Meaning of click-baity | Babel Free

Examples

“Mike Hudack works at Facebook. He's apparently pretty important there. His title is "director of product management." And he has had it with the news media, especially online outlets with their salacious gossip and click-baity listicles. So he vented his frustrations today on his Facebook page.”

“The state of emergency was eventually called off, threat levels downgraded from “red” to “orange,” and even the click-baitiest of headlines became more subdued.”

“Much hay has been made about elements of bondage and other sexual fetishes in the early days of the book, but if you read the actual comics and not just a poorly researched listicle on a click-baitier website than this, you'll see that the sexual elements are pretty much just subtext, and the bondage is, for Marston, less about sex than about a metaphor for men's oppression of women.”

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