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Interestingly this really is a click bait title, rather than the usual one that we misidentify identify as such as "Ten Ways a Programming Language is like a Re
by chippy 11y ago
Interestingly this really is a click bait title, rather than the usual one that we misidentify identify as such as "Ten Ways a Programming Language is like a Religion."
This time.com title encourages you to click it with the bait of finding out who the billionaire is, the implication that they became self-made because of this easy trick and not stating the trick. Thus it is bait to lure a user in.
The misdiagnosed versions state exactly what the topic is about but encourages you with the promise of good content. The sting the user gets is that they notice that it is bad content, and the user reacts based on their experience.
In summary, a click bait title, like in this submission is a finely crafted memetic call. The more common observed "click bait" articles are more disappointing in content.
Click bait is about the click, not the content.
- swombat 11y agoMy response to this kind of article is I clicked to read the comments but not on the article. Comments don't indicate anything all that interesting in the article, so I won't bother to click on the article. And yeah, it is a very click-baity title. "One weird decision-making trick you can use to become a billionaire!" would be another phrasing of it.
- gear54rus 11y agoWould like to disagree on that... If you saw an article, for example 'FTL travel is possible'. You think 'Oh lol wtf, impossible' but you still click on it. Inside you find a clear well-formed proof and whatever else you need to believe that it is indeed possible. Does that qualify as a clickbait as well?
- morganvachon 11y ago> Inside you find a clear well-formed proof and whatever else you need to believe that it is indeed possible. Does that qualify as a clickbait as well? No, and you stated why: The article delivers on its promise. If you had said instead "Inside you find a theory suggested by a discredited maniac who scribbles nonsense on his psych ward walls" then yes, it would have been click bait.
- tempodox 11y agoClick bait is about the click, not the content. Which is why I don't click in the first place. Professional writers know exactly when their title looks like cheap crap. If they use it anyway, I'm just not their audience. If the content were legit they would have better ways of wrapping it.