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The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] sab@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks for emphasising I never called the article clickbait, just outrage-bait, circlejerk and low effort. And I do still think posting it here is just that.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Outrage-bait is clickbait. More specifically, it's a subset of clickbait.

Wikipedia:

Ragebait, rage-bait, rage baiting, and outrage baiting are similar Internet slang neologisms referring to manipulative tactics that feed on readers' anxieties and fears. They are all forms of clickbait. . . . The term rage bait, which has been cited since at least 2009, is a negative form of click-baiting as it relies on manipulating users to respond in kind to offensive, inflammatory "headlines", memes, tropes, or comments.

[–] sab@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

My bad. I thought clickbait just referred to headlines that don't deliver. Today I learned.