Nov 23, 2022
It’s late and you’re tired. You’re doom scrolling through social media, a newsfeed, or YouTube and see it: the clickbait to end all clickbait. Maybe it’s 16 tips to shrink your thighs or 42 reasons a celebrity sucks or 15 ways to save money on car insurance. But it’s bait. And you fall for it, hook, line and sinker.
And then you wait for what feels like 15 minutes for all the ads to load and you know you’ve made a grave mistake.
So much of the internet is what we make it now with our behavior. And it isn’t our thoughtful, frontal cortex behavior, it’s our lizard brain behavior. Listen in as Michelle and JoyGenea talk about the challenges presented by clickbait and the self-fulfilling prophecy that is the internet.