You Have No Idea What’s Behind These Clickbait Headlines!

Dep!

These three deadliest drugs in America are all totally legal!

This Is The Personality Trait That Most Often Predicts Success!

What Happens When A Horse Discovers A Kiddie Pool? You Won’t Believe It!





Could anyone involved in the Click Bait industry and "headlines" like the above please do us all a favour and shoot yourself in the face? Thanks.

What's the worst Click Bait headline you've seen and what are your thoughts on this internet plague?

dmc17

Dep! wrote: »

What's the worst Click Bait headline you've seen and what are your thoughts on this internet plague?

"Don't click here" ........gets me every time :mad:

My thoughts are that it doesn't really bother me though as I've formulated a foolproof solution. Don't click on them!

Fr_Dougal

"You'll never believe what happened next"

The King of Moo

"5 Secrets of a Flat Belly"

Must have suckered in many an even slightly self-conscious man. I clicked once out of curiosity and got through about 10 links promising me the secret among whole paragraphs of waffling if I clicked on just this one link...

... and then I realised a jog for the length of time I'd spent clicking would more than do the job.

Hande hoche!

Buzzfeed and gawker ****e.
Also dermatologists hate her.

Dep!

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Buzzfeed and gawker ****e.
Also dermatologists hate her.

Was it Buzzfeed who started it all? I don't remember it around as much before they began gaining in popularity in Ireland.

Banjo String

This will blow your mind!

SaveOurLyric

"You Have No Idea What’s Behind These Clickbait Headlines!" was one.
Got me.

Ruu

47yo patriot discovers 'weird' trick to slash power bill & end Obama's power monopoly!

Dep!

Banjo String wrote: »

This will blow your mind!

Ya got me ya ballix

UCDVet

No disrespect to you personally, but, I'm sorry, to me....this is stupid.


Headlines are written with the INTENT of catching people's attention. If a particular style proves effective, it's because THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE WANT.


Clearly, it's not what *you* want. I'm sure you aren't alone, and you're welcome to write headlines that cater to your sensibilities or to seek out places that write headlines how you like to see them. But, it seems like you're probably in the minority. As demonstrated by the effectiveness.


If you have to *blame* someone for the situation, blame the people who like headlines different from yourself. Not the writers who are successfully providing entertainment in the way that other people enjoy.


Still, in my opinion, it seems pretty silly to hold a grudge against people for liking stuff you don't.

Birneybau

UCDVet wrote: »

No disrespect to you personally, but, I'm sorry, to me....this is stupid.


Headlines are written with the INTENT of catching people's attention. If a particular style proves effective, it's because THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE WANT.


Clearly, it's not what *you* want. I'm sure you aren't alone, and you're welcome to write headlines that cater to your sensibilities or to seek out places that write headlines how you like to see them. But, it seems like you're probably in the minority. As demonstrated by the effectiveness.


If you have to *blame* someone for the situation, blame the people who like headlines different from yourself. Not the writers who are successfully providing entertainment in the way that other people enjoy.


Still, in my opinion, it seems pretty silly to hold a grudge against people for liking stuff you don't.

No. It's always wilfully misleading to get you to click on a site and click through page upon page. Do you even know what it is?

Never used by reputable sites, usually found on sh!t like Joe.ie and the likes.

cloud493

AH is the king of clickbait articles sure.

Dep!

UCDVet wrote: »

No disrespect to you personally, but, I'm sorry, to me....this is stupid.


Headlines are written with the INTENT of catching people's attention. If a particular style proves effective, it's because THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE WANT.

Jesus :eek:

Angry much?

How do you know it's what people want? Stupid people maybe. People with too much time on their hands? Maybe.

But please don't lecture us by saying it's what people want. Clickbait is the the Daily Sport/National Enquirer of the internet.

