# SDMB Clickbait Fails **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clickbait-fails/785867 "2017-05-04T18:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clickbait-fails/785867/1 "2017-05-04T18:44:42Z")
There have been several mentions recently of inappropriate or coincidental clickbait ads here on the Dope - one in the anal sex thread and others. I’ve recently encountered two that struck me as absurd or funny. One’s a tech failure, the other is just… awkward. Images: [ul] [li][SDMB Clickbait failure 1](http://www.dgath.com/misc/clickbait_fail_01.jpg)[/li][li][SDMB Clickbait failure 2](http://www.dgath.com/misc/clickbait_fail_02.jpg)[/li][/ul] Or maybe it’s just me. Yours? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clickbait-fails/785867/2 "2017-05-04T18:50:59Z")
I don’t click on links that aren’t well-described by the poster. So I guess this is another clickbait fail. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clickbait-fails/785867/3 "2017-05-04T19:00:55Z")
I use an adblocker. So I don’t see them. I guess that’s more clickbait fail. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clickbait-fails/785867/4 "2017-05-04T19:32:05Z")
I pay the membership fee. Also clickbait fail? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clickbait-fails/785867/5 "2017-05-04T20:03:07Z")
The images are well described. They’re links to images of ads. That said, I’m surprised you see them, AB. I thought you were anti-ad, and, of all places, blocking ads here makes sense due to malware risk. I also have adblock. And Dopers don’t tend to use Clickbait titles. So maybe a more general “click bait fail” thread would be better? I’ll be on the lookout for them. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clickbait-fails/785867/6 "2017-05-04T20:12:53Z")
The sheet one is a) not clickbait. Ads aren’t clickbait unless they use provocative and misleading terminology, b) what’s wrong with that one, per se? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clickbait-fails/785867/7 "2017-05-04T20:20:09Z")
Okay, okay, we have different senses of humor or something. 🙂 I don’t subscribe to the Dope right now, so I do see a line of YOU MAY LIKE ads at the bottom of most pages, even running AdBlocker Plus. Most are inane; some struck me as funny. The first one is a technical fail I find funny because so many are presented as “People in [my microscopic home town, or one of the nearby flyspecks] Do This That and The Other Thing!” and it’s sourly amusing to see the code exposed. Anyone who doesn’t find the second one, the sheets one, slightly… off-key is excused from the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clickbait-fails/785867/8 "2017-05-04T20:35:08Z")
_Every single page_ I load has “How to fixed cracked feet” with the horrible picture of some nasty looking greasy foot being de-condomed. Enough to put you off your lunch.