Hershey’s Kisses, I’ve never longed for you so much.
Donuts.
Hershey's Kisses.
Ice cream cones.
Pringles.
16 Oddly Satisfying GIFs Of Food Being Made
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What Percent Cool Are Your Parents?
Your parents might be great, but are they…chill? Let’s find out.
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15 Spaghetti Dishes That Would Make Your Grandma Jealous
You say pasta, I say spaghetti.
Butternut Squash and Thyme Pasta
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Easy Italian Pasta with Shrimp
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Five-Ingredient Sun Dried Tomato Alfredo
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Baked Spaghetti Casserole
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Dolly Parton Is Donating $1,000 A Month To Tennessee Wildfire Victims
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Singer Dolly Parton is donating to families who lost their homes in the wildfire that ripped through the Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains this week.
Parton, whose theme park Dollywood was evacuated during the fire, said her foundation will donate $1,000 a month for six months to the families whose homes were destroyed.
"We want to provide a hand up to those families who have lost everything in the fires," Parton said in a statement. "To aid in their recovery effort, the Dollywood Foundation will provide $1,000 a month to all of those families who lost their homes in the fires for six months so that they can get back on their feet.”
At least seven people were killed and hundreds of buildings were damaged or destroyed in the more than 15,000-acre blaze, which started Monday night. Thousands of residents and tourists were evacuated as flames descended on downtown Gatlinburg, and on Wednesday, some people returned to discover they had lost everything.
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More information was expected on Friday, and Parton said the foundations would also be accepting donations from the public.
Parton's childhood in the region has been a frequent part of her work, including the song "In My Tennessee Mountain Home." In addition to Dollywood, she operates a resort and dinner theaters in the Gatlinburg area.
"I have always believed that charity begins at home," Parton said.
LINK: Death Toll In Tennessee Wildfires Rises To 7, Hundreds Of Buildings Damaged
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All The Crazy Looks From The 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
Angels errrrrywhere.
Vibe: sexy coed who forgot her pants.
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Vibe: Sexy waitress taking your order.
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Vibe: early autumn snowflake.
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When you aspire to look like a Thanksgiving turkey.
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People Are Applauding This Dog For Trying To Clean Up His Own Pee With Toilet Paper
Pablo, you tried.
This is 21-year-old Acelin Hampton. He's an entrepreneur and recording artist from Denton, Texas.
Acelin Hampton
However, his most prized project to date was adopting a puppy named Pablo three months ago. Hampton told BuzzFeed News he's been cleaning up accidents but Pablo has "gotten good with using the restroom outside."
Acelin Hampton
Hampton said when Pablo had his accidents, the pup usually watched him clean them up with toilet paper.
Pablo's also had a few incidents with toilet paper in the house.
Hampton explained that he once "took some toilet paper and ripped it up all around my room."
Acelin Hampton
Recently, Hampton left young Pablo under his friend's care, Pablo needed to pee and couldn't hold it in any longer. He peed on the bathroom floor, and when Hampton came home, he found wads of toilet paper pulled from the roll onto the wet spot and realized Pablo "tried to clean it up" himself.
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Can We Guess Your Birth Month And Favorite Disney Movie With This Music Test?
I bet we can.
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This Potato Test Will Reveal What Age You’ll Get Married
Find out when you’re going to tie the tot.
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What % Dickmatised Are You Right Now?
Say no to the dick.
Dickmatised: when your man's dick is so good, it's got you hypnotised and you can't think straight.
Before you start, think of the current or most recent guy in your life: a boyfriend, someone you're dating, the last person you dated, etc. Then answer these 15 questions as honestly as you can. New questions will appear as you go.
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Your McDonald's Order Will Tell Us What Tattoo You Should Get
The truth is in the nuggets.
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Literally Just 27 Hilarious Jokes About "Shrek"
Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
This miracle.
This day of dreams.
This twist on pop music.
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These Were The Top Most Instagrammed Locations In The World In 2016
Data provided by Instagram.
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Niagara Falls, Ontario
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Empire State Building, NYC
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
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You're Only Allowed One: Dogs Or Cheese
Sorry sorry sorry.
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These Models Rocked Their Hair Without Extensions At The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show And It Was Seriously Empowering
Weave is dope, but so is what ya mama gave ya!
Remember last year when the stunning beauty Maria Borges made history as the first Victoria's Secret model to rock her natural Afro? AND she repped her home country Angola's colors in this beautiful ensemble?!
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Well, last night she did it again, rocking her flawlessly tapered twa (teeny weeny Afro) and an outfit to honor her "beloved continent, Africa!"
