In my mind, an epic fail is when you fail to achieve a goal that's an essential part of your life story. It might be the failure of a business you always wanted to start, or a book you spent a decade writing.
You put your heart and soul into a big project that really meant something to you That's epic. So, then, what do you do? As somebody who has experienced some truly epic fails in my life, I've come up with a formula that has kept me going:.
Yes, your efforts didn't get the result you wanted. Yes, it's a disappointment. However, every second you spend complaining about the situation is only setting your failure into concrete. Vent once or twice, then suck it up.
Your epic fail wasn't because of the market, competition, customer, economy , or anything else that was out of your control. You failed because you weren't smart enough to adapt to circumstances. If you start blaming things that are outside your control for your failure, you're handing your future destiny over to "luck" and the uncontrollable. A Japanese video game, Blazing Star , used the humorously clumsy You fail it! Fail it was shortened to fail in internet slang, especially among gamers on websites like SomethingAwful and 4chan, and came to signal any failure, big or small.
Fail was entered on Urban Dictionary by , with epic fail emerging on internet message boards in Trend data shows epic fail peaking in the mids, when it was widely captioning image macros of funny mishaps or titling video compilations of people bungling various efforts—content especially curated by Failblog , which launched in Satisfying successes, meanwhile, came to be called epic wins.
Fail is used as a one-word retort for any blunder or embarrassment. For example, if you told a friend that you wore a stained T-shirt to a job interview, they might reply: Fail. An epic fail is reserved for a particularly cringeworthy, bewildering , or hilarious mistake or accident—often when someone or something screws up at its most basic level of functioning.
This content is not meant to be a formal definition of this term. The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered. If it was a goat rodeo , you know it was pretty lit. When something is worse than an epic fail or a goat rodeo, it might be better called a shitshow.
The earliest recorded evidence of shitshow dates from the s. At the time, it had the connotation of something that is a mockery, a chaotic event, or a horrible situation. A shitshow is not just something that goes disastrously wrong; it can also be something that goes wrong in an entertaining way.
The importance of this distinction is tone and context. There are people who genuinely lament the existence of a shitshow , and others who are amused and excited by one. A person can also be described as a shitshow. This can refer to a one-off instance of a person blundering or being an all-around hot mess. Speaking of hot messes ….
Another word for someone who is a shitshow? Hot mess. The original use was actually culinary. In the early s, a hot mess was nothing more than a warm meal, especially a gloopy one.
Think mess as in mess hall , or cafeteria. Though we might associate epic fail with online writing, Internet culture, or YouTube captions, an early use is decidedly not digital:. But outside of that context, as one of the only two or three days many Jews spend inside a temple or synagogue, Rosh Hashanah is an epic fail.
It seemed so promising: young music startup from Napster founder strikes deal with MySpace to sell music from millions of artists. Except that only a tiny proportion of MySpace bands made use of the stores, and the iTunes monopoly was too entrenched to be overcome. But the real key to the success of epic fail in the language is its application to many subjects:. Why, comedy!
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