BUZZFEED TEA with Ella, Gaby and Allison
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Ella Hart joins us to share more about working at Buzzfeed! What a wild time for all of us!
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It's crazy that "Why I Left Buzzfeed" became a whole YT video genre. 😐
AND IM HERE FOR IT AND NOT MISSING THIS
Allison is gorgeous. ❤️
As a Jew I’m noticing they put the Jews in the attic. Not cool
Oh fuck… that’s disgusting
i love allison
👀
Have they talked about how racist BuzzFeed is? BuzzFeed repeatedly made videos shitting on white people, including one with self-hating white people. I strongly believe that people are equal and shouldn't be judged for their race. If BuzzFeed made racist videos about black people or Hispanic people, or any race, I'd be saying the same thing. I'm not going to sit back and be quiet when I hear people say that their own race is superior or that people of a different race are inferior.
lmao
Progressives hate white people, where have you been? You think they'll "answer" for that?
Its crazy to think that at one point most of buzzfeed's viewer/fanbase always talked about wanting to work there; now we have so much content like this exposing the company for its poor working conditions lmao
imho - it was a great place to work but it was also a very tough culture. There were high highs and low lows. I have a different opinion than others but i think it's good to be critical of things.
I’m so proud of Quinta!! How amazing for her lto win an Emmy on her first nomination!
Gaby; as one of those young kids who found you on buzzfeed as a depressed and closeted bisexual, thank you so much. I am so sorry that you felt you had to share your stories with us in those years.
this.
I was obsessed with buzzfeed as a teenager and I wanted to work there so bad, and now hearing all of this it’s literally a cult
THEY BOTH WAS THE CULT!!! you know how many people they stopped from working so they can bring in their friends?!? the stories of trying to get a job at buzzfeed is disgusting tbh
@thompsonjames918 Do you mean they stopped people working in the cult? Or another job?
Buzzfeed deliberately targeted younger, inexperienced, vulnerable people who didn't know better and were ill equipped to stand up for themslves.
Those individuals did add to and perpetuate the toxic enviroment however they are also victims.
Looking back, I know now why I had this uncomfortable feeling creeping up my neck whenever I watched BF videos which involved their employees opening up about something so personal: they themselves didn't feel comfortable sharing their personal experiences and traumas! It was really a completely different feeling from when I would watch taste tests or drunk vids.
honestly, from my opinion no one was made to share anything they didn't want to. I think there was overall a culture during that time in the internet and one that still continues where you pull from your life to create content... i think it was magnified in a sense because of working for a company.
Weird spin: Buzzfeed was the first-ever content house...
It really is/was 😂
it wasn't lol
@@ladygagagagax4 if the factors are there
Beside the whole awful bts buzzfeed that you guys went through, I'm really gratful for all the things that you guys made back then (and today also) and the huge part that they had/have in my life. Thank you for making days less awful for me when I just needed something to take me head out of life and enjoy some fun content.
I literally haven’t watched buzz feed in almost a decade but I’m obsessed with learning how awful it was
Ella I remember this video where a nutritionist made you show her what you ate in a week and she ripped you to shreds. And it was so similar to what I ate! It felt so gross and I wonder if you had any weird feelings about that vid too
tbh i loved that video and i knew that i didn't eat healthy haha! it was cool to see it laid out that way. I still struggle with healthy eating and there were a lot of videos that actually helped me... like when i cut out sugar for a month it changed my life!
@@HeyyyElla love how you took all the negativity and turned it into something positive. just watched the video and i also feel a little gross not gonna lie. but i guess she was supposed to make the video "entertaining" and whatnot
@@aurora-sq8xx i think if they weren't employees and actresses it wouldn't have been a big thing to try no sugar like their viewers
@@aurora-sq8xx yeah I actually haven't watched it in a long time but I feel like that type of format doesn't age well. I remember it was a take on those viral photos of what people eat in a week etc.
I’m here for this. I came to this podcast because I had the biggest crush on Allison and I wanted to see more of her and Gabbie’s dynamic. Hearing the behind the scenes stuff makes looking back at stuff more interesting.
Nothing is better then parents with legal degrees my mom worked through her twenties and thirties while I was in my teen years at whataburger and went to college. She now is a paralegal and does all the families legal work and looks at our contracts and I'm endlessly appreciative
Buzzfeed was a *huge* part of my teen years, so much so that I actually applied to work there as a writer in 2019. Turned out to be one of the most frustrating hiring processes of all time. Had my work used for their profit with no gain on my end, went through an exhaustive hiring process with three interviews (one in person at their office in Manhattan) and they literally never got back to me. That was the moment when the rose-colored glasses completely flew off.
Did Allison invent quiet quitting?
