Clickbaitism

The act of creating clickbait headlines - to lure readers to inane, untrue or double-minded articles - sold as journalism.

Clickbaitism is clickbait combined with really bad and dishonest journalism.

Especially social media and sponsored articles lead to a new form of clickbaitism.

You can get a degree in clickbaitism at the University of Mount Whateverest.

by KeSch November 15, 2023

race clickbaiting

Media-hyping of racially charged content in order to increase ad revenue.

The Huffington Post is using the Ferguson protests for race clickbaiting.

by dustsceawung August 23, 2014

Clickbaiting wanker

A wanker that clickbaits people like Jake Paul, KSI and JMS.

JMS: TODAY I WILL BE DOING AN *INSANE* CHALLENGE AND I WILL EAT SHIT
ME: Ahhh shit.. the clickbaiting wanker clickbaited me again.

by JMS IS FAGGOT April 2, 2020

clickbaiting

One of the seven deadly sins.

The seven deadly sins are: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and clickbaiting

by Kappyidiot February 14, 2022

clickbaitus

A YouTuber who is on his way to YouTube fame through his satire gameplay commentary videos, some people claim he is a copycat of memeulous with a lisp. He does not own a lisp, but much rather the shame of never reaching his end goal on the site to feature in YouTube Rewind as a will smith copycat.

"Hey bro, did you see clickbaitus' new video? yeah neither did I because I don't watch him."

by memefinder23 December 29, 2019

Clickbaiting

The act of obsessively following links in your feeds in hopes of finding something stimulating.

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