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cecilpl2
I have to admit this is not what I expected to be reading about when I clicked on it.
imoverclocked
It got me too. At least the title doesn’t have an illicit reference to Stripers.
guerrilla
This is the kind of clickbait I can get behind :)
DonHopkins
It was so much better than I imagined it would be!
allochthon
Sometimes the New York Times editors have fun with the titles of lighter articles, in a good way
rootusrootus
Yeah I was thinking "oh crap, sarcastic fringehead is probably not a totally inaccurate description of me, I wonder what it says..."
tomrod
I mean, it still applies to me even though it is shared with a fish :D

This was a fun article! Thanks OP!

higgins
this is excellent headline writing
thisisauserid
It's a fish. New meaning of clickbait.
blaser-waffle
As in, literally a fish, called the sarcastic fringehead.

Headline is kind of a pun / clickbate.

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emptyfile
When subscription based "premium" newspapers start doling out the click bait, you know the end is near ...
reaperducer
It's not clickbait. It's called being clever, and something that newspapers have done for centuries before internet griefers came along.
systemvoltage
Idk, there is not much cleverness is finding some random obscure thing and trying to shoehorn that to propel an ideological message.
cocacola1
The article is entirely focused on the fish, though. Where's the ideological message?
systemvoltage
In the headline, and the entire article is not about fish. It’s a commentary about society. It dog whistles to their readerbase.
volleygman180
And it's even nearer when links to those articles are posted on HN
benj111
It isn't click bait.

The fish is literally called the sarcastic fridgehead.

If the title was "the goldfishes broad mouthed display is reserved for fighting" would that too be clickbait?

bombcar
The title on HN changed, it was originally posted as something like "When Sarcastic Fringemouths open, beware"
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swayvil
This is a fabulous "Did they actually read the article?" test.
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