https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait seems a decent summary. > Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is desig

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait seems a decent summary. > Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading. I don't know people who like being mislead or deceived (outside of, say, a magic show).