10 reasons why I cannot stand Deepika Padukone clickbaiting

Some people claim that listicles are the lazy writer’s way out of doing things. By listicles I do not mean the ones Cracked and lite versions of the site write up but listicles that make you go “OMG that’s SOOOO me!” or “ooo my best friend and I do the same thing!” For convenience, I’m just going to call this coterie “Buzzfeed and co.”

Let’s face it, Buzzfeed’s pieces have made it easy for copycat websites to have localised, GIF-meme based articles that take the most generalised human responses to any situation and make a list out of it.

10 things a BFF does at hen parties
10 ways you know you’ve found the love of your life
10 things every mom does
10 ways you can wipe your bum after you’ve gone poo-poo

What’s more hilarious is that Buzzfeed itself put a blog post out that said something to the effect of “honey, let’s face it, clickbait is soooo 2009!”

Unfortunately, this piece was titled “Why Buzzfeed doesn’t do clickbait.” Irony jumped off the Eiffel Tower, weeping.

It would, however, be extremely hypocritical of me to not admit that I have shared several Buzzfeed and co. articles in the past because most of these GIF-memes are actually relatable and sometimes funny. My beef is with Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V'ng the template to fit the local scenario.

Indian listicle sites are the worst offenders when it comes to peddling this kind of lazy, uninspired crap. 10 types of people you find on WhatsApp groups, 10 differences between love in movies and real life, 10 things that happen when you’re scared of math (WTF?!)

You won’t believe the other kind of headlines that I haven’t even written about here and if you did know about them, they would blow your mind.

My pet peeve here is not even the horribly unfunny lists that are churned out.

Here’s my problem:

See it?

Apparently, Deepika Padukone is the only relatable personality that can be written about in listicles. Somehow, Madame Padukone’s pics are huger clickbaits than the shit articles and the shittier headlines that we find on Facebook. so much so that the golden rule of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” comes into play here. No one, not one website is willing to let go of happy-go-lucky Dips pics from Cocktail and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. And this pissed me off so much that I actually started to take screenshots of all the damned pieces that used a pic of her like she’s the only relatable youngster to walk the face of earth.

One of these days Deepika Padukone’s going to make me quit Facebook because I cannot deal with 10 things at a time anymore. Or maybe you could write me a piece on 10 kind of friends who you need to unfriend now and every entry could just read, “People who share languorously written tripe with Deepika Padukone’s picture on it”