"Quibi – $1.75 billion blown in six months on a streaming service no one wanted."
"The Segway"
"What are you talking about? They revolutionized mall security!"
"What was that Google social media with circles, Google Plus?"
"Google Glass was just being field tested. It was not commercially available.
It had obvious problems giving users headaches and making people uncomfortable."
"I used Google Glass. It didn’t cause headaches for me but the screen size was pathetic, I described it as like holding your phone at arms length to look at it, that’s how big the screen was. Except that’s with phones circa 2013, modern phones are bigger.
You could use it for an autocue for a news reporter or weather forecaster or something, if you cared about them seeing the autocue without needing to look into the camera. But most of the suggested use cases of training brain surgeons by showing the surgeon’s-eye-view of the procedure is nonsense because the picture size was far too small.
And when I tried to play a YouTube video it overheated and had to shut down."
"I’m showing my age, but the Geraldo Rivera special with Al Capone’s mysterious vault, which turned out to hold—nothing."
"Before it became a punchline people were worried that Battlefield Earth would be a dangerously effective recruiting tool for Scientology."
"Fyre Festival"
"Zuckerberg’s weird avatar world."
"Didn’t help that their commercials for it made it look like a chaotic melatonin fever dream"
"That and Zuckerberg is the least fun person on the planet trying to sell something that needed to be fun in order to work.
The most stilted, forced, awkward, manic, fake-positive sh#t I’ve ever seen. Those videos make more sense when you imagine there’s someone just off-camera holding a gun to their kids."
"The American version of “Coupling”, which was being hyped as the next big NBC sitcom after “Friends” went off the air. When cast members were doing interviews to promote it, they were so assured that it would be a success that they were already talking about multiple seasons.
It was canceled after four episodes."
"3d Televisions were presented as the next huge thing. There was a massive amount of hype being able to watch 3d movies and games from the comfort of your living room. It flopped when it launched due to the televisions being ridiculously expensive and the technology not being there during the era and being gimmicky once the appeal wore off for the people that bought them."
"Target in Canada!
Heard so many people addicted to the store in the US, everyone was excited to have it here, but it flopped, stores opened being half empty, more expensive then the stores they replaced, limited selections… they only lasted a few years"
"Games of Thrones the final season"
"I don’t know when I’ll ever stop getting pissed off about how GOT ended"
"New Coke."
"Killer/Africanized Bees. Lots of fear-mongering over those in the 80s, over a lot of nothing."
"They got mated out of existence the more docile European honeybee got their f@#k on and chilled them out."
"Woodstock 99. okay, it didn’t flop so much as it was a notoriously miserable experience."
"Smell-O-Vision. Nickelodeon had a field day with it in 2002."
"I think I remember that. Didn’t you essentially get a scratch ‘n sniff card and have to use it when the TV prompted you?"
"Black Adam, Batman V Superman, Revival"
"2020"
"I love seeing the memories from 2019 with the resolutions and the “2020 is gonna be my year!” Stuff"
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I almost got caught by this one, I really (thought) I wanted to get one at the time but figured I'd wait till there was "a little more content".... Really dodged an expensive bullet with that hesitation
#18 Some people's lives were so messed up before 2020, that when it hit they were like "Finally everyone else knows what it's like, when life hands you nothing but crap" and finally felt a little sympathy from those knocked off their high-horses.