20 Things That Happened To BuzzFeed in 2016

ICYMI: Another freaking year at BuzzFeed

TASTY blew the fudge up!!!

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1 in 4 of all Facebook users saw a Tasty video in their feeds each month, and we launched pages in Mexico, UK, France, Brazil, Germany, and Japan!

Launched a little DIY channel called Nifty

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This upcycled bath mat video got shared over 3.7 Million times!

Blew up a watermelon with rubber bands on Facebook Live and everyone lost their damn minds

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The video had over 800K concurrent viewers during the stream and has over 11 Million views to date.

Struck a movie deal with Warner Brothers to turn Brother Orange into a movie!

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Jim Parsons will play the leading role of BuzzFeed writer Matt Stopera and yeah, Ellen DeGeneres and Illana Glazer are producing it NBD.

Started a cool things division aka BuzzFeed Product Labs

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And brought you the Tasty Cookbook, Fuck Shit Shop, and Fondoodler!

Linked up with Olympians to do tings

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Like having an Olympic swimmer test waterproof makeup

Collabed with our friends at Mondelez to make our health and wellness channel Goodful, come to life

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And over 160M of you watched how to grow new veggies from kitchen scraps

Started a Podcast called "See Something, Say Something"

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About the Muslim experience in America. It was named one of the best new podcasts by the New York Times - check it out!

Discovered a softcore porn tape that Donald Trump appeared in

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Just going to leave this here

We had to movie offices AGAIN in New York, LA

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And got new digs in Brazil, Japan, and the UK

Threw our first L'Art Show

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And turned our New York office into a gallery space for a night

Learned that people really enjoy our long form series

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Like Unsolved and Worth It (Thanks for watching, guys!)

Had some really cool people visit us

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Justin Trudeau, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Neil Degrasse Tyson, the cast of Fantastic Beasts, Khloe Kardashian, Nick Jonas, Adriana Lima, JoJo, Gayle King, and Stephen Colbert to name a few

BuzzFeed News broke some crazy ass stories all over the world

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Did you hear about the Stanford rape incident or about Macedonian teens making big $$ off of fake news?

Partnered with Twitter to livestream election night coverage

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Thanks god for the open bar where we served cocktails with names like Bad Hombre

BuzzFeed News registered over 15K people to vote

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And made some videos with Obama as part of our Turn Up To Vote campaign

One of our most shared snaps was this twerking banana

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What does this say about us?

Boners and penises were hot this summer (based on actual data)

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Take this penis quiz if you missed it

Started a development partners program

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And launched bigger, better shows from some of your favorite producers: Broke, Unfortunately Ashly, Am I Doing This Right?

And had over 800. Billion. Content. Views. this year

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that's a lot of 👀

Here are some of the best BuzzFeed Video moments from 2016

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Onward to 2017