Clickbait firms will use any old photo of sexy women to drive traffic. The photo can be completely unrelated to the article – it doesn’t matter to them. Clicks are all that matters.
For instance, a sponsored article by Forbes titled “Attention retirees: How this ETF pays a 7% yield” used a photo of an attractive young lady. The woman is Marian Rivera, a Filipina recording artist, actress and model. The photo is from FHM magazine. What does Rivera have to do with exchange-traded funds?
An article titled “33 photos from Woodstock” used a photo that was not from Woodstock. In the years that I’ve been covering lying clickbait, there have been many examples of supposed Woodstock photos that weren’t from the 1969 music festival. In this case, the photo is of celebrities Debbie Boone, Joyce DeWitt and Maren Jensen from “Battle of the Network Stars V” (1978).
An Outbrain article used a photo of stunning actress Halle Berry to draw clicks. The article was titled “Halle Berry’s daughter is probably the prettiest woman ever existed.” But her daughter is only 13 years old, you sickos.
Finally, a series of articles titled “NFL wives that are perfect 10s” ran photos of quarterback Tom Brady and coach Jon Gruden with a teenage Claire Abbott, who was an Instagram model more than 20 years ago. Abbott is not married to either man.
And here's a bonus clickbait article from Yahoo Finance alleges that conservative pundit Sean Hannity is gay. The article says “Sean Hannity is married to this man.” But he’s not married to a man. He is divorced from a woman. OMG!
