The Beato trap: when clickbait works

Good clickbait draws in an audience even when they know theyโ€™re being baited. Rick Beato recently did this to me with his โ€˜Is metal dead?โ€™ thumbnail. As an experienced Youtuber with an audience in the millions, heโ€™s an adept practitioner of this dark art. In this case heโ€™s served up a kind of double baiting.... Continue Reading →

Transience

The noise diaries XVII Thereโ€™s maybe just one more heat wave standing between us and a seasonal reset. Brown leaves are already littering the ground in the North of England. Autumn is in the bones. I think Iโ€™ve finally reasoned my way through why I take such umbrage with summer, and itโ€™s nothing to do... Continue Reading →

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