Futility

[kryptonitemonkey]

With each passing day, I become more and more infuriated over clickbait titles. When I'm on my computer, adblock cuts out all that garbage, but on my phone, I am naked to the world of ads and "articles". I'm not even annoyed all that much by the amount of ads on any given webpage, it's the clickbait titles that make my blood boil. I'm not sure what precisely gets my goat in a way few other things can, but boy, do they ever. "You'll never guess what happens next!", or "Find out why everyone gasped when this happened!", or "Why Hollywood won't hire X person anymore", or... I do not take kindly to anyone trying to manipulate my emotions or interest, and clickbait is the absolute scummiest way to do it. It's made worse, because some part of me has that insatiable desire to complete things, such as thoughts, stories, or mysteries. I want to see things to completion. A few movies have done me harm more than they ought because I couldn't not see how it ended. Clickbait preys on that. And dammit, it's EVERYWHERE! Blarg!

If only firefox on the phone weren't so much slower than chrome. At least you can get adblock on there. But man, webpages are slow enough on the phone as it is.

Comments

[pixelzomblina]

How I feel this entry so much... I can’t stand clickbait articles or links. They just get on my nerves and practically make my eyes roll out of their sockets.

[sparowe]

I know exactly what you're talking about, although I find it annoys me even more somewhere like reddit, where what looks like will be a proper discussion ends up being a sh*tpost. :/