Clickbait works, and that’s all there is to it. People click on clickbait, so the algorithms promote clickbait, and subsequently the authors need to use clickbait or their content won’t be visible. Counter it by finding people with integrity and good content to follow, regardless of whether or not they use clickbait to keep pace with the algorithms.

Google is useless now. Everything is some clickbait AI blog. I use metafilter.com, the weblog, which at least is an organic selection of interesting content.

SEO and the attention economy are the main drivers of clickbait that are increasingly pervasive in our lives.

Since we don’t like to pay for stuff, advertisers are competing over our limited headspace, to get us just to think about them enough to spend money (preferably in a recurring manner so that you forget you’re paying when your attention is driven elsewhere).

I dunno how you made it here to Lemmy, but I’d consider it a step towards searching and contributing to communities and their contents that are user driven instead of advertiser driven, and finding things that you are interested in rather than being force-fed to you. This is how I like to use the internet, anyway. Maybe I’m getting o l d.

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Clicks = More money

More Money is always the goal of any company and most individuals

People don’t click if there isn’t clickbait. It’s been well proven on YouTube

Because it is.