"clickbaity" meaning in English

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          "text": "That video title looks clickbaity.",
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          "ref": "2011 May 5, Maura Johnston, “Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video: The Last Temptation Of Something-Or-Other”, in Village Voice:",
          "text": "[…] all I can wonder is, \"How would the 'Like A Prayer' video have been received in the age of Twitter and SEO-happy music blogs trying to capitalize on the clickbaity ways of its plotline and the artist behind it?\"",
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          "ref": "2014 January 8, David Griner, “Can You Spot the BS Headlines in This Clickbait Quiz? CentUp mocks the idiocy of today's hottest content”, in Adweek:",
          "text": "\"Clickbaity headlines are taking over the Web. Today, publishers make more money from quantity than quality. They're incentivized to manipulate lots of people into clicking on a headline instead of getting engaged readers,\" CentUp stated.",
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          "ref": "2014 February 3, Felix Salmon, “Viral math”, in Columbia Journalism Review:",
          "text": "To put it another way: at the moment, Facebook assumes that people click on exactly the material that they want to click on, and that if it serves up a lot of clickbaity curiosity-gap headlines, then it’s giving its users what they want.",
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        {
          "ref": "2017 July 17, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, “Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Yes it has a clickbaity title, and yes, this show will grind the gears of thousands – but it should.",
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        "Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait."
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        "(informal, derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait."
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