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Title it in any other format and people will say it is clickbait.
by ziddoap 2y ago
Title it in any other format and people will say it is clickbait.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoThough, of course, it's all clickbait because that's the whole point. But there's something enlightening I read in the leaked MrBeast on-boarding PDF (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549649) when it talks about the viewer drop-off at the start of the video there's a mention about not "match[ing] the expectations of the clickbait". (It is easy to find because there's only one instance of "clickbait" in the document.) I wonder about the practical reason this occurs but I suspect the reality for a given individual could range from being an impatient reader to encountering a poorly-written article. I also wonder how the perception would differ (not trying to start a debate, just noting a thought) if the title here included the "Why" from the title there since, at least in this case, the article does a decent job of answering the question: they don't want to appear as spies.
- digging 2y agoBut this title is clickbait. It's a lie. It could have been "How real spies were nothing like movie spies."
- ziddoap 2y agoYes, yes. I've counted about 15 different submissions today alone that have someone complaining about the title being clickbait. Your complaint makes 16. It's always clickbait. If the title was your suggestion, someone else would say it's clickbait because spies are somewhat like the movies.
- digging 2y agoGood point, although I wasn't the first to complain on this submission so I don't think I contributed to your count.