What does clickbaity mean?
Clickbaity means (informal, derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait..
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(informal, derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait..
That video title looks clickbaity.
[…] all I can wonder is, "How would the 'Like A Prayer' video have been received in the age of Twitter and SEO-happy music blogs trying to capitalize on the clickbaity ways of its plotline and the artist behind it?"
"Clickbaity headlines are taking over the Web. Today, publishers make more money from quantity than quality. They're incentivized to manipulate lots of people into clicking on a headline instead of getting engaged readers," CentUp stated.
To put it another way: at the moment, Facebook assumes that people click on exactly the material that they want to click on, and that if it serves up a lot of clickbaity curiosity-gap headlines, then it’s giving its users what they want.
Yes it has a clickbaity title, and yes, this show will grind the gears of thousands – but it should.
Use clickbaity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clickbaity means (informal, derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait..
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That video title looks clickbaity.
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