She placed a pair of tights over a hard boiled egg. When I saw why? AMAZING!!

[girlinacoma]

Oh do fuck off.

Has anyone ever clicked on one of this links and actually shared the amazement/joy/wonder etc of the original poster?

Of course not and yet I fall for it every time [hmmm]

I think we need to come up with our own Mumsnet versions!

DH read a study on these clickbait ads. He said they originally came about by scammers targeting those with poorer decision making powers (ahem) so that they can have a higher 'hit rate' of people that fall for their con. They deliberately make the claims outrageous so that only the most foolish click (sorry!), with the eventual aim that they will give contact details, and the real scam begin.

They must be v successful if other (vaguely more legit) advertisers are using them now.

Damn- what I should have put was:
He read an article on clickbait psychology. What he discovered will BLOW YOUR MIND!

Thank you for saving me from bitter disappointment, I've been really tempted to look at the belly fat one! If anyone does find a real way to lose belly fat overnight, this time next year you'll be a Millionaire!

I was so tempted NOT to click on this thread as I just rolled my eyes and thought, "surely MN isn't encouraging this"?!

I feel oddly violated that the clickbait adds presumably pick up on your browser location as ads turn up saying, "[MY TOWN] woman discovers the secret of beauty/finds new way to earn #000s/cures incurable disease"

OK, have to Google now as somehow my shift & F3 is doing hashtags instead of pound signs (kids must have pressed some key combination). Still, I can then put up a banner of "THIS TOWN WOMAN FINDS HASHTAG ON A MAC KEYBOARD - YOU'LL NEVER GUESS HOW!!!"

Housemum there used to be something called keycaps which showed you things like that. Was vvv helpful.

I followed the weird old tip belly fat one once, just to see how long it was going to take. 75 crap screens later, acai berries.

More seriously, I've talked to people whose kids have been used for Say AMEN type posts & they had no idea until someone happened to recognise the photos & tell them .

100 weird things that might happen if you leave your kids ALONE while you nip to the shops!!!

Neat summary of a good 10% of Mumsnet threads there, Spare :)

Then there's:
She PARKED in THIS space! I couldn't believe what happened next!

Empress- sorry, what are 'say amen' type posts?

Housemum- it always comes up with Tewkesbury or Perth for me, but I'm nowhere near either of those

This thread and your OP is more annoying than the grievance you described.

Oh and I was feeling so convivial beforehand. Smh.

Electro, posts with a picture of an ill or disabled child with some kind of tale (usually fictitious), asking people to like them & comment "Amen", as some kind of expression of support. They're used to raise companies' profiles on FB by generating likes.

Gosh, that's hideous, that they would use people's photos too.
Companies do this?
Thank goodness I'm not on Facebook.

Well, only dodgy companies... It's called like farming.

Type 'amen' below or the kid gets it, you heartless shit

I once saw saw a photo on fb, it was someone giving some poor famine hit family a box of cut out fb like icons (thumbs up icons). Yeah that's right, likes on a fb article does fuck all the help people in crisis.

I hate click bait with a passion. But I really want to know that one weird trick to get rid of belly fat. Would PVA and a spatula work?

I really hate the picture of the woman with the wonky teeth. It just feels like bullying.

Clickhole does a brilliant parody of these

Appearing on the Telegraph website today;

"What Ginger Grant Looks Like Now Will Drop Your Jaw"

As I don't know who Ginger Grant is, unless she has grown a second head, I doubt I will drop my jaw!

I don't know how I resisted clicking on this one!

OMG! Did a chick/baby hybrid hatch out?! Click it, click it!!

He had a sperm filled egg for breakfast?

Must not click.