Clickbait exposés dominate most popular posts of 2017

For the second year in a row, the most popular posts on Tech-media-tainment had to do with exposing the deceitful practices of clickbait purveyors.
Among those posts, the favorites were about sexy young women, so I’m probably appealing to the same audience as those original clickbait articles. But at least my readers will get their facts straight.
Here’s a list of the top 20 articles on TMT based on page views for 2017.

1. Lying clickbait: Hot celebrity wives and daughters … not (March 21, 2017)
2. Clickbait cuties: Sexy female athletes (March 28, 2017)
3. Lying clickbait: Close-but-no-cigar edition (Dec. 13, 2016)
4. Clickbait cliche: The crowd got more than it bargained for (Feb. 3, 2017)
5. Lying clickbait: Celebrities paired with hideous photos (March 20, 2017)
6. Clickbait cuties: The sexy sirens of sponsored articles (March 27, 2017)
7. First step to combat fake news: End lying clickbait (Dec. 8, 2017)
8. Lying clickbait: Pretty women as the honeypot (Feb. 12, 2017)
9. Clickbait cliche: Photos that almost broke the internet (March 30, 2017)
10. 2017 psychic predictions: Brad Pitt and Rihanna a couple? (Dec. 31, 2016)
11. Lying clickbait: Fake Woodstock photos, historic images and death reports (Dec. 29, 2016)
12. Lying clickbait: Missed-by-a-mile edition (Dec. 14, 2016)
13. The most controversial foreign magazine covers of 2017 (Dec. 16, 2017)
14. Disney princesses reimagined as Warhammer 40K space marines, wookies and potatoes (March 11, 2017)
15. The sexiest LFL players of 2017 (June 30, 2017)
16. Not Monica Lewinsky photos; they’re lying clickbait (Dec. 26, 2016)
17. Fake North Korea photos: More lying clickbait (Jan. 31, 2017)
18. Clickbait funnies (April 6, 2017)
19. Lying clickbait: Crazy celebrity transformations, geography fails, porn fantasies (May 18, 2017)
20. Lying clickbait: Fake historical photos, fake North Korea photos, fake Titanic photos (March 19, 2017)

Photo: Former UCLA cheerleader and clickbait favorite MaCall Manor.