clickbait
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- noun
- /ˈklɪkˌbeɪt/
- Literature
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clickbait
- Many articles on social media are just clickbait designed to get you to click.
- clickbait headline
- clickbait articles
- clickbait and news
We have a whole YouTube channel dedicated to clickbait run by Luke.
- We have a whole YouTube channel dedicated to clickbait run by Luke.
- And you'll have clickbait titles or clickbait abstracts.
- The paradox of social media and clickbait.
- I don't if it's not this, OK, this makes for good Twitter clickbait.
- But we knew what clickbait was, but we didn't know what it was.
- All right, that's such clickbait because look on the on the sidebar, I'll show you guys.
- Yeah, they call it, they talk about anger, clickbait.
- It's competing with crazy clickbait, crazy thumbnails and like this sucks because these videos are bad.
- Yup captive or clickbait Kevin Recently I run the writers for decoding the unknown has been on a absolute.
Examples
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This would at best be clickbait on a non science oriented channel.
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Nothing riles me up more than seeing one of those clickbait articles that says worst finales of all time.
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Oh my God these titles are so clickbait and I fall for all of them.
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Look, what about all the people that took the clickbait?
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What we're doing here, this is clickbait.
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We have a whole YouTube channel dedicated to clickbait run by Luke.
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Everything else is apparently, excuse me, political clickbait to encourage support for future donations.
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This has led to hundreds of clickbait title videos on YouTube saying new timeline approved.
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Claims he can guarantee you a story worthy of a dozen clickbait headlines.
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It's competing with crazy clickbait, crazy thumbnails and like this sucks because these videos are bad.
Synonyms
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Publishing shocking or exaggerated stories to get attention
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Reporting that exaggerates and uses shocking stories to attract readers while ignoring the truth
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A news article that shocks or excites people by making events seem bigger than they are
An online article that uses exciting or false headlines to make people click
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
An online article that uses exciting or false headlines to make people click
How Sensational
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Clickbait joins the simple words click and bait; imagine bait on a hook that attracts fish, but here it attracts 'clicks' from readers. So clickbait means headlines or web posts that lure people to click, often by exaggerating or misleading.