Name: HOW2: How to Avoid Clickbait!
Uploaded: 2020-10-13T19:26:08.000Z
Duration: 3 min 27 s
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- Hey everyone, today Orange and I are showing you

- Orange do you even know what clickbait is?

but maybe you should explain it for the audience.

Clickbait is web content that uses cheap tricks

- Oh, I understand now. thank you for explain...

Oh my gosh, Five Reasons why today's video

Oh mama, I gotta click on this baby stat.

- You mean this video isn't gonna blow up?

- I can't believe the lied to me like that.

we can use this as an example to learn from.

- All right, step one for avoiding clickbait,

See the name of the website that published that clickbait?

- Www.bickclait.com, what's so wrong with that?

Sounds like a journalistic outlet with integrity to me

- Rearrange the letters in blickclait dude.

- Ah yeah, I probably should have guessed that.

- But it's not always gonna be that obvious either.

Every time you find yourself about to click

on something that feels too sensationalist to be true,

ask yourself, Do I know and trust this publisher?

- Got it. So I won't click on this article

Instead, I'll click on this related article,

entitled, 27 ways to stop TNT from exploding.

- But they couldn't fit the whole title on there.

- Dude. This is a classic Example for step number two.

it probably means they're not doing a good job

of curating quality content across the board.

I gotta know what comes after the dot dot dot Pear.

- If you can't stop yourself from clicking on clickbait

Well now that we've successfully avoided that clickbait

Dude I know you wanna click on it, but...

we need a way to stop that TNT from exploding.

Is it giving you 27 ways to solve this crisis?

- Hmmm, okay, I have good news and bad news.

Bad news, it's clickbait and doesn't actually

give us any way to stop the TNT from exploding.

- The good news is that if you ever want a hair transplant,