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We used to just call clickbaity headlines "headlines," and the entire point of them is to be concise and get you to read the whole article.


I think we called them 'titles' or 'misleading titles'. Magazines with the article titles on the front would do this and I think it was distinctly different from say, a newspaper where the article started right below the headline. The magazine is actually hoping you don't see any of the article before you've bought the magazine (and possibly seen ads.)


No, we didn't. We called them misleading.


Those were called tabloid-style headlines.




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