Bait My Clickhole

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I really think this one is perfect because it angrily captures the mindlessness of clickbait garbage:

http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/which-bing-bong-theory-are-you-524

The writer was probably at that same breaking point I'm at. I use the chat feature with a few people on facebook but it's tough to ignore the "feed" in the process and the content enrages me.

I completely lost my shit at that one. It's so stupid but so perfect.

For real.

best yet

man, i'd seen the word clickhole floating around but just thought it was another upstart clickbait site.

that Harrison Ford supercut made me tear up a little...

Did anybody get through all the Youtube links on the Youtube url one yet? I made it about halfway through before realizing that they weren't all lols

i didn't bother checking them, assuming they were the subject viral videos reshuffled. no?

Think they literally may have been collected from a random Youtube url generator

well shit, now i wanna go look at them all

http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/which-one-those-shape-guys-are-you-hats-607

“Face Folk”
“Mighty Guys”
“Emotion Town”

thread is just becoming an RSS feed but

http://www.clickhole.com/article/4-famous-movie-lines-were-improvised-set-570

“No, my sled...” made me actuallol

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This one just got me. Star Wars I was like, "huh, I don't remember reading that anywhere." Terminator I thought to remind myself to go check the wikipedia article later. Citizen Kane and Wizard of Oz seemed pretty plausible up until the renaming thing. I feel like a rube.

http://www.clickhole.com/article/15-pets-you-didnt-know-it-was-legal-own-575

this was the first time ive ever been like "i want to see the real article"

KIDS SHAPES SHAPE GUYS? ROUND PEOPLE CIRCLES LITTLE PEOPLE HATS COLORS OVALS SQUARES BANDAGES SMILEY GUYS CHILDREN'S BOOKS

http://www.clickhole.com/article/know-your-rights-things-keep-mind-when-dealing-pol-616

2. If you challenge a cop to a race, he legally has to race you. If you beat him, you are the cop.

That's a four year old joke

1266d Jackson @tree_bro
if you can steal a cop's badge you become the cop #LittleKnownLaws

still great tho

Oh sweet I got an achievement

http://i.imgur.com/7NorrYp.jpg

http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/how-many-these-camp-songs-do-you-know-638

Matthew Broderick Ran Over A Lady

wow

http://chimg.onionstatic.com/1300/original/480.jpg

Ignition (Remix)

that campfire thing.. not even a titter missus.

lol http://www.clickhole.com/article/you-asked-it-and-you-got-it-hulu-bringing-back-cir-593

You Asked For It And You Got It! Hulu Is Bringing Back Circuit City

good to see that "literally unbelievable" is bringing clickhole in to the mix

http://i.imgur.com/IhJI7cX.png

I did not want to say it, but yeah.

You’ll have to use Google to find them all, but even a quick search for “Ben Affleck” turned up hundreds, if not thousands, of images of Affleck dressed EXACTLY like a muscular, dapper millionaire. We are officially geeking out.

people on FB taking clickhole articles seriously is even better than people on FB taking Onion articles seriously

do we think clickhole links are more or less 'believable' than onion stories?

The thing they're parodying is less trustworthy to begin with, so there's not as much of a stretch to make?

that's true. also people have had like 15 years to figure out what The Onion is.

People don't actually read enough of the article to get that it's a joke. I posted the one about craft beers and everyone who responded was all like "Can't wait to try them!" "Not all at once though!", "want to get together this week to try a couple of these" etc. It was pretty disappointing. Now everyone thinks I give a shit about craft beers.

ahaha yeah that happened to me with the Game of Thrones baby names http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif

what if people are pretending to respond as if they think the piece is sincere in the name of meta-satire?

that is pretty much the best response, people responding as if they think it's a legit list

I'll ask my auntie if she was doing that

the secret is to pretend you believe it's real at all times

otm

OTOH Drake's real name actually is Dracula

for some reason the Snoop Dogg reveal kills me every time

http://www.clickhole.com/article/7-sloths-will-get-you-through-day-and-we-think-kur-659

what if people are pretending to respond as if they think the piece is sincere in the name of meta-satire?

― why you gotta be Joe Root? (Daphnis Celesta), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 12:54 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this happened recently and tons of media outlets (including Buzzfeed) believed that most people really did think Steven Spielberg killed a dinosaur:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/no-internet-steven-spielberg-does-not-hunt-dinosaurs

lol that whole thing reminded me of this - https://screen.yahoo.com/jeff-goldblum-monologue-jurassic-park-000000618.html

Wow that Kurt Cobain Sloth list.

Oops didn't mean to capitalize sloth.

http://www.clickhole.com/article/why-your-mother-and-i-are-getting-divorced-explain-598

a lot of this is very Viz-ish

what if people are pretending to respond as if they think the piece is sincere in the name of meta-satire?

― why you gotta be Joe Root? (Daphnis Celesta), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 12:54 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this happened recently and tons of media outlets (including Buzzfeed) believed that most people really did think Steven Spielberg killed a dinosaur:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/no-internet-steven-spielberg-does-not-hunt-dinosaurs

― some dude, Wednesday, July 30, 2014 7:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hot off the presses on this theme http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2710645/What-Gazza-freegaza-campaign-confuses-football-fans-fear-Paul-Gascoigne-trouble-again.html

http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/you-609