I went to buzzfeeds “gay prom” thing in 2017 or 18 and met adam lambert and some of the people who worked there…. Everyone was so sweet to me and my friends, I hope they do hold on to the good memories and bonds made and heal from the toxic work place environment
Gaby has so much to say they aren’t saying lol
I want Gaby’s unvarnished opinions!
I felt the same. They have seem to have a lot to be said. I hope they can whenever comfortable.
seeing the JBU intro gave me crazy nostalgia
It’s kinda crazy cuz I was legit scared of AG and Ella while I worked there, even though we were so close in age the power dynamic was ridiculous. But yeah BF was the most exploitative, farming our emotional trauma for profit that we didn’t even see. Plus no ownership of our content. No path to promotion. Inconsistent metrics that only applied to some producers. (I would love to hear from Ella about the contract I was made to sign just before I left, was it really about my videos not performing well enough or was it to control me/what type of content I was making?)
Considering the last video I made for them is one of the most watched BF videos of all time…
HEAR HEAR!!
hey kenny, sorry you feel that way. Down chat - i'll message you.
@@HeyyyElla absolutely no hate or shade towards you specifically! We both had to work for the same company, it’s more if I trust anyone to be honest about what was going on, it would be you
@@KennyMoffitt appreciate that happy to discuss! I definitely can see your POV understand how you felt/feel. I also could offer my POV and maybe that would help.
I remember thinking years ago that is weird that Buzzfeed never credited actors/producers/writers for videos and short films. Also that Buzzfeed coworkers were producing videos but would also have them pretend to be love interests for videos like that’s super problematic.
it was scripted - like with scripts.
@@HeyyyElla yeah I get that. I think I just thought it was potentially problematic that Buzzfeed folks had to act in faux relationships with coworkers for videos and some of them might have been in higher positions of power. That just seemed weird to me in a work setting especially since the folks acting in the videos weren’t just paid actors but also producers, writers, managers, etc.
I wish this video was an hour longer! I could listen to you guys talk like this all day
24:19 - this discussion:
Allison: I felt like I was friends with everybody but never felt like I was in their inner circle there.
Gaby: No. Me neither, but I was trying so hard.
Allison: No, you weren't.
Gaby: I was not.
Allison: I dunno what you were doing.
Gaby & Ella: LAUGHTER
resonated with gaby on this lol. i have the intention/thought in the back of my head that I should develop a deeper relationship with people, but never act on it for various reasons (im shy, saying/doing something corny/lame, anxiety, having uncommon interests, among other things). thats why most people just end up as a casual friend/acquaintance
As a working adult who watched buzzfeed growing up, buzzfeed seems like a nightmare of workplace….
It was always crazy to me how buzzfeed tried so hard to be seen as this kinda woke, super diverse company that talked about important issues, so much so that they were pressuring employees to talk about that stuff when they didn’t feel comfortable, but it always read as so fake and surface level because they’d release videos about the struggles of being trans and then the next day release a video called “16 period problems that ALL women understand” and like I get you have so many people working on this stuff so there’s bound to be some conflicting content but those kinds of things made it so clear that it was about pumping out the broadest appeal of stuff as fast as possible
I also think specifically around videos that were super generalized it was for an easy clickable title - but at the same time was completely oversight that should have been flagged.
The fact that Sugar likes Ella is true JBU gold
Ella- damage control? I’ve always heard she made fun of safiya when she left and told Will Neff he was a poor filmmaker.
exactly what i was thinking… also i never heard about the safiya stuff, what happened?
Nothing bonds friends more than a traumatic work environment lol I’m sorry you all had to go through that just to express yourselves and make a living. I’m glad you had each other and friendship and love came from it
Question - how do y'all feel about Ze Frank? Hearing this stuff I feel weird about consuming his current content. IDK how much I should separate the individual from the company overall. Thoughts?
I have this same exact question.
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I still can't believe you have this intro card saved somewhere after all these years despite barely having used it lately 😭
I’m sorry but I’m so distracted by Ella touching her feet and then touching her face and mouth afterwards
Homegirl was petting the fuck outta that dog
I’M YELLING HAHAHAHA
There is a video with Allison in the thumbnail with 12mil😅
lol
I was a big fan of that Buzzfeed era, but once I started to work in a big company I assume all these bad things would happen to you all. because that's the thing with big companies, they all treat you like a number but want the best of you. Also, they recruit young people because they are full of hopes and dreams, but also because they lack the experience to make sure they need that job, and the thing is that with your first job you don't know anything about setting boundaries, so people in high positions take advantage of that. Sending you all hugs!!
can't wait for the real tea with Gaby
Off topic but those dogs are so sweet!! Adorable
Lol for some reason them talking about the Andrew and Ashlee debacle and how they never finished the storyline was the closure I needed.
