clickbait-y

comparative clickbait-ier · superlative clickbait-iest

1. alternativeAlternative form of clickbaity.

   A tantalizing, clickbait-y headline gets slapped atop the tweet, video or blog. ("You won't believe the five life lessons in this shocking video!")

   2013 December 12, Adam Richter, “Just because it's viral doesn't mean it's true”, in Reading Eagle

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   The Daily Caller, rightwing blog and trusty purveyor of all things clickbait-y, aggressively aggregated a story over the weekend that a woman has sued the city over being stopped and frisked in Brooklyn last year.

   2013 July 8, Raillan Brooks, “White Women Get Stopped and Frisked, Too, Writes Fear-Mongering Journalist”, in Village Voice

   Even if they can't execute it as well as Buzzfeed,^([sic]) it's also fine to run some clickbait-y content to subsidise the more important but less popular reporting they^([sic]) good media outlets should produce.

   2013 November 4, Steve Hind, “In defence of clickbait”, in The Guardian