SLATE: Nobody Likes Being Deceived

Clickbait has just about ruined what was once an enjoyable and formerly informative internet activity: browsing.

So often in more recent times I’ll see an interesting headline but then immediately move on without further investigation due to the deluge of lies and fakery of clickbait I’ve personally experienced. I can’t be the only one who’s insulted by the intentional misleading of clickbait, right? One key to a come-on is the use of the word  “secret.”

SLATE.COM has a department ironically entitled “An Honest Guide To Modern Life: Human Interest” under which the above screenshot for a podcast was listed:

The Secret Workout Actors Use To Get
Buff For Superhero Movies.

Smelling bullshit, and perhaps a pertinent item for my blog, I zoomed though it to hear the podcaster betray the cheezy headline by unequivocally stating, “There’s no secret workout that only Hollywood actors know.”

The moral of the story is that people desperately want a secret workout or magic pill because they recoil at changing the way they eat and adhering to any kind of challenging fitness regimen, thus they’ll reliably be suckered in by the promise of an easy fix offered by devious clickbait.