As I’m browsing around the internet I have occasion to click on any number of new stories. Most of them have clickbait embedded within them, of course, and I swear to God, on 90% of them it’s about how Melissa McCarthy is gone, or dying, or quitting, or some damn thing:
MCCARTHY IS GONE
MELISSA MCCARTHY FANS DEVASTATED
MELISSA IS LEAVING FOREVER
OH JESUS MERCIFUL CHRIST MELISSA IS BEING LAUNCHED INTO THE SUN
That last one might be a joke but I’ve actually read the first three. And I mean I’ve seen this clickbait ten thousand times.
Why is this? I guess maybe she’s quitting her show, but people quit shows all the time; why is there so much damn clickbait about this person?
Had to Google her, then I was like, oh ya it’s that chick from those movies.
Now that I’ve Googled her maybe I’ll start seeing what the Op’s seeing. Damn.
That seems to answer the OP factually. Let’s move this to Cafe Society so that folks can give their thoughts and opinions about the actress in addition to any factual information that might come to light about the current situation.
There’s tons of clickbait about any random topic. The real question is: why are you seeing so much of it.
Our experience browsing the internet is increasingly personal. Most of what we see is what our social network and/or some algorithm thinks is most likely to interest us.
I’ve been seeing these ads a lot in the Windows Solitaire games in Win10. There seems to be a limited set of click-bait ads in rotation there, but that one comes up a LOT.
I’ve been seeing loads of Melissa McCarthy clickbait for months and months as well. “The REAL reason McCarthy left”, “She left us too soon”, etc etc. At first I assumed she just left or was canned from some sit-com but, Christ people, it’s been like a year now since these started.
I don’t read celebrity stuff, never watched (much less read articles about) her shows and the rest of my Taboola clickbait crap is the normal “Twenty People You Wouldn’t Have Dreamed Alive (No. 7 is Amazing)” and “Secret Obama Plan Can Reduce Your Mortgage” nonsense. So it doesn’t seem particularly targeted to me.
The real question is how do people find her funny? I still don’t get it. She is one of those comedians that people love, especially industry people (same goes for Kristen Wiig & will Ferrell) that I find painfully unfunny instead.
( And, in case you think the algorithms are everything, I STILL routinely get things in my feed for London England. Adverts and such, holiday deals, it never stops! As a result I don’t see smart devices quite as smart as most people seem to think!)
I’ve been seeing this damned ad almost every time I open the CNN website on my phone, always in the relatively prominent “below the fold” spot between the top stories and the next block of stories.
I had never heard of Melissa McCarthy and never have seen her clickbait.
I would gladly endure some of it in exchange for the clickbaity weird-fruit-that-looks-like-a-human-boob, how-to-fix-crepey-skin and Obama-wants-you-to-refinance-your-mortgage-now.
I am sure you have heard of her family. She is Jenny McCarthy’s much heavier and less attractive cousin but still famous in her own right. She is an actress/comedian. I don’t think I have ever seen any of her work but I may have and not realized it because she doesn’t have conventional Hollywood looks.
I have seen clickbait articles with her as an entry but not noticeably often. If someone is getting them very frequently, it just means that the AI has figured out that they have a secret crush on her.
I haven’t noticed any clickbait-y things about Melissa McCarthy recently. Well, now that I think of it, I did see something about her weight loss secret or whatever a few days ago, but I’m pretty sure not more than once.
She’s come up in entertainment section stories in recent months because she’s one of the stars of the new Ghostbusters movie and will also be appearing in the new Gilmore Girls series on Netflix (she played a popular supporting character in the original run of the show). But it doesn’t seem to me like she’s been getting an unusual amount of press coverage.