{"id":8336,"date":"2016-04-14T13:39:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T04:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T11:56:01","slug":"12-awe-inspiring-tips-to-make-shitty-clickbait-listicles-number-5-will-make-your-head-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/04\/14\/12-awe-inspiring-tips-to-make-shitty-clickbait-listicles-number-5-will-make-your-head-explode\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Awe-Inspiring Tips to Make Shitty Clickbait Listicles. Number 5 will make your head explode!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Start your\u00a0title with a number.<\/li>\n
  2. Include random\u00a0grandiloquent synonym for “great”.<\/li>\n
  3. Attach irrelevant but eye-catching stock photo<\/del> loosely-credited\u00a0picture nicked from Google Image.<\/li>\n
  4. Throw a dice, pick a list\u00a0item and single it\u00a0out in your title, to fool people into thinking the list was put together by someone who gave a fuck.<\/li>\n
  5. Include a few\u00a0useless factoids and thoroughly obvious common-sense observations as filler.<\/li>\n
  6. Sunny weather often follows bouts of rain. Except when it doesn’t.<\/li>\n
  7. The Jews control the media and are conspiring with the reptilian political elites to enslave the human race.<\/li>\n
  8. Include at least one moronic \/ blatantly false \/ controversial item, to goad naive people\u00a0into engaging with your list on\u00a0social media, thus giving it more exposure.<\/li>\n
  9. Stop and\u00a0contemplate the vacuousness of your existence.<\/li>\n
  10. Come to the frightening realisation that you are an insignificant leech on the backside of Humanity, whose contribution to the Joy, Happiness or Anything\u00a0Good to\u00a0the world is a net negative.<\/li>\n
  11. Jump off a bridge.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Start your\u00a0title with a number. Include random\u00a0grandiloquent synonym for “great”. Attach irrelevant but eye-catching stock photo loosely-credited\u00a0picture nicked from Google Image. Throw a dice, pick a list\u00a0item and single it\u00a0out in your title, to fool people into thinking the list was put together by someone who gave a fuck. Include a few\u00a0useless factoids and thoroughly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-for-google","category-le-sigh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8522,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions\/8522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}