There are millions of people all over the world who do this very thing all the time. It's a myth perpetuated by TV shows like "the biggest loser".

What's the purpose of the video? Generating ad revenue for Vox. They're a business after all. But secondary to that, I think the purpose of the video is simply to educate people about the importance of nutrition in weight loss. You would be amazed at the number of people who don't understand it.

I don't think you could really call it clickbait (other than the fact that everything is clickbait, so the term becomes meaningless). In fact, it's almost the opposite of clickbait... the main point is given away in the title. It's not like it was called "you won't believe this one amazing weight loss method" or some shit.

I don't recall anyone claiming the path to losing weight is exercise alone. This video is based on a straw man argument.

It's just as irresponsible to claim that exercise plays no significant part in weight loss. There just aren't definitive results yet from studies of how exercise affects metabolism. So we can't draw conclusions.

So what's the purpose of this video? There's a message at the end that we need to push politicians on food policy. So does this video provide biased interpretation for a political agenda? Maybe I was wrong on that count. But then, what IS the point of this video? They can't be trying to convince people to lose weight from diet alone. There is no reasonable study that makes that conclusion.

Maybe it's a clickbait video. What it is not, is a reasonable analysis of the available data. Because any reasonable analysis says, "we don't know yet, so diet AND exercise."

But I agree about HIIT. It is personally the only way I can stay at a healthy weight. Along with careful nutrition.

--Compilations? those bug me.
--Clickbait
--Cant watch a Young Turks all the way through. Too painful.
--The social experiment ones always seem...rigged and meant to force a point of some kind.
--Agree solidly with the "pain is funny"; uh no, pain hurts.

For sure! Thankfully it's rare we have to endure clickbait on the sift (IMO).
They tend to get called out pretty quickly.

Clickbait titles.

Oh, and clickbait thumbnails.

Quite a few of the above would annoy me if I watched more than 1 second of them before clicking away, but I generally don't.

Oh. I was going to be right there with you on this...because it didn't read like clickbait to me....BUT...there was no video of her completing the course, or on it at all. I think that's why it's being called clickbait.

It should have said 'the badass 9 year old that completed navy seal obstacle course', because the title as is clearly falsely implies that the video is of her on the course. I'm guessing that you copied the title, but YT titles are often click bait.
What this video was wasn't worth watching, but seeing her compete on the hard core adult course might be.

Really Sagemind? Clickbait again...now how is this click bait? This one was much shorter, but I happened to like it better than the others, it gave just enough info, but still got the story told..where is the click bait there? I believe the words click bait are being used to generally around here....:(

The story is great - But i Cannot bring myself to vote-up one of these Clickbait "Now This" videos when there are so many actual videos about her. These things are just awful.

I'm voting to filter out the poor quality videos
Try this one: https://youtu.be/qDfAr6iLwlg

I must admit I, for one, can't see how this was supposed to "shock the vegan world" in any way, shape, or form.
I assumed you copied the title from the original, so no blame from me, but it is 'clickbait' IMO.
There's no "shock" to be found here....unless the herd exploding was accidentally cut out, in which case you need to fix it! ;-)

I'm really curious what he meant by 'shock' in the first place...are we to be shocked that a vegan can write vegan poetry?

I really have a hard time believing the cops did what the clickbait title overtly states.

I'll have to view the video at some point when I'm too happy and need a good strong dose of nihilistic depression.

Clickbait much? Yikes. She's cute, but that's a horrible title.

Well the video is kinda clickbait, I found most the things mentioned on Amazon

"You won't BOX your EARS when you believe this MAN-BEAT!"

"You won't BEAT your BOX when your EARS believe this MAN!"

"This one crazy old trick will help you BEAT YOUR MAN-BOX!"

...what? Clickbait doesn't have to make sense.

Almost didn't upvote because of the clickbait title. But the skill was too strong with this guy.

Damn clickbait title.