click-baity

comparative click-baitier · superlative click-baitiest

1. alternativeAlternative form of clickbaity.

   The state of emergency was eventually called off, threat levels downgraded from “red” to “orange,” and even the click-baitiest of headlines became more subdued.

   2014 August 29, Tómas Gabríel Benjamin, “Schrödinger’s Volcano”, in The Reykjavík Grapevine, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2014

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   Mike Hudack works at Facebook. He's apparently pretty important there. His title is "director of product management." And he has had it with the news media, especially online outlets with their salacious gossip and click-baity listicles. So he vented his frustrations today on his Facebook page.

   2014 May 22, Jordan Weissmann, “Area Facebook Employee Wishes Somebody Would Do Something About All These Shallow Viral News Stories”, in Slate, archived from the original on 27 May 2023

   Much hay has been made about elements of bondage and other sexual fetishes in the early days of the book, but if you read the actual comics and not just a poorly researched listicle on a click-baitier website than this, you'll see that the sexual elements are pretty much just subtext, and the bondage is, for Marston, less about sex than about a metaphor for men's oppression of women.

   2015 April 15, Benito Cereno, “The Evolution of Wonder Woman: Best Wonder Woman Stories by Decade”, in ComicsAlliance, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2015