Ed Cara

I asked Claude AI to compare the Hasan Piker audience to the cringe wine moms at MSNOW. "[O]n a normal night, MS NOW's primetime audience of roughly 900,000 is about 25 times larger than Piker's typical concurrent stream of 36,000."

I’m really glad you posted this. The biggest regret of my career was not fighting back against this op. In the early days, BuzzFeed was just an aggregator. The editors trained us how to drag and drop content from all over the internet. No regard for copyright or publishing standards. But things change fast. BuzzFeed leaders hung their massive editorial problems around my neck and fired me, all while mass deleting tens of thousands of articles from other BuzzFeed staff who faced zero consequences. They tried to kill my career. It was a lot for a 26 year old to handle. And I almost killed myself. But here’s why I’m writing this today… No matter what you’re facing, no matter how dark or unfair or insurmountable, God’s got you. God created you. God has a purpose for your life. Today, my media business is thriving. We have 17 million subscribers. I love my job and the company we’re building. And none of it would have happened without me being fired from BuzzFeed. Don’t ever give up.

🚨 The final number of dead at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, is 108 school girls, a spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent Society said — more than half of the roughly 170 students who attend the school. It remains unclear whether the strike was carried out by the U.S. or Israel. A CENTCOM spokesperson said they were “looking into” the reports. Drop Site reported from the site of the massacre, speaking with families who lost their daughters. The school was reduced to rubble, and dozens of girls were trapped beneath collapsed concrete, with residents digging with their bare hands. Parents wandered through the debris in shock, calling out their children’s names. The full report is below.