Forbes uses "suddenly braced for" on almost every bitcoin topic

[Accardo]

A Redditor shared his observation on Forbes news. He noticed that most Bitcoin or crypto topics have the phrase "suddenly braced for" in them. While I glanced through the screenshot, It appeared to me that large publishing platforms like Forbes use AI to generate headlines, and the editors don't bother about crosschecking the topics for repetitions. The phrase "suddenly braced for" is too many not to be recognized by an editor or a proofreader. Do you think Forbes News is losing its quality or being careless about what they publish?



https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ex7pem/thought_forbes_was_somewhat_reputable_how_much/#lightbox

[Z-tight]

That's why one shouldn't take all of the info published in many of these news platforms, many times they are written by contributors who do not really know too much about the subject and they just publish articles for clicks, engagement and payment. I prefer to read discussions about a crypto event or news on this forum, that way you get to discuss and read views from different users and not just the opinion of one person who published an article.

[Hamza2424]

A Redditor shared his observation on Forbes news. He noticed that most Bitcoin or crypto topics have the phrase "suddenly braced for" in them. While I glanced through the screenshot, It appeared to me that large publishing platforms like Forbes use AI to generate headlines, and the editors don't bother about crosschecking the topics for repetitions. The phrase "suddenly braced for" is too many not to be recognized by an editor or a proofreader. Do you think Forbes News is losing its quality or being careless about what they publish?

Hmm, TBH for the source of information I never used to be dependent on anyone, I used to prefer multiple sources to confirm developments so even if they are doing such careless things to ruin their own reputation, I don't mind as I have some other worthy sources of information as well, So mostly people dont notice such things haha seems like Forbes got exposed haha and that's quite funny to me.

Pro Tip: Never depend on anyone for the sake of your comfort zone in order to save time or effort, be smart.

[Accardo]

That's why one shouldn't take all of the info published in many of these news platforms, many times they are written by contributors who do not really know too much about the subject and they just publish articles for clicks, engagement and payment. I prefer to read discussions about a crypto event or news on this forum, that way you get to discuss and read views from different users and not just the opinion of one person who published an article.

Millions of people visit their sites for cryptocurrency news and updates. Forbes as a high DA site often ranks on Google's first page, exposing the site to more crypto readers. Sites as large as Forbes may only care about the crypto traffic not the quality of the message they write. Moreover, they also make a killing from guest posters seeking backlinks. And most guest writers don't put enough effort into their craft. The goal is the backlink.

I fear that the top DA sites will soon fill up search engines with poorly constructed cryptocurrency articles. Cryptocurrency learners will then have to read articles written by writers who do not fully understand the subject.

[Dunamisx]

We need to understand that many of the people that publish news articles don't know much about the crypto networks, all they do is to engages crypto terms and English words together to form a sentence and paragraphs, we need to dig dip in other to have an insight of the real situation of things happening, though they can give us the right link or click to new developments, updates but the actual information and procedures needed may have to come from the developers or platform like this or github.

[o48o]

A Redditor shared his observation on Forbes news. He noticed that most Bitcoin or crypto topics have the phrase "suddenly braced for" in them. While I glanced through the screenshot, It appeared to me that large publishing platforms like Forbes use AI to generate headlines, and the editors don't bother about crosschecking the topics for repetitions. The phrase "suddenly braced for" is too many not to be recognized by an editor or a proofreader. Do you think Forbes News is losing its quality or being careless about what they publish?



https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ex7pem/thought_forbes_was_somewhat_reputable_how_much/#lightbox

I am certain that they just use some algorithm that compares pics / phrases/ keywords / themes / and some other data, and stick with same words / phrases if they have provided clicks in the past. And i totally get why people would click for "suddenly braced for". It has this urgent and iimportant news vibe.

It's almost funny when you notice that weird word or phrasing is trending about something. Because more and more people click on that and trend almost spirals out of control.
Few years ago Finnish papers started to use "sex swelter" (rough translation) to describe hot summer days because for some reason that sold.

Also Forbes MFA site made me distrust the whole name. https://www.trafficguard.ai/news/forbes-mistakenly-ran-mfa-site-for-years

[adaseb]

Yeah because they did some analysis on their headlines and found that using the words "suddenly braced for" leads to more views. The more views they get the more advertising they get. For every user that clicks the link and reads there are like 3-5 ads inside it.

This is generally why many of these news outlets publish negative news ahead of positive news. No one really wants to read about the success of a company only its failures and hence why typically there is more negative news than positive news.

[South Park]

A Redditor shared his observation on Forbes news. He noticed that most Bitcoin or crypto topics have the phrase "suddenly braced for" in them. While I glanced through the screenshot, It appeared to me that large publishing platforms like Forbes use AI to generate headlines, and the editors don't bother about crosschecking the topics for repetitions. The phrase "suddenly braced for" is too many not to be recognized by an editor or a proofreader. Do you think Forbes News is losing its quality or being careless about what they publish?



https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ex7pem/thought_forbes_was_somewhat_reputable_how_much/#lightbox

It is either that or whoever is writing those articles believes those are words that can bring them traffic and that is why they use them, but whatever the case, it does not really matter, as even if Forbes is a publication read all over the world, it is not overly popular with the regulars on this market, so whatever is published on Forbes has minimal effect on us, so while it is a good find and certainly something that puts into question the quality of the articles published there, at the end nothing really changes because of this.

