The newest site from satirists at The Onion is Clickhole.com. It sets out to make fun of the kind of click-bait featured on Huffington Post and many other sites. The problem is that it's hard to come up with any headlines that are implausible enough.
Here's a little test. Half of the headlines below are from Clickhole, half from a genuine sites (I use the word "genuine" loosely). Guess which are real. The answers are at the bottom of the post.
1. The Top 12 "Game of Thrones"-inspired Baby Names
2. Just a Photo of Kanye West Sleeping
3. Islamist Fighters in Iraq and Syria Keep Tweeting Pictures of Cats With Guns
4. 10 Kicks You Should Know About Before You Watch the Wold Cup
5. 50 of the Most Important Dog GIFs of All Time
6. 70 Years Later, We Still May Never Know What D-Day Was
7. You Guys, Ryan Gosling Did Not Adopt A Baby
8. This 43-Year-Old Man Won't Let Himself Be Defined By Barbie's Beauty Standards
9. As If Belonging to MENSA Wasn't Enough, This Student Had A Nose Job To Improve HIs Job Chances
10. LeBron James Should Not Have to Go To Jail For Losing the NBA Finals
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Ready?
The Answers:
1. Clickhole
2. BuzzFeed
3. BuzzFeed
4. Clickhole
5. BuzzFeed
6. Clickhole
7. Huffington Post
8. Clickhole
9. Huffington Post
10. Clickhole
See what I mean?