Aongus Von Bismarck

The whole clickbait thing would appear to my untrained eye to be a pyramid scheme of sorts. Sites like the journal.ie take news from media sources like Reuters, the Independent and the Times and republish it with a few changes. Place a few related articles links underneath it, and open the floor to the baying masses to post their ill-informed opinions about what tend to be complex economic, political and societal stories. The media outlets struggling to still remain relevant with their traditional model of charging for news are being eaten alive by parasites who won't have these outlets to steal from when the whole model becomes untenable.

You'll then end up with sites filled with sponsored articles, cheap rehashing of press releases, and news that is sold to the highest bidder. So excuse me if I still think that paying less than €3 for access to the digital edition of the Times and the Indo is worth paying a price for.

tomwaterford

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

The whole clickbait thing would appear to my untrained eye to be a pyramid scheme of sorts. Sites like the journal.ie take news from media sources like Reuters, the Independent and the Times and republish it with a few changes. Place a few related articles links underneath it, and open the floor to the baying masses to post their ill-informed opinions about what tend to be complex economic, political and societal stories. The media outlets struggling to still remain relevant with their traditional model of charging for news are being eaten alive by parasites who won't have these outlets to steal from when the whole model becomes untenable.

You'll then end up with sites filled with sponsored articles, cheap rehashing of press releases, and news that is sold to the highest bidder. So excuse me if I still think that paying less than €3 for access to the digital edition of the Times and the Indo is worth paying a price for.

In fairness paying to access the indo :pac: :pac:

Aongus Von Bismarck

tomwaterford wrote: »

In fairness paying to access the indo :pac: :pac:

The Indo has the largest circulation of any of the daily papers. The Sindo is the paper with the most copies sold on a Sunday. The titles represent an enormous rump of Irish society that still aspire to count themselves as middle class. As unfashionable and tragic as that may seem to the new cohort of online activists who believe that a policy of taking other peoples money and bleating on about a conflict we are all bored about represents the modern face of Ireland.

So I'll continue to pay for it. My ability to pay for it and read it subjectively is far more worthy than you not paying for it; but being hugely outraged about the articles you invariably end up reading to the end.

Dep!

Re:thejournal.ie, they are owned by the parent company of Boards AFAIK.

Sheep Lover

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

The Indo has the largest circulation of any of the daily papers. The Sindo is the paper with the most copies sold on a Sunday. The titles represent an enormous rump of Irish society that still aspire to count themselves as middle class. As unfashionable and tragic as that may seem to the new cohort of online activists who believe that a policy of taking other peoples money and bleating on about a conflict we are all bored about represents the modern face of Ireland.

So I'll continue to pay for it. My ability to pay for it and read it subjectively is far more worthy than you not paying for it; but being hugely outraged about the articles you invariably end up reading to the end.

Paying for something that's available freely, and of better quality in many other media outlets. Everyone has to have a hobby I suppose

tomwaterford

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

The Indo has the largest circulation of any of the daily papers. The Sindo is the paper with the most copies sold on a Sunday. The titles represent an enormous rump of Irish society that still aspire to count themselves as middle class. As unfashionable and tragic as that may seem to the new cohort of online activists who believe that a policy of taking other peoples money and bleating on about a conflict we are all bored about represents the modern face of Ireland.

So I'll continue to pay for it. My ability to pay for it and read it subjectively is far more worthy than you not paying for it; but being hugely outraged about the articles you invariably end up reading to the end.

The reason it has the biggest circulation in Ireland is because it's actually harder to pay for it than get for free
Doctors surgeries,haitdresser,some pubs etc I l ow people working there say they get it for free!!!

It doesn't really do news though....opinion pieces aren't news.....neither should celeb news and rich lists count as news
And it's free to access online...even in London at least....
Why are you paying??

