What if your favorite geeky stories were upworthy posts?

I discovered these little treasures on accident while looking for images to use for my post about the 6 most annoying clickbait tactics and have compiled from different sources the ones that I thought were the funniest or most amusing.

For those of you familiar with Upworthy.com (and who that uses social media isn’t?), these memes imagine your favorite fantasy and sci-fi stories as Upworthy posts with those emotionally overwrought headlines.

I thought the Blade Runner  one was the funniest, personally. Tell us which one amused you the most in the Comments!

hobbit-clickbait

batman-clickbait

harry-potter-clickbait

star-wars-clickbait

game-of-thrones-clickbait

dr-who-clickbait

star-trek-upworthy-clickbait

hunger-games-clickbait

terminator-clickbait

Blade-Runner-clickbait

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The Pop Mythologist is the founder and editor of PopMythology.com. He has been a staff writer for the nationally distributed magazine KoreAm , the online journal of pop culture criticism Pop Matters and has written freelance for various other publications and websites.

8 comments

  1. Very clever, this did make me giggle!

  2. John Kim

    Oh man, this is spot-on. If only things were really advertised this way.

  3. The Star Wars and Game of Thrones ones made me chuckle. The Terminator 2 one made me cringe. Haha. Good stuff, man. Upworthy certainly has a knack for dramatic headlines.

  4. Hilarious! My favorites were from Game of Thrones and Star Trek! Resistance is futile.
    Enjoyed it!

  5. These are great, I really like the Doctor Who one!

  6. The Star Wars and Game of Thrones ones made me chuckle. The Terminator 2 one made me cringe. Haha. Good stuff, man. Upworthy certainly has a knack for dramatic headlines.

  7. The Star Wars and Game of Thrones ones made me chuckle. The Terminator 2 one made me cringe. Haha. Good stuff, man. Upworthy certainly has a knack for dramatic headlines.

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