Clickbait-y
"Clickbait-y" in a Sentence (3 examples)
The Daily Caller, rightwing blog and trusty purveyor of all things clickbait-y, aggressively aggregated a story over the weekend that a woman has sued the city over being stopped and frisked in Brooklyn last year.
Even if they can't execute it as well as Buzzfeed,^([sic]) it's also fine to run some clickbait-y content to subsidise the more important but less popular reporting they^([sic]) good media outlets should produce.
A tantalizing, clickbait-y headline gets slapped atop the tweet, video or blog. ("You won't believe the five life lessons in this shocking video!")
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