Bait My Clickhole

Jesus Christ that village voice coachella thing is so dour

http://www.clickhole.com/article/woman-takes-one-photo-herself-every-day-week-337

Yeah the Voice in the last several years is like a debauched, strung-out junkie version of its former self.

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

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.

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

Area man ponders current state of online journalism.

tbh i sort of felt bad for cracked once buzzfeed and upworthy usurped facebook, they sucked but at least they put some time in

yeah i checked cracked just now and they've gone way more upworthy and less gonzo

http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/how-many-these-noir-films-have-you-seen-331

(That image is from bela tarr's 'man from London', from the long 13 minute opening shot)

http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/bop-it-350

http://www.clickhole.com/article/9-things-only-people-who-went-sleepaway-camp-will--344

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 from

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.

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

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

actually kinda disappointed that it's jokey, i've found 'straight' coverage of the onion to be pretty interesting

I don't believe

actually kinda disappointed that it's jokey, i've found 'straight' coverage of the onion to be pretty interesting

― global tetrahedron, Monday, June 23, 2014 10:25 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah me too

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.

http://www.clickhole.com/article/every-way-us-can-advance-world-cup-359?utm_campaign=default&utm_medium=ShareTools&utm_source=facebook

the clearest breakdown yet

#6

Has anyone else noticed that buzzfeed started posting its own hamfisted clickbait parodies?

BobWyman3 hours ago
I 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????

Wot

today a buzzfeed writer was fooled by a clickhole article on twitter XD

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

http://www.clickhole.com/article/stick-butter-left-out-room-temperature-you-wont-be-368

haha it's a 3 hour video

this is still the best take on the form imo
http://f.eed.bz/5-ways-to-respond-to-do-you-like-malcolm-in-the-middle/

^ I like that one but Feedbuzz suffers from the same problem that made 99% of SA unreadable which was EVERYTHING WAS TOO FUCKING LONG

yeah agreed, i just like that one post individually

lol at the Buzzfeed staffer getting taken.

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

o

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

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

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.

Good for them, I have heard uploading lots of shit to the web gets you clicks

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, 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.

the daily currant is the one that poses as unfunny satire to confuse people

http://www.clickhole.com/article/these-plus-size-models-are-beautiful-no-matter-wha-376

irl lol at this:

http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/how-many-beach-boys-songs-have-you-heard-379

"In Defense of Beach Culture"

a missed ilm precovers opportunity

dying at 'Driving Is Like Surfing With Cars'

I AM ALL THAT IS
SUZETTE

i liked this quiz!
http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/which-future-us-president-are-you-378

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/

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.

Recent posts are looking a little grim for the site’s future.

oh wow

It hasn’t been funny in a long time

the kinds of sites it's satirizing have largely gone bankrupt. sad!

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/

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/

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

also that same day:

Just Because A Job Is Useless Doesn’t Mean It’s Okay When It Abruptly Ends