Re:Don't put your drowned phone into rice to dry it
by closetohome on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:54PM
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Youtube version: Fix your WET PHONE by DROWNING IT!
Thumbnail is a picture of a guy in SCUBA gear holding a phone and looking shocked. The phone is circled in red for some reason.
Re:Don't put your drowned phone into rice to dry it
by jimbo1qaz on Friday June 14, 2019 @10:18PM
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Cllickbait witholds information to make you click. This headline is clickbait because it witholds information. "To fix a drowned phone, soak it in isopropyl" is better because it's a summary and conveys information.
I'm not sure that "Instead of putting your phone in rice, open it up, douse it in 90%+ isopropyl and brush it with a toothbrush to remove the water before it dries" is short enough to be an effective title.
And "To fix a drowned phone, drown it again in isopropyl" is arguably even more click-baity.
In further defense, the comments here show the necessity of a title like this. If the title were "how to fix a drowned phone," many people would say "oh, I know this one, just put it in rice" and ignore the article.