[Upgrade00]

Yeah because they did some analysis on their headlines and found that using the words "suddenly braced for" leads to more views. The more views they get the more advertising they get. For every user that clicks the link and reads there are like 3-5 ads inside it.

This is true but such lazy marketing does not attract productive engagements. It is similar to the click bait every verified account on Twitter is using to get a share of interaction profits.

They also get less shares around crypto groups when they do not do actual research into what they put out.

This is generally why many of these news outlets publish negative news ahead of positive news. No one really wants to read about the success of a company only its failures and hence why typically there is more negative news than positive news.

They may want to read if the people can see how that good affects them. If Bitcoin hits $100k, I can almost guarantee it will shoot up in search engines, not as much as Bitcoin going less than $20k, but positive news still gets traction. Telling the actual news will always be in style.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

A Redditor shared his observation on Forbes news. He noticed that most Bitcoin or crypto topics have the phrase "suddenly braced for" in them. While I glanced through the screenshot, It appeared to me that large publishing platforms like Forbes use AI to generate headlines, and the editors don't bother about crosschecking the topics for repetitions.

Plagiarism, low quality articles, news, to AI-generated ones without little time to hide how it was generated, and we also have fake news. It's great to see how traditional media nowadays work like this to serve a stronger party in one nation, and governments globally against benefit of citizens.

In forum we have AI-generated spammers too and this trend will not stop soon inside and outside the forum. Individually we can decide to read news, choose quality news to read that start with what news resources, websites we consider as better quality and want to visit, pay money to read their newspapers. Or we can handle it in a more simpler way, ignore most of news. We don't need to waste time to read news while most of them are fake ones and fud only. We will be able to see how market reacts and can guess that positive or negative news just released minutes or hours ago.

As an investor with long term vision and plan for our own investment portfolio, we simply need to prepare money for buying dips. That's it, no need to figure out with what kind of news, price was affected and crashed.

[Davidvictorson]

I am certain that they just use some algorithm that compares pics / phrases/ keywords / themes / and some other data, and stick with same words / phrases if they have provided clicks in the past. And i totally get why people would click for "suddenly braced for". It has this urgent and iimportant news vibe.

It's almost funny when you notice that weird word or phrasing is trending about something. Because more and more people click on that and trend almost spirals out of control.
Few years ago Finnish papers started to use "sex swelter" (rough translation) to describe hot summer days because for some reason that sold.

Also Forbes MFA site made me distrust the whole name. https://www.trafficguard.ai/news/forbes-mistakenly-ran-mfa-site-for-years

This is a logical explanation I have been racking my brains to know the reason for the repeated phrase but your explanation is very logical and more common sense. Aside Forbes being one of the biggest papers on the internet the need to bring in revenue from their website  which makes sense to use the catch headline and infuse the phrase in to it. Personally I don't know the metrics used by Google to rank websites on page 1 but I would guess that if they constantly have enough clicks and visits they'll easily sit on page one of every search results with the world Bitcoin or everything a closely related word.

[Easteregg69]

A Redditor shared his observation on Forbes news. He noticed that most Bitcoin or crypto topics have the phrase "suddenly braced for" in them. While I glanced through the screenshot, It appeared to me that large publishing platforms like Forbes use AI to generate headlines, and the editors don't bother about crosschecking the topics for repetitions.

Plagiarism, low quality articles, news, to AI-generated ones without little time to hide how it was generated, and we also have fake news. It's great to see how traditional media nowadays work like this to serve a stronger party in one nation, and governments globally against benefit of citizens.

In forum we have AI-generated spammers too and this trend will not stop soon inside and outside the forum. Individually we can decide to read news, choose quality news to read that start with what news resources, websites we consider as better quality and want to visit, pay money to read their newspapers. Or we can handle it in a more simpler way, ignore most of news. We don't need to waste time to read news while most of them are fake ones and fud only. We will be able to see how market reacts and can guess that positive or negative news just released minutes or hours ago.

As an investor with long term vision and plan for our own investment portfolio, we simply need to prepare money for buying dips. That's it, no need to figure out with what kind of news, price was affected and crashed.

I just push a button and the noise stops.

[Zlantann]

A Redditor shared his observation on Forbes news. He noticed that most Bitcoin or crypto topics have the phrase "suddenly braced for" in them. While I glanced through the screenshot, It appeared to me that large publishing platforms like Forbes use AI to generate headlines, and the editors don't bother about crosschecking the topics for repetitions. The phrase "suddenly braced for" is too many not to be recognized by an editor or a proofreader. Do you think Forbes News is losing its quality or being careless about what they publish?

