Benjamin Eli Smith is an American journalist who has worked as a media columnist for The New York Times since January 2020. From 2011 to 2020, he was the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.
BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media; it is based in New York City. BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III, to focus on tracking viral content. Kenneth Lerer, co-founder and chairman of The Huffington Post, started as a co-founder and investor in BuzzFeed and is now the executive chairman.
Audie N. Cornish is an American journalist and a current co-host of NPR's All Things Considered and panelist on Pop Culture Happy Hour. She was previously the host of Profile by Buzzfeed News, a web-only interview show that lasted one season as well as “NPR Presents,” a long-form conversation series with creatives about their projects, processes, and shaping culture in America.
The dress is a photograph that became a viral internet sensation on 26 February 2015, when viewers disagreed over whether the dress pictured was coloured black and royal blue, or white and gold. The phenomenon revealed differences in human colour perception, which have been the subject of ongoing scientific investigations into neuroscience and vision science, with a number of papers published in peer-reviewed science journals.
McKay Coppins is an American journalist and author who is a staff writer for The Atlantic. In 2012, Coppins was one of the Forbes magazine's "30 under 30" media pundits and listed along with three other young BuzzFeed News journalists as one of Politico's "ten breakout reporters of 2012." He is a regular contributor to CNN and MSNBC.
Tracy Clayton is an American writer known as the co-host of the BuzzFeed podcast Another Round, which has been on hiatus since 2017. Her work has been recognized by Fast Company, Ebony, and The Root, who described her as "a superstar at BuzzFeed, the millennial-driven media powerhouse where she writes big, funny things." Clayton was laid off from BuzzFeed in September 2018 amid company-wide downsizing. She hosts the Netflix podcast Strong Black Legends, for which she interviews African Americans in the entertainment industry.
Shani Olisa Hilton is an American journalist and media executive, currently working as the Deputy Managing Editor at the Los Angeles Times. Prior to the Times, Hilton was the executive editor at BuzzFeed News.
OurMine is a hacker group that is known for hacking popular accounts and websites, such as Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter accounts. The group often causes cybervandalism to advertise their commercial services, which is among the reasons why they are not widely considered to be a "white hat" group.
Scaachi Koul is a Canadian culture writer at BuzzFeed Canada. She is the author of the book of essays One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter and was one of the reporters in BuzzFeed's Netflix documentary series Follow This. Before BuzzFeed, Koul worked at Penguin Random House Canada, the acquiring publisher of her book, and was an intern at Maclean's magazine. Her journalism has appeared in Flare, HuffPost Canada, The Thought Catalog, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and other publications.
Jacob Tobia is an American LGBT rights activist, writer, producer, television host and actor. In 2019, they published their memoir titled Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. They are also the voice of the character Double Trouble in DreamWorks' animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Tobia has been recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 and the Out100.
The Try Guys is an award-winning American online comedy series currently available for streaming on YouTube. The series features Keith Habersberger, Ned Fulmer, Zach Kornfeld, and Eugene Lee Yang, who perform a number of different challenges together. The group created The Try Guys while working for BuzzFeed and subsequently separated themselves from the internet media company in 2018. The four of them write, produce, direct, shoot, and act in each episode. They have expanded their company and now have people working under them.
BuzzFeed Unsolved is an American documentary entertainment web series created and produced by Ryan Bergara for BuzzFeed. It first aired on YouTube on February 4, 2016, and has run for twelve seasons. The show previously aired on the channel BuzzFeed Multiplayer, but now airs on the channel BuzzFeed Unsolved Network.
Miz Cracker is the stage name of Maxwell Heller, an American drag queen and television personality. She is best known for placing fifth on the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and for being a runner-up on the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.
Brittany Ashley is an American actor, writer, and comedian. She is known for creating lesbian online content and has been identified as an internet celebrity.
Worth It is an American entertainment web series by BuzzFeed that premiered in September 18, 2016. Each episode sees presenters Steven Lim and Andrew Ilnyckyj, along with cameraman Adam Bianchi, visiting three different restaurants to try similar foods at three "drastically different price points"—affordable, mid, and luxury. The three are invariably positive about the food that they eat, a differentiating factor from BuzzFeed's other video content, and they attempt to approach the foods they eat from the perspective of everyday normal people.
Quinta Brunson is an American writer, producer, comedian, and actress. Brunson gained prominence for her self-produced series Instagram Girl Who Has Never Been on a Nice Date. She went on to produce and act in content for BuzzFeed Video, and developed two streaming series with BuzzFeed Motion Pictures.
Allison Beth Raskin is an American writer, director, comedian, YouTuber, podcaster, and mental health advocate. She previously worked as a writer at BuzzFeed Video, but left in 2015 with fellow writer and friend Gaby Dunn to pursue work on their comedy YouTube channel, "Just Between Us."
Akilah Saidah Kamaria Hughes is an American writer, comedian, YouTuber, podcaster, and actress. She has been a digital correspondent for MTV, HBO, Fusion TV, and Comedy Central. She began her career on a YouTube channel, "It's Akilah, Obviously!", which has amassed more than 150,000 subscribers. In October 2019, she and journalist Gideon Resnick became co-hosts of What a Day, a Crooked Media podcast.
Michelle Khare is an American YouTuber, television host, actress and a former professional cyclist. She is best known for her YouTube show Challenge Accepted and HBO Max's Karma.
Safiya Nygaard is an American YouTuber. She is known for her video "Why I Left Buzzfeed" and her series of "Bad Beauty Science" videos.