To clarify I fully understood they weren't a couple and they were portraying characters. I was just super invested in the story they were creating. And I hated how people were going about it all
Saaame!!!
yes! it was so compelling! If only people understood it was all pretend
You all should have been harsher you were basically in a cult
I used to have a huge crush on all these people, I still do, but I used to too.
What this video needs is pictures popping on of all the people they are naming, because I don’t remember names, but I watched all of this back then! Also a playlist of all the videos refrred to in this episode just for a real deep dive into 2010s culture 😂
This was a lovely little throwback. All though it did make me insecure for a couple of reasons. 1) Success is such a chance of a whim. "Get hired by Buzzfeed in 2014." 2) Ella was a PRODUCER of a MEGA media company at 23. That's insane to me. 3) I think when I'm speaking casually and I haven't planned out my thoughts, I sometimes overuse the word "like" as I verbally process. I know how intelligent and well spoken this group is, but I heard a good bit of that linguistic crutch happening to you folks and I got insecure about my own language just hearing it a bunch.
More importantly, petition for Gaby to make the scathing Part 2.
All this video experience and the audio is horrific quality. What’s up?
Oh gosh, all the nostalgia and hearing what was really happening behind the sketches and videos, it just reminds you that not everything is what they seem, hehe... I'm really loving these discussions. Although I have to admit the golden era of BuzzFeed was truly quite solid and addictive. I was proud of you guys. You were my favorite people at BuzzFeed. Y'all really had captured everyone's attention and made people have interesting discussions. On this video, I was laughing so much hearing your stories. Like glimpses of what was happening while you were in the company. Also, I loved and laughed how Alison kept forgetting the things that happened in the past. That is so relatable for me! I have a selective memory, hehe! Anyways, it's such a fun discussion. This video really made my day. Would be fun to hear more in the future! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! 🥰🥰🥰
I can relate so hard to the part about the buttons the place I work at does the same thing but with pins they give us every 5 years of sticking around, ha it's literally the only reason I've stayed which I know is silly. This year is my first year of going to the pin luncheon.
I now finally have a pin, should I quit dramatically or politely tell them I need to spend more time with my family but they can keep me on the pay roll incase of emergencies?
This was definitely my favorite sitcom in college.
I'm just glad to get the tea of who Gabe hooked up with LOL
It's crazy how influential Ze has been on online video in general, yet I don't feel like I hear that much of this general buzzfeed controversy hitting back on his person, when it seems like it was definitely on him.
who?
@@aspiringtentacle Ze Frank, he did online video before TH-cam was even a thing and inspired pretty much the entire first generation of TH-camrs before then moving on to head video at Buzzfeed and it seems he was a pretty toxic (potentially abusive) boss, but from the way people still talk about his influence, the toxicity doesn't seem to be a thing people mention.
I had no idea that's who they were talking about, and didn't know that about him! It certainly shines a new light on his enduring youtube presence.
Buzzfeed employees: we would like money to pay the rent and eat please
Buzzfeed: YOU CAN EAT BUTTONS
The lack of boundary that you described is kind of like being a healthcare worker during covid.
Need more og Buzzfeed Tea content please, ty
BF was my thing during the mid 2010s. I loved the contents and the creators were so talented. Im sorry I didnt recognize the level of exploitation BF was doing bts.
I was hoping so bad for more Ella keep bringing her on!!!!❤❤❤❤
Uhh where do they talk about Ze breaking up their friendship?? Lol
Wow this was juicier than I expected
“It’s like being on someone’s favorite sitcom.” TH-cam and the internet IS television for so many people now. I know especially being in college in 2014 I didn’t have TV but I sure as hell had TH-cam
I completely agree with Ella! you guys definitely made history
I can’t look at Ella the same since Will Neff mentioned that she told him that he wasn’t talented which is so awful.
I definitely didn't say that. But I saw the clip you are referencing. The conversation Will is talking was a much longer discussion around performance vs producing. I think Will is incredibly talented which is why he was on my team.
OMG ALL THE PEOPLE WHO RAISED MEE HELLO PARENTS HIIIII
The way Ella will never address talking down on Will Neff LOL.
The dogs make me so happy🥰
Did you see the cute interactions between them and the hoomans??? So lovely :)
I came out in 2016, and honestly those clips on buzzfeed helped me so much. I loved it so much
2:04 the puppy on the left is trying to get comfortable
I teared up a bit seeing this. Glad to see you guys here, brings back good memories 😊
I became a vegetarian because of the video where you killed chickens lol (and still am, years and years later)
Wtf they killed chickens in a video?
