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We all have seen at least one of these clickbaits (or some variation thereof): "single mom discovers the meaning of life with a simple trick" or "billionaires don't want you to know this...
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System
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2019-12-18T21:34:24Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T11:56:53Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
We all have seen at least one of these clickbaits (or some variation thereof): > "single mom discovers the meaning of life with a simple trick" or > "billionaires don't want you to know this secret" or > "the 10 things that only real survivors do" or > "you could be sitting on a fortune" At face value they just seem cheap psychological tricks. They place the reader in the position to wish to belong to a certain group, and they suggest that membership can be attained with the only effort of clicking somewhere. As a test I wrote: > If you want to be really famous you only have to click here. but it does not quite stand the comparison. Am I being too strict in judging my own clickbait, or is there a deeper art to crafting it?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-05-21T22:44:03Z (almost 5 years ago)
Original score: 48