#buzzfeedpoem

COMMENTARY: 7 PICTURES OF BEYONCE THAT TOTALLY REDEFINE PERFECTION. This poem comments on the attention grabbing style of headlines used on Buzzfeed. There seems to be no objective for the site other than generating web traffic and getting people to their site by appealing to things that are popular or trending. It is a news site that doesn’t present any real news. From reading the titles on the page, I realized patterns such as the appeal to female users. As it is imitative appropriation, I emphasized this useless news aspect of the site by referencing cats and Game of Thrones. I also incorporated the second person into the poem as this is a tactic used by the site to engage their audience.

CONTEXTUAL STATEMENT: 7 PICTURES OF BEYONCE THAT TOTALLY REDEFINE PERFECTION This poem assumes the style of article headlines on Buzzfeed, a website that presents content. The style of language is very specific to the viral intention of the website, to generate traffic onto the site. As all the headlines on the site contain numbers I chose to present the poem as a countdown.