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Doctors HATE HER!!</h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="mw-body-content"> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From RationalWiki</div> <div id="contentSub"></div> <div id="contentSub2"></div> <div id="jump-to-nav"></div> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#mw-head">Jump to navigation</a> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#searchInput">Jump to search</a> <div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Example_clickbait_adverts.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Example_clickbait_adverts.jpg/300px-Example_clickbait_adverts.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="117" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Example_clickbait_adverts.jpg/450px-Example_clickbait_adverts.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Example_clickbait_adverts.jpg 2x" data-file-width="558" data-file-height="217" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Example_clickbait_adverts.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>INSANE EXAMPLES</div></div></div> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; 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background-color:#F5E4E5;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Free_Republic" title="Free Republic">Free Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Foundation" title="Anglo-Saxon Foundation">Anglo-Saxon Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scam_site" title="Scam site">Scam site</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freethought_Blogs" title="Freethought Blogs">Freethought Blogs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rex_Research" title="Rex Research">Rex Research</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Ruins_Everything" title="Adam Ruins Everything">Adam Ruins Everything</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SciBabe" title="SciBabe">SciBabe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slacktivist" title="Slacktivist">Slacktivist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quora" title="Quora">Quora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drudge_Report" title="Drudge Report">Drudge Report</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Bonehill-Paine" title="Joshua Bonehill-Paine">Joshua Bonehill-Paine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bentham_Science_Publishers" title="Bentham Science Publishers">Bentham Science Publishers</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Internet" title="Template:Internet">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Internet" title="Template talk:Internet">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Internet&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #76923c; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:#ffffff; background-color:#76923c"><b>You gotta spin it to win it</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Media" title="Media"><font size="4" color="#ffffff"><b>Media</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#ffffff;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Media" title="Category:Media"><img alt="Icon media.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/1/16/Icon_media.svg/100px-Icon_media.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/1/16/Icon_media.svg/150px-Icon_media.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/1/16/Icon_media.svg/200px-Icon_media.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:#ffffff; background-color:#76923c; text-align:center;"><b>Stop the presses!</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffffff;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_bias" title="Conservative bias">Conservative bias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_media" title="Liberal media">Liberal media</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Flynt" title="Larry Flynt">Larry Flynt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_O%27Donnell" title="Lawrence O'Donnell">Lawrence O'Donnell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melodrama" title="Melodrama">Melodrama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs" title="Little Green Footballs">Little Green Footballs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discovery_Channel" title="Discovery Channel">Discovery Channel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Harder" title="Chuck Harder">Chuck Harder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schlockumentary" title="Schlockumentary">Schlockumentary</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:#ffffff; background-color:#76923c; text-align:center;"><b>We want pictures<br />of Spider-Man!</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffffff;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Journalism" title="Category:Journalism">Journalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Newspapers" title="Category:Newspapers">Newspapers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Media" title="Category:Media">All articles</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:#ffffff; background-color:#76923c; text-align:center;"><b>Extra! Extra!</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffffff;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/RationalWiki:What_is_going_on_in_the_world%3F" title="RationalWiki:What is going on in the world?">WIGO World</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Media" title="Template:Media">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Media" title="Template talk:Media">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Media&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The term "<b>clickbait</b>" refers to any sort of underhanded, <a href="/wiki/Style_over_substance" title="Style over substance"> style-over-substance</a> tactic used on <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet"> webpages</a> to garner more page visits, often from <a href="/wiki/Social_media" class="mw-redirect" title="Social media"> social-media</a> websites. Clickbait tries to operate in a number of different ways, from posting emotionally pleasing but intellectually vacuous material, presenting an incomplete news article or video with a possibly deceptive title, using <a href="/wiki/Emotional_appeal" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotional appeal">emotional appeals</a> such as "You won't believe what happens when...", presenting <a href="/wiki/Sex" title="Sex">sexually</a> suggestive imagery,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[note 1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[note 2]</a></sup> posting a quiz to find out "Which _______ character are you?" (or other inane online quizzes whose only ostensible purpose is to stroke the quiz-taker's ego), or using provocative <a href="/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">pseudoscience</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theories</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tall_tale" class="extiw" title="wp:tall tale" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: tall tale">tall tales</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> or outright <a href="/wiki/Hoax" title="Hoax">hoaxes</a>. With the power of <i><a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum" title="Argumentum ad populum">argumentum ad populum</a></i>, social media becomes a very effective propagator of such nonsensical ideas.