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03 Oct 2019, 9:32 pm

Could someone explain what the word "clickbait" means?

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03 Oct 2019, 9:38 pm

I think you're in a better position to explain it to me, sir!

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03 Oct 2019, 10:52 pm

EzraS wrote:

Could someone explain what the word "clickbait" means?

Ok caught another one . :mrgreen:

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04 Oct 2019, 4:22 am

Are you doing inktober or is this a massive coincidence?

(Prompt yesterday was 'bait')

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04 Oct 2019, 5:48 am

What does clickbait mean? Something to do with fishing?

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04 Oct 2019, 7:31 am

Mountain Goat wrote:

What does clickbait mean? Something to do with fishing?

Yes, it's a fishing bait making clicking noises to attract mousefish.

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04 Oct 2019, 7:42 am

Not heard of mousefish. Is that a Polish translation?

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04 Oct 2019, 7:44 am

Mousefish attract catfish.
Catfish attract dogfish.

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04 Oct 2019, 7:52 am

Mountain Goat wrote:

Not heard of mousefish. Is that a Polish translation?

Clickbait is what you use to attract "mouse fish"- the mouse fishes in turn pull in...the SUCKER fish.

The sucker fish 'clicks" the mouse fish and both get reeled in...reeled in by the internet advertiser! :lol:

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04 Oct 2019, 8:02 am

^^^ so my idea was way off the mark, then.

Bugger!

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04 Oct 2019, 8:18 am

Trueno wrote:

Mousefish attract catfish.
Catfish attract dogfish.

Exactly, mousefish are the main species hunted by catfish.

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Clickbait is a form of false advertisement which uses hyperlink text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, with a defining characteristic of being deceptive, typically sensationalized or misleading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait

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04 Oct 2019, 8:47 am

In other words:

Something needlessly provocative: like a thread on an autistic support website with a title like "None of You are Real Autistics" that draws lotsa sudden attention ...is an example of "click bait".

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04 Oct 2019, 10:32 am

naturalplastic wrote:

Oh, I see what @Ezra did there!! !! !! (Thanks for the assist, @naturalplastic.) That's funny. In my defense I often open so many tabs, I lose sight of the subject lines.

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04 Oct 2019, 11:26 am

I would never post on a thread that is obvious click bait.

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04 Oct 2019, 11:36 am

Uhmm. A bit like deceptive TV adverts like internet providers who use fluffy kittens to advertize, or a soft drink company using dancing red people. None of these have ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to do with their products.

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04 Oct 2019, 12:00 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:

Basically that.

When I go to "Explorer" (to get here to WP for example) the start up page is chock full of click bait of the worst kind.

You see some headline about some topic that mildly interests you like "these celeb couples have huge age differences between them" that shows a pic of a fav star of yours, and their spouse. So ofcourse you click it. And then you get ONE paragraph on the topic, instead of a body of copy. And you see an arrow that says "continue the slide show". So you hafta manually advance it page by page just so you can read the story one paragraph at a time. Meanwhile you get exposed to a dozen pages chocked full of adverts. And its designed to trip you. So by mistake you click the wrong arrow- and it links you TO one the ads that you're not interested in..Grrrrr..

I didn't even know there was a term for it. But then I saw folks use the term "click bait" here on WP, and ...I immediatly got what the term meant (boy do I EVER know what "click bait" is!).

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