It is a poor comparison to the examiner IMO....the only paper that at least attempts news and impartial reporting

jester77

Don't click on them. If people didn't click on them them they wouldn't exist. Unfortunately people do, I've seen the numbers and this crap is ridiculously successful. Some company in Israel are very successful from creating this crap.

bjork

Click bait everywhere and then when something interesting happens like a duck gives birth to a dog nobody reports it

Robsweezie

Her dad caught her masturbating..you won't believe what he did next!

biko

Clickbaiters must die!

Son Of A Vidic

Dep! wrote: »

what are your thoughts on this internet plague?

Clickbait doesn't work with me, I just ignore it. Sensationalism tends to send me in the opposite direction.

Dep!

jester77 wrote: »

Don't click on them. If people didn't click on them them they wouldn't exist.

What are the numbers?

mailforkev

It's the news headline equivalent of those pricks that post things like "I can't believe the day I've just had" on FB and then sit there hitting Refresh until someone asks what happened.

Your Superior

Number 7 Will Shock You!

Dep!

Your Superior wrote: »

Number 7 Will Shock You!

But Number 8 Makes You More Money!

Sinfonia

If there was no clickbait, there'd be no Clickhole, and I wouldn't get as many of me daily chuckles.

evolving_doors

Links not working in OP !

DoYouEvenLift

At the high point of ppc ads on FB 'like' pages, some of the admins of the large pages (>1m likes) were generating thousands of dollars per day, from absolutely minimum effort. Look at the lad bible, it's worth a few million and it's absolutely sh!t, obviously people want that kind of stuff.

galljga1

'Basic Lubricants and Servicing' ..... but it was from the Cycling Forum.

One post has the following entry : Dry lube for summer / dry periods and wet lube for winter / wetter periods...... so maybe there is some hidden meaning or maybe I am a dirtbag.

LDN_Irish

UCDVet wrote: »

Headlines are written with the INTENT of catching people's attention. If a particular style proves effective, it's because THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE WANT.


Clearly, it's not what *you* want. I'm sure you aren't alone, and you're welcome to write headlines that cater to your sensibilities or to seek out places that write headlines how you like to see them. But, it seems like you're probably in the minority. As demonstrated by the effectiveness.


If you have to *blame* someone for the situation, blame the people who like headlines different from yourself. Not the writers who are successfully providing entertainment in the way that other people enjoy.

Dude, no. Clickbait headlines are not what people want or enjoy, that's a ridiculous assertion. They are designed to get people to click, which they do effectively. That's not the same as people enjoying or desiring to click on misleading headlines.

C14N

Dep! wrote: »

Was it Buzzfeed who started it all? I don't remember it around as much before they began gaining in popularity in Ireland.

Other sites have always had it, it's just that they would use it now and again while Buzzfeed are utterly dependant on it. I think I remember hearing about how they research people's behaviours in order to manipulate them to click things most effectively instead of, I dunno, writing good articles that make people actually want to come back.

Egginacup

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

The whole clickbait thing would appear to my untrained eye to be a pyramid scheme of sorts. Sites like the journal.ie take news from media sources like Reuters, the Independent and the Times and republish it with a few changes. Place a few related articles links underneath it, and open the floor to the baying masses of balding, potbellied Irishmen in football shirts to post their ill-informed opinions about what tend to be complex economic, political and societal stories. The media outlets struggling to still remain relevant with their traditional model of charging for news are being eaten alive by parasites who won't have these outlets to steal from when the whole model becomes untenable.

You'll then end up with sites filled with sponsored articles, cheap rehashing of press releases, and news that is sold to the highest bidder. So excuse me if I still think that paying less than €3 for access to the digital edition of the Times and the Indo is worth paying a price for.

FYP

Mr. CooL ICE

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spiralism

Can anybody imagine if this sort of **** existed as a form of news throughout history?:

"You'll never believe what this German dictator wants to do...click here to find out!"

Dep!

A new low https://thelotter.com/weird-lottery-winner-stories/?utm_source=Taboola&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=Hiding_Places_EN_Mobile

The "bait" was a pic of a giant pair of tits. For shame internet, for shame!