Bait My Clickhole

Yes! That's more in The Onion style. i like how Reductress blends the broadsheet newspaper stuff and the online clickbaity stuff

I liked https://www.instagram.com/p/CFutwVGBMY9/?igshid=1p7ssnk3d0w5j

Anna Kendrick said WHAT?!? pic.twitter.com/iw9kD2VUoa

— ClickHole (@ClickHole) October 2, 2020

https://clickhole.com/pointless-drivel-this-book-seems-to-imply-that-you-need-to-say-goodnight-to-the-moon/

6 Classic Episodes Of ‘Game Of Thrones’ Where The Characters Mention That The Baby From ‘Dinosaurs’ Is In Prison Where He Belongs https://t.co/2F4krSy5jT

— ClickHole (@ClickHole) November 17, 2020

I can't eat if I don't wash my hands first

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/436/943/93f.jpg

the first time you saw this, did you understand the guy in the photo to be 'the worst person you know' or did you understand the guy in the photo to be 'you', heartbroken by the fact that the worst person you know just made a great point?

since it became a meme it seems like the first interpretation has won out, people photoshopping other people in his place when a real-life 'worst person' makes a good point, but I remember not being sure when I first encountered it?

Looks like Max Tundra

That's obviously the worst person IMO

Max Tundra is 100% good person musically and around 95% same on Twitter.

would you be willing to summarize the 5% that is bad?

very occasional meltyness

to be clear, I meant the focus of the Clickhole article, not Max Tundra

seems clear that 1) the photo is intended as illustrating 'the worst person' and 2) the whole concept of the article is irredeemably stupid (see also: 'heartbreak' of psoriasis)

sometimes i wonder what point the clickhole guy is making. is it a point that plays against his type, like you need to be nicer to your wife, or a point that fits his character, something about survival of the fittest or the interlocuter's sexual insecurities?

Not sure I was ready for "Stolen Valor: This Man Is Wearing a Toupee Despite Having Floor Length Golden Hair"

https://clickhole.com/major-backfire-a-gop-led-investigation-into-discrimination-against-white-people-has-concluded-nothing-except-that-calling-someone-a-honky-is-actually-very-funny/

I Found ClickHole’s “Worst Person You Know”

that article was terrible

Good point

sorry, could not resist that.

Trembling, I tapped out a message to him.
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Trembling, I tapped out a message to him.
Trembling, I tapped out a message to him.
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ffs calm down, you weren't tracking down a Nazi war criminal in hiding

honestly that was the only "we tracked down this famous person from a stock photo" article that wasn't entertaining

it does read like a clickhole article, only much less funny

Good point

okay I lolled

Way to lead us on. At least I posted alternate photos of the backpack girl.

yikes

https://clickhole.com/a-piece-of-history-the-bass-amp-that-gave-away-osama-bin-ladens-position-to-u-s-forces-while-he-was-teaching-himself-to-play-higher-ground-by-the-red-hot-chili-peppers-is/?fbclid=IwAR1xwPOU2M-bn5_y01B8oiQFS5EnUpWFashEjiBh2dlgnp6nU6zTjUvK5WM

lol Ultimate-Guitar.com tab reference was A+

I'm a little annoyed the photo doesn't actually depict a crate BX-50, which would have been visually funnier as well as accurate

https://clickhole.com/a-piece-of-history-the-bass-amp-that-gave-away-osama-bin-ladens-position-to-u-s-forces-while-he-was-teaching-himself-to-play-higher-ground-by-the-red-hot-chili-peppers-is/ for those not inclined to help Meta Inc. track clicks.

kidhole

Give Mommy’s Jewelry To Your School Friends!!! https://t.co/mT07LpntMM

— KidHole (@ClickHole) February 2, 2022

https://reductress.com/post/what-surprised-me-most-about-becoming-a-parent-was-that-i-was-forced-to-by-the-government/

https://clickhole.com/embracing-his-inner-child-this-man-is-having-more-fun-1825123770/

Didn't see this when it came out; unbelievably cursed

But the doll glimpsed in the photo is clearly inflatable, so why did it come in such a big box?

https://clickhole.com/theyre-gonna-collide-these-two-oafs-together-arent-they-these-two-uncles-just-excitedly-posted-on-facebook-that-they-got-a-new-job-at-cern-even-though-neither-of-them-are-scientists-or-anything/?fbclid=IwAR0p8Fy7K5p0JjVbPlUBn9UBKckRCmy06mhaTzGnTGWQOQSC__aF_HXq1nA

https://clickhole.com/holding-themselves-accountable-npr-has-apologized-for-the-steve-bannon-tiny-desk-concert-where-he-played-cherry-pie-with-alex-g-and-waxahatchee/?fbclid=IwAR0M5S262cdLMdTwcx62bTZroyGo4dPIsYB6Jq-EtBwN26w-2A0nzqvQe1Q

fbclid=IwAR0M5S262cdLMdTwcx62bTZroyGo4dPIsYB6Jq-EtBwN26w-2A0nzqvQe1Q

I've tried convincing myself that the ?fbclid=IwAR0p8Fy7K5p0JjVbPlUBn9UBKckRCmy06mhaTzGnTGWQOQSC__aF_HXq1nA's are part of the Clickhole joke.

definitely seems like a subtle sign of decline in quality. Reading the headlines in url form used to be part of the fun

sorry if that was a joke itself, but just in case: FB adds those to outbound links, Clickhole has no control over it

Now I'm wondering if rob is part of the joke.

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/

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.

pic.twitter.com/qHaY4dtTon

— ClickHole (@ClickHole) February 21, 2023

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