I know ‘clickbait is bad’ is hardly a shattering new insight, and I acknowledge the multiple nested ironies in an article which decries clickbait having to market itself as clickbait while wreathed in a veritable garland of other clickbait (’10 Celebs Who Lost Their Hot Bodies’ – back of the sofa?), but I still think this is a point worth repeating every so often.
#i am very conflicted about clickbait#there’s an indulgent part of me all ‘oh give the public what it wants’#and then my inner 19th-c. intellectual idealist flips the table and yells ENCOURAGE THE PUBLIC TO WANT BETTER#while my horrid inner gollum lurks in the corner muttering ‘maybe those 22 celebrity homes really WOULD blow your mind’#’how will you know’#’unless’#pTq
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