Mediagazer: Profile of ClickHole, an Onion spinoff created to mock BuzzFeed, and how it became way more than just clickbait (Dan Kois/Slate)

11:35 AM ET, June 9, 2015

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Dan Kois / Slate:

Profile of ClickHole, an Onion spinoff created to mock BuzzFeed, and how it became way more than just clickbait — Wow. ClickHole. — No judgment, but you waste a lot of time on the internet, right? Which means sometime in the past year or so, something like this happened …

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Amanda Connolly / The Next Web:

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