Clickbait

Clickbait and I have beef. Let me start with a little bit of context

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It’s my final semester at DVC, and I’m enrolled in a Creative Writing class that has resparked and poked at my creative body and brain until I could no longer sit still and had to start writing.

This semester has prompted me to question a few things.

“Have I ever REALLY written before?”

“What is it like to be an icon of the public?”

“Can you change your mind in writing?”

Some questions tap more into legality than others, and while I’m not a law student at Harvard, I still study hard, work harder, and play hardest.

But to my point about Clickbait.

This would be a trash article if I sat here and explained Clickbait, and my attempt at getting you to click on this article simply based on the thumbnail isn’t very effective either.

But my need, expressed in my brief backstory, to write more… to sit down and focus on something, that’s where my concern lies.

I used Clickbait in my 2015 video “Homemade Polymer Clay DIY ❤” or something, and to this day it has around 10k Watch Hours, which are crucial to Youtube’s analytics metrics and monetization status, but furthermore, it doesn’t do me…