Link Bait Hall of Fame
Tag Archive | "Parody"
September Madness
We’re in the midst of a full blown financial meltdown, and that means a news subject that everyone pays attention to. This piece takes the culpable parties and sets them head to head in a March Madness style tournament bracket. It’s a great parody of hot news that leverages the all powerful bracket. Can you [...]
Continue reading...Fan Steals Derek Jeter From Yankee Stadium
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The seminal fake news source has tickled the funny-bones of sports fans once again, apparently the onlin magazine’s premiere squadron of link partners. This story mocks sports fans’ obsessive avocation of absconding with would-be sports memorabilia from games in order to later (most likely) sell on eBay for a handsome profit. What we want to [...]
Continue reading...Garbage Pail Kids
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Do you remember the Garbage Pail Kids and GPK cards? They were a “dirty” spoof on the bubblegum cute Cabbage Patch Kids that were the craze of the ‘80’s. Kids attracted to those quirky collector’s items are now even quirkier adults surfing the net for weird and entertaining eye candy. Like this, a collection of [...]
Continue reading...7 Seinfeld Spinoffs That Would Have Been Successful
Thursday, October 2, 2008
OK, now here’s a blog that I never would have come across had it not been for this popular piece of link bait it just recently published. Uncoached: Because Some Things Can’t Be Taught sports a banner that’s part athleticism, part eroticism. What this has to do with Seinfeld is a crossover of audiences. By [...]
Continue reading...Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: Mock the Vote
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Oh they’ve done it now. Comedy Central’s master tag-team satirist duo, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, have once again pushed the envelope and maybe, this time, could it be too far? Probably not. It rarely, if ever, is. But the sheer firestorm this New Yorker cover they did together, a parody of an earlier New [...]
Continue reading...The Spare Change Challenge
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
This financial management game is such a cool piece of link bait that I was halfway done “playing” it before I realized that it was a glorified advertisement (a cheeky synonym for link bait - if you ask me) for Quicken, Intuit’s flagship personal finance software. Answer questions about your spending habits in 14 smart [...]
Continue reading...Digg circa 1995
Monday, September 1, 2008
A guess at what Digg would have looked like back in the early days of the net. Complete with table-based design, and more impressively, a great compilation of era appropriate news. This link bait is quite brilliant on two levels. First, Diggers drool over anything Digg related. Secondly, the front page news items are exactly [...]
Continue reading...Why I Hate Facebook
Friday, August 8, 2008
What makes this beautiful piece of Link Bait so great is that it qualifies as Link Bait on at least 3 different counts: images, humor, and parody. And the fact that what it’s lampooning is one of Web 2.0’s leading social networking sites is an apt bonus - being a fake sidebar of invitations for [...]
Continue reading...The Ronald McDonald Chronicles
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Oh Ronald. We had no idea. Think of the children! OK, all kidding aside, this hilarious photo montage could up the traffic at almost any website that links to it (except maybe McDonald’s). It a link bait classic that flips a classic cultural icon on his ear. Lewd Ronald, rude Ronald, nude Ronald - they’re [...]
Continue reading...13 Year Old Steals Dad’s Credit Card to Buy Hookers
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
How did this piece of “news”(?) - actually a parody that, at least presently, is revealed in a full disclaimer preceding the article (”not to be taken seriously”) - get 6,390 links? I’m honestly not sure. But I marvel at it. The premise is all right there in the title - a (fictional) 13 year-old [...]
Continue reading...© 2008 Link Bait Hall of Fame. Powered by Wordpress.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
0 Comments