The secret about clickbait headlines that they do not want to tell you

They are everywhere on the net: Headlines that lure you into clicking on them so that a bunch of ads can load in your browser.

Of course there is always a bit of text and and a picture and sometimes even a video or a table. After all the next time a clickbait has to lure you in again. The text is often emotional, maybe about

• some celebrities unmentionable activity (like bathing in a pool where a paparazzi can shoot it)
• a tragic accident and the poor mother (who lost her 14 year old cat)
• a secret they don't want you to know (like that rich people pay less rich people to reduce their taxes for them)

The goal is always the same: To make you click on the article.

Click. Click. Click. MOAR clicks! Every click counts in the pockets, and since you and your click aren't worth that much, every text you find after a clickbait title is short, often devoid of real content (but with a typing error here and there)and definitely not what you could call deeply thought out. Like this one I just typed down in 12 minutes without any plan.

Thank you for clicking. Find out more about clickbait after clicking on the upvote and resteem buttons.

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