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This Facebook Page Reduces Clickbait Articles To A Single Line, And Here Are 35 Times It Did Just That (New Pics)
As the name implies, clickbait is a form of false advertisement online. It usually comes as a link to a website with a sensationalist headline, and it has become the laughing stock of the internet.
"You won't believe what this celebrity said." "Ignoring that symptom will cost you your life." You've seen it, you hate it, you get the idea.
Luckily, there's a fun little project that tries to put an end to this dirty practice by showing just how redundant and cringey it actually is — Stop Clickbait opens up these publications and reduces them to a single line. It then shares the phrase together with the original title next to it, and the stark contrast proves that we do, in fact, need to stop clickbait.
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Stop Clickbait started in May of 2016. "I am an advertising major so over the years I've become very cynical when it comes to advertising," the project's creator Daniel told Bored Panda about its origins.
"I am quite fascinated by the spread of online ads and started to think it would be not only hilarious but also useful to many to go against the economy of the internet; ad revenue. Within a few days, it blew up with viral posts across social media channels and since then there have been vast amounts of support coming from all over the world. Since then, we have expanded into 10 different pages to specialize in different categories of clickbait as well as in 12 different countries around the world."
At its peak, Stop Clickbait has had a team of over 100 volunteers from around the world. There were people that specialized in things like graphic design, communications, and even computer programming.
Daniel said everyone who has been involved in the project was really passionate about fighting for the cause, and finding volunteers has generally been quite easy.
Daniel and his team believe that at least a couple of things should happen for clickbait to disappear. "First, social media companies need to provide tools to content producers to incentivize them to keep their content on their social media page," he said.
"One way they can do this is to provide options to generate revenue by posting [directly] on social media like Facebook or Twitter." In other words, content providers shouldn't have to redirect their social media followers elsewhere.
"Another thing we fight for is to promote media literacy," Daniel added. "By being able to read a headline and tell the difference between a journalist with integrity or simply someone using sensationalism to generate a click, the user can make an educated decision on who to support."
The team thanks everyone around the world that has been using the hashtag #StopClickBait by themselves to spoil clickbait they find online.
"We've heard from hundreds of people that they've gotten banned from Facebook pages because they keep spoiling their clickbait in the comments. Awesome. We are the little people joining together to fight against the media giants, and we're having an impact. It's time to fight against the economy of the Internet; it's all in the name, it's time to stop clickbait."
I thought they meant the dog's body. It's 6am here so I'm still waking up.
What if he says "Next is Xlandorf the Impeccable from Saturn" 😳😳
The last time the British let the public choose a name, they named a research submarine 'Boaty McBoatface'. They're lucky they didn't end up with 'Monkey McMonkface' this time.
"Flat belly" is what I don't like about this. Say lose weight or cut calories or something.
I don't get why some people are so anti kid-leash. It keeps the kid close while giving them more freedom than holding their hand would, everybody wins.
I don't get it either, just for the fact they won't get lost (or much worse!) it's a win
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My younger toddler brother would run away for no reason. He was about to get run over by a car once (a matter of inches) when he just crossed the road without looking.
Mine were blue and had merry go round horses on them. They fastend harness wise round my chest. All kids had them in the sixties in the UK.
Can we please call it something besides a leash? Some toddlers need a harness.
Mine used to play hide and seek in the stores. One day we were in Mark's Work Warehouse. I was looking for clothes. Me and her dad were there with her. There was no one else in the store besides one or 2 sales staff. She slipped out from our view for one second. We were all looking for her under racks, trying to find feet. And then one of the staff saw her head peeking out of a circular clothing rack and she was standing on the bottom bars. Her dad gave her a good a talkin' to when we got out of the store after we got her to apologize to the staff.
My daughter ran everywhere. Never walked. I'd go to playgroups in parks and stand in the middle of the place space rotating around watching her run from one spot to another. Other parents sat and their kids never moved more than a foot or two. People commented that it looked like she didn't even touch the ground (she ran on her toes). If we were going into really crowded places and it was just going to me, she had to sit in a stroller. I tried a leash once in a large store, it was too funny. The floor was slick so she slid a little. As we went through the store her body was at a 45 degree angle to the floor. Little feet flying and sliding along. I couldn't stop laughing. I handed her off to my husband (we had our baby boy by that time). I saw him either jogging or laughing around the store.
