What is clickbait?

Did you ever encounter a video or an article with a headline like "5 creepy things found in a garage! Number 3 will leave you speechless!" and then it was just an Add-packed website, and "number 3" were just an old lawnmower?

Or a YouTube-video with a title like "PRANK ENDS HORRIBLY" and the video is not even about the topic?

Then you experienced clickbait. This is a term for a special kind of web content that aims to get you, the user, to click on it by using sensationalist titles and misleading or exaggerated thumbnails.

