What The F*** BuzzFeed.

Yesterday, June 29th, I went on BuzzFeed.com to post my lastest video. (Yes, I’m a small YouTuber) The video was: Should Polygamy Be Legal?

It’s a short little video about the arguments for legalizing polygamy.* And in light of the historic events in the USA, I thought it could be a funny and relevant video to BuzzFeed’s pop culture ethos.

Apparently I was wrong.

Coffee in hand, I sit down to log-on, and immediately receive a screen saying: ‘invalid username and password’.

I try again. Invalid.

I try twenty more times with possible password combinations. Every single time I’m told ‘invalid username and password’.

So I request a new password be sent to my email. What happens? I get taken to a screen that reads: “No account is associated with that email.”

Wut….

How can this be possible? BuzzFeed and I communicated over that email address just two months prior.

Next I go to my Safari url bar and type: www.buzzfeed.com/bostwiki

I hit enter.

PAGE NOT FOUND

What! Where the heck has my account gone? Have I recieved an email about this?

I quickly check my email account— nope nothing. I check my spam folder — nothing.

Apparently BuzzFeed has entirely wiped my account off the face of this earth, without reason, explanation, or notice.

Okay pause. At this moment I can already hear Reddit. “How do we know you, BostWiki, actually had a BuzzFeed account? Do you have any record?”

Well Google has a record.

In fact, the page(s) still shows up on the Google search results. Click the link. Where does it go? Nowhere.

Okay I so premeptively answered that one. But let’s pause again. I also hear Reddit commenting, “Well… BuzzFeed did say they were disabling accounts that represtented private corporations, or third party advertisements.”

This is true. But my account was already wrongly disabled for this once. In early May, I noticed my ability to post on BuzzFeed was frozen. I sent a query email through their contact page.

I explained I am just an individual, with no hidden agenda, and do not fit their list for disabling accounts. They looked over my account, apologized immediately and corrected it, and I was able to publish again.

Hooray! For a month….

So back to today — June 30th. I attempted to contact BuzzFeed again about my account being deleted, but this no time response from them— complete silence.

-edit sent another email on july 6th with this article included to them. No response.

What Gives BuzzFeed?

Are you going to do this to other people too?

Did you just renege on your prior conversations with me, but don’t have the balls to tell me?

#Ijustwishyouhadtoldme #ripbuzzfeeduser #Ithoughtredditwasbad….

*No I am not a polygamist

www.bostwiki.com