the best part of clickhole is the fact they have actual bullshit click-bait ads at the bottom that I keep thinking are satire
― mh, Thursday, June 19, 2014 9:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
UK posters may be reminded of the terrible 'improve your memory' type ads in Viz (which I think they still run)
― Kiss Screaming Seagull Her Seagull Her (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 June 2014 08:49 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/article/7-classic-90s-toys-werent-fun-anymore-after-911-333
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, 20 June 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
hi guys
― maura, Friday, 20 June 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
so - youtube has pulled the calvin and hobbes vid
― Every post you make is dripping with failure (stevie), Friday, 20 June 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
Probably sensible given the potential legal issues.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 20 June 2014 13:17 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/article/7-classic-90s-toys-werent-fun-anymore-after-911-333― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, June 20, 2014 8:00 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, June 20, 2014 8:00 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this one is the best, dont really care about the rest of the site tho
― ciderpress, Friday, 20 June 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
Jesus Christ that village voice coachella thing is so dour
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 20 June 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/article/woman-takes-one-photo-herself-every-day-week-337
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Friday, 20 June 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
Yeah the Voice in the last several years is like a debauched, strung-out junkie version of its former self.
― Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 June 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
the Voice is soon going to be a single guy in his underwear posting clickporn photo sets of sex events
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Thursday, May 9, 2013 12:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 June 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
I like cracked in that they'll put at least a modicum of actual research into their bits.
Also their ed-in-chief has admitted to writing some Clickhole jokes. I wonder how many AV Club/Dissolve writers have done the same.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Friday, 20 June 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
I can imagine some humor writers who've finessed their craft for a decade could probably get a little bent out of shape at the Buzzfeeds, Crackeds, Chives, &c getting monster traffic by gaming the system as opposed to actually making better material.
and the onion kind of depends on the existence of normal news to acclimatize people! what must young buzzfeed hedz even think about all those worrrrds
― j., Friday, 20 June 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
Area man ponders current state of online journalism.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 20 June 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
tbh i sort of felt bad for cracked once buzzfeed and upworthy usurped facebook, they sucked but at least they put some time in
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah i checked cracked just now and they've gone way more upworthy and less gonzo
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/how-many-these-noir-films-have-you-seen-331
― scott seward, Saturday, 21 June 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
(That image is from bela tarr's 'man from London', from the long 13 minute opening shot)
― koogs, Saturday, 21 June 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/bop-it-350
― What Is It Like To Be A HOOS? (silby), Saturday, 21 June 2014 05:21 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/article/9-things-only-people-who-went-sleepaway-camp-will--344
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 21 June 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
i mean, i think a huge part of my enjoyment of clickhole is working in the media industry for 12 years and slowly watching the media outlets I love move fromhttp://www.villagevoice.com/2003-04-15/music/mr-and-mrs-used-to-be/tohttp://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/04/hottest_dancing_coachella_gifs.phpSince the Onion itself has moved from making weekly satire to hourly clickbait, I'm guessing a lot of veterans of the staff are feeling the fatigue, and I imagine clickhole is coming from a very real place― macklemorange is the new wack (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, June 19, 2014 4:38 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-04-15/music/mr-and-mrs-used-to-be/
to
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/04/hottest_dancing_coachella_gifs.php
Since the Onion itself has moved from making weekly satire to hourly clickbait, I'm guessing a lot of veterans of the staff are feeling the fatigue, and I imagine clickhole is coming from a very real place
― macklemorange is the new wack (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, June 19, 2014 4:38 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
god, this resonates so much. i guess i didn't realize how much i missed even halfway decent journalism when i compared those two VV links. oy vey.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 22 June 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
the Voice is soon going to be a single guy in his underwear posting clickporn photo sets of sex events― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Thursday, May 9, 2013 12:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― patron sailor, Sunday, 22 June 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/06/sucked-into-the-clickhole.html?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter&mbid=social_twitter
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 23 June 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
actually kinda disappointed that it's jokey, i've found 'straight' coverage of the onion to be pretty interesting
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 23 June 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
I don't believe
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 23 June 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
― global tetrahedron, Monday, June 23, 2014 10:25 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah me too
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 23 June 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
Who is the ideal ClickHole reader?
J. A.: I think we see the ideal ClickHole reader as a hollow shell who exists purely to click on our content and then share that content with other hollow shells.
― Evan, Monday, 23 June 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/article/every-way-us-can-advance-world-cup-359?utm_campaign=default&utm_medium=ShareTools&utm_source=facebook
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 23 June 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
the clearest breakdown yet
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 23 June 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
#6
― balls, Monday, 23 June 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
Has anyone else noticed that buzzfeed started posting its own hamfisted clickbait parodies?
― Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 00:56 (nine years ago) link
BobWyman3 hours agoI went, I clicked a couple, I thought "Very funny". Not the site but that you tricked me. Trust has taken a hit. When trust is gone then we will probably break up. Bad enough that the Onion went from funny to opinionated just like the TV show M*A*S*H did (Die Alan Alda, die). I blame Baby-Boomers (stupid name). Acting all hip then becoming their parents. Now listen up: Children are not cute or adorable, especially yours. Your children now in their 20's or so are insipid morons. Totally clueless and smug. It is because you called your son "Sport" and made him smoke dope with you. Lame. How many episodes of "Friends" did I watch? Can "Sport" count to "zero"?How bad is it? I will tell you. I saw some "true crime" show recently. The show needed a young female author to fill the viewers in on nuances we may have missed due to bad acting. She had written a book about the Manson Family (look out Bugliosi) and stated to the viewers, "The Manson Family were at the core of the hippie movement in the 1960's. What???? What???? What????
