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P1: Aye bruh whats morgz last name?
P2: Clickbait
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An online influencer who only makes clickbait videos.
This dude is such a Clickbait Kyle, he’s never made a normal video!”
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Clickbait

Internet content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page. Ad blockers and a general fall in advertising clicks also affected the clickbait model, as websites moved towards sponsored advertising and native advertising where the content of the article was more important than the click-rate from users of the website. Chum boxes/chumbuckets are usually associated with clickbait, which they do, to some extent. "One weird trick" is a form of clickbait advertising that has been common on the internet since around the late 2000s. The formula used in the advertisements was first applied to weight loss products but has since been extended to cures for problems including hair loss and diabetes. Yellow journalism and the yellow press are American terms for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism. Sensationalism is what clickbait is.
"THIS WILL CHANGE YOUR EYE COLOR..." is a title that is misleading clickbait. "Top 10 <whatevers> that exist in real life!' is clickbait that may include Pokemon as a object. Pokemon are not real, hence the title is misleading.
by Qorptocx December 20, 2018
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Clickbait

A device used by Yes Cymru to foment anger amongst its members.
Yes Cymru used clickbait to get its members angry about a fifty pence piece.
by Y Gwir April 21, 2023
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Clickbait

A form of lying to people on the Internet in order to get people to click on their videos. The lying informs that something has been done on the video, but that "something" is not even there. This is often used on YouTube and other social media. The word's name explains the whole definition.
The video title said "My taco was extremely spicy!", but there was no taco! What a clickbait video!
by dswqsa895 January 21, 2024
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Example: **OMG** I FOUND A ALIEN IN THE FORTITE VORTEX ***CRAZY*** or Making my duck a roblox account :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
|Clickbait= people who make titles and thumbnails that not represent the video/post for millons of clicks and views they usally make money outta this.
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Animated storytime channels. Need I say more?
Me:*browsing Youtube*
Me: *sees title: "I am allergic to masks! (worse than COVID)*
Me: Wow I wonder what kind of story this could be? *clicks*
Video: *protagonist is a stolen art drawing from Faline San and turns out not to be allergic*
Me: thanks for wasting 10 minutes of my life with your pathetic clickbait, extorting children and giving Karens more excuses to keep exisiting!!!
Everybody else: Why'd you click on the video? Everybody older than 5 knows these channels have no life and are fucking disgusting human beings.
by unnamed7billion September 23, 2020
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