Clickhole has stepped up their game, just like the content aggregators that they parody have done, by making videos that are just as clickbait worthy as those videos you can’t help but watch on Upworthy.
Just see what they did the literal juxtaposition of late night talk show host and comedian Conan O’Brien pour out milk next to a pregnancy being announced in this video.
Since IFC has really hit its stride over the last few years in their rebranding of their cable network towards comedy with Portlandia, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Maron, and more, they would be remiss if they didn’t have an outlet to regularly produce content online.
So, they fixed that with their new Comedy Crib, which will feature videos and series from the likes of UCB and Above Average.
One such series is Clickbait Overload where UCB challenges their very own to produce a clickbait video in 6 hours from a random topic and genre.
It’s pretty fun. Watch the first episode here and get into the rest of IFC’s Comedy Crib here.
The Onion’s Clickhole Launched Today
The clickbait parody site by The Onion known as Clickhole officially launched today and it’s as perfectly satirical as you would hope it to be. Listicles, nostalgia, personal quizzes abound there in a way with headlines that The Onion pulls off the best.
Interestingly enough, the parody of clickbait still makes us want to click, which kind of makes it clickbait, but the kind that we feel less guilted into checking out.