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clickbait

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Woman duped on Tinder inadvertently inspires Twitter meme

What five words would ruin your Tinder date?

On Sep 18, 2018 by Stacey Ritzen

Internet Culture IRL
Touchdalight YouTube incest pedophilia

This YouTuber is using pedophilia and incest as clickbait

He's asking for forgiveness.

On Apr 13, 2018 by Josh Katzowitz

Streaming
Coconut crab

Twitter is obsessed with this story about giant crabs eating Amelia Earhart

This is wild.

On Nov 14, 2017 by David Covucci

Internet Culture

You’ll never believe how Facebook is going to kill clickbait on its site

The social network will look for posts that either withhold information or use sensational language.

On May 18, 2017 by Phillip Tracy

Tech

How spammers nearly destroyed the biggest ‘Simpsons’ meme page

Don't have a cow, man.

On Aug 24, 2016 by Miles Klee

Internet Culture

‘Where my shrimps’ may be just the beginning of Weird Facebook clickbait hijacks

It's just scams all the way down.

On Aug 10, 2016 by April Siese

Internet Culture

Facebook says people don’t like clickbait; what it does next is totally expected

Facebook to show more straightforward news, which is apparently what you want.

On Aug 4, 2016 by Selena Larson

Tech

Facebook won’t help ‘Where my shrimps’ admins get their meme page back from hacker

Facebook the company has been less than helpful.

On Jul 25, 2016 by April Siese

Internet Culture

How a phony feminist became the Web’s most hated clickbait artist

Baiters gonna bait.

On Mar 1, 2016 by Ryan Scott

Internet Culture

‘Battle Hymn of the Digital Publisher’: a media epic in verse

This is what they must have meant / When they spoke of 'shareable content.'

On Sep 11, 2015 by Dave Infante

Internet Culture
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How dictionary-makers are building an encyclopedia of Internet slang

But they might never make it into print.

On May 27, 2015 by Selena Larson

Tech

You’ll never guess which word just made it into the dictionary

This is epic.

On May 26, 2015 by Miles Klee

Internet Culture

I love the Internet even though it’s on the Internet

Everybody hates the Internet. All hate is self-hate.

On Mar 10, 2015 by [email protected]

Internet Culture Via

5 things we learned from Andrew Sullivan’s independent journalism experiment

It’s pretty damn hard to get people to pay for text-based news content online.

On Feb 3, 2015 by Simon Owens

Internet Culture Via

5 reasons 2015 will be the end of clickbait

It's reign might finally be over.

On Jan 14, 2015 by Chris Grouchy

Internet Culture Via

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