hey, I just wanna really quickly clarify my comment so there's no misunderstandings
i wasnt complaining what you're doing is clickbaiting (though... it is), i was saying the topic at question is clickbait.
that is to say, you wrote like 3 paragraphs explaining what clickbait is without saying the word, and i wanted to (humoristically, hopefully) point it out!
do i think clickbait has place in writing? absolutely. we more commonly see it in form of cliffhangers but i think thats actually more or less the same in different places in time in terms of the comic.
aka 'giving a minimal amount of information to generate interest'
but i also think it's very disliked for an obvious reason; it's annoying.
it's kind of a ruse, and 99% of the time the content won't be able to hold up to whatever the readers want it to hold up to be. i didnt read your comic (@pablo) so hell, maybe you pulled it off really well, but it's very rare to find good.. clickbait...
just look at breaking bad. one of the best written series ive ever seen, and it Very Much used the clickbait format within its episodes, but it never managed to really pull it off well.
not to mention to use it embedded within the writing, just like you said, could put us in a situation where we just don't care enough about the characters or story to want to know what the end of the 'clickbait' is.
I think KRWilliams did a fantastic job outlining this in their response, and giving us some tools on how to avoid it.
also... i think your topic is valid but the reason you're getting iffy responses is that:
a. you're presenting yourself as a 'master' (giving your own work as an example? ouch) without anyone having asked about it, making it feel like you're looking down on other writers a little (even if this wasn't your intension at all!) multiplied by the way you write which really is surprisingly and unecessarily, as draconic put it, customer-services-esque
b. your title is clickbait. you're having people enter and immidiately telling them "ha! i got you!" like... nooo..... just like in fictional content and popup ads, clickbait is annoying because the content can't live up to be as interesting as the mystery. you probably would've gotten way better responses with a title like "the place of clickbait in comics," "purposful underexplaining in writing", "info deprevision as a writign technique" etc etc