks. Never once heard from @buzzfeed about permission or compensation. I could really use that too because I’m disabled and struggling on govt aid. So @buzzfeed you paid someone to steal my content in order to earn ad revenue for your selves so how about giving a cut to the people actually creating the work?
What is it gonna take though? @buzzfeed getting sued by a creator? Getting sued by multiple creators? Constant DMCA takedowns? There is no way @buzzfeed can claim they aren’t successful enough to pay all of its contributors. The exposure argument doesn’t work when so much of the stolen content is poorly credited or not at all. Its pure theft and hoping to get away with it by either the creators never seeing it or hopefully the creators being jazzed that they showed up on buzzfeed.
Go on Twitter and tweet that they stole your work. Link to their page and to your original work. Tweet out that you’re looking for other writers and artists who have had their work stolen and posted by buzzfeed without compensation. Make sure that every single person who responds includes a link to their own work and a link to the buzzfeed page that uses their work. Make sure to @ buzzfeed in each and every tweet from every complainant. When you have a roll going, tweet that you’re looking to file a class-action suit against @buzzfeed. Tweet that you’re looking for a lawyer. You will get a response from buzzfeed. They will want to avoid even the preliminaries of a lawsuit, and will certainly want to avoid bad press.
Yo, I feel this REALLY FUCKIN HARD. The Buzzfeed brand is ‘relatable and funny, like your witty, interesting friend’ but they aren’t your friend guys. It’s a media giant that STEALS content from creators without informing them or compensating them for ANYTHING. They mine the internet for whatever they think is ‘hip’ and spread it across their empire to generate ad revenue- leaving people creating new content in the dust. They can’t compete for volume and funding.
I contacted them about some stolen posts and they just “oh we’ll link to your blog directly thank you” and I just
No, I want compensation for you using MY WRITING. MY WORK. I did not consent. Buzzfeed does not care about consent at all. They know most creators can’t take them on in court so they just keep doing what they’re doing.
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