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Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Let’s also not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Aka. discredit any and all content just because of a clickbaity title.

Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

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artyom@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t discredit them but I often avoid them, because they give me no reason to watch them.

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- Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If something is obvious click bait I do the same, but many legit authors use clickbait because it’s needed in this attention economy.
  
  (see the video link I posted above)
  
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  - artyom@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I saw the video you posted when it was published several years ago. I don’t care why they do it.
    
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    Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Your own posts have clickbaity titles. https://piefed.social/u/artyom
    
    It’s sadly basically unavoidable
    
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p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait:

Veritasium is owned by an private investor firm and has his own problems with propaganda.

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