Clickbait

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YouTube MIsinformation

The term "clickbait," is used for YouTube users who mislead to get viewers.

Some examples - 

One headline read - "Teacher r@ped in front of class."

If you watch the video, the crime is anything but r@pe. The teacher was killed, alone, in a ladies toilet, and her body was dumped in a nearby area of woodland.

Another often used "lie" is to show a well-known person, usually a lady, who "appears" to have had a serious incident, causing her to lose parts of her body.

The WORST case is far more serious than those. Two years ago, a young lady in Korea, was doing a video about doing her crops, when she was bitten by a snake, that part was true. This boosted her viewer figures. What followed was total fiction, which caused serious concerns.

After the report of her encounter with the snake boosted her figures, she then began a series of fiction videos. She "claimed" her husband had been attacked by a tiger, and dragged into a forrest, naturally her viewers tuned in to see what was happening.

This is when she became a liar, as she was a poor farmer, I had trouble believing she could afford the dozens of Go-Pro cameras she used, farmers usually live hand-to-mouth, barely paying bills. The biggest lie is if she didn't know where her husband had been taken, of if he was alive, how could she set up cameras on a trail that lead to her discovery of his rucksack?

It could be said her viewing figures paid for the cameras, but one-click, only gets a few pence. 

At the time, I contacted YouTube to complain about the lies, and pointed out they could be libel if someone was injured trying to find her "lost" husband. I pointed out, all they had to do was keep him out of camera shot, and the videos could run for years. The channel took action, and the videos were dropped.