Breaking news: Internet erupts as Hillary Clinton confesses: "I am the mother of an extraterrestrial love child."

[TygrBright]

57. When browsing the Videos forum I automatically skip the ones with big yellow letters.

The big yellow letters scream apocalyptically and the videos themselves invariably consist of self-important talking heads exercising their self-importance about nothing very much, doing their best to make mountains of molehills to generate clicks.

I have noticed the number of these increasing, but it's not really very surprising.

I have also started avoiding posts with clickbait-y titles, in favor of those written like old-style news heads - a quick summary of the post's content, rather than an attempt to manipulate potential readers.

There is enough horror in the actual, verifiable news every day, and enough hope and joy in verifiable chronicles of resistance and action, that I don't feel a need to participate in the running in circles, screaming and shouting aspects of the Internet.

Including DU, where, in my experience, we still have some commitment to preventing this kind of sloppy egotistical clickbaity dreck from overwhelming real content by real people interested in sharing real information.

determinedly,
Bright