"[6] Many of his stories like “25 Extremely Upsetting Reactions to Chris Brown at the Grammys," “40 Things That Will Make You Feel Old," and “the 45 Most Powerful Images of 2011" garnered millions of page views, which led BusinessWeek to suggest he had "broken a code."
[7] Ben Smith said that the deleted posts were “corrected” after Gawker pointed out, in 2012, that they insufficiently credited other websites.
After buying a new one, he noticed bizarre images of a Chinese man posing next to a grove of orange trees, which were taken on his stolen phone.
After writing a story about his experience on BuzzFeed, users on the Chinese social media site Weibo helped track down the man who took the photos.
[2] Stopera met the man in China, who was dubbed "Brother Orange" by Chinese social media.