Don’t get us wrong we love a bit of Buzzfeed. We spend half our lives on Reddit too. But let’s face it, do we really care about someone seeing One Direction and it being the best night out of their grown-ass adult lives? Arguably not.
With so many websites at our fingertips, there is a huge trend for publications to use click-bait headlines, grossly exaggerated titles and extremely random posts in an attempt for sites to grab our attention and get us reading.
It’s competition for shares, and it’s meaning all sorts of posts are arriving on our screens, not least top 5s for just about anything. A fun generator, put together by Ladbrokes Bingo mocks the media, picking on the biggest culprits to create fake headlines for users to share via social media.
The generator allows users to select from five titles, on top of the ability to pick a random title. Both Reddit and Buzzfeed are there for the taking whilst Facebook, the world of Hollywood, and the Daily Mail are mocked profusely.
It’s a clever little tool and is one of the more interesting generators out there, with a very clean interface, and reproducing the same styles of the publications it takes aim at.
Of course however, it’s all about the content. And with Daily Mail headlines including ‘New Figures Reveal Half of Primary School Kids Are Taught That a Burger is One of Their Five a Day’, ‘Kim Kardashian Does Something…’, and ‘Is Binge Drinking Damaging The Internet’, Ladbrokes’ Lingo Bingo has them pretty much spot on.
The generator has dozens of pre-made headlines; however users also have the option of suggesting their own posts. This is a great outlet for those who have seen too many ‘full time mummy’ statuses, heard enough about the Kardashians or have been voted down on Reddit too many times and want to vent a little frustration in a fun, jokey and sarcastic way.