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Postby Tesseracts » Thu Sep 04, 2014 10:50 pm

Clickhole is one of the greatest websites I've ever seen. It's from the Onion people, but I think it's even better than the Onion. Post your favorite Clickholes in this thread.

The very first thing I saw from them is this. They do a lot of parodies of common Upworthy style clickbait that's all over Facebook these days. This is a brilliant satire of something that really happened and that happens all the damn time.

Like the Onion they also do stuff about current events. Click here to see how to get naked celebrity photos.

If you only watch one of these videos, definitely don't let it be this one.
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Re: Clickhole

Postby Edgar Cabrera » Fri Sep 05, 2014 12:08 am

I loved their article about about how people can be beautiful from the inside ... using pro wrestlers. Special mention goes to Kane and his Glenn Morshower looks, pwhoar. He can chokeslam me any time of the week ...
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Re: Clickhole

Postby SlayerGoddess » Fri Sep 05, 2014 2:19 am

Aah, another sarcastic site to waste time on; Cracked has been getting boring.

If I was braver I'd post this on my Facebook:

http://www.clickhole.com/article/7-othe ... en-you-917
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Re: Clickhole

Postby Suckerfish » Fri Sep 05, 2014 8:07 am

Clickhole is goddamn amazing, it's been bumped onto my "websites that I go on almost every day" list. They are just so good at the beautiful, beautiful art of fake clickbaiting.
Two articles directed towards Ferguson, which are wonderful pieces of satire.

http://www.clickhole.com/article/10-bea ... rrests-798

http://www.clickhole.com/article/police ... better-777

Also their quizzes tend to be very hilarious, meta, and interesting affairs.

This one asking whether or not you are a good person, is a particular favorite.
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Re: Clickhole

Postby SlayerGoddess » Sat Sep 06, 2014 12:11 am

http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/can-m ... me-bus-874

Can A Man And A Woman Be ‘Just Passengers On The Same Bus’?
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Re: Clickhole

Postby Matthew Notch » Sat Sep 06, 2014 12:13 am

The quizzes crack me up, especially when you can share the results of "Did you talk to your old man about that idea I had?" with your friends. I wouldn't have found this without Tess's help, so I am indebted.
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Postby CleverDick » Sun Oct 05, 2014 12:45 am

Eating the last ice cream made me think of this quiz.
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Re: Clickhole

Postby Tesseracts » Tue Oct 14, 2014 4:25 pm

Clickhole itself just liked my comment on Facebook.

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Also, this is the funniest thing I have read in a long time.
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Re: Clickhole

Postby Tesseracts » Fri Oct 17, 2014 4:00 pm

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Re: Clickhole

Postby A Combustible Lemon » Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:17 pm

Hey look. Is this what forums call 'Necro-ing'? Cuz I'm just gonna say that site is BRILLIANT. It's like an entire site of the '7 best things' article or the catalog articles or Man Comics Ad Pages.
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Re: Clickhole

Postby CleverDick » Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:28 am

You know, I'm not sure whether watching this after reading Felix Clay's bullying article makes this better or worse.
http://www.clickhole.com/video/teen-has ... s-tot-1236
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Re: Clickhole

Postby Jack Road » Tue Oct 21, 2014 2:43 pm

A lot of hate was generated over this video, but I enjoyed it, because it highlighted something that has become apparent. People still react to bullying...as it was I guess? Was it ever like that? Or do we just think it was because of TV and movies?

Bullying is not the dumb jock versus the smart but socially awkward geek anymore. If it ever was. Rarely is bullying even one on one anymore.
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Re: Clickhole

Postby Tesseracts » Tue Oct 21, 2014 3:44 pm

Jack Road wrote:A lot of hate was generated over this video, but I enjoyed it, because it highlighted something that has become apparent. People still react to bullying...as it was I guess? Was it ever like that? Or do we just think it was because of TV and movies?

Bullying is not the dumb jock versus the smart but socially awkward geek anymore. If it ever was. Rarely is bullying even one on one anymore.

A lot of people interpreted this video as pro-bully, but it's not about bullying at all. Like 99% of Clickhole, it's a satire of nothing more than the internet itself. It's mocking the fact that we expect videos on the internet to be inspiring and stand up for what's right. We don't expect statements from a bully to go viral.

It's about what's popular online. What's popular is feel-good content that seems scripted and predictable. It's kind of nice to see good things happening to good people, but on the other hand it's also superficial and contributes nothing of real value to my life. Ultimately it's nothing more than clickbait. Hence "Clickhole." We are not the consumer, the advertisers are the consumer and we are the product.

The fact that Clickhole made this point in a way that so many people found offensive only makes me like this video more. Does that mean I'm terrible? If it does I don't want to be non-terrible. ALL HAIL CLICKHOLE.

Also, something recently happened in the Clickhole comments that reminds me of the good old days of Cracked comments.

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Re: Clickhole

Postby A Combustible Lemon » Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:10 pm

Well this just happened. https://twitter.com/ClickHole/status/524951034842845184
About 2.5 GGs outraged and 7 or 9 non-GG taking it at face value in the comments as of this writing. The meta-humor value of a clickbait site satirizing clickbait sites publishing a clickbait article about what's atleast 50% a reaction to the clickbait nature of the original sites is just confusing.
Good to see one of the first replies being nah, satire's fine though.
And the most awesome reply is "That's neither funny nor clever. Stop fishing for clicks."
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Re: Clickhole

Postby NathanLoiselle » Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:25 pm

It didn't seem like a click bait article to me.

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