A game of media industry “Would You Rather:” 1 trillion views or 1,000 true fans?

There was much ado about BuzzFeed supposedly slashing its 2016 projections after missing target revenue this year, which ignited a slew of reactions ranging from the self-righteous (lol see guys, BuzzFeed doesn’t have all the answers!!) to the terrified (wait if the peeps with a trillion pageviews don’t have the answers, WHO DOES?!?!).(Tl;dr, no one.)
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