clickbaiter
English
Etymology
clickbait + -er
Noun
clickbaiter (plural clickbaiters)
- (derogatory) One who creates or publishes clickbait.
- 2016 October 26, “The 11 smartest people to appear on 'The Big Bang Theory'”, in Fox News:
- But as a professional clickbaiter, I am qualified to rank them based on how annoying I find their public persona.
- 2017 September 13, Eleanor Dickinson, “P&G Asia brand director: 'We were clickbaiters – and a giant duck still got more likes than we did."”, in Mumbrella Asia:
- A leading marketeer for Procter & Gamble in Asia has revealed that she had “generations of training” in how to make Facebook adverts, but that the company still became a “clickbaiter”.
- 2018 July 9, Meghana Rajeshwar, “Don't trash it”, in Deccan Herald:
- While that may have the ring of a clickbaiter headline, the concept has always been part of traditional Indian cooking.
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