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
Get the Clickbaitmug. by Y Gwir April 21, 2023
Get the Clickbaitmug. 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.
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
Get the clickbaitmug. Clickbait or (Clique-béaté)
is a french term, coined in the 16th century.
Meaning: To use thy persuasion, to reap the gaze of thou's congregation.
In modern terms, this means, to try to get MAD views!
Don't mislead, intrigue!
The clickbait arrow is sacred!
is a french term, coined in the 16th century.
Meaning: To use thy persuasion, to reap the gaze of thou's congregation.
In modern terms, this means, to try to get MAD views!
Don't mislead, intrigue!
The clickbait arrow is sacred!
BenMascott:
“C’mon Ace, I just put ‘You WON’T Believe This Ending!’ and it was a chill Skywars match. It’s fine.”
TheOriginalAce:
“Thou mock the art of the sacred Clickbait arrow, Ben. One must not lie... but lure.”
BenMascott:
“Lure, lie — same thumbnail, bro.”
TheOriginalAce:
“Blasphemy. You dare invoke Clique-béaté in vain?”
“C’mon Ace, I just put ‘You WON’T Believe This Ending!’ and it was a chill Skywars match. It’s fine.”
TheOriginalAce:
“Thou mock the art of the sacred Clickbait arrow, Ben. One must not lie... but lure.”
BenMascott:
“Lure, lie — same thumbnail, bro.”
TheOriginalAce:
“Blasphemy. You dare invoke Clique-béaté in vain?”
by BaconFearMC June 26, 2025
Get the Clickbaitmug. Clickbait is a method of getting views from a title or thumbnail, created years ago by a Youtube channel/ Website named Buzzfeed.
by Jazzy --> Smazzy October 23, 2019
Get the Clickbaitmug. Morgz' last name
by ThatGuyHasABigPP May 2, 2020
Get the Clickbaitmug. Grant was on the couch in the living room clickbaiting through UBIs about his dream car, the Ford Focus, instead of attending to his woman's needs in the bedroom.
by NavyRhino May 29, 2023
Get the Clickbaitingmug.