Alright. BBC online uses this tactic constantly, and I don’t know whether I’m more pissed at the tactic, or at the ease with which I’m manipulated.
Tactic: Put thumbnail of hottie on the main page , but when an unsuspecting reader clicks on the article in order to see a better pic of the lure that was bobbing on the surface of the water…yoink! Article has completely different pictures, and no hottie to be seen…
Not knowing your gender, I first thought you were refering to Robbie Williams as the “hottie”. I was going to suggest that there were more flattering pictures of him out in cyberspace. Why do photographers take pictures at odd angles & framed to make people look warped? :dubious:
It took me some work to figure out where the “hottie” that you referred to was - in my opinion clicking on the most attractive woman on the main page rewarded me with an even larger photo.
Sorry to poke a hole in your theory. I do see your point re the article on “young and trendy” web designers though. I’ll keep an eye out for this in the future.
Actually they aren’t. It’s an open secret that the British media regularly digitally modify teeth to render them yellow and snaggly, so as not to alarm their readership.
In any event, I think asterion has it right, as here is the BBC’s idea of a hottie (scroll down to the final sentence).