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It’s Exhausting Trying To Read Video Game Website Headlines (aftermath.site)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Every day I wake up in the morning, get on the internet and feel increasingly like Batman trapped in an elaborate puzzle room by the Riddler.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This is something I've noticed for a while now, but haven't been able to really describe. This shift away from clickbait headlines towards cryptic headlines that just refuse to tell you what they're talking about. Like The Best Part of Alan Wake Is Now On Youtube or The Best Soulslike Of 2023 Just Got Easier. And those are just a few that I've seen today. Maybe it will fade away like the worst clickbait headlines did or they'll just keep getting so cryptic and opaque that one day the headlines will be: Something Just Happened.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I mean, they are literally clickbait. They want you to wonder what the best part of Alan Wake is or what the best soullike of 2023 is. It's just an evolution of clickbait, but it's still very much clickbait.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Those sound like clickbait headlines to me...?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I’ve literally taken to pasting the articles into GPT and asking it to summarize the articles. I imagine they will be the next causality in the coming AI wars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would honestly be inclined to pay for a non bs news service, no clickbait titles, no SEO bs in the article which makes it 30 times as long for no reason. Just facts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

There’s just too many papers and news sources out there to make subscriptions viable.

Someone needs to start a non-profit that works with news organizations to get paid per click for ad free no-BS news.

From the users POV it would be like topping up your cell phone minute or whatever.