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Clickbait

Clickbait meaning

Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines.

Example sentences (20)

Okay, this is looks like a clickbait title, but I maintain that a clickbait title is one that doesn’t deliver on all the enticing possibilities that the headline suggest but honestly, that is not the case.

As clickbait continues to influence our reading habits, sometimes stories are blown out of proportion, and with local newspapers in the U.S. closing, it’s a ripe news environment to get completely lost and manic at the situation.

But Pugh, who is dashing, with sharp cheekbones and a sweep of silver hair, like a telegenic actor who has been cast to play Lewis Pugh in a biopic, insists that these achievements are just clickbait.

One dead following Sunday morning Carp Road crash (published Nov. 26, 333 pageviews): Emergency news will always be clickbait in the world of community journalism.

Seeking Alpha editors should remove the misleading clickbait title of this very lightweight article, it degrades the site quality.

The British tabloids are notoriously aggressive publications that perfected clickbait before the invention of the internet; their perverse insults and wild accusations could easily match the “mean girl” tweets of Former President Donald Trump.

The cocktail was seemingly procured from a private source, as the whole event was exclusively sponsored by six different private-jet companies, all of which are sponsored by Veued Clickbait champagne.

The MSM (mainstream media) eagerly leaping on the 'tragic wedding crash' clickbait story while ignoring the continuing COVID deaths each week,' she wrote.

When Grace's disappearance makes it to the news, everything about her case quickly becomes internet clickbait, with TikTokkers and Gen Z true-crime aficionados digging into Grace's past and finding out that she has something to hide.

Argylle's trailer and poster turned out to be pure clickbait.

As you browse the sections, you can opt to improve the titles of news posts using AI — a feature designed to help combat clickbait titles — as well as tap on the “Smart Summary” option to have a ChatGPT-style quick summary of the article’s main points.

But most of the links and claims are clickbait or fake.

Details at 11 and unending opinions offered on various corporate and social media platforms ad nauseam — as long as you respond to the clickbait.

FFS, reading two sentences in makes that headline out to be the ridiculous clickbait it is.

Sorry for using that tired old clickbait headline, but in a roundabout way, it’s true.

The retiree headline is clickbait.

The soulful shouts of front woman Sandra Yau give extra depth to the record’s spunky, funky songs, and Clickbait celebrate the LP by headlining the Empty Bottle on Monday, August 5, to cap their first tour.

Whenever I'm about to waste my time on some clickbait article, this Jenga stack of pop-ups shows up, and I go away.

In our culture of 24-hour news, sound bites, and clickbait, the tension between the fast-paced events of the day and the laborious strides of the judicial system is heightened even further.

I understand clickbait and all, but shouldn't Huffington Post at least have some fuzzy pictures, or sideboobs?