My son loved to run and hide, so I tried a leash and got nasty comments. Then I found one that looked like a curly telephone cord (remember those?) that had a wrap at one end for my wrist and at the other end for his wrist. Worked like a charm, gave him more room to run around, and all I got were compliments. Even though it was still a leash! People are strange.
True, nothing wrong with this, I taught pre-school and know how quickly kids can get away from you!! 😂😂😂
My partner grew up before leashing was a thing, so his Mom would just tie a baloon to his wrist when she took him to the store.
Mom had one for me in the 80's; I was a terrible wonderer and there were 3 of us
In the uk these are normal and called baby reins not a leash. I had them when i was a baby
Bad parenting has ruined a novel invention. At Disneyland, I saw quite few using these and their kids were safe, free and exploring. I also saw a little one with the leash alone & tied to a railing 15 feet away from their parents in the smoking section. If one needs to immediately go to how leashes are used with animals or worse, slavery or how there are a few bad actors, I simply don’t trust their thinking and I don’t want them near children to begin with. They’re the same type of people who complain about kids in skirts or tank tops.
I don't know what's worse: That? or parents holding their kids while smoking a smoldering cigarette and blowing noxious fumes in their little faces. But I've used ours only when we were in crowds, places with a lot of hiding spots are potentially dangerous areas and she was too hyper, like the bus stop.
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Well the headline itself says it. *Edit* here's to the nit pickers- the partial summary along side the headline says it all. Ffs that sounds abso fruiten lootely stupid
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I read all the entries on this post. What happened next will shock you!!
Ha ha. I've noticed recently that these clickbait articles on facebook often have a comment below summarising the story. Some kind sole has taken one for the team and saved everyone else from clicking.
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Clickbait always reminds me of the type of person who likes to say "I know something you don't know. Do you want me to tell you? I don't know if I should tell you."
Haha, yeah. And I say: "then don't." We have one such 5-minutes-glory seeker at work. That one will commonly say "I know this for a fact from a high-up in the ministry but don't ask me their name cos I can't tell you." (They have important sources, get it!) Then comes a pause so we can ask them. *insert cricket noises, tumbleweed, wind blowing*... No one cares to ask, duh.
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If it's all explained in the first paragraph of an article then I don't feel too aggrieved, but I really f****n hate the ones that spread out maybe a half page of info over 12 webpages just so they can get more ads onto your screen. If I'm looking for a recipe, I want the recipe front and proud on the first page I come to, not hidden away a dozen pages later after they've rambled on with filler for ad space. It just makes me go find another source, not want to give you ad revenue.
That’s a combination of copyright stuff (recipes can’t be copyrighted, but the stupid stories nobody cares about can be) and web search optimization. I wish the long pre-recipe articles were RELEVANT at least. There’s like a novel about this woman’s husband learning to castrate bull calves before a recipe for barbecue sauce on one website. You mix ketchup and brown sugar, I saved you a click.
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To me, a great rule of thumb is -- Any article that is titled by a question is either answered by "NO" or "NOBODY KNOWS" and is an utter waste of your time. Also, screw science articles and videos that spend half the article talking about some random researcher and how he grew up and what flavor of pasta sauce he likes and his dog's name and horseshit like that. Then has to reprise the entire history of the world for the next third of the article. You know they have at most 1 or 2 lines of interesting information to impart and the whole rest of the article is complete garbage.
I just Google it and get the answer faster. 9 times out of 10 the answer is stupid and useless.
I answered every leading question with "your mom" and regret nothing.
their whole lives are clickbait. they were MADE to be clickbait.
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..a lot of these sites are free so they rely on us clicking on them to read the article, and gain more web traffic, ad revenue, etc.. it's annoying, but hey, they're still free to use..
my faith in humanity was both restored and deleted in the reading of this
I wonder what happened to them. They haven't posted anything since December 2020. Their Twitter, Instagram & Youtube pages also haven;t been updated.
