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People who hate clickbait headlines should start clicking the non-clickbait headlines. The authors themselves rarely have any control over the headlines and we know that all of the major publications are A/B/n testing various headlines for news, at minimum, and are most likely feeding that information back into some automated headline generator.



Not to turn this into a meta discussion of the responsibility of media outlets, but they could have probably gotten better CTR with the headline "Top 10 celebrity boobs". There's a difference between phrasing headlines more dramatically and misrepresenting your story.




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