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QueerDuck

(1,068 posts)
9. Prove me wrong? We? (Is there a mouse in your pocket? 🐁🐭)
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 02:22 PM
Jan 3

What an odd challenge. It is context-free thumbnail-free mystery click-bait. The mysterious link (a blank thumbnail that's "age-restricted" and "only available on YouTube'') offers absolutely nothing to put it in context. It's relying on our curiosity to find out more... that is the very definition of clickbait.

Whether or not the content at the other end of the link is interesting, or cute, or funny, or educational, or toe-tapping, or heartbreaking has NOTHING to do with the fact that the link that invites us to visit this mystery video is itself clickbait. It provides NO information and NO context and only a vulgar/offensive subject line to pique our curiosity. ergo: Clickbait! It describes the mystery link, not the content (whatever it might be.)

Also, whether or not I watch it or not does not change its clickbaity-ness of the link. As I said above, it is what it is. Nothing I do will change it. Nor will anything that a cute little mouse has to say will change it either.

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