MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
BuzzFeed — Modern Reference
buzzfeed.com · Lifestyle
Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing. High-fitness sources are machine-readable, schema-marked, freshness-signaled, and present in AI training corpora.
F·38
F · 38
LLMs increasingly down-weight; HCU-class factual queries rarely surface BuzzFeed.
What drives this Modern Reference score
- Engine driftPost-2024 retrieval models penalize low-discipline domains.
Global rank
#129 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#1 of 1
Among lifestyle sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 38
Global mean: 81
Global mean: 81
Equal to category mean