Fail is officially in fashion!
Big up to the Times Magazine which featured an article on ‘Fail’ in their Microtrends section today:
A year ago, the top stupid internet trend was the LOLcat (take picture of cat, add amusing, badly spelt caption, repeat). In 2008, the world economy is faltering and the happy LOLcat has been replaced with one ubiquitous word: FAIL.
The format is simple: an image of human (or animal) hubris or stupidity, with the word FAIL written across it. It evolved in message boards and forums. The term “fail” (and its opposite, “win”) has been around for a long time, but FAILcats (for want of a better word) have only been popular for a few months. The superlative of “fail” is “Epic Fail”.
Somehow they got the impression that Shipment of Fail was the first fail blog… (Fail! It wasn’t, but you already knew that), but overall I would say i’s a fairly hefty shipment of sucess all round 
Although I don’t think LOLcats are anywhere near on their way out yet…
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You’re right, the Times FAILED.
The Fail Salon (http://failsalon.com/) dates back to Nov. 2007. So much for journalistic diligence.
Good job spreading the gospel of FAIL, though.
Comment by Peter — 10 Feb 2008 @ 11:02pm
Haha epic times fail.
Comment by Matt — 19 Mar 2008 @ 1:22am