• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    General rule, something that has at least two from each category below is likely to be clickbait.

    Thumbnail

    • Bright and many colours
    • Large arrows and circles
    • Exaggerated face (shocked, raging, crying)
    • Thick outlines

    Title

    • Title ends in ?!
    • Title is all caps
    • Title is in the vein of “[this, vague undefined thing] will shock you”
    • Title Has Some Words Initially Capitalised
    • Title says something scandalous

    Video content

    • Video is 10 minutes long (ad revenue)
    • Boobs (not necessarily)
    • 100k+ views or almost none
    • Only the last few min of the video contain the actual content
    • It’s one of those stupid ‘reaction to’ videos, just my personal taste. I’m not watching a show to see your fake reaction, I’m watching a show because I want to see a show.

    I don’t have a de-clickbaiter for the reason that I want to be able to recognise clickbait and not click on it.