Fail Culture

Reems and reems of video clips, pictures and quotes, known as "fails", that depict severe misfortune and or the stupidity of mankind litter the internet and are fuelling a sadistic sub-culture within today's society. never before has it been easier to laugh at someon else's misfortune and we are doing it more and more. What before may only have been seen once in a whole lifetime can now be searched on the internet and watched repeatedly for hours.The internet as a social medium has allowed us to constantly report, blog and upload events in our lives whether funny or not and sharing this has connected people in a different way. for example people nowadays may talk about interesting videos recently seen on the internet.  The idea of gaining pleasure from seeing another person "failing" is inate in all of us and cannot be helped, lets say you see a "fail" and feel bad deep down in your belly, its only really you feeling guilty for thinking it was funny in the first place.  access to such material is a recent thing and we are junking on it.

I personally find nothing funnier than seeing someone embarass themself on film, be it intentionally or accedentially but at the same time feel some sort of shame from gaining plesure watching fail videos. I have no idea why watching someone else's misfortune unfold amuses me, but it does. I would not wish to be the victim of any fail video and feel in some way genuinely sorry for them, well some of them at least. All I want to know is 'why are the things we find funny actually funny?'

The fasination with the fail has become an entity growing on its own , needs to constantly out-do all previously seen fails shock and amaze the viewer

last time modified: Feb. 6, 2012, 2:21 p.m.