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by CountHackulus 3783 days ago
Massive clickbait title. It's a story about Dennis Richie.
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Please do not spoil the joke.
Seriously, there is a difference between a Buzz Feed title to try to draw viewers into a site that needs ad revenue and a well titled story that has an interesting twist.
The twist wasn't that interesting. I was expecting the article to continue into something with meat.
That's ok, not everyone has to think it was interesting. :)
There was a bit of a trend, in action shooter games, to express a grim, gritty, "realistic" aesthetic by washing out all colors to a uniform dusty brown. It was kind of silly, and the term "real is brown" developed to mock it. A few years later, you had people going "LOL, real is brown WTF" at basically any scene that took place in less than full sunlight, regardless of colors.

I feel like "clickbait" is turning into that. People have forgetten the difference between cynical Buzzfeed-ism and simple humor.