In an Instagram caption, Borges wrote, "My 1st outfit is a love letter to my beloved continent, AFRICA. First show done! #mariaborges #africa #vsfashionshow #vsfs2016."
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But she wasn't alone as other models of color, inspired by the Angolan trailblazer, also rocked their natural curls and coils.
It's a movement, fam.
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Alanna Arrington walked her very first VS show last night, and she did it wearing her natural, loose and tousled spirals.
"My biggest dream came true last night walking down the VS runway for the first time. Thank you so much @victoriassecret @ed_razek @monica.mitro @10magazine @johndavidpfeiffer and thank you to all of the other beautiful women in this show who made me feel so welcomed, it truly was the best experience of my life 💕 #VSFashionShow #VSFS2016 #MotherModels #NextModels" —@alannaarrington
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100 Tweets That Made British People Piss Themselves In 2016
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Can You Help Settle The Issues That Divide Scotland And Australia?
Haggis nachos: Nice or nasty? Neighbours: Great or shit? Join our mass debate.
Exhibit 1: Black pudding (Scotland)
Jemima (Australia): At first, I thought someone had just left their English muffins in the toaster for way too long. I don't know what the hell black pudding is supposed to taste like, but the description I found of it being a sausage of pork fat and pork blood made me want to hurl. Why the fuck would you choose to put those two things in your mouth? And why is it so black?
Hilary (Scotland): Sorry, but black pudding is delicious. Sure it's made with blood, but people eat rare beef oozing with the stuff all the time, and in black pudding you'd never know it was there. It's basically just a gigantic sausage, and everyone needs more sausage in their lives. Amirite, ladies? *waggles eyebrows*
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Exhibit 2: Pie floaters (Australia)
Hilary (Scotland): What the shit is this, Australia? It sounds like something you’d leave in the toilet after a heavy night out, and it looks like it as well. Putting a pie in some pea soup is just plain weird tbh. Doesn’t the meat pie go soggy? And why do you think that tomato ketchup and pea soup is a nice combination? Did someone hurt you in the past – is this why you do such terrible things?
Jemima (Australia): Let me first clarify that this is an Adelaide thing, and they do things really differently down there. (Google "cheese slaw" if you don't believe me.) When you think about it though, this isn't all that odd. Mushy peas on pies are definitely a thing; why not go all out and make them into a soup?
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Chris Pratt Is Cropping J Law Out Of Every Photo And It's So Funny
“Just hanging with my bestie, Jen.”
Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence recently kicked off the press tour for their upcoming movie, Passengers.
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And luckily for us, Chris has been keeping us updated on their whereabouts via Instagram.
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Apparently, all these pics of a solo Chris have people wondering where J. Law is.
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And Chris's answer is that well, he cropped her out.
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17 Tweets About David Attenborough That'll Make You Weak With Love
He is the nation’s grandad.
David Attenborough is our greatest national treasure.
A treasure like no other.
We must never hurt him.
He is so gentle.
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How Snapchat Kept Fake News Out
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat CEO and co-founder.
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Facebook emerged during the US election as a central political and news source, but also a hub for hoaxes, propaganda, and outright fake news — an issue that brought wide criticism and concern from figures reportedly including President Barack Obama.
But its leading US competitor, Snap (formerly Snapchat), has managed to sidestep the issue. Snap now boasts 150 million daily users, roughly 10 million more than more than Twitter. It’s a growing source of breaking news for its users. When Donald Trump purchased a national “Crooked Hillary” geo-filter during the presidential debates, it was viewed 80 million times, and yet the sometimes controversial social network doesn’t come up in the rancorous debates over fake news.
There are a handful of obvious reasons why Snapchat might be a less fertile ground for propaganda from Macedonian teens, hoax purveyors, or hyperpartisan websites masquerading as news. User-generated content on Snapchat disappears after a short period of time. News is contained in a separate section, called Discover. Posts from the people you follow are displayed chronologically, not by popularity or personalized algorithm.
On Snapchat, the name of the game is projecting authenticity, not racking up faves, and the rules of the game are enforced in the way the app is designed. Snapchat profiles do not display a follower count or even let users know how many followers they have. Plus, it’s hard to go viral when you can’t pass around a link to an individual’s post.
As Farhad Manjoo noted in the New York Times, “The diminution of personalization algorithms and virality also plays into how Snapchat treats news.”
