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This. If I can’t get the basic premise of something in a few seconds, I move on. I assume if they had something useful to say that isn’t an ad or a ploy to get me to look at ads, they’d get to the point as quickly as possible and then fill in the details.
I’m referring more to how information is presented. Don’t tell me you have “one simple trick” and make me watch a 20 minute video to find out it’s something stupid you could’ve told me the basic premise of in 2 seconds and then described in more detail afterwards. Going beyond the basic premise and gaining a working knowledge of most topics takes a concerted effort, correct.
Journalists used to use the inverted pyramid for a reason. Direct marketers reversed that principle to create what evolved into clickbait. So clickbait, to me, automatically implies the opposite of journalism (advertising and/or propaganda) .
This. If I can’t get the basic premise of something in a few seconds, I move on. I assume if they had something useful to say that isn’t an ad or a ploy to get me to look at ads, they’d get to the point as quickly as possible and then fill in the details.
Honestly, great summarization of how knowledge, society, and understanding is crumbling.
All the important, hard, things take concerted effort to understand.
Edit: This has nothing to do with the clickbait title
I’m referring more to how information is presented. Don’t tell me you have “one simple trick” and make me watch a 20 minute video to find out it’s something stupid you could’ve told me the basic premise of in 2 seconds and then described in more detail afterwards. Going beyond the basic premise and gaining a working knowledge of most topics takes a concerted effort, correct.
Journalists used to use the inverted pyramid for a reason. Direct marketers reversed that principle to create what evolved into clickbait. So clickbait, to me, automatically implies the opposite of journalism (advertising and/or propaganda) .