Mismatched Title Expectations
Users express surprise or disappointment that the article's actual content differs from what they expected based on the title, often specifying the alternative topic they anticipated.
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Sample Comments
Whew, I thought this was about something else.
This wasn’t what I expected it to be :)
That's what I thought I was going to read about before clicking through to the article! (I didn't quite remember the thing's name.)
I thought this was going to be about Mashable. :(
I was hoping for something interesting.
I honestly thought that's what this was about lol
That's what I hoped it would be about...
I was expecting to see a variant of this.
That's what I thought the article was going to be about...
I was hoping this would be a rickroll.