The process publishers go through to get on Discover is as controlled as the rest of the app and involves a number of human gatekeepers along the way, a Snap representative told BuzzFeed News. Before they can post in Discover, news publishers have to be vetted as a potential partner, an agreement that comes with strict terms. Discover partners who publish daily on Snapchat in the US, France, and UK include recognizable names like CNN, MTV, Le Monde, Sky News, and Cosmopolitan. Jim VandeHei, the co-founder of Politico, even created a presidential campaign-specific Discover channel called We the People, in partnership with NowThisNews, but content, like today's offering, "Are you ready for texts from Trump?" seems more pop culture than partisan. (NowThisNews shares an investor with BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed is a Discover partner in both the US and UK; BuzzFeed also ran NBC's Snapchat content during the summer Olympics.)
Although publishers have editorial independence, there is collaboration between staffers who produce content for the app and Snapchat’s Discover team, which gives guidance on formatting. Content can be optimized to do well on Facebook and Twitter by altering the headline or image, but on Snapchat, articles have to be reformatted to fit the app. Publishers can deep-link to stories to their Discover content, but those links take you back to the app.
These features were built around Snap’s belief that users who share and consume content from friends provide the most potential for long-term growth, Rob Fishman, co-founder of Niche, a company that connects brands with social media influencers, told BuzzFeed News. “Snapchat makes discovery of people who aren’t in your phone book extremely difficult because they believe peer-to-peer sharing is stickier than a so-called influencer model,” said Fishman, whose company was acquired by Twitter in 2015. “They do see value in premium and traditional publishers, but they’ve created a stand-alone experience to capture that kind of content.”
"It’s impossible for somebody to go rogue in Discover."
This is a huge difference from other social networks, where publishers and brands are “basically identical to individual users,” Fishman said. “It’s impossible for somebody to go rogue in Discover because everything in there is seen and vetted by Snapchat.”
The same kind of propaganda that plagued Facebook could theoretically be disseminated within Snapchat in a couple of ways: through a Live Story (a mashup of photos and videos around a particular event like a concert or rally, curated by Snapchat) or a Story from individual accounts, which users can create by adding photos or videos of what they’re doing throughout the day. In those cases, however, a combination of human editors, the visual medium, and anti-viral design also make it inhospitable to fake news.
Individual Snapchat users can add text to an image or video, but space is limited. It’s possible to imagine a scenario where an individual uses their Story like a talk radio, but that kind of content is hard to share and Snapchat doesn’t promote individual accounts. “You literally don’t know how many followers you have on Snapchat, so it’s not designed for premium accounts to amass huge audiences. This is supposed to be million paper cuts, not a few heavy hitters,” said Fishman.
For Live Stories, which show up in Discover, Snapchat relies on human journalists and editors, with relevant experience in verticals like music, entertainment, travel, or fashion, the company said. Last year, Snap hired Peter Hamby, one of CNN’s best known political reporters, as its head of news. Live Stories created in-house are rigorously fact-checked, a Snap representative told BuzzFeed. In the spring of 2015, Snap started covering politics along with other hard news. Live Stories in that category include coverage of US election coverage, historic flooding in South Carolina, the Brexit vote in the UK, and the Brazil impeachment vote. Hard news stories are produced in-house. Some Live Stories are comprised of photos and videos from Snapchat users, but again, the content is curated by Snapchat and goes through a human editor first.
Apple News, the mobile app released last year that has 70 million active users and content from 4,000 publications, is another potential platform for spreading fake news, which, like Snapchat, also relies on human touch points along the way. Apple News became a significant driver of traffic during the election cycle in particular. CNN has reported that Apple News sent 36.5 million unique readers their way in September, and Bloomberg reported a 400% jump in visitors from Apple News in October. In fact, sources told BuzzFeed News that Apple News has had to deal with a pretty significant number of attempts to spread fake news and hate speech through the platform.
However, the same walled-garden approach that keeps iTunes and the App Store running smoothly has worked in Apple News. For example, Apple News reviews publishers who join Apple News. Individuals can also share content on Apple News, but if their RSS feed departs from the usual fare, Apple can detect that. There’s also a report-a-concern function where users can flag fake news or hate speech within Apple News, and the company curates any content that gets featured, also like the App Store.
Manjoo’s recent profile of Snap in the Times emphasized that favoring human editors and eschewing virality represented a big departure from more established social networks. Fishman pointed out that those innovations are also carefully managed. “In my opinion Snapchat is both ambitiously experimental but also very tightly controlled,” Fishman said, pointing to the introduction of Stories and of Spectacles. “Both were dramatic and unprecedented offerings, but the way that they launched them was very carefully planned and executed. You can see that especially with Spectacles. There’s a lot of buzz around it and there are only a few pairs.”
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17 Times Milo Ventimiglia Blessed Us In 2016
I believe in God again.
When he returned to our TV screens in This Is Us playing Jack Pearson.
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Basically the biggest DILF ever.
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Which led to this cheeky cameo.
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