This is inferior or quack Journalism. Most of these high-ranked news outlets have cut down on the number of employees and replaced them with bots. The available workers may have to overwork themselves to cover their heavy workload. This is why replacing humans with artificial intelligence tools will cause more harm than good. It could also be that the workers in charge of creating headings and proofreading news are not qualified or well-supervised.

A news outlet will lose quality easily if it begins to publish fake news. But in this case, it is just a nonchalant attitude from a few employees that can be easily corrected. It wouldn't take a qualified team of editors and proofreaders a long time to develop unique and catchy news headings.

This is a logical explanation I have been racking my brains to know the reason for the repeated phrase but your explanation is very logical and more common sense. Aside Forbes being one of the biggest papers on the internet the need to bring in revenue from their website  which makes sense to use the catch headline and infuse the phrase in to it. Personally I don't know the metrics used by Google to rank websites on page 1 but I would guess that if they constantly have enough clicks and visits they'll easily sit on page one of every search results with the world Bitcoin or everything a closely related word.

There are so many power words that can catch or attract the attention of readers. Using the phrase "suddenly braced for" for the majority of their crypto headlines shows laziness, lack of creativity and unprofessionalism.

[Sipurba]

I don't believe there is any single mainstream media left to maintain their credibility anymore. It's all just lazy writings from so called expert writer to generate news that would caught interests, even they openly use clickbait. It is very rare to find a neutral and objective news source nowadays, some small publisher would be, but once they grow big, their purpose would shift into making money. Some of them even related to work on government's favor in order to control their people's opinions.

[kryptqnick]

It's unclear from the screenshot how it was obtained. Was it a search result of Bitcoin on Forbes, was it a search result for "braced for", or something entirely different? I agree that it looks like excessive usage, but there's no reference point there regarding the percentage of publications about Bitcoin having that in the title and/or percentage of "braced for" being used for other business and financial news there. Without this information, it's hard to make an assessment of what it's about and how to react to it. In any case, I agree with the sentiment that people should be vigilant and monitor the quality of the news they consume.

[MeGold666]

Anyone still reading this pile of shit ?
They have advertised scam-coins like Shiba-Inu (SHIB) in the past saying it's more than just a meme-coin and pushed it on multiple occasions to the unaware public  

AFAIK, Anyone can write article and publish it under Forbes name for a fee.
It's called "Forbes Technology Council" and for an annual fee you get membership that allows you to publish any crap and scam you want under Forbes brand.

You can also pay for their endorsement and many times it was associated with underperforming or just fraudulent cases.

They are "influencers" that care only about money and not journalism.
Forbes = Worthless scum to be avoided at all cost.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

OP, not only has that phrase been used ad nauseam with respect to bitcoin, if you consistently read articles on finance sites like Yahoo and others you'll see a lot of the same phrases/buzzwords used everywhere--and it's been like that since way before those sites started using AI (which I assume is true, since writing about every single market move daily is tedious and pretty much meaningless).

Plus "suddenly braced for" has an almost clickbaity-feel to it that I'm sure isn't coincidental.  Alas, if any of you were looking into a career writing for any sort of financial press, forget about it.  Most of what's published doesn't need to be, and pretty soon there won't be any human beings doing any of the writing....and it's all going to look the same, just like what's shown in the OP here. 

The world's not getting any better anytime soon, so build your bunkers now.

[darkangel11]

Anyone still reading this pile of shit ?

I sure don't.
Maybe they learn from crypto youtubers. Those idiots love to make a big deal out of nothing, for instance when bitcoin drops 5% they immediately make videos about it titled huge bitcoin crash, or warning bitcoin is falling. When it goes back up  5% back to where it fell from it's bitcoin breaking out, new ath around the corner

[TsenTsen]

Anyone still reading this pile of shit ?

I sure don't.
Maybe they learn from crypto youtubers. Those idiots love to make a big deal out of nothing, for instance when bitcoin drops 5% they immediately make videos about it titled huge bitcoin crash, or warning bitcoin is falling. When it goes back up  5% back to where it fell from it's bitcoin breaking out, new ath around the corner

They will do anything for the algorithm and the view right? since that's how they generate their money. Those youtubers/influencers/news platform, they are feeding on simple-minded people who will get lured to click the link/news. I can't really blame those influencers and news, they do that for the money eventho they must sacrifice the quality of their content, but they know what will catch people interest, that's why they keep doing it because people will keep buying it regardless of what the news might contains.

[Mate2237]

Bloggers are not reliable because in most times, they got their information from another block and not primary information but third party (secondary information) so the repetition is always there if they didn't edit it well. And and they are not going out for field survey to gather information instead relying on other sources of information. Forbes publication issue is from the editorial and that is way the repetition is always there and recently his news are not reliable because the quality has reduced.

Forbes got his information in most time in X and YouTube and social media magazines. And the best bitcoin news website is this forum.