Note that there is more to BuzzFeed than listicles (listicles are about 26% of all BuzzFeed articles), although they are certainly the most notable part of BuzzFeed content. In fact, the "The [X]" listicle prefix construction has died off.
I end up at BuzzFeed content through social media or aggregators. Maybe it's because of who I follow, but I never end up at listicles and at pieces of content like this:
Hey, I'm one of the guys who worked on this.
Once we generate the articles, they're persisted on the website so that you can share them with your friends. If you want to generate a new article, go to the "Write for Us" page (link on the right of the top menu)
My tears of laughter have yet to dry and my tummy hurts. This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Is there a way I can archive this to keep it forever and laugh until I die? I'd fork this in a heartbeat and host it on my server so I never have to leave my house again. Remarkable.
School has late starts on some days, and most people had no idea when they were so I threw this together one day real quick to be able to check; then shenanigans ensued and we had an alternate website set up, see slatetart.tk
I wrote a blog post this week about the subject: http://minimaxir.com/2015/01/linkbait/
(HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893448)