YOU won’t BELIEVE what YOUTUBE’S BIGGEST STAR has to say about CLICKBAIT!!!

This guy again? Every fucking week he gets free adverts on Kotaku it seems. 80% of his audience are fetish bros or 9 year olds, fuck him.

Dear Pewdieguy,

he helped popularize it on youtube and now he has to keep doing to get clicks. cry me a river pewds, you’re part of what created the problem to begin with.

Does Pewdiepie need to get a restraining order against you? Jesus he so much as farts and you got an article about it. I’m afraid a future article will be entitled “The Pewdiepie puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose”.

I have a few rule sthat have saved me from clickbait over the years
Basically don’t click anything with the following:

Question mark in the title
Title that uses the words literally, blown or mind
Just about any title that uses the word “you” or “your”
Conclusory titles of extreme facts/opinions
Almost any title that ends…

Please stop posting about this guy.

If anything he’s one of the main people that made Youtube Clickbait videos the way they are today.
Its because of his own success in making a clown out of himself and causing waves that others started to copy it in an attempt to achieve some of that “greatness” (read: view count / ad revenue).

“Supposed” xD Oh Patricia...

My rule of thumb on YouTube is if the creator has photoshopped their head/included a giant reaction shot of their head in the video thumbnail, it’s an instant skip and they’re probably an asshole. I know it’s supposed to grab your attention, but I don’t get how people look at thumbnails like that and go “OH MY GOD I…

“You won’t stop clicking on [clickbait]. I have to clickbait just to stay relevant.”

Ok, I made it to 3:03. At what point does this get “hilarious”? Oh, I get it! That’s the joke. So meta.

Did...did I really just read about clickbait in a negative way on a Gawker site? With no sense of irony? AND from Patricia? Wow.