Could have social media websites
like us
have some system for selecting, maybe voting on, alternative titles.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Nice idea - I remember on reddit some subs had a rule that required exact source headlines only, no user-written version. Lemmy doesn't seem to have that restriction.
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Yes, but this has been the case for many years now.
I despise it. It's everywhere.
It's even like that in our public service media in my country, which is tax-funded and does not need to generate clicks at all. There are no ads embedded in their articles or anything. They have no reason at all to bait.
Yet they do. It's like it's getting taught at journalism school or wherever the fuck they go before starting their career in baiting.
Master baiters are what they are. Absolute masters.
Everybody has always been annoyed by them. Since before computers existed; newspaper headlines were the original clickbait and it's always sucked.
omg do i hate that. especial those commentators who want to claim something was politically devastating when we all know no one gave a shit.
No, it is only you who are annoyed at this.
/s 😁
Newspapers used to be displayed in boxes, and available for sale almost vending machine-style.
I imagine headlines were "buy-bait" back then. But maybe they weren't quite as good at it, since it hadn't been studied as much?
"Universe rotates every 500 billion years"
Source: labrudirudikudi.au.net.eu
If you think that's bad, wait until I tell you one obscure detail about this common thing! But first, let me tell you about Raid Shadow Legends...
It was wild for a while, then scaled back and not it's re-emerging with a vengance. It's really annoying, and it's spreading to social media. It was getting crazy on reddit, where people have gone back to literally ending titles with "And then this happened"(actually using the word "this" instead of a real descriptor).
For the past 10 years
I dont click on them. Unfortunately rss is going in the same direction
Tell your friends and family not to fall for it then. Ad dicks will come up with something new and equally horrible.
I don’t really mind clickbaity headlines, but I’m getting real tired of LIVE headlines, where instead of writing a story they just do Mastodon-style live reactions, like me getting pissed and watching Eurovision.
News headlines have gotten more clickbaity. Here's why.