Comment on The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center

• sab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks for emphasising I never called the article clickbait, just outrage-bait, circlejerk and low effort.

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  • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Outrage-bait is clickbait. More specifically, it’s a subset of clickbait.

    Wikipedia:

    Ragebait, rage-bait, rage baiting, and outrage baiting are similar Internet slang neologisms referring to manipulative tactics that feed on readers’ anxieties and fears. They are all forms of clickbait. . . . The term rage bait, which has been cited since at least 2009, is a negative form of click-baiting as it relies on manipulating users to respond in kind to offensive, inflammatory “headlines”, memes, tropes, or comments.

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    • sab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My bad. I thought clickbait just referred to headlines that don’t deliver. Today I learned.

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