If I Titled Blog Posts Like Buzzfeed Articles . . .

So I’m sure by now you’re more familiar than you’d like with the way Buzzfeed and other similar websites title their articles. In a world where payment depends on the number of clicks, using clickbait titles becomes a bit of an arms race. So I thought I’d take a moment and look at how my blog posts’ titles might look if I were to follow suit.

7 Reasons Michael Farris Really Is a Patriarch (Even If He Won’t Admit It)

You’ll Never Believe What Doug Wilson Just Said about Homosexuality

14 Reasons Purity Culture Sucks

This Cute Story about My Kids Will Make You Cry

3 Christian Pastors’ Responses to the Doug Phillips Scandal

6 Debi Pearl Quotes You Won’t Believe Are Real

No, I’m not planning to switch to Buzzfeedesque titles. I tend to take writing titles too seriously, if anything, as I want them to both be catchy and provide some idea of their actual content. And frankly, I’m finding the Buzzfeedization of online article titles a bit annoying, probably because of the constant repetition and lack of any real individuality. Also, my attention span is longer than that of a goldfish, thank you very much.

If you’d like to offer some Buzzfeedesque Love Joy Feminism blog post titles of your own, please do! We might as well get some enjoyment out of the phenomenon, after all.