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So I'm not the only one who notices this. The unnecessary this prefix strikes me as a sort of clickbait-adjacent red flag. I'm fairly sure it wasn't anywhere n

So I'm not the only one who notices this. The unnecessary this prefix strikes me as a sort of clickbait-adjacent red flag. I'm fairly sure it wasn't anywhere near this common 10 years ago.

throwaway832939 5y ago
Often with a short follow-on sentence in the format: This article is clickbait. Here's why.