A leading statement is similar to a leading question in that it makes an open ended or attention grabbing statement to influence a person to think a certain way or do something. A common use of this is in article or thumbnail clickbait, where a leading statement is used to imply something else.
That Youtuber has a very clickbait-y, leading statement as his title.
by Nutmeg??? November 9, 2018
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