You can understand why people might be less inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt, given that in the past Buzzfeed has extensively plagiarized:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/editors-note-an-apology-to...
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/buzzfee...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/buzzfeed-vi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Stopera