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Re:This influenza lineage may have become extinct by MaxBarraclough on Friday October 01, 2021 @06:23PM (#28724023)
So I'm not the only one who notices this.

The unnecessary this prefix strikes me as a sort of clickbait-adjacent red flag. I'm fairly sure it wasn't anywhere near this common 10 years ago.

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Re:This influenza lineage may have become extinct by throwaway832939 on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:32PM (#28724575)
Often with a short follow-on sentence in the format:

This article is clickbait. Here's why.

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