Pink Diamond Princess;4153271 said:
If you see a negative article don't click on, it it will only push it further up the google (or whatever search engine you use) news page.
I actually think it would be a good idea to purposefully click on positive articles so they can be seen first.
No MJ fans should fall any clickbait articles as MJ is the one who pays the price of our own stupidity.
I got really curious as why this story got wings all over the media and realised that it really did generated advertising money to any media outlet who run with the story.
"Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines or eye-catching thumbnail pictures to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks. Clickbait headlines typically aim to exploit the "curiosity gap", providing just enough information to make the reader curious, but not enough to satisfy their curiosity without clicking through to the linked content"
Let me say this first that I have not clicked any articles other than that the ones who provided estate's statement.
I copied these headlines from google without opening the links:
Michael Jackson stockpiled torture porn with animals and children, police report reveals
Inside Michael Jackson's sick porn collection after home is raided: Shocking moment 'naked pictures, chilling dolls ...
Michael Jackson 'stashed pictures of animal torture and nude children' inside locked closet at Neverland Resort
Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch was as creepy as you'd imagine
Michael Jackson's twisted pornography collection and young male erotica pictured
As Michael Jackson's home is raided for sick porn, the troubled star's darkest moments
Watch as Michael Jackson's home is raided by police: Shocking moment 'naked pictures, chilling dolls and more ...
Sheriff Questions MJ Child-Porn Docs
Paris Jackson Defends Late Dad Michael Against “Predator” Allegations
Break The Door Down! Cops Serve Warrant To Michael Jackson's Staff In Epic Raid
Stockpiles of violent child porn found at Michael Jackson estate, documents show
Images of 'child nudity' found in Michael Jackson's 'sex closet'
Michael Jackson Stockpiled Underage, Violent Pornography on Neverland Ranch, Report Shows
Michael Jackson Stockpiled Nude Images of Children, According to Police Report
Michael Jackson had 'explicit' photos of 'naked boys', 'child torture' and 'animal sacrifice'
Michael Jackson's Porn Stash Is ****ing Horrifying
Michael Jackson's secret kiddie porn collection exposed: 'Child torture and bondage'
Michael Jackson held images of child porn, animal torture and 'undressed' 3T at Neverland ranch
Michael Jackson's porn stash revealed to public–and what was found is just creepy
'Disturbed' ***** 'Cried' During Police Raid, Former Attorney Reveals
(my note, MJ wasn't @NL during the raid, so how former attorney would know whether MJ cried or not is beyond me)
Michael Jackson's Sick Secret Sex Collection at Neverland House of Horrors Revealed
Was Michael Jackson a pedophile? 'Proof' emerges from police reports
Usually these article have the worts photo of MJ attached to their "articles" which increased some peoples curiosity.
Enough of samples but you get the picture of clickbait?
An interesting article about how readers are fooled by clickbaits:
You’ll Be Outraged at How Easy It Was to Get You to Click on This Headline
THIS ARTICLE WILL not restore your faith in humanity. Nor will it amaze, stun, delight, shock, charm, or in any literal or figurative way, blow your mind. What it will do—hopefully in a clear and intelligent way—is explain why people continually fall for clickbait. You know, like you just did a few seconds ago.
Whether you think it’s on the rise, obscurant and self-negating, not such a big deal, or the root of all evil, one thing is clear about clickbait: It’s increasingly hard to pin down. Some, like Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith, narrowly define it as an article that doesn’t deliver on its headline’s promise. Others think it means vapid listicles, quizzes, and Betteridge’s Law headlines. And then there are those who simply use it as shorthand for stuff they don’t like on the Internet.
Here’s what most people can agree on: Clickbait is annoying, but by god, it works—even when readers recognize it for what it is. The word’s substantial semantic drift may be behind some of this effectiveness. But a hefty helping of behavioral science is at play, too. As a number of new studies confirm, you can blame your clickbait habit on two things: the outsized role emotion plays in your intuitive judgements and daily choices, and your lazy brain.
Manufacturing Emotion
Clickbait doesn’t just happen on its own. Editors write headlines in an effort to manipulate you—or at least grab your attention—and always have. “Headless Body In Topless Bar,” and “Sticks Nix Hick Pix” wouldn’t exist if publications didn’t care about attracting eyeballs. The difference with clickbait is you’re often aware of this manipulation, and yet helpless to resist it. It’s at once obvious in its bait-iness, and somehow still effective bait.
This has a lot to do with emotion and the role it plays in our daily decision-making processes, says Jonah Berger, who studies social influence and contagion at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emotional arousal, or the degree of physical response you have to an emotion, is a key ingredient in clicking behaviors. Sadness and anger, for example, are negative emotions, but anger is much more potent. “It drives us, fires us up, and compels us to take action,” Berger says. If you’ve ever found yourself falling for outrage clickbait or spent time hate-reading and hate-watching something, you know what Berger is talking about. “Anger, anxiety, humor, excitement, inspiration, surprise—all of these are punchy emotions that clickbait headlines rely on,” he says.
Rest of the article here:
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/psychology-of-clickbait/
If we are being fooled by media by falling clickbait, lets ****ing fall to positive articles and click them, share them, re-tweet them.
Any positive articles of MJ coming anniversary deserves to be clicked the hell out of it so that site does not know what hit them.
I'm seriously sick and tired of this ****ery that Michael still has to face, and we keep blaming every other people, media and estate for this and that, but unfortunately we have to look the man in the mirror as how our own actions supports this ****ery even further.
Rant over.
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