Geoffrey B.

It's almost remarkable how bad this site is. Everything about the site has been designed to cram dozens of the most obnoxious style of advertisments into your eyeballs while you read the most pointless and poorly conceived stories ever put into writing since the development of writing. Totally devoid of depth, structure, or coherent thought, the articles are presented a few lines at a time, and spread out over a sea of pop-ups and promotions that you have to watch refresh all over again each time you hit the 'next' button to load more of the story. Each time, however, you just get two or three sentences of more nonsense and a new version of the 'catchy' subtitle that grabbed your attention in the first place. I knew it was a mistake clicking it in the first place, but I became almost entranced by how much they'd managed to write without even accidentally saying something of substantive value. Would the next three lines be the ones to finally convey an actual thought? How many ways can they present more information about something without actually informing me of anything? I had to know.

Turns out, a LOT of ways. My morbid fascination kept growing, and I kept clicking until the article had fully deteriorated from trashy click-bait into a raging dumpster-fire of drivel so lacking in anything even resembling respect for for it's audience that I felt almost impressed by their resolve to keep writing garbage with the blatant and single-minded purpose of wasting my time and keeping me clicking. I had to know more about these people - these artisans of utilizing the written word to it's least potential, these paragons of inept and ineffectual communication - who were they? From what pile of reddit-rejected flotsam and jetsam did they crawl out from under? Giving up on the article that drew me there in the first place (I couldn't remember what it was about anyway) I clicked their 'about us' link:

"WorldLifestyle is a premier, advertising-supported digital media platform, connecting audiences to the most shareable content around the globe."

Truly, an entire Masters thesis could be written about the mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance involved in being a part of Worldlifestyles.com and thinking the word 'premier' is a reasonable choice of adjectives for describing the content on offer there.

I highly recommend visiting their site - it would be a fantastic teaching tool to use as an example of how to write without saying a thing. Also a good teaching tool for how not to build a website, unless infuriating your visitors is the goal.