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The transgender revolution will not be clickbait

As trans visibility increases, the media are making the same old tired mistakes.

On Dec 3, 2014 by Mitch Kellaway

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How teaser trailers became Hollywood’s version of clickbait

When we're viewing teasers for teaser trailers, we've reached peak teaser.

On Dec 1, 2014 by Gillian Branstetter

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

“Twitter is sort of a diary of my brain farts.”

On Oct 14, 2014 by Miles Klee

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

Don’t feel bad about getting someone to click on something if the thing they’re clicking on doesn’t suck.

On Oct 8, 2014 by Hank Green

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Why celebrity deaths are the ultimate clickbait

There's an art to dying on the Internet.

On Sep 26, 2014 by Zaron Burnett III

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6 reasons we fall for hoaxes on Facebook

If everybody’s sharing it, channel your inner After School Special and proceed with caution.

On Sep 10, 2014 by Cabell Gathman

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What Fox News can teach us about how the Internet works

The definition of "all the news that's fit to print" has changed on the Internet. 

On Sep 5, 2014 by Chris Osterndorf

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How to filter out clickbait articles from your Facebook News Feed

DIY your way to News Feed sanity. 

On Aug 28, 2014 by Elizabeth Robinson

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You’ll never believe what Facebook is doing to clickbait

Facebook just quietly changed the Internet forever.

On Aug 26, 2014 by S.E. Smith

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‘Humans of New York’ isn’t clickbait—it’s why the Internet exists

What better way to show that we are different but still the same?

On Aug 14, 2014 by [email protected]

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The Internet has a content diversity problem

The problem is with a palpable lack of creativity—and perhaps even effort.

On Jun 11, 2014 by [email protected]

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Do we need a new word for ‘viral?’

Do these pieces of our culture truly encapsulate what virality once stood for?

On May 20, 2014 by [email protected]

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Get lost in this unending series of YouTube videos with zero views

Petit Tube caters directly to our thirst for pointless ephemera.

On Apr 23, 2014 by Miles Klee

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‘The Wolf of BuzzFeed’: Coming soon to a laptop near you

This might be the best Wolf of Wall Street parody we’ve seen yet.

On Apr 2, 2014 by Miles Klee

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What you don’t know about the curiosity gap may change your life

That’s why the curiosity gap is so insidious: it makes us care about information that we would have had no interest in learning before.

On Mar 28, 2014 by [email protected]