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Originally Posted by Table 5
I'm really getting tired of these moronic and hyperbolic article-titles from all the "hurray for everything" websites (Upworthy/Buzzfeed) that you see everywhere today.
Everything is always "This will totally change the way you think about dogs forever",
or "Here are photos of some elderly couple. The last photo will give you chills."
or "Here's some little girl playing an instrument. What she did next, you will never forget!"
Maybe I'm just dead inside, but there's always so much hyperbole and fake empathy. They all feel like they were custom-crafted for idiots to post on Facebook to get likes.
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Click-bait, that's exactly what they are designed for, to get you to click.
But on the plus side the insanely funny
Downworthy Browser Extension does a decent job of tweaking the headlines with one weird trick...
No but really, the Downworthy extension changes some of the most common click-bait headlines:
- "Literally" becomes "Figuratively"
- "Will Blow Your Mind" becomes "Might Perhaps Mildly Entertain You For a Moment"
- "You Won't Believe" becomes "In All Likelihood, You'll Believe"
Eventually some one will build an adblock like extension which kills them outright, but for now we can have some fun with them.