This is sort of, but not really a follow up to the post about not being able to stop laughing at people getting hurt. It’s sad, but true. Another sad but true moment that I face on a daily basis with YouTube is that of the fail. Failure has become a nationwide obsession. When something goes wrong is everyday life the first reaction is to simply state, “fail.” There is even an entire website dedicated to “fails” as we call them that include videos and pictures. Let’s focus on the videos that feature these fabulous fails.
It’s not hard to find a fail video on YouTube, all you have to do is type the word in and about 1,400,000 results pop up. Obviously the most popular video would be the one entitled “Stripper Fail” and it doesn’t take a genius to guess why. But let’s skip that one because I feel like keeping it PG today and honestly it makes me a little uncomfortable. There is a fail for anything your little heart desires; soccer, dancing (the Michael Jackson Fail happens to be one of my all time favorites), parking, language, Wii, slide, you get the point. I think that like watching people get hurt, viewers are looking for a laugh but also a confidence boost. Being able to laugh but at the same time say “holy shit” is pretty much what everyone is looking for. This make us feel a whole lot better about our own problems because at least you weren’t the lady that was filmed while trying to park her car for FOUR MINUTES STRAIGHT and had to be helped by the nice man in the parking lot… then the video was put up on the internet and accompanied by the ever so classy hamster dance song and had to privilege of being viewed almost 6 MILLION times! Yay! Don't you feel much better about your life now? The answer is yes. Unless you are that lady, in which case I suggest you become friends with the kid who got nailed in the face with a soccer ball. You two would get along nicely!
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