Clickbait headlines

[king arthur]

These are starting to annoy me.

"Major UK supermarket to close all stores for 24 hours next month" says GBNews.

Yes, because it's Easter fking Sunday when ALL the shops shut every year, now just fk off with your bullst headlines! tts!

[languagetimothy]

well.. I fell for your post title...


maybe there's a part of the story where...erm... some.. groups of people will be offended because its closed for easter a christian event?

[croyde]

One I clicked on yesterday.

Royal Navy ship defends against 100s of attack drones in the Irish Sea.

Fuggin ell! I think, things are really kicking off now.

It was a Naval exercise. But I could only see that once I had clicked or swiped away constant ads.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I recall years ago a headline of "Lenny Henry in Nightclub Drugs Stabbing Horror".

The story was Lenny Henry went to a nightclub, stayed for a while, left, and later on , someone was stabbed in the same club when a drugs deal went south.

Basically, Lenny henry went out. That's the story.

[anonymous-user]

Apparently we only have two days of gas left.....

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2179719/uk-gas-e...

[French Frank]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

Apparently we only have two days of gas left.....

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2179719/uk-gas-e...

I can believe that.

But we will be OK if the sun turns up 24/7/365.

When I say OK, I mean we'll have 10% of what we need when that happens.

So 90% of the UK population can fk off and burn their pants to keep warm.

Is the shower of st Government's position.

Cheers bacon muncher freak

3 years 4 months to the GE.

[LARK F1 GTR]

I read one the other day about a branch of Marks & Spencer closing down.

Oh no!!!!



Oh, it's ok, they're literally moving a few doors down.

[Quattr04.]

It’s all to drive you to the website to be bombarded with ads and pop ups

There’s always ones about Costa coffee closing “in blow to high street” and it’s usually the lease ran out and it’s moving 2 doors down.

[Spare tyre]

Once a site tricks me with clickbait I do my best to avoid it in future. Just dead time

[_Rodders_]

On Facebook I just block all those pages now. It's slowly working.

No more hysterical articles from the Mirror about typical UK weather events.

[StevieBee]

There's several sports sites - including some from some of the main-stream press - that lead in with stuff like 'Hamilton dropped for Grand Prix' or 'Norris out!' when it's just about a reserve driving getting some seat time on Friday practice which is common place.

[croyde]

[Spare tyre]

Was watching the local evening news at a relatives house

“Some of the most dangerous roads in the south are in Hampshire”

Gasping and clucking from the oaps

Just misery porn

[captain_cynic]

king arthur said:

These are starting to annoy me.

"Major UK supermarket to close all stores for 24 hours next month" says GBNews.

Yes, because it's Easter fking Sunday when ALL the shops shut every year, now just fk off with your bullst headlines! tts!

I think I've spotted the problem.

Stop going to sites that need clickbait to get readers.

[remedy]

"Every country to withdraw from World Cup"

This showed up on my laptop news feed.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/spor...

Clicking on it (yes, damn it) I realised the article is in fact about all the countries over the years who have withdrawn from it for various reasons and not advising that all countries have in fact pulled out of the 2026 world cup.

I feel sorry for the gutter scum who make their living this way.

[zetec]

'BRITAIN ON SNOW ALERT AS 6 FEET EXPECTED'

At the top of Ben Nevis

[Terminator X]

Don't read the papers, don't watch the news. Life will still carry on.

TX.

[snuffy]

Papers published by Reach are shocking for it.

Ive seen in The Liverpool Echo recently:

"13 pubs in Liverpool to close on Monday"

Yes, they are all owned by the same company, and they decided to hold a staff do, so all their pubs closed on Monday. And where all open again on Tuesday.

Also stuff like "The Chase pulled from ITV schedule".

Yes, its not on tonight as there's a football game on instead.

"Store with 500 shops to close".

Yes, that will be 1 of their 500 then.

The st that they come up with.

[LJF_97]

Clickbait is everywhere now.

It's gotten to the point where I'm not trusting anything I'm seeing online, especially anything from 'news'papers or on YouTube.

[croyde]

Don't click on this one. Apparently a donkey died.