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That sounds like the opposite of click bait. Not revealing something that would make people have aversion. I don't know if it has a name.
by toxicFork 4y ago
That sounds like the opposite of click bait. Not revealing something that would make people have aversion. I don't know if it has a name.
- tpoacher 4y agoIt does. It's called clickbait. :p If you'd like to clearly differentiate it from a more stringent definition of clickbait, I guess one could call it clickbait by omission. It's like when you pretend to have thrown a nut to a squirrel, but in reality you just made a gesture. The squirrel will go look for the nut regardless. You not throwing a 'decoy' nut isn't the important part w.r.t. the desired outcome. You still 'baited' them.
- knighthack 4y agoClickbait is just as often about half-truths, or omissions. Anything that leads to a reader/viewer asking "Why?/What?", and which triggers the human curiosity that leads to a click - constitutes clickbait. Such content may later disappoint or cause annoyance to the reader/viewer; but they still clicked, which is all that matters.