clickbaity

See also: clickbait-y

English edit

Alternative forms edit

clickbait-y

Etymology edit

clickbait +‎ -y

Adjective edit

clickbaity (comparative more clickbaity, superlative most clickbaity)

(informal, derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait.
That video title looks clickbaity.
- 2011 May 5, Maura Johnston, “Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video: The Last Temptation Of Something-Or-Other”, in Village Voice:
  […] 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?"
- 2014 January 8, David Griner, “Can You Spot the BS Headlines in This Clickbait Quiz? CentUp mocks the idiocy of today's hottest content”, in Adweek:
  "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.
- 2014 February 3, Felix Salmon, “Viral math”, in Columbia Journalism Review:
  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.
- 2017 July 17, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, “Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Yes it has a clickbaity title, and yes, this show will grind the gears of thousands – but it should.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:clickbaity.