From our new episode, TNA Turning Point! • TNA Turning Point '08 ... Tell us your most aggravating clickbait practises! Animation by @Mckodem SFX by / adamp_e All OSW animated segments: • OSW Animated! (McKodem...
OOC can't stand RU-vid clickbait. Tell us what clickbaity practises annoys you! From our new episode, TNA Turning Point! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2Pu5CIw7_FI.html Huge Thanks: Animation by McKodem twitter.com/McKodem SFX by twitter.com/AdamP_E
My least favorite clickbait thing is when wrestling news channels on RU-vid will upload a video that’s titled something like: “major star apologizes to the LGBTQ community” and the thumbnail will be split down the middle where Brock Lesnar is on one side, while the title of the video’s on the other. The thumbnail gives you the indication that Brock had to apologize for old comments, when it turns it was Colton Gunn or whoever apologizing, and the news on Brock is that he’s the highest merch seller this month
when this arc started, i didn't think my top pick for quote of the year would ever be "a big red arrow pointing to a plane crashing into a toddler", but here i am now, forever changed
McKodem has been such an integral part of Osw Review and it honestly isn't the same without an animation of some sort from him. Can of Coke to you good sir.
The clickbait tactic that always riles me the most is "the secret that [whomever] DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW!". Appealing to the absolute worst in deluded "everything's a conspiracy" types.
The SECRET Behind THUMBNAILS That RU-vid DOESN'T want you to KNOW! Random capitalisations annoy the hell out of me. Sometimes, it's literally random words, though. My faux title actually highlights keywords.
One clickbaity tactic I've noticed is say during a world cup when tv schedules change you get headlines like "This Morning cancelled in massive schedule shake up!!" then causally drop in "this is due to the fifa world cup"
43 things you didn't know about X. Where they name like 4 facts, all of which were incredibly easy to know by looking it up and the rest are just kind of opinions.
When they give an interesting headline but then the article takes forever to actually adress the headline. Making me scroll past personal info, history of topic and so many adds only to hide what was mentioned in the middle
Football ones. It would be like "He wants out!!" "Major blow for team as established star heading for exit!!!" You read and it's the Reserve goal keeper.
Clickbait got my into comics. "Green Lantern Comes Out as Gay". It was the magical Green Lantern from 1940, not the space cop everyone knows. But I still read 80 issues of Green Lantern trying to understand the difference.
Honestly, the amount of clickbait titles and gaslighting thumbnails in Wrestling news videos is staggering. I honestly wish they would just get to the point when it comes to news so we can all go about our day. ❤️
I HAD TO TELL SOMEONE WHO MIGHT GET IT (OOC) !! It was me Bday last week and a mate of mine, who's mates with Todd Pettengill (I didn't know he was) just asked him as a favour for a birthday message from him to me. Only just opened the WhatsApp message (been hungover or drunk since the 17th) and honestly I marked out so bad!!! Just wanted OOC to know this because it makes me cooler than the coolest OSW member (Sorry Jay and V1, but OOC is the man).
There's one wrestling news site that sometimes pops up on my feed, and every headline mentions the wrestler by their age, and never by name. Stuff like "38 year old former WWE champion injured at house show." It's such a strange way to attempt clickbait.
Not an annoyance, but I'm a fan of those wrestling thumbnails where they have one WWE Superstar like John Cena or Brock Lesnar or Roman Reigns vs all the giants at once, from Mark Henry, Braun Strowman, Big Show, Khali, or the thumbnails where its like Brock vs Roman, and blood splattered on their arms and body with the caption, "Bloodiest Match Ever", fucking wild
I will say, RussianBadger (don't worry, he's just a COD/L4D player from Ohio) had a great parody of clickbait in one of his L4D2 mod episodes a while back. Can't quite remember what it is entirely, but it was along the lines of "AERITH saves SHREK from ELMO while CARRYING GNOME for ACHIEVEMENT (GONE WILD)"
I follow a few history channels on RU-vid and one specific one changes the titles of their videos after 24 hours so people think new content was posted. I’ve been commenting about my disdain for that practice and it seems like a bunch of other fans were pissed with it as well
Inside the Ropes is like all clickbait like FORMER AEW STAR FOUND IN WWE PERFORMANCE CENTER!!!! and then people in the comments elaborate oh yeah it’s Brian Pillman Jr., just a bunch of very leading questions with one word answers and often with very little to actually say.
The worst clickbait is those rage farmers, y'know the ones: "[X media franchise taking a more progressive or inclusive direction] DOOMED TO FAIL!" That one pisses me right the fuck off, and I have a feeling that's by design.
Ahhhh a man of culture. I see you know your "The Quartering" well. Talking at a snails pace to make sure it gets to the 10 minute mark (and thus monetization.)
- Showing a picture that isn't anywhere in the actual video. - Top 10 lists spoiling what #1 is by showing us in the thumbnail. - Bad AI images. - Showing off Steven Universe's cry ugly face when they talk about the state of the animation industry. (I'm looking at you, Clownfish TV!)
