Is The Daily Mail Killing Your Blog and Stealing Your Children?
@robgreenseo (via @Jmy211) just posted this link on twitter. It’s a Daily mail headline generator, and it’s quite frankly hilarious. Clicking through I got some classic headline examples, such as;
IS THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT IMPREGNATING THE ROYAL FAMILY?
and
ARE PAEDOPHILES MOLESTING DRIVERS?
While giggling away to myself and wondering just how many hours I was going to end up wasting on this gizmo, I realised that despite the utter ridiculousness of the headlines, I wanted to read them, and in my head was a voice reading them out with a sense of urgency, as if, unless I acted straight away, I too would be the victim of driver paedophilia!
And it dawned on me, the daily mail, for all their faults, do one thing better than most of us, they have the formula for the perfect headline. Whether you see it and want to start kicking anyone who isn’t you out of the country, or see it and want to lock up the stupid and ignorant (weirdly everyone who reads the daily mail immediately starts hating someone, daily mail readers read it and hate everyone who isn’t a daily mail reader. Everyone else reads it and starts hating daily mail readers. It’s quite amazing to watch) you know as soon as you see one of their headlines, it’s time for a good fight!
So I’ve decided, from now on, wherever I can, I am going to ask myself
“Would this get published in the daily mail?”
You can expect some amazing hyperbole from here on in!
First off, thanks for doing a post on Leeds SEO – it’s been a while (me = guilty). But on the other hand I have to withdraw that thanks for sharing that link. Not going to get anything done now. Here’s one I generated:
COULD THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT MAKE YOUR PETS IMPOTENT?
Now if we can just complete the algorithm to generate the article we could turn Leeds SEO into the next Daily Mail.
Awesome!
I always imagine Chris Morris reading them in a Day Today style – though you’re right, if you want to incite mindless anger the Daily Mail is the way to go.