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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  about 8 months ago ×
  • The Truth About Infographics was rebuzzed by Mrs Ge  about 9 months ago ×
  • Mrs Ge   The Truth About Infographics  about 9 months ago ×
  • Great info. Nice infographic, too =). I'll pass it along… virally.

    mnmlminx
    9 months ago
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  • I'm a little creeped out by the fact that people are fighting over infographics. C'mon guys.

    manky
    a year ago
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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
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  • BABYDIABOLICAL   The Truth About Infographics  about a year ago ×
  • The Truth About Infographics was rebuzzed by MattHurst  about a year ago ×
  • MattHurst thinks The Truth About Infographics is LOL  about a year ago ×
  • those guys are genius, i dont see what the problem is, and would pay good money to learn it when it was working

    josh
    a year ago
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  • Russ Palmer   The Truth About Infographics and thinks it’s LOL  about a year ago ×
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  • Carlo C   The Truth About Infographics  about a year ago ×
  • Infographics suck!
    This one included :)

    Martian Yeti
    a year ago
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  • Martian Yeti   The Truth About Infographics  about a year ago ×
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  • Laughing Squid   The Truth About Infographics and thinks it’s Geeky  about a year ago ×
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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.

    jennychoo
    a year ago
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  • In contrast to the other new accounts, this lurker registered to say that the graphic is pretty damn awesome!   : D

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    a year ago
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  • sometoast   The Truth About Infographics and thinks it’s Geeky  about a year ago ×
  • It's nice to know why those sites keep pumping out infographics like there's no tomorrow.

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    a year ago
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  • wunami   The Truth About Infographics  about a year ago ×
  • 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!

    Olivia Hamilton
    a year ago
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  • Olivia Hamilton   The Truth About Infographics  about a year ago ×
  • loonyluna48 thinks The Truth About Infographics is Geeky  about a year ago ×
  • My head hurt after reading that…o.o

    loonyluna48
    a year ago
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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.

    infographicspammer
    a year ago
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  • @b.espee That sounds very believable!

    Scott Lamb
    a year ago
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  • lambfeed thinks The Truth About Infographics is LOL  about a year ago ×
  • Van Aleph thinks The Truth About Infographics is Geeky & LOL  about a year ago ×
  • 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.

    Jimmy Meltrigger
    a year ago
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  • I'm team rel=”nofollow”!

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  • turtlefeed   The Truth About Infographics  about a year ago ×
  • @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.

    b.espee
    a year ago
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  • i love their infographics!!!! who designed this graphic anyway…this is a disgrace to all infographics!

    Samantha Oh
    a year ago
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  • ivys   The Truth About Infographics  about a year ago ×
  • Hazz   The Truth About Infographics and thinks it’s Geeky  about a year ago ×
  • 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.

    mvp
    a year ago
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  • Tomorrow on BuzzFeed: More infographics.

    Brian Feldman
    a year ago
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  • You infographic spam posters are killing me. This is too hilarious.

    Scott Lamb
    a year ago
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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.)

    Jack Shepherd
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