# Write the world’s best clickbait

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 1, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120 "2018-07-01T21:42:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![ski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ski)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/21 "2018-07-02T08:38:47Z")

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“A note from Cecil Adams about the Straight Dope”

🙂

Actually, these appeared as sequential thread titles for me when I did “New Posts”!

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**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/22 "2018-07-02T09:01:00Z")

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Ex-pimps don’t want you to turn this one easy trick!

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/23 "2018-07-02T21:48:16Z")

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Earn $5000 a week looking at porn!

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/24 "2018-07-02T21:55:12Z")

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The one SECRET trick proctologists don’t want you to know!!

Jizzmoppers HATE this new invention!!

[Placename] moms will NEVER have to check their teens for pubic lice again!!

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**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/25 "2018-07-02T23:40:06Z")

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This will end your shame of viewing porn! Tell your mamma!

> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#):
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> OK, that’s funny.

Oh, you wouldn’t think it’s funny if you checked your bank account now…

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/26 "2018-07-03T00:51:05Z")

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“That’s too much cocaine!”

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**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/27 "2018-07-03T01:11:27Z")

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Eleven ordinary household items that release deadly gas when left in a hot car

How smelling farts will make you healthy, wealthy and wise

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**Author:** ![Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delicious)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/28 "2018-07-03T09:04:54Z")

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‘Hillary and Trump, Secret affair? These 23 leaked photos will SHOCK you!’

‘Lose weight while growing your penis…this one simple trick will also turn water into petrol.’

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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/29 "2018-07-03T09:37:36Z")

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Some parody magazine in the early 1980s (when any mention of computers would draw readers) ran a teaser headline:

The Sex Life of a Computer

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/30 "2018-07-03T11:49:32Z")

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My favorite pre-dates the internet.

From the old Weekly World News:

“I was Bigfoot’s love slave!”

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/31 "2018-07-03T12:51:34Z")

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> [@susan](#):
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> “That’s too much cocaine!”

… said no one ever.

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/32 "2018-07-03T13:50:13Z")

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Click here or these kittens die.

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**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/33 "2018-07-04T01:39:06Z")

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“Three words when used together drastically slows the aging process”

“Why the very rich never use toilets”

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**Author:** ![vperry1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@vperry1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vperry1)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/34 "2018-07-05T04:41:32Z")

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Dolly Parton is suing Goodyear for copywrite infringement. Click here to find out why.

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**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/35 "2018-07-05T16:28:57Z")

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See these 7 things that Donald Trump doesn’t want the public to know (#5 would force Trump to resign!)

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**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/36 "2018-07-05T18:44:35Z")

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[Trump Resigns!](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/donald-trump-resigns-tv-writers-imagine)

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**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/37 "2018-07-05T18:59:46Z")

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The Celebrity Chocolate Diet. Lose 20 pounds in three days!

Sex in your City! Check how many times per week people are doing it, and where!

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/38 "2018-07-05T19:17:34Z")

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11 Secrets Your Prostitute Doesn’t Want You To Know. Sex Workers HATE Number 7.

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**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/39 "2018-07-05T19:29:10Z")

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> [@mbh](#):
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> My favorite pre-dates the internet.
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> From the old Weekly World News:
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> “I was Bigfoot’s love slave!”

Along similar lines (but drifting off topic - sorry) there’s a movie called _I Was Catherine the Great’s Stable Boy_

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-the-world-s-best-clickbait/817120/40 "2018-07-05T20:18:00Z")

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> [@Sunny\_Daze](#):
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> Click here to end Trump presidency!

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