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Post by novastar6 on Apr 30, 2021 17:36:25 GMT
Besides the obvious.
MSN slide-show articles, just fucking tell us what 'this one thing' is in the first page already instead of having 5 pages to scroll through for it.
Every single day, some new headline about some middle aged woman celebrity, half of whom you never even heard of, and oh how good they look in jeans, yoga pants, a bikini, fuck off with that shit already. It was one thing when they popped up once a week or twice a month, every single day? Where's this new sudden demand for 'old hasbeen hotties' coming from?
The same story getting 3 separate articles at the same time to make it look like so much more of a big deal than it actually is.
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 30, 2021 22:45:22 GMT
That same clickbait story that keeps popping up---"Man brings stray 'dog' to veterinarian, vet immediately calls cops"...I"ve never clicked on that one. I wonder, though, what that vet supposedly discovered. Maybe the 'dog' turned out to be the offspring of the Jersey Devil and Rudolph Giuliani or something.
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Post by bravomailer on May 1, 2021 2:52:42 GMT
That same clickbait story that keeps popping up---"Man brings stray 'dog' to veterinarian, vet immediately calls cops"...I"ve never clicked on that one. I wonder, though, what that vet supposedly discovered. Maybe the 'dog' turned out to be the offspring of the Jersey Devil and Rudolph Giuliani or something. Or a photo of John Goodman with a bruised face suggesting someone we like has had some misfortune, but he hasn't. Or you won't believe how so-and-so looks today.
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on May 1, 2021 2:55:39 GMT
Agreed with all those garbage click bait tabloid links. I really despise those and the scum that create them.
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Post by autumn on May 1, 2021 3:09:31 GMT
Agreed with all those garbage click bait tabloid links. I really despise those and the scum that create them. Long gone are the days of journalistic integrity. I also want to double-down on the OP about those stupid, stupid "articles" that are clickbait. They draw you in with the promise of a subject or an article about a person, but you click on it, and there's only 3 sentences, with a tab "NEXT" that you've got to click to read more. So you click "NEXT" only to find another 3 more sentences essentially being a recap of the previous 3 sentences. Along comes another "NEXT" to click. This goes on for 15 or so "NEXT" tabs only to find out the person who the "article" was supposed to be about was only brought up in the last 3 sentences and it was just some random comment such as "has retired from movies!" What a shocker. Why aren't these types of "news articles" policed, or some type of committee to oversee them? Surely readers are angry at this? Do they get enough clicks to find this acceptable? 
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on May 1, 2021 4:29:16 GMT
Agreed with all those garbage click bait tabloid links. I really despise those and the scum that create them. Long gone are the days of journalistic integrity. I also want to double-down on the OP about those stupid, stupid "articles" that are clickbait. They draw you in with the promise of a subject or an article about a person, but you click on it, and there's only 3 sentences, with a tab "NEXT" that you've got to click to read more. So you click "NEXT" only to find another 3 more sentences essentially being a recap of the previous 3 sentences. Along comes another "NEXT" to click. This goes on for 15 or so "NEXT" tabs only to find out the person who the "article" was supposed to be about was only brought up in the last 3 sentences and it was just some random comment such as "has retired from movies!" What a shocker. Why aren't these types of "news articles" policed, or some type of committee to oversee them? Surely readers are angry at this? Do they get enough clicks to find this acceptable? Even the phrasing of them is obnoxious. The ones I see are always “The Transformation of (Celebrity) is Really Turning Heads”. What is that? The phrase turning heads is such a bizarre stupid way of phrasing it. Sounds like it was cooked up by an idiotic advertising firm.
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Post by uncreative on May 1, 2021 5:25:58 GMT
Maybe try staying off the boomer sites that show you MSN slideshows then.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2021 6:15:59 GMT
All things Kardashian and any headline that has the word "influencer".
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 1, 2021 13:58:13 GMT
"You'll never believe what [insert celebrity name] looks like now!", with a picture of a toothless old bum.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on May 1, 2021 14:28:03 GMT
"You'll never believe what [insert celebrity name] looks like now!", with a picture of a toothless old bum. And then you have the ones that say something like "[insert celebrity name] is turning 80. Try not to cringe when you see the picture." It's like they enjoy making a mockery of a celebrity just because they're elderly.
