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/ˈʃɛɹ.beɪt/ · noun
(Internet, informal, derogatory) Website content that exists only to be shared, aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs..
Forget click-bait. We’re living in the world of share-bait now.
Among the many phenomena we’d tentatively attribute, in large part, to the trend: the rise of sharebait (nee clickbait) and the general BuzzFeedification of traditional media; the Internet hoax-industrial complex, which only seems to be growing stronger; and the utter lack of intelligent online discourse around any remotely complicated, controversial topic.
Use sharebait when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sharebait means (Internet, informal, derogatory) Website content that exists only to be shared, aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Forget click-bait. We’re living in the world of share-bait now.
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