BuzzFeed (BZFD) and The New Yorker couldn’t be more different, right? Well, what if you combined them? In honor (we assume) of the news of tech editor Matt Buchanan’s seemingly unlikely path from the Internet-friendly world of BuzzFeed to the prestige brand of The New Yorker, a hashtag has sprung up on Twitter to mash up the two sensibilities. Meet #BuzzFeedNewYorker.
Here are our nine of our favorites (in no particular order):
1989 facts about Chinese river crabs and grass mud horses that you didn't know (author: @eosnos) #BuzzFeedNewYorker
— Scott Young (@scottalyoung) January 30, 2013
The Top 2,700 Things You Never Knew About Hugo Chavez #BuzzFeedNewYorker
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) January 30, 2013
https://twitter.com/EmilyGould/status/296742568933335040
https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/296738719082360832
12 Restaurants Due to Close A Month After A Review in Table For Two #buzzfeednewyorker
— Josh Spero (@joshspero) January 30, 2013
27 Thousand Words On This SoHo Fashion Designer #buzzfeednewyorker
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) January 30, 2013
10 Ways to Use an Umlaut That Yöu Didn't Knöw Existed #buzzfeednewyorker
— Mike Janssen (@mjanssen) January 30, 2013
https://twitter.com/brfreed/status/296752510826323968
18 Characters From Martin Amis Novels Who Are Having A Worse Day Than You #BuzzFeedNewYorker
— Nicky Woolf (@NickyWoolf) January 30, 2013
