Benny Johnson got fired at Buzzfeed. You will believe what happened next.

Benny Johnson needed to escape the Internet. In less than two years, he had built himself up into a Washington media-insider celebrity: one of the most trafficked news writers on one of the most trafficked Web sites in the world, Buzzfeed.com. He wrote light but irresistible stories that were more like lists: "9 Times American Politicians Tried to Look Normal and Failed"; "The 17 Most Canadian Things About Ted Cruz." People began to recognize Benny from his Twitter avatar. They called him Buzzfe...