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Woman duped on Tinder inadvertently inspires Twitter meme

Stacey Ritzen— September 18

This YouTuber is using pedophilia and incest as clickbait

Josh Katzowitz— April 13

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

David Covucci— November 14

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook

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

Phillip Tracy— May 18

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How spammers nearly destroyed the biggest ‘Simpsons’ meme page

Miles Klee— August 24

Shrimp on Facebook color

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

April Siese— August 10

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

Selena Larson— August 4

Facebook hands slicing shrimp

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

April Siese— July 25

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

Ryan Scott— March 1

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

Dave Infante— September 11

OMG and LOL cut out of dictionary pages

How dictionary-makers are building an encyclopedia of Internet slang

Selena Larson— May 27

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

Miles Klee— May 26

The Internet old cool

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

March 10

Andrew Sullivan

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

Simon Owens— February 3

A Keyboard and Mouse

5 reasons 2015 will be the end of clickbait

Chris Grouchy— January 14

A Model of a T-Rex at the Jurassic Park Attraction

How teaser trailers became Hollywood’s version of clickbait

Gillian Branstetter— December 1

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Facebook’s ‘People You May Know’: An interview with Drew Kaufman

Miles Klee— October 14

Hank Green performing with a guitar.

This kinda gross trick will get people to actually consume your content

Hank Green— October 8

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