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Gawker hired Mr. Zimmerman in 2012, but he has been in the viral news business since 2008, when he started The Daily What, a site where he collected the most sharable stuff he found online. At first, he had no idea there was any money in sharable stuff. Viral content was Mr. Zimmerman's passion, and he sought to treat it as seriously as a "real" journalist would treat the news. When he talks about his love for the crazy videos and photos we all share online, Mr. Zimmerman is apt to get carried away. "For me to be plugged into this stuff is like being plugged into the foundation of man," Mr. Zimmerman says. "This is the stuff that people really care about, not the stuff that they're pretending to care about at cocktail parties."