Do you make Chiefs content?

[ChiefsFanatic]

So, this is my old man, get off my lawn moment.

I like the Chiefs. I like sports. I can read. I have the internet. Sometimes I read what's on the internet, like many other people.

I have Chiefs content pushed at me on every social media app, plus I have a hub on my phone that pushes suggested content.

I will GLADLY read stories about my all-time favorite football team, the Kansas City Chiefs, and I will GLADLY watch random YouTube videos about that same team.

UNLESS you title your article or video with garbage clickbait titles like "Rising Chiefs Star Builds Connection With Mahomes" and the "rising star" is Justyn Ross, who had two catches from Mahomes in camp.

If they do that, I hate them personally (not really, but come on) and I immediately block that page, channel, blog, etc. from ever appearing on my feed again.

I don't understand why anyone clicks on clickbait anymore.

Or, another thing that has been pissing me TF off lately is pages that make 20 damn "articles" out of one interview, and presenting each as if they are actually new info or content.

Travis Kelce gives an interview on a podcast, and I start seeing clickbait headlines like "Travis Kelce Makes Bold Statement About Harrison Butker" and the "statement" came from an answer he gave saying he likes Butker as a person and teammate. That's all he said, but it was a "bold" statement. And they use that same basic headline for anything and everything someone said in an interview with someone else.

In the next sentence Kelce said he has never had a problem with any teammate with the Chiefs, and the "article" headline was "Did Travis Kelce Have Issues With College Teammates" but that's not what he said. I assume that they are just crap that some douche is creating with an AI macro or some BS, but that douche needs a nut punch or a clam slap.

However, any Chiefs "source" that ends up in my feed, that is honest, even if the content is poorly written or something that I already knew, etc. I follow them, or subscribe, etc.

It's probably only me, but I am high AF, and just saw like 20 of these BS articles in a row on the aggregator, and it's just FN annoying.

TL;DR: I hate clickbait.

[jjchieffan]

Basically what Chiefsplanet has deteriorated to. I come here for quality Chiefs news like the training camp threads and draft information, etc..... But I have A LOT of garbage placed on ignore thread as well as several posters on ignore. I hate dealing with the garbage threads and garbage posters, but the good parts keep me coming back even if do have to filter through a bunch of crap to find it. It's the internet and it's free content. It is what it is.

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by jjchieffan

Basically what Chiefsplanet has deteriorated to. I come here for quality Chiefs news like the training camp threads and draft information, etc..... But I have A LOT of garbage placed on ignore thread as well as several posters on ignore. I hate dealing with the garbage threads and garbage posters, but the good parts keep me coming back even if do have to filter through a bunch of crap to find it. It's the internet and it's free content. It is what it is.

TOTALLY agree! Like guys with huge signatures spamming some totally non-football related bullshit every time they post. So annoying!

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic

So, this is my old man, get off my lawn moment.

I like the Chiefs. I like sports. I can read. I have the internet. Sometimes I read what's on the internet, like many other people.

I have Chiefs content pushed at me on every social media app, plus I have a hub on my phone that pushes suggested content.

I will GLADLY read stories about my all-time favorite football team, the Kansas City Chiefs, and I will GLADLY watch random YouTube videos about that same team.

UNLESS you title your article or video with garbage clickbait titles like "Rising Chiefs Star Builds Connection With Mahomes" and the "rising star" is Justyn Ross, who had two catches from Mahomes in camp.

If they do that, I hate them personally (not really, but come on) and I immediately block that page, channel, blog, etc. from ever appearing on my feed again.

I don't understand why anyone clicks on clickbait anymore.

Or, another thing that has been pissing me TF off lately is pages that make 20 damn "articles" out of one interview, and presenting each as if they are actually new info or content.

Travis Kelce gives an interview on a podcast, and I start seeing clickbait headlines like "Travis Kelce Makes Bold Statement About Harrison Butker" and the "statement" came from an answer he gave saying he likes Butker as a person and teammate. That's all he said, but it was a "bold" statement. And they use that same basic headline for anything and everything someone said in an interview with someone else.

In the next sentence Kelce said he has never had a problem with any teammate with the Chiefs, and the "article" headline was "Did Travis Kelce Have Issues With College Teammates" but that's not what he said. I assume that they are just crap that some douche is creating with an AI macro or some BS, but that douche needs a nut punch or a clam slap.

However, any Chiefs "source" that ends up in my feed, that is honest, even if the content is poorly written or something that I already knew, etc. I follow them, or subscribe, etc.

It's probably only me, but I am high AF, and just saw like 20 of these BS articles in a row on the aggregator, and it's just FN annoying.

TL;DR: I hate clickbait.

You don't understand how people still get tricked by click bait? It's the same reason people still get tricked into thinking that the IRS wants them to buy iTunes gift cards to pay a fine. A vast majority of people are really dumb.

[Dunerdr]

I make raiders content after my morning coffee.

