Lemmy user TachyonTele SLAMS news outlets for their unwanted hyperbole!!!
They will stop as soon as the word “based” is finished.
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
I’m still waiting for ASS BLASTS’ time to shine
Was there an actual spanking, or just figuratively?
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As said, don’t click on it. I also avoid clicking on an any article who’s headline is a question
Also “Here’s why”
Also if the thumbnail has obvious ‘ai’ ‘art’
Like this one
If it’s not “slam”, it’ll be something else just as bad. Be careful what you wish for, or it might be replaced with “obliterate” or “wreck” or something worse.
Instead, how about we get news outlets to stop writing ambiguously abbreviated headlines as if they still needed them to fit on a page? “Stud Tires Out” could mean two wildly different things, and you can easily fit a couple more words into the 80% of the screen you’ve filled with ads.
Kamala low key yeets shade at Donald Trump over cappin 💯 💯 fr.
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 has been a couple years tho
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.
Stop giving them clicks.
“Audiences slam news outlets for hyperbolic headlines!”
You gotta slam them back. Slam for a slam
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.
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
“Beloved slam is slammed by lemming, news at 11”
Slam them!
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.
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