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
Wot
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 06:35 (nine years ago) link
today a buzzfeed writer was fooled by a clickhole article on twitter XD
― some dude, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
link???
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/brokeymcpoverty/status/481510630080647168
tried to play it off later ("im not unaware that the article was lighthearted guys") but i doubt you'd have that initial reaction without being fooled/confused
― some dude, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/article/stick-butter-left-out-room-temperature-you-wont-be-368
― 龜, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
haha it's a 3 hour video
― some dude, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
this is still the best take on the form imohttp://f.eed.bz/5-ways-to-respond-to-do-you-like-malcolm-in-the-middle/
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
^ I like that one but Feedbuzz suffers from the same problem that made 99% of SA unreadable which was EVERYTHING WAS TOO FUCKING LONG
― 龜, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
yeah agreed, i just like that one post individually
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
lol at the Buzzfeed staffer getting taken.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
i think what feedbuzz didnt get but what clickhole does is it's not enough to make fun of the form, which is very easy and simple and which basically anyone can do (see every bad "You Won't Believe What Happens Next!" Upworthy joke on twitter), but the content actually has to be funny to
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 03:54 (nine years ago) link
o
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
loved feedbuzz and it was kinda a lark anyway so don't think it's a real slam to say that this thing one of the more consistent comedy institutions of the past twenty years has come out w/ betters it
― balls, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
pretty much the hole fake onion sites fall into where they don't understand humor and think the formula is fake news (wish fulfillment) plus words means funny
― mh, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link
There was an article somewhere about how some of those sites may not actually be trying that hard to be funny, just going for clicks based on confused shares.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link
Good for them, I have heard uploading lots of shit to the web gets you clicks
― mh, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 04:20 (nine years ago) link
― balls, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 12:06 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
feedbuzz was way more variable, but that was part of the fun. it had lower lows but it aimed for the bleachers sometimes.
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link
the daily currant is the one that poses as unfunny satire to confuse people
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/article/these-plus-size-models-are-beautiful-no-matter-wha-376
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
definitely seems like a subtle sign of decline in quality. Reading the headlines in url form used to be part of the fun
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 November 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
sorry if that was a joke itself, but just in case: FB adds those to outbound links, Clickhole has no control over it
― rob, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
Now I'm wondering if rob is part of the joke.
― pplains, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
https://clickhole.com/nothingdiffernt-bewtween-being-alive-and-bring-dead-by-queen-elizabeth-ii/
Lates quan blonk very goos
https://clickhole.com/your-churchs-christmas-pageant-has-a-scene-where-jesus-shaves-his-legs-17-signs-your-priest-is-being-sponsored-by-gillette/
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
Richard D. Zanuck: You can’t make a shark movie without a shark, and we were running into a lot of dead ends because when word got out that we were making a movie that was going to make sharks look like dicks, no one wanted to lend us their sharks.
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/qHaY4dtTon— ClickHole (@ClickHole) February 21, 2023
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
I didn't laugh, but I agreed the fuck out of it
https://clickhole.com/nostalgia-overload-todays-throwback-google-doodle-shows-a-guy-in-2013-getting-usable-results-from-his-google-search/
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 December 2023 20:02 (three months ago) link
Most of the older links upthread seem to be broken. Probably can find the articles searching but I liked having this thread as an archive.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 16 December 2023 20:37 (three months ago) link
Recent posts are looking a little grim for the site’s future.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 00:25 (one month ago) link
oh wow
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 00:38 (one month ago) link
It hasn’t been funny in a long time
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 03:09 (one month ago) link
the kinds of sites it's satirizing have largely gone bankrupt. sad!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 09:41 (one month ago) link
well this one made me laugh a lot
https://clickhole.com/beautiful-hall-and-oates-have-reconciled-after-thinking-up-a-song-called-ace-and-a-half-where-a-sexy-lady-plays-cards/
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 05:28 (one month ago) link
it's been consistently funny despite its targets vanishing imo
https://clickhole.com/9-freddy-krueger-quotes-you-should-never-repeat-to-a-pregnant-woman/
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 10:34 (one month ago) link
Questions of ongoing relevance or humo aside, just in case anyone isn't taking a peek at their homepage, i think JoeStork was initially referring to these being the top 4 headlines at the time:
The Tragedy Of The American Economy: It Is Now Almost Impossible To Support A Family Of Five On An Online Satirist’s Salary
Job-Hogger: While The Majority Of Her Coworkers Got Laid Off, This Digital Media Employee Is Currently Taking On 4 Jobs’ Worth Of Work
LOL, Good Luck With That: This Writer Believes The $2.5 Trillion Dollar Media And Entertainment Industry Can Somehow Find The Money To Pay Her A Lower-Middle-Class Wage
Inheriting A Trainwreck: The Few Remaining Employees Of This Gutted Digital Media Outlet Are Holding A Seance To Contact A Recently Deceased Coworker Who Has Sole Admin Privileges For Their Company’s Facebook Page
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 17:17 (one month ago) link
also that same day:
Just Because A Job Is Useless Doesn’t Mean It’s Okay When It Abruptly Ends
― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 17:18 (one month ago) link