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50 Wild Incidents That Would Be Hard To Believe If They Hadn’t Made The News
Interview With Expert
A great headline can make or break a story. News outlets know this, which is why they go to great lengths to craft attention-grabbing titles. But in their efforts to hook readers, some headlines end up being so over-the-top, misleading, or unintentionally funny that they take on a life of their own.
Here are some of the most hilarious ones that made it out into the world.
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Bored Panda reached out to Anna-Katharina Jung, a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and a scientific project manager, to learn more about why some publications resort to bold headlines.
Jung’s research focuses on the moral responsibility of communicators on social media, particularly in the context of misinformation, rumors, and gender in journalism. In one of her papers, she explored the impact of clickbait on user engagement in social media, making her the ideal expert to speak with.
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Best Headline Ever
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“In today’s media landscape, where anyone can create messages and posts, the most important resource is attention,” Jung explained. “As a media creator, I need to generate attention for my content for it to be consumed and shared. Many journalistic business models still rely on readers visiting homepages and being exposed to advertising that finances the media.”
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Roses Are Red, Butter Is Creamy
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Best Headline Ever?
TheBoardBisexual 1 month ago
does the paperboy happen to be able to talk to snakes and do magic by any chance?
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Help My Parrot Turned Spanish And I Cannot Undo It
“Other business models, like subscriptions and paywalls, lessen the pressure of high click-through rates, but attention remains a key goal,” she added. “The need to capture attention is the main reason techniques like clickbait are used, encouraging users to click on posts, whether on social networks or websites.”
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Headline Of The Year
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A Simple Mistake Really
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This Is So Cute
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Well Played BBC, Well Played
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Good Strategy, Bad Execution
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So This Happened
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Not All Heroes Wear Capes
Sillywaster Stayalone 1 month ago
Meanwhile in Bearworld Times - Tailless Apes Maligning Bears by Promoting Camper Attack Myth
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Funniest Headline Ever
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One Roof. One Goat. Only One Man He Respected
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This Journalist Waited Their Whole Life For This Headline
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An Exotic-Looking Orange Bird Turned Out To Be A Seagull Covered In Curry
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Crack Journalism Here
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When This Makes The Front Page Of The Newspaper, You Know You Live In A Small Town
R1MV4Superleggera 1 month ago
Some say: Duck was their Union president supervising in disguise their work
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This Is What News Headlines Look Like When You Live In Alaska
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Yup, That's What College Is Like
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The Most Redneck Headline Ever
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In Local News
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This Is The Most British Headline I Have Ever Seen
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This Woman Leads An Exciting Life
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Well, It's A Full-Time Job
Sillywaster Stayalone 1 month ago
Memes are equivalent to the ring of LOTR - it lures away from your purpose
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Did She Sing Or Not?
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I Was Looking At The News When I Found This
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I Think You Might Just Like Dudes
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This Shocking Headline From Los Angeles
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Great Headline, Gizmodo
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Atlanta Man Attempts To Rob Nail Salon, Gets Ignored By Everyone
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Headline News In Vancouver, BC This Morning
Such an important issue in Canada that it makes front page headlines.
Intangible Panda 1 month ago
I lived in Vancouver for more than a decade. Didn't realize how weird this was until someone from another country pointed it out! Lol!
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Hedonistic Passengers
R1MV4Superleggera 1 month ago
Pretty sure the Australians would beat us in less than 10 minutes
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A Bacon Planet Would Be Totally Acceptable, But I'm Not Sure About Sausage
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10/10 Headline
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We Need More Of This Guy
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A Threat Germany Had Never Faced Before
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De-Aging. It'll Age You
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Anything But The Metric System
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Only In Ohio
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That Picture Of The Stingray Was In My Newspaper Today
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
Wow, that's an old one. I remember this happening years ago, and the date says what looks like 2012, which makes sense.
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Literally The Greatest Headline USA Today Will Ever Write
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Sally Moen 1 month ago
My favorite headline, from a Vancouver, Washington newspaper, was Vandal throwing apples onto roofs. The story was some random guy riding his bicycle threw a few apples onto peoples' roofs, and had no further destruction. The news article was wondering why he was doing it, and made it sound like he was Mad Max of a suburban neighborhood.
Sally Moen 1 month ago
My favorite headline, from a Vancouver, Washington newspaper, was Vandal throwing apples onto roofs. The story was some random guy riding his bicycle threw a few apples onto peoples' roofs, and had no further destruction. The news article was wondering why he was doing it, and made it sound like he was Mad Max of a suburban neighborhood.
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