Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading. A "teaser" aims to exploit the "curiosity gap", providing just enough information to make readers of news websites curious, but not enough to satisfy their curiosity without clicking through to the linked content. Click-bait headlines add an element of dishonesty, using enticements that do not accurately reflect the content being delivered. The "-bait" part of the term makes an analogy with fishing, where a hook is disguised by an enticement, presenting the impression to the fish that it is a desirable thing to swallow. Long before the Internet, an unscrupulous marketing practice known as bait-and-switch used similar dishonest methods to hook customers. Like bait-and-switch, clickbait is a form of fraud.
About Clickbait
Television miniseries about the ways dangerous and uncontrolled impulses are fuelled in the age of social media. The series was created for television by Tony Ayres and Christian White.
Achievement of Clickbait
The show's first season consisted of 8 episodes in total. The pilot is titled "The Sister."
Top Facts You Did Not Know About Clickbait
News media manipulation.. Internet terminology.. Neologisms.. Deception.
Latest information about Clickbait updated on September 04 2021.
