Online news sites using click-bait headlines

Grrrr said :

It’s the meaningless, inane (sub)headings (largely BuzzFeed inspired) that really give me the irrits. The ones like:

“Person X does something. You won’t believe what happened next!”

Too right, and ‘what happened next’ is invariably not that interesting. After a while, you just stop looking at any of it.

I find news.com is the worst, but they’re nearly all doing versions of it. If that rubbish is the the new journalism, god help us.

It’s the meaningless, inane (sub)headings (largely BuzzFeed inspired) that really give me the irrits. The ones like:

“Person X does something. You won’t believe what happened next!”

Curious.

The fact that the original headline is so much shorter makes me wonder if they do it to make them easier to format for mobile devices.

I had wondered if the excessively long article titles were somehow a means to try and get around the Google paywall trick???

Which may also help explain the article title changes, as well as the obvious click-bait you mention.