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I agree - this article was not clickbait. The content delivered on the title. Piquing your interest with the title is just good headline-writing. It only becom
by yaseer 8y ago
I agree - this article was not clickbait. The content delivered on the title.
Piquing your interest with the title is just good headline-writing. It only becomes clickbait when the title is a cynical perversion of the content.
- pmoriarty 8y agoJust as fishing bait entice fish to bite the bait, clickbait titles entice people to click the title. If a title is interesting enough to get lots of people to click on it, it is by definition clickbait. Titles for interesting articles should themselves be interesting, as boring titles for interesting articles would increase one's chance of missing them. An interesting title is only objectionable is the article itself is not worth reading.
- IanCal 8y agoBut the reason we call it bait and not just "fish food" is that it is there to trick the fish into doing something it does not want to do. Something is not necessarily bait just because it's interesting or enticing.
- pmoriarty 8y agoBut there is no term like "clickfood" which would imply that the title is interesting and the corresponding article is worth reading. So people fixate on the title and call any interesting, well-written title "clickbait" regardless of whether the article itself is worth reading or not. I'm simply pointing out that such an enticing title is not necessarily bad if the article itself is worth reading. The alternative is a boring title, which is a disservice to any article worth reading.
- BubRoss 8y ago> But there is no term like "clickfood" That's supposed to just be called journalism.
- Depooty 8y agoIf you bite the bait and youre a fish you die. If you bite the bait on clickbait you die a little inside. It's more like a hot girl matches you on tinder and shes not a bot and DTF. This article was def DTF and shes fit.