Are we talking about the same Buzzfeed here? Also, I wouldn't say that Buzzfeed is the only website using Reddit to find content. I've certainly seen parts of reddit being cited/quoted by the NYT and the BBC, for instance. I also think the article (like the one it cites) is trying to make a news story from very little. It cites a quote from Ohanian from 1.5 years ago that clearly (in hindsight) didn't play out. Like so many reddit initiatives, Upvoted had some good ideas behind it, but was ultimately not very well thought-out. With that being said, I really don't expect that anyone (not even Ohanian himself) thought that it would be the website's "savior". Buzzfeed also does stellar original journalism in politics and business and technology
Buzzfeed has always been about positivity
Buzzfeed basically uses it's piles of shit to fund good journalism.Buzzfeed also does stellar original journalism in politics and business and technology
Upvoted existed because Alex at Paragon talked Alexis into it. Paragon didn't like the direction Upvoted was going, so Upvoted died. It's fair to say that Ohanian thought original content and journalism would be Reddit's savior - he fired Victoria a week after hiring away half of The Verge's video team.