Friday, January 24, 2014

friday meme: upworthy headlines

About

Upworthy Headlines are parody titles that mock those used for content highlighted on the viral media site Upworthy,[1] which are often criticized for using the “clickbait” technique to grab the attention of viewers to increase pageviews.

Origin

On September 21st, 2013, the @UpWorthIt Twitter feed was launched, which posts parody Upworthy-style headlines. In the first three months, the feed gained over 6,800 followers























2 comments:

  1. These are pretty good. Unsinkable loled me. They snuck in a pun.

    The first one about sums up the click fishing headlines in general and they do annoy the hell out of me.

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  2. ha, the unsinkable one got me too.

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