[Jewish Rabbi]

Originally Posted by jjchieffan

Basically what Chiefsplanet has deteriorated to. I come here for quality Chiefs news like the training camp threads and draft information, etc..... But I have A LOT of garbage placed on ignore thread as well as several posters on ignore. I hate dealing with the garbage threads and garbage posters, but the good parts keep me coming back even if do have to filter through a bunch of crap to find it. It's the internet and it's free content. It is what it is.

Is the earth more than 600 years old? This surprising fact will shock you!

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by jjchieffan

Basically what Chiefsplanet has deteriorated to. I come here for quality Chiefs news like the training camp threads and draft information, etc..... But I have A LOT of garbage placed on ignore thread as well as several posters on ignore. I hate dealing with the garbage threads and garbage posters, but the good parts keep me coming back even if do have to filter through a bunch of crap to find it. It's the internet and it's free content. It is what it is.

I have to put signatures on ignore because of the morons here.

[ChiefsFanatic]

Originally Posted by Dunerdr

I make raiders content after my morning coffee.

This is a quality post

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I don't understand some of the financial models of putting up "content". I guess people get garbage-y ads attached to their "content", and they make money when people click the garbage-y ads for some reason. So everyone and their ferret uses AI now to write garbage-y "content" in an effort to get people to click garbage-y ads in their garbage-y content.

That's a house of cards, and at some point it's going to collapse. But I think on the way down, more and more people produce garbage-y content chasing the dwindling and diluted payments for getting people to produce garbage-y ads. And then the introduction of AI lets people produce garbage-y content with almost no effort.

The clear answer here is to not click on garbage-y content and definitely don't click on garbage-y ads. If we can show a little willpower against the clickbait, at some point the model will break down. But I think the key question is what will happen to the internet before that happens. It appears that we're headed toward a future where the internet is worthless, because real information and thought is going to be a smaller and smaller proportion of content. In two years, you'll open your browser and 99.9999 percent of what comes up in searches and on home pages will be utterly useless. And at that point maybe we'll start subscribing to hard copy newspapers and magazines again.

I really wish I could block sites from showing up in google searches or on my home page. If a place produces garbage or is just a clickbait farm, like Ranker or Pinterest or Barron's, I want my computer to pretend that they don't exist. But I know that google won't do that, because they sell garbage-y ads on those garbage-y sites.

I wonder how it works with YouTube specifically, because I've read like 93% of people skip the ad as soon as they can in the first few seconds... I'd assume you may still get money off of those few seconds and then whatever ads are on the page if people aren't using a blocker. I personally use uBlock Origin, so I don't see any of it.

The other thing in-content ads... getting sponsorships, which is probably based on number of views for how much they pay out, I'd guess.

I also feel like we have to reach some point where they've made ads worthless... when all jerseys are filled with ads, the playing field is filled with ads, there are in-game ads, unskippable ads... but I guess leagues and the NFL in particular still do pretty damn well, so we're probably still pretty far off from that.

[Bearcat]

Not to argue your clickbait rant, because the title you mentioned is clearly dumb clickbait... but as a side note I find it somewhat amusing how dumb it's gotten, to the point of content creators calling it out.

I'll watch weightlifting videos where most of the titles are extreme clickbait titles about 'massive gains' and 'just do this one thing', but then they'll make fun of the titles and it seems like everyone is on the same page.... people subscribe because they know the content will be good and they just gloss over the clickbait title, the creators probably have marketing folks who create the clickbait titles that they laugh at and make fun of themselves.

So, in that context, it's pretty harmless, even though I do follow someone who rants about the clickbait titles of others, which is also amusing.

Like Rain Man said, eventually you'd think nobody clicks on anything because it's all bullshit headlines and weak content.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Don't consume a damn thing by these "creators". Not enough respect for the content usually.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brioni

Don't consume a damn thing by these "creators". Not enough respect for the content usually.

Same here. If I need to know how to change brake pads on a 1966 VW beetle, I go to YouTube, let the ad run until I can skip, see what I need and then… gone.

I used to use the John Muir “For The Complete Idiot” book, but dammit I’ve had it for 40 years and it’s pretty broken down.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Same here. If I need to know how to change brake pads on a 1966 VW beetle, I go to YouTube, let the ad run until I can skip, see what I need and then… gone.

I used to use the John Muir “For The Complete Idiot” book, but dammit I’ve had it for 40 years and it’s pretty broken down.

"If your TV breaks, you first have to locate the specific tube that burned out."

[UteChief]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

You don't understand how people still get tricked by click bait? It's the same reason people still get tricked into thinking that the IRS wants them to buy iTunes gift cards to pay a fine. A vast majority of people are really dumb.

Are they dumb or just poorly educated? Clearly lacking common sense.

[UteChief]

I think we’ll get to the point of paying for content. If you want sports, you pay for coverage like the Athletic. There are already search engines that use Googles search but you don’t get sponsored results or ads. Kagi.com

[JohnnyHammersticks]

Originally Posted by UteChief

Are they dumb or just poorly educated?

yes