Thread: Clickbait, Translated
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Old 11-21-2017, 01:14 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
amazing how little it's changed since the Awl wrote this article in June 2015: A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum
Wow, when he arrives at the ultimate chum page, at the bottom of countless, increasingly-bad choices. I guess they figure, if you're still clicking, may as well lower the standards all the way. Reminds me of this video on The Onion, "Domino's Scientists Test Limits Of What Humans Will Eat" --where at the end, they plan to just dump raw garbage on a pizza--and people will eat it!

Regarding the screenshot of clickbait I posted here, what stood out to me is how much the content is just copy/pasted information from Wikipedia, etc. --like "a list of things" or "a picture of a thing" ... SO LOW-EFFORT. Sad!
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