Fail blog

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Fail blog
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languages English
operator Pet Holdings Incorporated
editorial staff Leechio
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On-line January 3, 2008 (currently online)
http://failblog.org/

Fail Blog (spelling: FAIL Blog) is a blog that started in January 2008. The blog published photos of failed projects, often to satisfy the Schadenfreude of the viewer. Fail Blog was instrumental in spreading the Internet “fail” phenomenon. Fail Blog was number 801 worldwide in the Alexa Traffic Rank in early 2011 .

history

The blog's popularity has grown steadily since its inception . In May 2008 the blog was sold to Pet Holdings Inc.

The main content of the page consists of photos and videos of people (or objects) who fail to perform any operation. The posts are each headed with headings such as “fail”, “epic fail”, “ X Fail”, or “You're doin 'it wrong” (where X is the person's activity). Occasionally there are also cases that are titled "win". The first "Fail" was uploaded to the site on January 3rd, 2008. Since then, the blog has grown rapidly. The nature of pictures and videos has increasingly become a popular internet phenomenon that has been copied from many other internet sites.

Awards

Fail Blog won a Webby Award in the People's Voice categories of humor and weird in 2009 .

Criticism and problems

In July 2009, Fail Blog removed a screenshot on the subject of "Most Individuals Killed in A Terrorist Attack" including a "Break-this-record" link at the request of Guinness World Records , as the screenshot contained the protected logo of Guinness World Records.

Fail Blog occasionally had problems with the blog's video offering on YouTube , whereupon the videos were published on the Viddler video platform. However, the YouTube channel has been restored so that videos from the blog can still be viewed there. In early October 2009, Fail Blog added links to all video posts to other video platforms that hosted the same video . Fail Blog's YouTube channel was suspended for several hours on December 7, 2010 due to multiple complaints about copyright infringement .

Book publications

  • Fail Nation: A Visual Romp Through the World of Epic Fails . Harper Paperbacks; October 6, 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-183399-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b failblog.org: Classic Baby , accessed January 6, 2011
  2. ↑ NSFW: The Fail blog , The Kansas City Star . April 30, 2008. Retrieved September 9, 2009. 
  3. ↑ a b c d Ben Zimmer: How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection , The New York Times . August 7, 2009. Retrieved September 9, 2009. 
  4. ↑ failblog.org - Information from Alexa Internet , alexa.com, accessed on January 6, 2011
  5. ^ Domain Name Assignment Agreement , Dan Leech. May 21, 2008. Retrieved November 1, 2010. 
  6. ↑ a b I Can Has Internet Millions: The company behind lolcats and Failblog tries to turn memes into money , Slate . March 20, 2009. Retrieved September 9, 2009. 
  7. ^ Laura Fitzpatrick: Building a Media Empire Around I Can Has Cheezburger , TIME . August 24, 2009. Retrieved September 9, 2009. 
  8. ↑ Accidents, mishaps and strange situations website a hit , The Daily Telegraph . January 13, 2009. Retrieved September 9, 2009. 
  9. ↑ Fail Blog wins 2009 Webby Award , ChannelAPA.com. June 9, 2009. Retrieved September 9, 2009. 
  10. ↑ OMG YOU FAIL SO HARD , Failblog.org, July 13, 2009, accessed September 9, 2009
  11. ↑ Fail Blog Fail: Youtube Suspends Account Of Popular Funny Video Channel , US News & World Report . April 1, 2009. Retrieved September 9, 2009. 
  12. ↑ Mask Demonstration Fail ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Failblog.org, June 30, 2009, accessed September 10, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / failblog.org
  13. ↑ Wrestling Move Fail ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Failblog.org, September 9, 2009, accessed September 10, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / failblog.org