You see, clickbaiting has been part of humanity for a long time. It wasn't called clickbaiting of course but fraud. Fishy doctors selling their snake oil, apparently curing every disease there is.
Nowadays everyone is doing it, even the news network. Writing every stupid thing to attract the attention of their prey.
"BREAKING NEWS: JUSTING BIEBER GOT SHOT" (and in reality someone threw an egg at him or whatever) This was just an example.
There is no truth anymore, the media was supposed to be for sharing information with the world. But today, we are drowning in overstimulating cartoons or fake news. We are becoming dependant of those things and we are too lazy to change anything. Why? Because it is entertaining.
We need drama, it is a change for our boring and repetetive lives. Another example would be a car accident. Everyone has too see it, driving past the crashed car to shoot some photos or record it.
A mindless animal.
Surfing through the net, clicking on every interesting topic, reading through so much intelligence decreasing content, for the sake of entertainment.
Almost no one can resist clickbaits, even the most resistant are having trouble to avoid it. We need to fulfill our curiousity in order to move on. And this is the true strength of these so called clickbaits. They tickle our interest, convince us to just take a little look.
The media has devolved into a mass of bullshitting. The truth is disturbed to such a degree that it sole purpose is to gain money from unexpecting victims and the worst about all of this is, we do nothing about it. We are continuously lured into made up stories.
One big problem is that the media does not take us for intellectual individuals. They have no respect for us, those people take us for fools, thinking we are mindless zombies absorbing every crap they are ejecting.
It is just sad to see that they have no respect for us. We are the ones providing them money by wasting our time consuming their nonsense.
Sadly no. It was always like this, the press forming the truth in order to create drama, which in turn increases their profit.
Blogs talking about diets, workouts or other topics about health. Taking advantage of the people who are in dire need for actual help.
