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Clipbait 

Clipbait is similar to clickbait. However, instead of a misleading headline or title designed to bring in views or 'clicks', clipbaiting is taking a particular piece of footage or audio - a 'clip' - and removing it from the rest of the piece. This is done in such a way to remove it from the context of the full clip to alter the meaning of the original clip.

Note: Clipbait can be differentiated from (or, rather, include Quote Mining ) in that it can include both the usage of cherry-picked audio quotes OR wholly visual clips.
That news article of Fred Jones saying Coolsville sucks is total Clipbait, they just took that line out of context!

Saying that Han didn't shoot first is just Lucas putting in clipbait.
Clipbait by AtemAndrew July 15, 2018
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Clitbait 

is a pejorative term describing an item with impressive features mainly used by men to lure women into sexual intercourse.
B: Hey T, great new car you have there. Must be a perfect clitbait!
T: Yeah, I hope so.
G: I am sure it is, because it's big and black.
C: You definitely gonna get lucky with it.
Clitbait by Bruce Tee December 18, 2015
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Clitbaiting 

When someone says something to try and get a woman to do sexual things with them.
Slizzard is clitbaiting the fuck outta Sonya right now.
Clitbaiting by CallMeGovernor June 28, 2016

ClipBaiting

When a content creator and or prominent figure in any industry says/does something that is seen as genuine but was only said/done for it to be clipped and shared throughout the internet. The most successful people online more often than not are the most successful clipbaiters.
Ron: "Hey that Ludwig guy is always clipbaiting!"
François: "Yeah, crazy people believe he didn't have knowledge she was streaming him at the same time for the joke."
Ron: "People really want to believe the coolest thing just happened naturally huh."

Clapbait 

Yo did you bang her?”

“Ya but it was for the clapbait bro
Clapbait by Msh8 June 16, 2019

clitbait 

idk man i made it up, but its a word trust me
dailytooyya on instagram is so clitbait!
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
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Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026
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