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title: "clickbait · GenZ Decoded"
description: "clickbait: Low-quality online content designed mainly to attract clicks. Example: \"That article was pure clickbait.\" Meaning and usage."
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# clickbait

Millennial[#internet](https://genzdecoded.com/slang-for/internet/)

**Meaning.** Low-quality online content designed mainly to attract clicks.

See it in a sentence

That article was pure clickbait.

## How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

- Gen Z

    [AI slop](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/ai-slop/),[brain rot](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/brain-rot/)

- Gen Alpha

    [brainrot](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/brainrot/)

- Millennial · this one

    clickbait

- Gen X

    No word for this one yet.

- Boomer

    [schlock](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/schlock/)

- Plain English

    low-quality online content designed mainly to attract clicks

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## Related slang

- [chronically online](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/chronically-online/): Spending so much time on the internet that your views and jokes stop making sense to people offline; usually a put-down, sometimes said about yourself.
- [clanker](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/clanker/): A slang insult for a robot or AI.
- [crack up](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/crack-up/): To make someone laugh very hard.
- [cracked me up](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/cracked-me-up/): Made someone laugh very hard.

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