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Clicked a video titled 'I Ate Only Gas Station Food for a Week' and kept a scorecard, 14 out of 21 meals were actually fine
I usually just lurk here but I had to share this one because the title was doing so much heavy lifting. The thumbnail showed a guy looking sick next to a glowing hot dog, so I figured it was pure bait. I watched the whole thing with a notepad and scored every meal he ate for 7 days, that is 21 meals total, and only 7 of them were the gross stuff the title promised. Turns out he ate a lot of normal things like bananas, yogurt cups, and those packaged muffins, then saved all the roller grill shots for the intro and the outro. I get that a title has to grab people, but saying you ate only gas station food when half your meals were stuff you could buy at any grocery store feels like a real stretch, not just clickbait spice. The worst part is the comments were full of people saying the same thing, so I was not alone in feeling tricked. My question for this court is where you all draw the line between a catchy title and a straight up lie. Does a 7 out of 21 bait ratio get a pass here or is that guilty?
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carr.abby9d ago
Think you're being a little harsh on the guy honestly. Bananas and yogurt cups from a gas station still count as eating gas station food, it's not like he snuck off to Whole Foods between stops. A lot of stations have whole sections of normal stuff now, so grabbing a muffin there isn't cheating, it's just not the gross roller dog everyone clicked to see. Yeah the thumbnail was bait but the 7 bad meals out of 21 thing seems like a fair split, not a straight up lie.
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