[HN Gopher] The sarcastic fringehead's broad-mouthed display is ...
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The sarcastic fringehead's broad-mouthed display is reserved for
fighting
Author : Petiver
Score : 78 points
Date : 2022-10-16 01:42 UTC (1 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
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| emptyfile wrote:
| When subscription based "premium" newspapers start doling out the
| click bait, you know the end is near ...
| reaperducer wrote:
| It's not clickbait. It's called being clever, and something
| that newspapers have done for centuries before internet
| griefers came along.
| systemvoltage wrote:
| Idk, there is not much cleverness is finding some random
| obscure thing and trying to shoehorn that to propel an
| ideological message.
| cocacola1 wrote:
| The article is entirely focused on the fish, though.
| Where's the ideological message?
| systemvoltage wrote:
| In the headline, and the entire article is not about
| fish. It's a commentary about society. It dog whistles to
| their readerbase.
| benj111 wrote:
| It isn't click bait.
|
| The fish is literally called the sarcastic fridgehead.
|
| If the title was "the goldfishes broad mouthed display is
| reserved for fighting" would that too be clickbait?
| bombcar wrote:
| The title on HN changed, it was originally posted as
| something like "When Sarcastic Fringemouths open, beware"
| [deleted]
| unethical_ban wrote:
| NYT is premium, and newspapers have always had articles on
| sciences.
| biggoodwolf wrote:
| volleygman180 wrote:
| And it's even nearer when links to those articles are posted on
| HN
| MichaelCollins wrote:
| I feel kinship with this fish.
| dudeinjapan wrote:
| OMG I've found my spirit animal.
| higgins wrote:
| this is excellent headline writing
| rubyist5eva wrote:
| ck2 wrote:
| ah "sarcastic" in the literal - ancient Greeks had great words
| for so many things
|
| My (un)favorite is "demagogue" they knew it even then.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue#History_and_definiti...
| cecilpl2 wrote:
| I have to admit this is not what I expected to be reading about
| when I clicked on it.
| imoverclocked wrote:
| It got me too. At least the title doesn't have an illicit
| reference to Stripers.
| guerrilla wrote:
| This is the kind of clickbait I can get behind :)
| DonHopkins wrote:
| It was so much better than I imagined it would be!
| allochthon wrote:
| Sometimes the New York Times editors have fun with the
| titles of lighter articles, in a good way
| rootusrootus wrote:
| Yeah I was thinking "oh crap, sarcastic fringehead is probably
| not a totally inaccurate description of me, I wonder what it
| says..."
| tomrod wrote:
| I mean, it still applies to me even though it is shared with
| a fish :D
|
| This was a fun article! Thanks OP!
| madmax108 wrote:
| https://archive.ph/4mUNX
| thisisauserid wrote:
| It's a fish. New meaning of clickbait.
| blaser-waffle wrote:
| As in, literally a fish, called the sarcastic fringehead.
|
| Headline is kind of a pun / clickbate.
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| themitigating wrote:
| It's in the science section of the paper and the article
| features a picture of the fish on top. I've also never heard
| the term "Sarcastic Fringehead" use to describe a type of
| personality and that's the actual name of the fish
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcastic_fringehead
| pharrington wrote:
| op made a pun
| Croftengea wrote:
| Thanks, this saved me from figuring how to bypass their "free
| article limit".
| swayvil wrote:
| This is a fabulous "Did they actually read the article?" test.
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