I think the number one clickbait thing that annoys me is two women of wrestling hugging each other in the thumbnail (Joking) But in all honesty, it's gotta be the red arrow shit. 90% of the time it's pointing and something that either isn't in the video, isn't talked about, or isn't even related to the topic. Unironically people would use this occ thumbnail in a fighting game video, wrestling video, YGO video and also a rant video. It's so absurd. 2nd place goes to titles with very vague, and capitalized phrases. "You WON'T believe what this WRESTLER said about this CONTROVERSIAL THING XXX (MUST WATCH!!!??)" And then 1% of the video is about if Christian Cage likes pineapple on pizza, and the rest is him talking about how much he loves life, his wife and world peace. Seeing titles like that and/or red arrows often has me instantly click the "don't recommend me this channel" thing.
“____ BROKE ME!” is honestly a pet peeve of mine and I avoid any video with it in the title or thumbnail. Fam, the only thing broke about you is your bank account, shuddup.
Or “ You won’t believe the Tattoo OOC has!” And it’s the pic that was verified NOT OOC and the Video is just about how OOC says he does have one and loves Lord of the Ring
Search Engine Optimization annoys me the most now. Just an endless word salad to give priority on any random search. Seeing the top results be like "OSW Review Part 1 WWE Kayfabe Hulkster What Bar WCW Simpsons V1 Rubbish Ronnie Garbage Full Video Airplane Toddler Thumbnail Worzel" but not the video you want to see. Half the stuff I try to buy from stores online is listed like that now too.
“ The Life and Tragic ending of Geoffrey Holder “ I think this clickbait channel does this a lot, every person has a “ Tragic Ending “ but spoiler alert, Geoffrey Holder at the end of a shining career and beautiful life of art, music and passion…got old and died.
Clickbait that burns my pi55 is when a video will say "BREAKING: WWE star QUITS. IT'S OVER!" and the thumbnail is a silhouette of a massive star, obviously Roman Reigns or someone big and the video is about some jobber in NXT who quit Instagram or some sh1t
Let's talk about all the SCAM ADs. WTF is all this about? Scam ads and Tik-Tok ads. YT must be broke or something. How can they allow so many scams and ads for their own competition? WTF?
TEN REASONS WHY VINCE RUSSO'S WRITING IS ACTUALLY GREAT (number 6 will shock you) Each answer on a separate page 50 adds per page All 10 reasons are nonsensical
I hate the "i did X in Y game and THIS happened." Because you already know its going to be dissapointing and half the time im not really looking for something crazy to happen i just want to see a normal video covering a game.
Anything vs anything are always bad and annoying. Gorilla vs sumo wrestler, mike tyson vs bruce lee etc. Anyone but a child would believe and click it.
I hate when people ask for a share personally. I’ll give ya the like, that’s between us, ya know? don’t make me drag other people into my weird hobbies, that’s not fair to them.
I was at the store checkout one day & a magazine had (whatever star, i honestly don't remember who,) but it was "____ Big Cancer Scare!" ...& i rolled my eyes & flipped through the mag... ...it was actually some star's cousin's friend
Wrestling is in picture- picture because you can't see that action let's say there's a move that happens it's like a tremendous like or something like that or like Chris Jericho gets cut with a pizza cutter and there's a Domino's Pizza commercial on I really want a pizza
I love how Jay's face turns into a full blown 'o_O' expression when OOC first describes the thumbnail - it's little touches like that which make McKodem the absolute MVP of these segments
My pet hate is when an article is (for example) "Leeds United star found guilty of touching fish" And it's someone who was in the youth academy in 2004. Edit: in a wrestling context, any article with the headline "former wwe writer..." as you know 98% of the time it's Vince Russo. Sportskeeda must have clickbaited Russo being told by Vince McMahon to hire a nanny, about 489,456 times.
PWUnlimited have a "CENA TO BE AT DYNAMITE" article, when they really mean John Cena's dad (who apparently goes to any wrestling in the Boston area). Incredible. I almost have to admire the audacity of them.
Old Clickbate used to be worse because 90% of the time it was all lies. Now it's just exaggerated or trying to push a point which is like... everyone does that not to catch eyes. Though my favorite and least favorite clickbait are on Sports related videos like "Top 10 most insane moments in sports history." And it's a footballer sliding on his knees in the grass right into a pit of hell for no reason.
I hate "15 Blanks You've Never Heard Of!" and it's always 14 everyone with a brain has absolutely heard of and 1 that doesn't even fit the category, but you've still heard of it.
Not having the title of this video be "OOC SHOOTS on clickbait. You won't BELIEVE what he says (Warning : Nudity)" is a Sean O'Haire sized missed opportunity lads.
I remember one example in 2010 there was a report in wrestling. And this isn't one to one what was written as the headline but it might as well have been: "90's Bald and Goatee Wrestling star Died" You thinking "Goldberg?" or "Stone Cold?" Nope Bastion Booger Wrestling Journalism in general just sucks that's all I'm saying
It's the stupid "reaction" faces that turn me off more than anything. I've learned to accept it from content creators I already trust because it is unfortunately something the RU-vid algorithm seems to love, but that practice is *the* reason I've never watched a Mr. Beast video and have avoided countless others.
I hear Mr. Beast has done lots of charity work and stuff and that's absolutely great and all but I just hate the guy. Just look at his face! Uncanny valley but with a real person somehow.
