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by vex 4117 days ago
The title of this article is base clickbait...
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I disagree -- there's no question mark at the end of the title, nor any credulity-challening with "You won't believe what happened next!" I think this is just a well-written headline.

Or, to think of it another way: It's only clickbait if the headline is more interesting then the actual article. For this article, that's not the case at all.

I can't exactly describe how, but it doesn't feel like clickbait. Maybe because it wasn't misleading, obviously it wasn't going to be about real six-legged giant, so I assumed it was an animal or something.
Right. It turned out that it was /actually a good title for the article/.