
The Truth About Infographics
So, all those infographics? Turns out that it's all part of an incredibly sophisticated keyword-spamming operation! Which is convenient, because, honestly, we were all kind of getting a little tired of them. Here's an infographic to explain how the infographic-spam industry works. [UPDATE]
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- racheld5 The Truth About Infographics and thinks it’s Fail & WTF
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- Mrs Ge The Truth About Infographics
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Great info. Nice infographic, too =). I'll pass it along… virally.
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I'm a little creeped out by the fact that people are fighting over infographics. C'mon guys.
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I unknowingly posted one of these the other day and even manually provided a back link to their online school.I thought it must be graphic art school and didn't question it.The problem with spam usually is that it's of poor quality and dilutes the quality of content for the whole site.These infographics are generally not bad content wise , but they are stealing from this site when they use it to advertise without permission and not pay the going rate that other advertisers do.Even if that wasn't true after seeing their behavior as a whole in these comments I wouldn't choose to do business with them on any level.You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.
- BABYDIABOLICAL The Truth About Infographics
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- MattHurst thinks The Truth About Infographics is LOL
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those guys are genius, i dont see what the problem is, and would pay good money to learn it when it was working
- Russ Palmer The Truth About Infographics and thinks it’s LOL
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Infographics suck!
This one included :) - Martian Yeti The Truth About Infographics
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- Laughing Squid The Truth About Infographics and thinks it’s Geeky
- Jason Ruby The Truth About Infographics
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Is lambfeed seriously going around “unliking” all the comments made by those who are in favor of infographics? 12 year olds know better than that.
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In contrast to the other new accounts, this lurker registered to say that the graphic is pretty damn awesome! : D
- sometoast The Truth About Infographics and thinks it’s Geeky
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It's nice to know why those sites keep pumping out infographics like there's no tomorrow.
- wunami The Truth About Infographics
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it's not “abuse” or “spam” if people are learning from these infographics and like them. thank you infographics people, and boo to you, person who made this hateful infographic!
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- loonyluna48 thinks The Truth About Infographics is Geeky
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My head hurt after reading that…o.o
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- Caroline B. The Truth About Infographics and thinks it’s Trashy & WTF
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I love the infographics! Why don't you leave these hard working people alone BUZZFEED? They just want to sling their generic designs under the guise of research with hidden search engine bait for a living. You're just jealous.
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@b.espee That sounds very believable!
- lambfeed thinks The Truth About Infographics is LOL
- Van Aleph thinks The Truth About Infographics is Geeky & LOL
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This infographic fails because it's the anti-infographic; complicated and requiring more than surface thought. Try a little harder spammers, using vague terms like 'they' and 'the/their infographics' doesn't come across as genuine praise. If you disagree, I have an email I got the other day that might interest you: I have a Business Proposal of $19.5M for you to handle with me from my bank. I need you to assist me in executing this Business Project from Hong Kong to your country. I need to know if you will be able to handle this with me before I explain to you in details.
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I'm team rel=”nofollow”!
- turtlefeed The Truth About Infographics
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@JackShepherd, calm down, guy. Buzzfeed is one of the most prominent social websites on the web. It's inevitable that new users, such as myself, will sign up today. I shouldn't receive backlash for my opinions just because of your assumptions.
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i love their infographics!!!! who designed this graphic anyway…this is a disgrace to all infographics!
- ivys The Truth About Infographics
- Hazz The Truth About Infographics and thinks it’s Geeky
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uh, i'm not. i've always just been a lurker who just liked to read what was on this site, but wanted to comment on how absurd hating on ppl who managed to find a way to make money off the suckers who fell for the crap they're doing is, so i had to create an acct. so i guess that makes me a hater of haters, lol as i've posted on youtube many times: don't hate b/c you couldn't duplicate.
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Tomorrow on BuzzFeed: More infographics.
- Peggy Wang The Truth About Infographics
- elliotb thinks The Truth About Infographics is Trashy
- Megan The Truth About Infographics
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You infographic spam posters are killing me. This is too hilarious.
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HEY GUYS! LOOK AT ALL THESE FAKE ACCOUNTS THAT WERE JUST MADE TODAY TO COMMENT ON THIS! (With apologies to Matt Gibbs and Lynne Benoux, who are longtime BuzzFeeders and have every right to express their opinions.)

