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[1]</a></sup> In addition, clickbait sites often re-hash trendy videos whose fame was over <i>years</i> ago.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[2]</a></sup> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Four_things_THEY_don.27t_want_you_to_know_about_binge-clicking.21.21.21"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Four things <i>THEY</i> don't want you to know about binge-clicking!!!</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Astonishing_COMMON_EXAMPLES_of_Clickbait_that_can.27t_be_unseen"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Astonishing COMMON EXAMPLES of Clickbait that can't be unseen</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#One_thing_you_never_knew_about_clickbait"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">One thing you never knew about clickbait</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#What_you_need_to_know_now_about_the_NEWS"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">What you need to know now about the NEWS</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Scientists_find_CURE_for_cancer.2C_baldness.2C_and_ALL_THESE_DISEASES"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Scientists find CURE for cancer, baldness, and ALL THESE DISEASES</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Gamergater_comes_across_a_SJW.E2.80.A6_you.27ll_never_BELIEVE_what_happens_next.E2.80.A6"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Gamergater comes across a SJW… you'll never <i>BELIEVE</i> what happens next…</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#This_link_shouldn.27t_exist_.28but_it_does.21.29"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">This link shouldn't exist (but it does!)</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#These_bonus_comments_will_blow_your_mind.21"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">These bonus comments will <i>blow your mind!</i></span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#These_citations_are_unbelievable.21"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">These citations are unbelievable!</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span id="Four_things_THEY_don't_want_you_to_know_about_binge-clicking!!!"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Four_things_THEY_don.27t_want_you_to_know_about_binge-clicking.21.21.21">Four things <i>THEY</i> don't want you to know about binge-clicking!!!</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clickbait&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Four things THEY don't want you to know about binge-clicking!!!">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Quality websites should value engagement with readers instead of empty attention-grabbing, because it is more respectful to readers and increases business value for the brand of a website.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[3]</a></sup> In contrast, clickbait makes a lot of quick money in the short term while failing to build up a reputable brand in the long term. If a headline contains a word like "surprising", "amazing", or "shocking" — <a href="/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines" class="mw-redirect" title="Betteridge's law of headlines">you won't be surprised, amazed, or shocked by the contents of the article.</a> </p> <h2><span id="Astonishing_COMMON_EXAMPLES_of_Clickbait_that_can't_be_unseen"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Astonishing_COMMON_EXAMPLES_of_Clickbait_that_can.27t_be_unseen">Astonishing COMMON EXAMPLES of Clickbait that can't be unseen</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clickbait&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Astonishing COMMON EXAMPLES of Clickbait that can't be unseen">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">Fake news</a></div> <p>Clickbait websites ostensibly serve as general news websites with coverage of both political events and entertainment as well, albeit modeled after <a href="/wiki/Tabloid" title="Tabloid">tabloids</a> (and even putting established tabloids like <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/National_Enquirer" title="National Enquirer">National Enquirer</a></i> to shame in the art of attracting <a href="/wiki/Sucker" class="mw-redirect" title="Sucker">suckers</a>). Often, their headlines are misleading and politically slanted depending on the sites' target audiences. These websites intend to have their content shared en masse on social media sites. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="One_thing_you_never_knew_about_clickbait">One thing you never knew about clickbait</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clickbait&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: One thing you never knew about clickbait">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Most websites that generate clickbait were founded during the Web 2.0 era (c. 2005-), with the rise of <a href="/wiki/Social_media" class="mw-redirect" title="Social media">social media</a> and user-generated content that increased incentive to create compelling-yet-shallow material for web consumption. However, the right-wing <i><a href="/wiki/Drudge_Report" title="Drudge Report">Drudge Report</a></i> news aggregator, founded in 1998, was clickbait before clickbait was even a word. In 2005, the <i><a href="/wiki/Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Huffington Post">Huffington Post</a></i> was launched as a left-wing competitor to Drudge. (In fact, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew Breitbart">Andrew Breitbart</a> got his start working for both sites before founding his own, eponymous news/commentary website. While Breitbart.com has had its share of credibility issues, in all fairness, it does <i>not</i> rely on clickbait-style headlines/content as much as other sites discussed here.) </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="What_you_need_to_know_now_about_the_NEWS">What you need to know now about the NEWS</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clickbait&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: What you need to know now about the NEWS">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Although the conservative <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Caller" title="The Daily Caller">Daily Caller</a></i> and liberal <i>Huffington Post</i> do have more sober, show-don't-pander headlines for its articles, those sites are guilty of using emotional manipulation to attract traffic. Both websites often post galleries of <a href="/wiki/NSFW" title="NSFW">NSFW</a> (though not exactly <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornographic</a>) photos of women that are filed under the entertainment sections yet often promoted on the front page. Additionally, <i>Daily Caller</i> has sometimes used explicitly <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racially charged</a> headlines. One story was once titled "Black males are viciously beating people at random at the University of Illinois" before being retitled to the more neutral "Gang Of Men Is Viciously Beating People At Random At The University Of Illinois".