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What makes clickbait clickbait?
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"the point of any headline is to draw readers into a story. Rather, what makes clickbait clickbait is the letdown you feel when the story doesn’t deliver on the headline’s promise....
these cynical ploys are partly a product of an online-media business model that revolves around page-views and banner ads....
BuzzFeed and Vice are in the vanguard of media companies that are looking ... to a different business model based on “native advertising” that is designed to be as attractive to readers as the editorial content whose form it mimics."
- BuzzFeed clickbait? What Jon Stewart gets wrong about Internet headlines.
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