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Clickbait is just as often about half-truths, or omissions.

Anything that leads to a reader/viewer asking "Why?/What?", and which triggers the human curiosity that leads to a click - constitutes clickbait.

Such content may later disappoint or cause annoyance to the reader/viewer; but they still clicked, which is all that matters.



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