CANT WAIT FOR PART 2 😳
This video makes me a little sad because Gaby seems like they feel their experience was more negative overall, and they seemed pretty sad/maybe a little uncomfy toward the end. Not because of Allison or Ella, I'm sure it's just weird to look back on such a stressful time.
Ze was really weird, yall should sue. Like, I truly think he was the problem for this workforce. Jonah let that man run it. Homeboy went to an all-hands and said, "you are all replaceable" lol, that would not fly in this climate.
i just wanted you guys to know i still rewatch the Sarcastic Soulmate Video Gabby and Andrew starred in every once in a while because it's so funny lol
We need a series of these videos 💀
I just wanna know if Merle and Aria were real
Loving the tea! However, is it me, or do they all (particularly Ella, though) say "like" A LOT? 😅
I have questions. When they say zay are they talking about Ze? And does that mean he was problematic?
Yes and yes
Man I wish I could make money off of a job I left 8 years ago lol
Growing a ship is hilarious 😂
Years ago Gaby was in a Buzzfeed video where they all steamed their buttholes, and even then I had a creepy feeling about it. It felt like the company was really crossing a line by asking employees to steam their buttholes in a video, as part of their jobs! Sure, the employees must have given their consent, but what if they'd said no? Would they get dinged for not being "team players," because they'd refused to steam their buttholes in a video that would be seen by millions of strangers? That's just a really weird, creepy thing for a media company to ask their employees to do! Even if it's "optional" and "no pressure," the employees still know that if they don't do it they won't get those precious views and the bosses might be less inclined to use them for a video next time.
It was actually the opposite - you could get 'dinged' for being in too many videos vs. producing videos. There were lots of people who wanted to be in videos so that wasn't the issue. I think the issue was feeling the need to get views by sharing personal things as an attempt to connect with the audience. Getting lots of comments and views is addicting - and oversharing can be the same way. The way the culture was set up it was encouraged to be open and express yourself but the idea was to always get views so I could see how that could feel like pressure to share and feel it was apart of your job. We also scraped many videos that came off wrong or after watching the cut people were uncomfortable with how it came out.
Wtf ze frank tried to break up your friendship?? Ugh
I value JBU for letting not only the interviews feel candid, but for the videos to show so much more enthusiasm with content than buzzfeed should ever reach
I am so here to hear these stories ❤️ but the sound situation is so muffled / echoey eek
I'll just leave a like, i don't know how to put into words everything i want to say lmao
Thank you for talking about this. It’s hard being a content creator and it’s a strange experience to have parasocial relationships. I hope you all are doing well and thank you for explaining your experiences. 💗
What was the mtv show?
i interviewed at buzzfeed in 2020 and i am so thankful they rejected me
Buzzfeed’s biggest asset was its creators, and doing them dirty destroyed buzzfeed.
I feel like i’m at a sleepover with my friends getting all the tea 🥰 cozy vibes
Thank you for making this vid and posting, yay for Gallison
I have personal experience with cults and so many things about buzzfeed meets those markers with flying colors lol. Most people don't realize that cult-like behaviors are SUPER common and in SO many places; self-help, religion, relationships, business. Inability to criticize, character assassination of or ostracizing people who leave, rewarding enduring toxic conditions and being happy about it, subconscious pressure to not have a life outside the community. It's very normal to still be thankful for the cool parts of it, or to still be overall angry about it (and justifiably so). Either way, it's important to have honest conversations so you don't fall into another similar dynamic. If you succeed you will gain a superior ability to spot red flags that seem innocuous to others, and empathy for people who are vulnerable to similar manipulation. Thanks for sharing!
You might like the podcast 'sounds like a cult'!
Why do I feel like Eugene was definitely one of those people who would display a jar full of buttons
I actually think it was the total opposite, and Eugene saw buzzfeed as a stepping stone to his dream projects.
I wish Ze Frank was a better person
What did he do
It's crazy that so many of my favorite creators now came from such a toxic work environment. it's like they recognized talent but instead of nurturing it they just exploited it. It's unfortunate to hear.
What was the tv show they were offered?
This is so relatable to every toxic place I’ve worked - capitalism lolz
What was the MTV show?
Omg i haven watch any of them for like 7 years...
You were important to all of us growing, hopefully by blowing this up, you guys will see we still think you are.
Thanks for noting the exploitative nature of pressuring people to share their stories and be edgy/cool. I got some bad vibes in some videos and I just felt like some of it was under a lot of pressure.
I'm a film student working towards becoming an Editor...I like making films that involves me but I'll change things to make it not my story. I'll dress differently than I do so I'm more of a character.
I've watched y'all from the start, I'm happy you're all away from that.
you said ella hart and i had to take a break to stalk how did i miss this