Was it tiring traveling back into past intrepid futureman?

I... I don't hate the song

I get that you're at work but what you're saying is "my time is too important to read this. Can someone who is less important summarize it for me?" Uncool.

TL;DR: Read the whole thing.

That had nothing to do with 9/11. Majority of the cause was because of politics and the US invasion of the middle east in the 80's and - 90's.

Cashing in on something well known... hmmm how long has the Simpsons been around? How long has Minecraft been around? I wonder which has the larger fan base.

Clickbait, as I define it, is an article that exists solely to ensnare people looking for new info on a current trending topic—it's headline shouts:this just in! Breaking! but in actuality, the article doesn't offer anything except SEO words and recycled "me too" piling on. Nothing original is offered except a promise…

Or you could just say it's clickbait.

It's a joke that seems about as old as news itself.

My understanding of clickbait, and why it does fucking suck (and is a real thing) is that the headline or image is something that has, as it turns out, very little payoff. The point is the click, and you get nothing in return. Like a fish hitting bait, it gets no food—-only the hook, and the angler (the publication…

It's pretty amazing that this writer can spew so much overwrought verbiage on the subject of "clickbait" without seeming to understand what the term actually means. It doesn't refer to a headline being merely sensationalistic, which is what pretty much all of the examples from Old Media that the author presents above…

You write for a blog. There is nothing journalistic about the craptastic sludge you guys post. Get over yourself.

It's so obvious that it's embarrassing to have to spell it out, but, yes, we used that imagery because we thought it would make people click on the story and read it. The idea was that people would say, "More deaths than 9/11?!" and then read an article they might otherwise not have, about workers having their…

So, Gawker gets called out on its BS and then tells you to stop complaining about it? Hilarious! You know those fake screenshots circulating the internet posing as articles on Kotaku? People STILL think those are real because that is how ridiculous you guys have become. Covering your ears and screaming "YOU ARE WRONG"…

Journalism is dead. Forget Clickbait. Far more troubling is that CNN fired all their investigative journalists in favor of picking up whatever comes in off the wire. And then the other networks followed suit, because its cheaper. And hard news stories weren't bringing in enough ratings to justify the expense, in…

Personally, I don't have an issue with dramatic headlines about something actually dramatic like, for instance, someone getting drugged and then having one of his balls cut off. That's a pretty fantastic story.

"This is, in the strictest sense, a paranoid mentality, and carries with it all the vagueness and generality usually associated with paranoia."

They're Journalists when they want to be taken seriously, and Bloggers when criticized for lack of standards.

I saw a great anti-clickbait headline this morning on MoJo:

I believe this article assumes, wrongly, that the Gawker media properties (Gawker, Deadspin, Jezebel, et al) participate in journalism.