The Tao of You-Tube Click Baiters
Jan 5, 2024 1:58:49 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Jan 5, 2024 1:58:49 GMT -5
The Tao of YouTube Click Baiters
Now, there are certain strategies that have become very popular among click baiters. But the most recent, and seemingly most popular, is the use of the adjectives adverbs such as, terrifies, terrified, terrifying, horrifies, horrified, horrifying, shocking, shocked, stumped, perplexed, perplexing, amazed.
These words are used as bait by describing scientists and others as reacting to what will be shown in those emotionally-charged ways. Scientists are horrified? Really? So you go to investigate that there are no horrified scientists and that there is absolutely NOTHING horrifying, perplexing, amazing etc. about what is being shown.
Instead, we are presented with such common phenomena as black holes, solar flares, or approaching asteroids that have been calculated to narrowly miss the Earth, and other such phenomena that have been known for decades, and which were never viewed as terrifying nor even exceptionally baffling to begin with.
Then there are click baiters who after promising to show something, don't bother to even mention it in their video. Instead, the video narrator nonchalantly and unashamedly discusses everything and anything except what had been promised.
For example, one click-baiter promised to show a silverback gorilla fighting a boa constrictor. Yet, the entire video was dedicated to other animals, such as crocs, lions, giraffes, hyenas, baboons etc. Neither the gorilla nor the snake were ever displayed together.
Remember a time when honesty was the norm of YouTube video advertisement? Yep! Whatever was advertised back then was exactly what was shown. Well, unfortunately, those honesty days are gone. Instead, they have been unceremoniously replaced with veritable pestiferous plague of what is called click-baiting.
What is click-baiting? Well. as the name indicates, it involves the advertising of one thing and the presentation of another. In short, it is the use of false advertisement in order to gain the reader's interest so that the video will be accessed via clicking its icon. In that way the statistics will then show that the video is drawing an impressive number of viewers.
What is click-baiting? Well. as the name indicates, it involves the advertising of one thing and the presentation of another. In short, it is the use of false advertisement in order to gain the reader's interest so that the video will be accessed via clicking its icon. In that way the statistics will then show that the video is drawing an impressive number of viewers.
Baiting with Misleading Words
Now, there are certain strategies that have become very popular among click baiters. But the most recent, and seemingly most popular, is the use of the adjectives adverbs such as, terrifies, terrified, terrifying, horrifies, horrified, horrifying, shocking, shocked, stumped, perplexed, perplexing, amazed.
These words are used as bait by describing scientists and others as reacting to what will be shown in those emotionally-charged ways. Scientists are horrified? Really? So you go to investigate that there are no horrified scientists and that there is absolutely NOTHING horrifying, perplexing, amazing etc. about what is being shown.
Instead, we are presented with such common phenomena as black holes, solar flares, or approaching asteroids that have been calculated to narrowly miss the Earth, and other such phenomena that have been known for decades, and which were never viewed as terrifying nor even exceptionally baffling to begin with.
False Promise of Video Content
Then there are click baiters who after promising to show something, don't bother to even mention it in their video. Instead, the video narrator nonchalantly and unashamedly discusses everything and anything except what had been promised.
For example, one click-baiter promised to show a silverback gorilla fighting a boa constrictor. Yet, the entire video was dedicated to other animals, such as crocs, lions, giraffes, hyenas, baboons etc. Neither the gorilla nor the snake were ever displayed together.
Effect?
Well, I notice that some click-baited viewers don't seem to mind that much as long as they found the video entertaining. Others do complain and even bring it to the direct attention of the click baiter in the comments area.
In my case, it's frustration since time is precious and these unscrupulous cunning click-baiters are wasting forcing me to squander it via purposeful malicious deception. So I have decided to report it to YouTube administration from now on. I think that if everyone who is being deeply disappointed by this practice did so, maybe we would see a reduction of this annoying practice.
In my case, it's frustration since time is precious and these unscrupulous cunning click-baiters are wasting forcing me to squander it via purposeful malicious deception. So I have decided to report it to YouTube administration from now on. I think that if everyone who is being deeply disappointed by this practice did so, maybe we would see a reduction of this annoying practice.
Other Purposes for Click baiting.