{"id":20831,"date":"2026-06-09T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20831"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:18:14","slug":"how-to-recognize-a-content-mill-click-bait-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/06\/09\/how-to-recognize-a-content-mill-click-bait-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"How to recognize a content mill click-bait trap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Numbers. It&#8217;s always numbers in the headline. These are often turned into &#8220;listicles&#8221; &#8211; an enumerated list of something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are the hallmarks of content mills like Business Insider. It&#8217;s funny when they do it for every headline, as seen in this screen capture  on June 9, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"846\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-377.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-377.png 846w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-377-584x600.png 584w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-377-768x789.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-377-263x270.png 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is all they do at Business Insider &#8211; all day, every day, every week of the year &#8211; just a week ago too: <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/06\/05\/media-business-insider-never-fails-as-a-source-of-crap-travel-stories\/\">Media: Business Insider never fails as a source of dumb travel stories \u2013 Social Panic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers in the headlines and listicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20839,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions\/20839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}