Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

  • @sab
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for emphasising I never called the article clickbait, just outrage-bait, circlejerk and low effort. And I do still think posting it here is just that.

    • @pivot_root
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      51 year ago

      Outrage-bait is clickbait. More specifically, it’s a subset of clickbait.

      Wikipedia:

      Ragebait, rage-bait, rage baiting, and outrage baiting are similar Internet slang neologisms referring to manipulative tactics that feed on readers’ anxieties and fears. They are all forms of clickbait. . . . The term rage bait, which has been cited since at least 2009, is a negative form of click-baiting as it relies on manipulating users to respond in kind to offensive, inflammatory “headlines”, memes, tropes, or comments.

      • @sab
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        21 year ago

        My bad. I thought clickbait just referred to headlines that don’t deliver. Today I learned.