Glove and Boots Take on Clickbait


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I'll be honest with you: this video will not blow your mind, nor be the best part of the day. If I ever post anything that becomes the best part of your day, you need to re-assess the major decisions that you've made over the course of your life.

Are you tired of misleading or emotionally overcharged headlines that encourage you to click on a link? Do you see sites offer deliberately and ridiculously contrarian perspectives (AKA #SlatePitches)? So are the puppets in this Glove and Boots video. They compare the practice with the fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

I will occasionally say that an item is "awesome" or "spectacular" or, more rarely, refer to a posted item as "the neatest thing I've seen all week" because I think that it is. But I don't do it often because that is a currency that depreciates if used too frequently.

Yet let me say this in defense of clickbait: it appears to be a commercially successful model. As far as I can tell, it gets clicks and earns revenue.

-via Huffington Post


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I have been watching this since say, October... such a catchy tune. I always use it to cheer me up! <3

check out the user's other videos as well... equally cute and hilarious!
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Well, of course it sticks in your head; it's insipid. That's why I can never understand people who use "catchy" as a positive term. Catchy is incredibly easy to write and annoying to anyone with any sense of musical taste.
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I'm just amazed that anyone could find that rubbish catchy.

Maybe I'm just tired of the endless spew of cute animal videos accompanied by crappy songs. Maybe we need some real animal situations.

There's a bulldog squatting on my lawn.

It's a sack, full of kitty cats. And they meow, meow, meow, and they splash, splash, splash.
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OK. That was undeniably cute. Now pass me the ear bleach. The "Demon DJ" in my head is going to get a lot of use out of that little tune...
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