Fail Blog
Fail Blog (proper spelling: FAIL Blog ) is a blog that was started in January 2008. The blog published photos of failed projects, often to satisfy the glee of the audience. Fail Blog was instrumental in the spread of " Fail" Internet phenomenon. Fail Blog is the Alexa traffic rank number 801 in the world
History
The popularity of the blog continuously since the establishment grew. In May 2008, the blog has been sold to Pet Holdings Inc..
The main content of the page consists of photos and videos of persons ( or objects ) that fail when performing any operations. Here are the posts with titles like " fail", " epic fail ", "X Fail", or " You're doin 'it wrong " ( where X is the activity performed is the person ) will be overwritten. Occasionally there are also cases that are titled with "win". The first " Fail" was uploaded on the site on 3 January 2008. Since then, the blog has grown rapidly. The type of photos became increasingly a popular Internet phenomenon that has been copied by many other websites.
Awards
Fail Blog won in 2009 per a Webby Award in the Voice categories for people's sense of humor and weird.
Criticism and problems
In July 2009, remote Fail Blog a screenshot on the topic "Most Individuals Killed in Terrorist Attack A " including a "break -this- record" links on request by Guinness World Records as the screenshot contained the logo protected by Guinness World Records.
Fail Blog had intermittent problems with the video range of blogs on YouTube, and then the videos were posted on the video platform Viddler. The YouTube channel has been restored, however, so that there continues to videos of the blog may be considered. Beginning of October 2009 added Fail Blog added to all video releases Links to other video platforms on which the same video was hosted. Due to repeated complaints of copyright infringement of the YouTube channel of fail blog has been locked on 7 December 2010 for several hours.
Book publications
- Fail Nation: A Visual Romp Through the World of Epic Fails. Harper Paperbacks; Oktober 6, 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-183399-1.