Also called engagement bait sometimes, Clickbait is when something (typically on Youtube thumbnail) says its something (like a product), while being something else entirely, just so it gets your click.
Clickbait usually came in the form of an extreme thumbnail and title (like a youtuber's death, which was far more common than you might think), and the actual video would be on something completely different, or would actually be what it stated it was, but the thing that made you click on the video is not actually present.
Most clickbait videos would be countdowns, and would want you stick around for Number 1, which would make kids (which was mainly the target audience) to click and watch until that point, just for Number 1 to not be what the thumbnail said it was.
Clickbait usually came in the form of an extreme thumbnail and title (like a youtuber's death, which was far more common than you might think), and the actual video would be on something completely different, or would actually be what it stated it was, but the thing that made you click on the video is not actually present.
Most clickbait videos would be countdowns, and would want you stick around for Number 1, which would make kids (which was mainly the target audience) to click and watch until that point, just for Number 1 to not be what the thumbnail said it was.
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James looked down at his phone and said "wow, that's so cool", hoping that others around him would rush to his side begging for details.
He always uses verbal clickbait to try to start conversations.
He always uses verbal clickbait to try to start conversations.
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a type of video were it has the one who made this video say "(insert religious idol) wants you to see this" or "scroll if you hate (this religious idol the audience believes in)" to make the audience believe that the person who created this video is talking about how the audience from any religion can be saved according to the religion the audience believes in but in reality the people who make these videos are in it for the money and don't want to spread their religious views which then that video then gets remixed so that either the original owner of those types of videos or the person who remixed that video gets more views/likes/subscribers and mostly do it for attention and clout.
video: scroll if you hate (religious figure the audience believes in) person 1: ok I'm a (insert religion related to that video) and i know for a fact that this is religious clickbait
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'autistic' clickbait projects are usually grounding/ungrounding, alphabet/number-related projects, and other cartoony, colorful characters.
Example: search up "Klasky Csupo gets grounded" and you'll see those vids, also there are 2 or more characters, 1 thumbs up and the other thumbs down.
It’s just that the chance of them being neurodiverse is very high.
(No offense to autistic people, I'm autistic myself)
'autistic' clickbait projects are usually grounding/ungrounding, alphabet/number-related projects, and other cartoony, colorful characters.
Example: search up "Klasky Csupo gets grounded" and you'll see those vids, also there are 2 or more characters, 1 thumbs up and the other thumbs down.
It’s just that the chance of them being neurodiverse is very high.
(No offense to autistic people, I'm autistic myself)
Lil' austin wanted to watch the Ipad, so mom gave him the Ipad. As he was watching, older bro, Narchy, saw him watching sound effects g major stuff and 'autistic' clickbait.(Since Lil' Austin was autistic himself) He had no idea who came up w/ these
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