Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

  • sab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for emphasising I never called the article clickbait, just outrage-bait, circlejerk and low effort. And I do still think posting it here is just that.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Outrage-bait is clickbait. More specifically, it’s a subset of clickbait.

      Wikipedia:

      Ragebait, rage-bait, rage baiting, and outrage baiting are similar Internet slang neologisms referring to manipulative tactics that feed on readers’ anxieties and fears. They are all forms of clickbait. . . . The term rage bait, which has been cited since at least 2009, is a negative form of click-baiting as it relies on manipulating users to respond in kind to offensive, inflammatory “headlines”, memes, tropes, or comments.

      • sab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        My bad. I thought clickbait just referred to headlines that don’t deliver. Today I learned.