what’s your fav clickbait mine is when articles go “NEW (upcoming blockbuster) RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCED” and then spend the entire article summarizing the trailer, offering zero release dates
"F1 driver is being replaced at the next race!" And it's the team's development driver getting to drive for the first practice session AS REQUIRED BY THE RULES.
It happens at every race.
is it clickbait when there are a dozen websites with “info”/“answers” to a query that’s actually just sixteen paragraphs of the same shit repeated over and over without any actual info or answers because I want to [redacted] the people who make those
It’s not really “clickbait” but whenever a headline says “We Need to Talk About…” or “Can We Talk About…” my eyes roll so far into the back of my head I can see the part of my brain that’s annoyed. Also if I read about one more “Breakthrough” in battery tech that amounts to nothing I’m gonna shit
10 paragraphs after talking about a trailer existing and a synopsis of the franchise in general and people looking forward to it:
"We don't know when or if it will be released, stick around to find out once news is available."
The ones in big, bold letters, "YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS IS SO-AND-SO!" or "SEE HOW X LOOKS NOW!" And it is usually a celebrity (who was probably never considered "celebrity" good-looking in the first place) close to 80 who has allowed themselves to age naturally. They don't look bad but their age.
There is a picture of Nicholson right before the pandemic at a Lakers game, with disheveled hair and a snuggly-fitting shirt with a similar headline. I thought he looked precisely how I expected Jack to look today or ten years ago.
"[your state] retirees who make less than $50K are in for a huge windfall!!!!" above a photo of gleeful old people wearing party hats and holding wads of money
When I discovered that entire sites exist to automatically churn out auto-generated articles like this to game SEO, the internet started to make a lot more sense
i remember having a clickbait headline to the tune of "EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT THE NEXT FFXIV EXPANSION" shoved into my mobile Chrome feed and heaven help me i clicked it against my better judgment
the fact that it was just "WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE NEXT EXPANSION BUT HERE'S EVERYTHING THAT WAS IN THE LAST EXPANSION WHICH SHOULD GIVE YOU A GOOD IDEA WHAT'S COMING" was bad enough
but what pushed it over the line into making me want to see the entire institution of clickbait headlines/articles burned to the ground was how confidently it asserted that the title of the NEXT EXPANSION PACK would be, brace for it, "NEXTPACK"
The less well-connected of the English football press are incredible. The sheer amount of disclaimers and passivity when reporting on transfers. “Club x are set to monitor Player Y and are poised to consider sounding out Player Y over a potential transfer.” You’re just making shit up my man!
I hear you on that, one of the local papers for my team has the habit of "manager/player makes 'x' claim" where 'x' can be literally any word or phrase that comes from a quote even if it's got basically nothing to do with what the quote is actually talking about.
