[fromthestart]

>I don't think that anyone would actually think that I worked on this for 3 years.

Your title literally says it took you 3 years.

Tragic how clickbait has become so normalized.

[petercooper]

Become? These sorts of title tricks have been common practice in the magazine industry for decades and in newspapers before that. Now we're just in the latest stage where it's been adopted by individuals :-D