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The Downfall Of The Pinterest APP Files (DEEP-DIVE) Capitalism & True Crime... Today I talk about, The UNSOLVED True Crime Case Daily Stories Of Pinterest, I talk about, Pinterest is a social media app and website where it enables users to save both images and videos in virtual pinboards, making it particularly popular with people gathering inspiration for creative projects or event planning, healthy eating, childhood nostalgia, lifestyle, activism, you could make a board and save pins to it of anything you want, For example if you are a raw vegan you can save and share health tips and the raw vegan lifestyle content on there or if you are a vegan activist you can save vegan messages on there, or if your a fashion girly and love aesthetics or wanting to plan your DIY wedding you can create a board and add pins to it that inspire you, or if your a science girly you can make a board dedicated to science information, if your into politics you can make a board and fill it with your favorite political pins, etc, As such, an unexpected ban can mean the loss of years of careful work and curation! Pinterest finally broke its silence on the mass bans, and it's only made users angrier, Pinterest users have been complaining about mass bans for days, many claiming that they've been locked out of their accounts without clear justification. The social media platform finally addressed the backlash on Thursday after Mashable reached out, however the response is unlikely to appease many users. Reports of Pinterest's inexplicable mass bans began circulating recently, with users flocking to other platforms such as Tiktok Reddit and YouTube to complain about suddenly losing their accounts. The r/Pinterest subreddit has been overtaken by posts about the issue, while the comment sections on Pinterest's official Instagram and TikTok accounts have been flooded with by irate users asking the company to fix it. Users have accused Pinterest of issuing sweeping bans for no discernable reason, in circumstances where there is allegedly no clear violation of its Community Guidelines. Some state that they've had completely new and unused accounts banned, while others claim they've lost accounts that are over a decade old. Yet despite the widespread outrage amongst users, Pinterest maintained silence on there social media platform, This has left users to speculate, with some theorising that AI moderation may be the culprit and how Pinterest might allegally be purposely deleting accounts thinking nobody would notice and thought wrong.
After Pinterest posted its statement, A Reddit user began gauging interest in a potential class action lawsuit, noting that people may have not only lost income from Pinterest ad campaigns or traffic, but also personal archives containing irreplaceable content such as personal projects or family photos. "Pinterest promotes itself as a platform for saving ideas, preserving memories, and conducting business… things many users invest significant time and trust in," wrote wighthamster. "Yet, recent actions suggest a pattern of arbitrary mass account suspensions, often with no functional recourse, directly contradicting its own marketed image and the reasonable expectations of its users." some claiming that Pinterest's bans have had repercussions beyond merely losing a few saved pictures. "For a lot of photographers artists and stylists, it’s the industry standard to present a moodboard before any project goes into action and the sheer amount of valuable references I’ve lost out on since being banned is hard to describe," wrotea reddit user, "I’ve had to postpone shoots and scramble to reassemble projects. Years and years of curating down the drain and multiple projects stuck in limbo." 70% of Pinterest’s user base, and the site has only gotten more female over time, in part because its algorithm is self-reinforcing. The more people who come to Pinterest looking for so-called female content, the more Pinterest prioritizes that kind of content, and the cycle continues, More than 200 said they stood in solidarity with 3 former co-workers who have accused the company of discrimination, The series of actions were the latest in a growing employee movement of discrimination lawsuits, harassment accusations and walkouts over injustices across the tech industry and the investors who fund it, She broke her NDA to speak out against Pinterest. Now she’s helping others come forward, For months, Ifeoma Ozoma couldn’t tell anyone – not even her closest friends and family – why she had left her high-profile job at Pinterest. how predators online had been using the service to curate image boards of young girls, ETC!!!
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PURE EVIL The Satisfying Demise & Implosion Of Buzzfeed Files (DEEP-DIVE) Capitalism & True Crime... Today I talk to you about, The DOWNFALL and Decline Of BuzzfeedVideo and Buzzfeed News, I talk about, the mid 2010's digital news outlet that harnessed the power of social media to take the internet by storm, is shuttering. The move marks the end of the digital media upstart frenzy rooted in the late aughts that enlisted a new generation of young journalists and once threatened entrenched legacy news organizations, The outlet once inspired tremendous jealousy from the likes of CNN and The New York Times. Flush with venture capital cash, it poached top journalists at establishment outlets, opened bureaus across the world, and touted its ability to send stories viral across the web., Back then, BuzzFeed was the envy of media and its employees the cool kids of the industry. The outlet was sown into the fabric of the pop culture. Lists and quizzes saturated social media feeds and dominated the internet and their YouTube videos went viral and dominated the internet they were one fo the first people on the youtube scene as well, The endless listicles and outrageous clickbait headlines is reported to have fallen into financial difficulties. Nothing had been going as planned for BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti in the last while, as indicated by his company’s tanking stock price, Less traffic means less ad revenue. And less revenue has meant the closure of Buzzfeed’s news operation – itself a loss leader to give the site extra credibility – and a resultant loss of jobs for its journalists.
Buzzfeed pioneered the use of viral content and helped legitimize the practice as a form of journalism. The company’s early success – roughly a period between 2012 when it launched Buzzfeed News and early 2019 when it started laying off staff – inspired many other media companies to create viral content of their own. BuzzFeed's decline has been attributed to various factors, putting profits over lives thinking they're creators were replaceable, they got greedy, BuzzFeed employees left for various reasons, often citing a desire for greater creative control and ownership of their work a lot of YouTube creators and social media content creators had claimed that they really couldn't make their own videos and how buzzfeed wanted to profit off their ideas, Many former employees expressed frustration with BuzzFeed's ownership of their creative work and their inability to pursue personal projects outside of the company, Buzzfeed was exploiting them for their content ideas buzzfeed didn't want them to flourish on their own, Many also mentioned feeling burned out from the pressure of producing high volumes of viral content one employees also mentioned that they left because they felt they were not being properly compensated for their work
In the latest entry in the “Why I Left BuzzFeed” genre, former social-media strategist Candace Lowry explained the reasons for her departure in a YouTube video posted Tuesday. “I don’t want my identity to solely be BuzzFeed,” she said. “I want to be able to create this own path, and to be able to collaborate with anyone, everywhere and to have creative freedom.” Lowry worked at BuzzFeed for two and a half years before joining Popsugar a year ago — the first time she’d ever quit a job. “The overarching reason why I left BuzzFeed is to have independence,” Safiya Nygaard, a former video producer at the company, said in a YouTube video last month with more than 8.6 million views, She quit in January 2017 after less than two years, saying that one of the main things that bothered her was BuzzFeed’s fiat that staffers were not allowed to interact with viewers in YouTube’s comments section, “In general, I think my goals and the company’s goals just didn’t align anymore,” The fact that BuzzFeed owns all the intellectual property its creators produce “began to scare me,” Dunn said. “Do I give them my best ideas? Later in life, I may want to use those ideas for something, and I won’t be able to.” once again Capitalism companies exploiting employees taking their ideas can cause people to lose passion in life, BuzzFeed planning to slash its workforce, Other similar online news sites – including Vox and Vice – that boomed during the 2010s have also struggled as audiences and advertisers moved away from social media and towards video services such as YouTube and TikTok, BuzzFeed on YouTube, despite having millions of subscribers, struggles to achieve significant view counts on newer videos nowadays, ETC!!!
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