What's with America and Clickbait?

Erich van Loon

Erich van Loon

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Seriously, when ever I'm linked to some gaming blog or just a blog post in general, there will always be clickbait at the bottom of the page. Is it just America?

And the names are pretty annoying too, and I haven't a clue what's inside the click-baity links, because I don't click 'em.

Maybe we need some rules enforced that titles should be descriptive, and it should be strictly enforced. :revolution:
 
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erich van loon said:
Seriously, when ever I'm linked to some gaming blog or just a blog post in general, there will always be clickbait at the bottom of the page. Is it just America?

And the names are pretty annoying too, and I haven't a clue what's inside the click-baity links, because I don't click 'em.

Maybe we need some rules enforced that titles should be descriptive, and it should be strictly enforced. :revolution:
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The Guardian does it.
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The "www." in the URL means "World Wide Web," so that should give you a clue. Click bait is just part of the evolution of ads.



See also: the entire 19th season of South Park.

By the way, fuck authoritarianism. The ads can be titled whatever they want.
 
Sweden is also ripe with click-bait. Big newspapers have their own clickbait sites with the typical "you will never believe what happened next..." headlines.

It's a pretty obvious evolition of modern media and ad revenue. I'm trying my damnest not to click that shit, but even I fall for it from time to time. Typically when it involves cute animals.
 
Boredom is pandemic. Clickbait stimulates the mind oh-so-slightly and it comes in prepacked, nice, easy consumable chunks. The advertisements are just icing on the top for the companies.
 
The one I hate the most 'someone remastered Call of duty 2 and the results are amazing' like fuck you, I will decide for myself.
I'll even more impressed if the headline was 'fan recreates Call of duty 2 in HD' it gives the article a sense of what it is without giving away too much, 'results are amazing' just sounds like someone is jerking off to their own opinions.
 
Millim said:
The one I hate the most 'someone remastered Call of duty 2 and the results are amazing' like fuck you, I will decide for myself.
I'll even more impressed if the headline was 'fan recreates Call of duty 2 in HD' it gives the article a sense of what it is without giving away too much, 'results are amazing' just sounds like someone is jerking off to their own opinions.
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It should just be 'fan recreates CoD 2 in HD.' Or something.
 
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