Clickbait, according to Urban Dictionary, is an “eyecatching link on a website which encourages people to read on.” It’s not an uncommon tactic to use a strange claim or an attention-grabbing phrase to direct traffic to some content online, and I’ve even seen it directed to military blogging posts.
So just for fun, I decided to use my Twitter feed to float some completely fake, unclickable clickbait headlines for made-up military blog posts. I took the click out of clickbait, but maybe you’ll still get a laugh out of some of these:
