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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.
Plus new kinds of wind turbines are being tested that are less noisy, not dangerous to wild life and work in any wind direction.
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That's not a lot... The only reason we continue use coal and other fossil fuels is because the people in power own the mines and wells and they won't profit from what is basically free energy
Well, that and the fact that wind power isn't a reliable continous source of power.
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That's roughly 12,146 turbines in each of the 48 main land states. I think that's doable.
Silly question. Everyone knows turtles can't fly!
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That's actually not that many. There are states that can take much more than that and still have room.
Can you imagine if you could use a wind turbine in a funnel that could take the full force of a tornado
according to the gov't there are a little over 70,000 wind turbans in the US, as of Jan 2022.
I think there was a simpsons episode about turbines, like... They used the power from the turbines to power a bunch of fans to spin the turbine to power the fans to...
Meh, still leaning to nuclear power until we find actually viable solution, depends on the size of the nuclear plant but it would take 2-4 thousand wind turbines to replace nuclear plant.. and the expected life time of wind turbine is something like 20 years while nuclear plant is 60-80 years.. so even if the initial costs might be higher, we can get longer and more stable source of energy with nuclear. Now combination with all of the solutions we have is probably the best, trying to harvest as much as possible of the "free" energy while having a stable energy source for fluctuations in demand during crisis. Also I think the number in the article calculates that all the turbines work with full capacity which obviously doesnt happen when there just isnt wind, estimates say that you would need to about double that to actually cover the energy need of US.
My mom lives in Baca County Colorado which pretty much has nothing but wind so they've been building turbines like crazy. The county is twice the size of Rhode Island. They've had to stop building new ones because they can't transport the power they are already producing to market and no one wants to pay for more high voltage lines to the cities. Useless trivia fact - Baca County is home of the US dust bowl museum at the Comanche National Grassland ranger station because they still have the wind storms 100 years later.
I can't wait until the old die out and the young finally get in power. The more we vote. The more science we listen to, and the less we think with our wallets. There's hope for the world yet.
The boomers said this exact same thing in the 60s. It's what all normal young adults say. And a very few remember it past age 40.
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And plenty would be off the coasts or in the plains where theres pretty much nothing.
Some of the states are just huge splotches of nothing, we can fit more wind turbines across the country. I’m fine with wind energy but for some reason I get this visceral feeling of anxiety and dread when I see one of those wind turbines, like seeing some sort of supernatural horror entity. I don’t know why.
1. That's not a lot. 2. Many could be placed off shore. 3. Newer smaller turbines can be placed on rooftops to reduce the number placed on empty land. 4. If all new builds were required to have solar roofs and if solar roofing was properly subsidized for older homes this need could be cut even more. Seriously... Let's get at it!
Sadly it will never happen. Oil, coal, and other energy barons will fight to the death and ruin our entire planet to guarentee they keep getting money....
That's not that much and who really needs Rhode Island at this point anyways lol.
Cmon man!!! I live here!!! It's a beautiful state...
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Good gawd. Let’s just forget about putting solar on existing homes or any building, which can also be done with windmills. Not only are smaller windmills available for home use but there are some super genius creative peeps out there who have created beautiful windmill art.
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.
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
In the Cayman Islands, for instance, offshore companies are not taxed on income earned abroad, and there is no taxation of Cayman international business companies. The Cayman Islands has no income tax, no corporate tax, no estate or inheritance tax, and no gift tax or capital gains tax, making it a pure tax haven.
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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/
