Viewbait

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The opposite of clickbait. Clickbait are lying titles to get people to click an article or video while viewbait are truthful titles or thumbnails (YouTube) that are used to bring viewers in that actually go with the content. Viewbait is content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page by being truthful to what contains in the content as a whole.

Created by Devon from Among The Unknown

Clickbait (YouTube) Example: When someone has "DEAD BODY FOUND IN ABANDONED CHURCH" as the title, but the video doesn't feature any dead body at all, or has an mannequin (as an example) and the content creator pretends its a dead body and builds unnecessary excitement to the viewer.

Clickbait (YouTube) Example: When someone has "Abandoned Hospital: FOUND BLOOD ON THE WALLS" as the title, but the blood is actually just dried up paint...

Viewbait (YouTube) ((Weak)) Example: When the thumbnail and titles are actually truthful to the video.

"Abandoned Street - Furniture Still Left Behind" and the abandoned houses do still have furniture still left behind.

Viewbait by Skirisk May 21, 2018

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Viewbait

The Television version of Clickbait.

"This was total Viewbait"

Viewbait by KTech February 26, 2018

Related Words

Viewbait

age gate

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.

Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"

Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."

age gate by Banja January 7, 2011

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board chow

A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.

B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people

A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.

B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*

board chow by BinaryHackerMan September 3, 2007

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young pup

a young person, a young adult in their late teens/early 20s.

Ah, you're just a young pup at 23!

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grebo

West Midlands slang word for rockers, bikers, greasers etc. In the late 1980s it was used by the UK music press to refer to a specific scene centered around the bands Pop Will Eat Itself and Crazyhead. The term never found favour with readers of 'the inkies' (Sounds, Melody Maker and the still extant NME) and was soon dropped. Now often used in predominantly working-class areas of the midlands and the north to mean someone who listens to rock-derived music and/or dresses in a manner that suggests they affiliate themselves with rock music of some kind.

Some grebo passed with Sabbath playing on his stereo.
The Poppies are at no. 17? God, a grebo band in the charts!
They're playing nu-metal now, bloody grebos!

grebo by cactuscat September 15, 2006

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TikTok Farlands

TikTok Farlands is a term to refer to videos that you see after scrolling for a long time. These videos can potentially be disturbing, or weird. Said videos can also have low likes, or low comments.

“I reached the TikTok Farlands bro”

TikTok Farlands by PINES FAMILY TORTURER July 24, 2026

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