I don't wanna see any more posts about MELTDOWNS

[grumpyduck]

unless they are literal meltdowns. It's getting very old.

[CanonRay]

1. I am not looking at any post with

inappropriate capital letters. Usually a click bait video.

[dweller]

2. Better ?

https://m.

✌🏻

[Ocelot II]

3. Yup. Don't tell me it's a meltdown unless there's a for-real Wicked Witch of the West

situation where somebody's yelling "I'm melting! I'm melting!" and then proceeds to do so. What's tendentiously described as a "meltdown" inevitably turns out to be nothing but whining and pouting (usually on some obscure YouTuber's clickbait video in which a 3-minute clip is followed by 20 minutes of the host's blathering about it).

[Effete Snob]

7. Bingo

I’m surprised the click farming that goes on at DU is not contrary to the anti-spam policy, since that’s basically all it is.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

17. +1 so annoying, and usually in video forum but no actual text description

underneath like video posters like Texas Towelie and Rhiannon and similar upstanding folks include in such posts.

[Scrivener7]

20. I love Texas Towelie and Rhiannon for that.

I'd so much rather read the description and see if I want to click through to watch a video. Often with theirs, I do. But almost no one else's.

[watrwefitinfor]

19. ". . . a 3-minute clip is followed by 20 minutes of the host's blathering about it"

Inevitably.

Said host droning on and on and on.

Wat

[live love laugh]

4. Or posts that claim shaming... unshameable MAGATS.

[NutmegYankee]

5. Preferably a meltdown like this:

Melting Nazis are the only good types of Nazis.

[Deuxcents]

9. Yes. Like that.

[Effete Snob]

6. That's all some posters do

There are some posters who do not post any thoughts of their own, but merely farm DU for clicks with sensational headlines.

It’s an accepted use of DU.

[yaesu]

8. The media never does it's job but if they stop kissing repuke ass for a second

It's called a meltdown

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Most posters have good intentions, but the videos never match the subject lines, I'm sorry to say.

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. Click bait gonna troll for clicks...just keep on scrollin' nt

[Hekate]

12. Hear, hear. I don't click on those vids, which are largely exercises in self-importance in ALL CAPS

At least they warn you away with their stuck caps-lock key

[GenThePerservering]

13. Well, I'm getting tired of reading

"Buckle up, we're in for a bumpy ride" over something that's mildly annoying. Or actually anything.

[LakeArenal]

14. How about "humiliated" "crushed" or "shuts down".

None of those things usually happen.

[Ocelot II]

15. Those, too. Just more clickbait.

[Silent3]

16. ...or that so-and-so "destroys" (insert Republican scumbag here)

Even some pretty pathetic examples, like Jim Jordan stammering when I asked if he'd talked to Trump on 1/6, don't come close to "destroying" anyone.

Most so-called examples of "destruction" aren't anywhere near as pathetic and embarrassing as that was.

[hlthe2b]

18. Cardiologists used to (jokingly, I think) advocate for Propranolol (beta blocker)

in the drinking water (some likewise did, Prozac)... While it was a wry statement on the general anxiety or irritation present in society--and inability to adapt to same, this thread reminds me.

I guess venting can do the same.

[Scrivener7]

21. Also the "This is the END of trump!" posts. Often using Lawrence Tribe comment as proof.

One day they and Lawrence MIGHT be right. So far, for 8 years, not so much.

[Tree-Hugger]

23. He's toast!

Stick a fork in him, he's DONE!

Been waiting since 2015

[48656c6c6f20]

22. MELTDOWN!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

[Tree-Hugger]

24. DU'er grumpyduck HUMILIATES clickbait posts and SHAMES false MELTDOWN claims

[grumpyduck]

25. LOL