We all have our guilty pleasures. Still, it's a go...  ...ea to be up on all the different warning signs of clickbait . Once you are able to recognize them for what the...

(Image: Jollyinthebox)In the movie 127 Hours, a mountain climber amputates his own arm after getting it stuck in a boulder. That's cool, but not really applicable to most people's lives. So the marketing manager wants it...

[http://youtu.be/pJDm-SWzOQM] (YouTube link)Hey, I didn’t come up with that title- it was attached to the video already. We shouldn’t call these “facts,” as that implies a certain intersection wit...

You'll cry with joy when you click on this misleading headline that suggests a counter-intuitive contrarian view that is actually quite normal or disingenuous. Go ahead and bite into Dave Coverly's Speed Bump cartoons....

What’s the worst thing you can do to a great emotion? Make it go viral! If you love someone, you are supposed to set them free, not give them internet fame -unless that’s what they want more than anything. Ev...

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwL4heIrgVA](Video...  ...too frequently.Yet let me say this in defense of clickbait : it appears to be a commercially successful model...

I saw a reference to a site called Clickhole this morning and had to laugh at how self-aware the name is. But when I went to look, behold, the site was launched by The Onion! From the introduction post:We don’t lik...

You won't believe what this one PhD student did to...  ...ow we have a Tumblr that combines those concepts. Clickbait Dissertations takes serious research and presents...  ...u would like to see your dissertation turned into clickbait , you're invited to send it in (I'm not sure how i...

(Fowl Language Comics/Brian Gordon)You’ll la...  ...l laugh, then you’ll cry when you read this clickbait

There was a time I had to explain to some new blog...  ...with no useful information," otherwise known as clickbait . Darius Kazemi at Tiny Subversions demonstrates...