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It does. It's called clickbait. :p

If you'd like to clearly differentiate it from a more stringent definition of clickbait, I guess one could call it clickbait by omission.

It's like when you pretend to have thrown a nut to a squirrel, but in reality you just made a gesture. The squirrel will go look for the nut regardless. You not throwing a 'decoy' nut isn't the important part w.r.t. the desired outcome. You still 'baited' them.




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