As said, don’t click on it. I also avoid clicking on an any article who’s headline is a question
Get everyone who reads articles to stop clicking on any headline that includes the word. Then they’d pay attention.
In other words, only a significant drop in clicks would drive any change.
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Lemmy user TachyonTele SLAMS news outlets for their unwanted hyperbole!!!
SquirtleHermit WRECKS unwanted hyperbole. Leaves Lemmy user SPEECHLESS!
SCIENTISTS CAN’T EXPLAIN BrundleFly2077’s hyperbolic discourse
This is BREAKING NEWS if I’ve ever seen it.
They will stop as soon as the word “based” is finished.
Stand outside the editors window blasting the OST to space jam (the first one of course) everytime they publish such an article.
So, put them on blast?
It is a symptom, not a cause.
They use it, because it works on people.
Months ago a headline popped up with ‘spanked’ instead. I’m a little disappointed it didn’t take off.
Apparently spanking took off for Fox News
Stop clicking on those articles, esspecially on platforms that they actually care about, like Facebook and Twitter.
Call me pretentious, but I genuinely forget about Facebook and that lots of people still care about it.
You don’t. Language evolves. At this point, I’m more annoyed by the people calling it out and complaining about it that I am about seeing it in headlines.
Stop giving them clicks.
“Audiences slam news outlets for hyperbolic headlines!”
If it’s not slam, it’s roast.
I think journalists like these words because they’re not provably false and therefore can’t get sued for misrepresenting what someone said
And if, heaven forbid, it’s not either of those, it is now apparently acceptable to refer to it as a “clap back.” In the newspaper of all places.
It’s just the current buzzword.
Hundreds if not thousands went before it and many more will follow.
Think of it as an in-built historic timestamp.
It’s like an old 100 yo trend of writing headlines except it has gotten much more “slam”-filled. Crash blossoms / headlinese has evolved over time.
It has been a couple years tho
Slam! da duh duh, da duh duh, let the boys be boys.
If we could just let the boys be boys maybe this whole SLAM thing would just go away
Don’t worry, soon they’ll catch on to “cooked”.