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[4]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span id="Scientists_find_CURE_for_cancer,_baldness,_and_ALL_THESE_DISEASES"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Scientists_find_CURE_for_cancer.2C_baldness.2C_and_ALL_THESE_DISEASES">Scientists find CURE for cancer, baldness, and ALL THESE DISEASES</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clickbait&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Scientists find CURE for cancer, baldness, and ALL THESE DISEASES">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>An example of <a href="/wiki/Yellow_journalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Yellow journalism">yellow journalism</a>, some news sources which report findings from scientific research may omit key details in order to produce particularly sensational headlines. One example of this is the ongoing trend of news articles omitting the words "in mice" in their headlines,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[5]</a></sup> a result which suggests that the target reader demographic of these articles are literally mice (rather than you, presumably a human). It's worth noting that most articles using such clickbait headlines eventually mention that the research findings are only applicable to mice, somewhere in their body text.<br /><br /> A Twitter account run by an actual scientist, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice">@justsaysinmice</a>, lightly mocks news articles (that are perhaps mocking their own audiences) by adding "in mice" to the end of clickbait headlines. </p> <h2><span id="Gamergater_comes_across_a_SJW…_you'll_never_BELIEVE_what_happens_next…"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Gamergater_comes_across_a_SJW.E2.80.A6_you.27ll_never_BELIEVE_what_happens_next.E2.80.A6">Gamergater comes across a SJW… you'll never <i>BELIEVE</i> what happens next…</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clickbait&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Gamergater comes across a SJW… you'll never BELIEVE what happens next…">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Gamergate" title="Gamergate">Gamergate</a></div> <p>In the Gamergate movement, the word "clickbait" has a somewhat different meaning. A formal definition hasn't yet been supplied, but would seem to be something like "any article, regardless of the headline, that criticizes <a href="/wiki/Sexism" title="Sexism">sexism</a> in gaming or the harassment of women and anyone who finds our methods disgusting among gamers".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[6]</a></sup> Or anything published by Gawker, anywhere, at any time.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[note 3]</a></sup> It is presumed that the people writing the "clickbait" articles <a href="/wiki/Psychological_projection" title="Psychological projection">don't actually care</a> about the subjects they're writing about. </p> <h2><span id="This_link_shouldn't_exist_(but_it_does!)"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="This_link_shouldn.27t_exist_.28but_it_does.21.29">This link shouldn't exist (but it does!)</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clickbait&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: This link shouldn't exist (but it does!)">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spam" title="Spam">Spam</a></li></ul> <div style="clear: right; float:right; border:solid #ff8500 1px; margin: 1px 0; width:250px; padding:2px; background:#ffff80;"> <table cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:45px;height:45px;text-align:center"><span class="plainlinks"><a href="/wiki/File:Icon_fun.svg" class="image"><img alt="Icon fun.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/5/5c/Icon_fun.svg/50px-Icon_fun.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="/w/images/thumb/5/5c/Icon_fun.svg/75px-Icon_fun.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/5/5c/Icon_fun.svg/100px-Icon_fun.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:9pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em;color:red;">For those of you in the mood, <a href="/wiki/RationalWiki" title="RationalWiki">RationalWiki</a> has a <i>fun</i> article about <a href="/wiki/Fun:Clickbait" title="Fun:Clickbait"><i>Clickbait</i></a>. </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div style="clear:both"></div> <h2><span id="These_bonus_comments_will_blow_your_mind!"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="These_bonus_comments_will_blow_your_mind.21">These bonus comments will <i>blow your mind!</i></span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clickbait&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: These bonus comments will blow your mind!">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Such material could be called master bait</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Which sites like BuzzFeed often quite hypocritically do to attract thirsty male teens while preaching feminism elsewhere</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Although to be fair, <a href="/wiki/Stopped_clock" title="Stopped clock">Gawker <i>is</i> complete garbage; that's <i>one</i> thing Gamergaters and anti-GGers can both agree on.</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span id="These_citations_are_unbelievable!"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="These_citations_are_unbelievable.21">These citations are unbelievable!</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clickbait&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: These citations are unbelievable!">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/525616/data-mining-reveals-how-conspiracy-theories-emerge-on-facebook/">Data Mining Reveals How Conspiracy Theories Emerge on Facebook</a>. <i>MIT Technology Review</i>: March 18, 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://holesinthefoam.us/my-top-six-reasons-for-going-all-out-against-clickbait-ridiculous-list-articles-and-other-viral-dreck-and-4-will-pucker-your-sphincter/">My Top Six Reasons for Going All-Out Against Clickbait, Ridiculous List Articles and Other Viral DRECK – And #4 Will Pucker Your Sphincter!</a>. Holes in the Foam. June 26, 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Henshaw, Robb. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://relevance.com/content-promotion-vs-clickbait-how-to-avoid-destroying-trust-traffic/">Content Promotion vs. Clickbait: How to Avoid Destroying Trust & Traffic</a>." <i>Relevance.com</i>: September 29, 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/522977762739777537">Twitter post on Oct. 17</a>, then the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141018062517/http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/17/black-males-are-viciously-beating-people-at-random-at-the-university-of-illinois/">article as of Oct. 18, 2014 via Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Crowe, K., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/mice-science-research-spin-news-media-1.5194985">"Mice are not people: Fighting spin in medical science"</a>, <i>CBC News</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://archive.today/T3ykb">https://archive.today/T3ykb</a> Gamergate wiki defining clickbait as "an article being only tangentially related to video games and the piece being used to push a political agenda." 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