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Jessica Amason joins BuzzFeed as our in-house Viral Media Scientist! Her full-time job: Investigating and understanding why some ideas “go viral” and some go nowhere. Her quest is made possible by BuzzFeed's viral media platform, which lets her see in real-time what is getting shared, linked to, and discussed across the web. Jessica will post regularly on the site and will share her discoveries with the BuzzFeed audience. She will also help a growing number of people use the BuzzFeed platform to launch creative ideas and track them as they spread. Jessica is uniquely qualified for this new job as a professional web culture junkie for Urlesque.com and the co-creator of the viral hit, This Is Why You're Fat. Welcome!!!
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Culture Buzz BuzzFeed's board of directors heard your voices and came to a decision on BF's sarcasm policy. Sarcasm will be allowed ONLY if we can balance the negativity by creating the HAPPIEST PAGE ON THE INTERNET. We need a safe place on BuzzFeed for people who hate sarcasm and love being inspired. You can help build the HPOTI here. Thanks to everyone for your constructive criticism and ideas.
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