I loved this page! I hate click bait, and I'm glad someone thought to do this
I hate those articles and I utterly detest those tidbits of "news" that pop up in between an article I'm reading. However, sometimes I'm still so excited that I click (e.g. on news pages with a whole lots bunch of real news), to immediately regret it! My explanation: the usual human is still as curious as the usual ape. Curiosity sometimes get the better of them (even when being aware of the outcome/consequences). Or like the saying: curiosity killed the cat.
There's also click bait articles that have it set up where you have to click through multiple pages just to see the answer. It always starts with nonsense info that is not relevant to the story like the background of the people involved or what they were doing before the events happened. This is probably done so that you get to see ads on each page you click. Heck I seen one or two articles outright admit that the stories were made up for entertainment purposes.
I've gone through with this. You'll be surprised. For details: https://keepcalms.com/p/keep-calm-you-ve-been-pranked-2/
I read all the entries on this post. What happened next will shock you!!
Ha ha. I've noticed recently that these clickbait articles on facebook often have a comment below summarising the story. Some kind sole has taken one for the team and saved everyone else from clicking.
Load More Replies... Clickbait always reminds me of the type of person who likes to say "I know something you don't know. Do you want me to tell you? I don't know if I should tell you."
Haha, yeah. And I say: "then don't." We have one such 5-minutes-glory seeker at work. That one will commonly say "I know this for a fact from a high-up in the ministry but don't ask me their name cos I can't tell you." (They have important sources, get it!) Then comes a pause so we can ask them. *insert cricket noises, tumbleweed, wind blowing*... No one cares to ask, duh.
Load More Replies... If it's all explained in the first paragraph of an article then I don't feel too aggrieved, but I really f****n hate the ones that spread out maybe a half page of info over 12 webpages just so they can get more ads onto your screen. If I'm looking for a recipe, I want the recipe front and proud on the first page I come to, not hidden away a dozen pages later after they've rambled on with filler for ad space. It just makes me go find another source, not want to give you ad revenue.
That’s a combination of copyright stuff (recipes can’t be copyrighted, but the stupid stories nobody cares about can be) and web search optimization. I wish the long pre-recipe articles were RELEVANT at least. There’s like a novel about this woman’s husband learning to castrate bull calves before a recipe for barbecue sauce on one website. You mix ketchup and brown sugar, I saved you a click.
Load More Replies... To me, a great rule of thumb is -- Any article that is titled by a question is either answered by "NO" or "NOBODY KNOWS" and is an utter waste of your time. Also, screw science articles and videos that spend half the article talking about some random researcher and how he grew up and what flavor of pasta sauce he likes and his dog's name and horseshit like that. Then has to reprise the entire history of the world for the next third of the article. You know they have at most 1 or 2 lines of interesting information to impart and the whole rest of the article is complete garbage.
I just Google it and get the answer faster. 9 times out of 10 the answer is stupid and useless.
I answered every leading question with "your mom" and regret nothing.
their whole lives are clickbait. they were MADE to be clickbait.
Load More Replies... ..a lot of these sites are free so they rely on us clicking on them to read the article, and gain more web traffic, ad revenue, etc.. it's annoying, but hey, they're still free to use..
my faith in humanity was both restored and deleted in the reading of this
I wonder what happened to them. They haven't posted anything since December 2020. Their Twitter, Instagram & Youtube pages also haven;t been updated.
I loved this page! I hate click bait, and I'm glad someone thought to do this
I hate those articles and I utterly detest those tidbits of "news" that pop up in between an article I'm reading. However, sometimes I'm still so excited that I click (e.g. on news pages with a whole lots bunch of real news), to immediately regret it! My explanation: the usual human is still as curious as the usual ape. Curiosity sometimes get the better of them (even when being aware of the outcome/consequences). Or like the saying: curiosity killed the cat.
There's also click bait articles that have it set up where you have to click through multiple pages just to see the answer. It always starts with nonsense info that is not relevant to the story like the background of the people involved or what they were doing before the events happened. This is probably done so that you get to see ads on each page you click. Heck I seen one or two articles outright admit that the stories were made up for entertainment purposes.
I've gone through with this. You'll be surprised. For details: https://keepcalms.com/p/keep-calm-you-ve-been-pranked-2/
