Ugh, clickbait. If there’s one thing we detest about the internet, it’s how some people trick us into clicking on links with doubtful headlines. “You won’t belief how shocking this thing is( and it’s so awesome it’ll blow your head )! ” No. Just tell us what the article’s about!

Fortunately, the Stop Clickbait team is here to help. They are the superheroes that we need( but don’t deserve )! Founded in 2016 by Daniel Tuttle, the main operation of this project is to eradicate clickbait by spoiling it with a few words.

The Stop Clickbait team predicts through clickbaity articles and poles a summing-up for them, so we don’t have to waste our valuable go looking for needles( answers) in haystacks( padded essays with little substance ).

“Since last year, we’ve begun to send potatoes to some of clickbait’s worst offenders, ” the Stop Clickbait team told Bored Panda. “People can now go to our website and select a clickbaiter they want to send a potato to in the mail. We’ll then write their identify on the potato, take a picture of it, and then send the person its tracking number. We’ve already get some return them to us so I hope they’re going just as disheartened as we are reading their clickbait sections! ” Read on for the rest of the interview!

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Stop Clickbait told us that they continue to grow “everyday in countries around the world.”

“This is really a crusade centered around our useds and we couldn’t do it without them. I imagine people precipitate far worse for clickbait because it takes advantage of inherent interest. If we get enticement hard-handed, a simple click can solve that itch, more we never seem to learn it’s not worth it in the end, ” they explained.

As for what writers would be expected to do, well, it’s simple: “It’s better to build relationships with your customers based on trust and integrity. Maybe clickbait will get you traffic in the short term, but in the long term, it is not sustainable. Do what’s not only best for your useds, but too your organization in the long term.”

According to Stop Clickbait, their affixes have been goal over 400 million times. And their team continues to rise, with over 100 voluntaries pitching in to, well, stop clickbait. They do what it says on the tin. It “couldve been” fairly sarcastic if they didn’t do what their call suggests.

The project once has over 211 k admirers on Facebook and 39 k devotees on Instagram. They have some terrifying stuff, so be sure to check out their website and social media accounts.

The project hopes to influence journalists and editors various regions of the world and to help guide them towards more informative, clear, and honest headlines. Very few readers experience being snatched around with ambiguous headlines. And most correspondents would love to have the freedom to use honest headlines, without editorial omission due to monetary pressure.

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In an earlier interrogation with Bored Panda, Stop Clickbait benefactor Tuttle told us that he established it as a “fun little side project.”

“I am an advertising major, so, over its first year, I’ve become very cynical when it comes to false advertising, ” he told us what inspired him to create the project. “I am quite mesmerized by the spread of online ads and started to think it would be not only comical but handy for numerous to go against the economy of the Internet; ad revenue.”

He continued: “Within a few days, it blew up with viral poles across social media canals and since then there have been vast amounts of support coming from all over the world. Since then, we have expanded into 10 different sheets to specialize in different categories of clickbait as well as in 12 different countries around the world.”

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Tuttle is optimistic about the future. In his opinion, the internet could be clickbait-free. As long as we handle things the right way, of course. “Social media corporations need to provide tools to content farmers to incentivize them to keep their content on their social media page.”

“One nature they can do this is to provide options to generate revenue by post on social media like Facebook or Twitter. Right now there are no ways to make money directly through social media thus content providers are needing to redirect their traffic somewhere where they can be more profitable like their website, ” he pointed out to Bored Panda.

“Another thing we fight for is to promote media literacy. By being able to read a headline and tell the difference between a columnist with unity or simply someone using sensationalism to generate a click, the subscribers can make an drilled decision on who to support.”

Tuttle added that they are “the little beings assembling together to fight against the fake news, and we’re having an impact. It’s time to fight against the economy of the Internet; it’s all in the mention, it’s time to stop clickbait.” That’s the force! With a pleasant outlook like that, it’s not hard to believe that we can live in a world where internet journalism is transparent and to-the-point.

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