clickbaity

• clickbait-y

clickbait +‎ -y

clickbaity (comparative more clickbaity, superlative most clickbaity)

1. (informal, derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait.

   That video title looks clickbaity.

   • 2011 May 5, Maura Johnston, “Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video: The Last Temptation Of Something-Or-Other”, in Village Voice:

     […] all I can wonder is, "How would the 'Like A Prayer' video have been received in the age of Twitter and SEO-happy music blogs trying to capitalize on the clickbaity ways of its plotline and the artist behind it?"

   • 2014 January 8, David Griner, “Can You Spot the BS Headlines in This Clickbait Quiz? CentUp mocks the idiocy of today's hottest content”, in Adweek:

     "Clickbaity headlines are taking over the Web. Today, publishers make more money from quantity than quality. They're incentivized to manipulate lots of people into clicking on a headline instead of getting engaged readers," CentUp stated.

   • 2014 February 3, Felix Salmon, “Viral math”, in Columbia Journalism Review:

     To put it another way: at the moment, Facebook assumes that people click on exactly the material that they want to click on, and that if it serves up a lot of clickbaity curiosity-gap headlines, then it’s giving its users what they want.

   • 2017 July 17, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, “Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Yes it has a clickbaity title, and yes, this show will grind the gears of thousands – but it should.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:clickbaity.