Screenshot of a BuzzFeed article titled “Beijing Hipsters Walk Cabbages On Leashes”, published on 7 May 2014, presenting the cabbage-walking images as an odd, entertaining viral story from China. The significance of this record is that BuzzFeed itself was happy to run the material at the time in the same amused, shareable style as other outlets, treating the images as colourful foreign-news content rather than as an obvious hoax or ethical problem. The later relevance is that the same type of story was subsequently folded into the wider attack on CEN and other agencies after outside criticism and debunking-style commentary reframed the cabbage story as misleading. This record therefore helps show the inconsistency in BuzzFeed’s position: it participated in the viral treatment of the story when it suited its own audience, but later treated similar usage by others as evidence of unreliable foreign-news reporting, even where the underlying correction was more about missing artistic context than proof that the images or event were fabricated.