• steeznson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is “goes nuclear” the new “slams”? I hate these clickbait headlines so much it’s unreal

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        1 year ago

        steezson UNMAKES REALITY over hyperbolic headlines!!! (your kids aren’t safe from steezson!)

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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        1 year ago

        That’s exactly what sensational language is… Language meant to excite and entice the reader without respect to the accuracy of what’s being reported. It only became clickbait when we started clicking on things to read them instead of picking up a newspaper.