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Post by leesilm on May 1, 2021 14:37:30 GMT
Advertisements for funeral insurance. Bad acting, terrible scripts, depressing topic, then a grinning ghoul in a suit explaining the breakdown of funeral costs vs. what you get from social security, regular life insurance, and then funeral insurance, all the while trying to guilt-trip you over the bills you'll leave behind. I mean, really, their ads have worse acting and crappier dialogue than the "learn French" videos I watched in the early 90s back in school.
Frankly, during a pandemic with thousand and thousands of lives lost, I really, really don't want to hear about funerals.
Also, personally, I really don't care to have some big funeral with a nice casket, at a church or parlor, with everyone coming in to look at my corpse and talk about how, "She just looks like she's sleeping". Crap too. Dig a hole, put me in it, plant a tree on top of me, and go have some beers, talk about how bad my jokes were and my horrible taste in music was, remember the good times, and in the morning donate my crap and give any money left over to St.Jude's, St.Bonaventure, and the local library.
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Post by marianne48 on May 1, 2021 14:47:58 GMT
"You'll never believe what [insert celebrity name] looks like now!", with a picture of a toothless old bum. And the you have the ones that say something like "[insert celebrity name] is turning 80. Try not to cringe when you see the picture." It's like they enjoy making a mockery of a celebrity just because they're elderly. That's the internet version of what the National Enquirer used to do--the front page would often feature a studio photo of some once-glamorous star from decades ago, next to a recent (badly shot) picture of the now-elderly star, with open mouth and eyes in mid-blink, with a caption like "Tragic Last Days." I remember when the rags did this to Rita Hayworth in her later years. They printed shots of her in an airport with her hair disheveled and looking disoriented, with gloating, gleeful headlines about how this once-beautiful star was apparently just a pathetic old drunk now. Hayworth's daughter made a statement revealing that her mother's condition was the result of Alzheimer's disease, which at the time was not something many people were knowledgeable about--and in her polite way, told these tabloid jerks off for being so cruel. |
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on May 1, 2021 17:11:18 GMT
What puzzles me is how/why these tabloid click bait pieces of garbage end up on so many “respectable” sites. They appear on just about everything from IMDb to Microsoft. Can’t these people accept ads from mainstream products instead?
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 1, 2021 20:04:02 GMT
Though of another one: articles about gay Hollywood couples with pictures of two celebrities who are neither gay nor a couple. It'll have a picture of like, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
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Post by Stammerhead on May 1, 2021 22:01:28 GMT
Although people like to throw blame at MSN this is really an advertising issue. As sales have gone down money from advertising has also shrunk and the owners have to get advertising money somewhere so clickbait companies appear to infect almost every website. Newspapers like The Guardian are near the top of the anti-MSN hate list and they manage to avoid clickbait (but they do like asking us for money).
Now if I want to see what that 1980s star looks like now I just Google the name. Saves me from wasting a lot of time.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on May 2, 2021 0:53:49 GMT
People posting laugh emojis after their own "jokes".
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Post by gameboy on May 2, 2021 2:38:26 GMT
Today for expediency I was looking for a simple list of Asian ethnic groups. I swear I searched for almost an hour and couldn't find a simple list. I had to find a good article and list them myself.
I'm tied of having to wade through a bunch of commentary just to get the hard facts.
I also have no patience for these slide shows which will say "The 10 Most Beautiful on Earth". And then you have to wade through page after page just to get through the list and get to number one. Just give me the goddamn list up front and then I'll look through your slide show.
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Post by gameboy on May 2, 2021 2:38:52 GMT
People posting laugh emojis after their own "jokes". 
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Post by someguy on May 3, 2021 4:12:35 GMT
Billie Eilish’s latest rant about whatever the fuck crosses her mind.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2021 11:00:45 GMT
"You'll never believe what [insert celebrity name] looks like now!", with a picture of a toothless old bum. Word! I think everyone can agree that clickbait stuff is just the worst. Annoying like nothing else
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