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[[File:homer-cereal-epic-fail 3125.jpg|link=The Simpsons (animation)|frame|For some things, there's just no excuse.]]

{{quote|''"There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is simply the non-presence of success. Any fool can accomplish failure. But a ''fiasco'', a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. A fiasco is a folk tale told to others that makes other people feel more alive because ''it didn't happen to them''."''~~|Opening narration of ''[[Elizabethtown]]''}}~~

{{quote|''"There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is simply the non-presence of success. Any fool can accomplish failure. But a ''fiasco'', a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. A fiasco is a folk tale told to others that makes other people feel more alive because ''it didn't happen to them''."''

|Opening narration of ''[[Elizabethtown]]''}}

[[Epic Fail]]: when normal, run-of-the-mill failure [[Beyond the Impossible|just isn't enough]].

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{{quote|Congratulations guys, your enemy AI is less effective than the [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] UFO in ''[[Asteroids]]''.}}

** In [http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/03/counter-monkey-botchamania/ this] video, Spoony describes a ''[[Spycraft]]'' game he ran where the players were trying to get onto a bullet train from a helicopter. By the end, one member of the team was dead and they utterly failed their mission because they kept rolling 1s, Spoony kept giving them the chance to recover, and they'd roll 1s for that too.

* [[Tumblr]] was a microblogging site well known through the 2010s as a friendly home to all manner of communities, among them safe havens for LGBTQ teens and adults, and a small group of user-curated NSFW blogs (which brought in about 25% of Tumblr's traffic). Then Verizon bought its parent company and in 2018 decided they wanted to purge all the "offensive" content so they could turn a profit off of the online presences of the many fandoms and social movements it hosted (monetizing the "Black Lives Matter" movement was an explicit example used during their planning stages). In early December 2018, Tumblr users were given ''two weeks notice'' that adult and LGBTQ content would be abruptly banned, and a massive diaspora ensued. Before the new censorship regime had even begun, the Tumblr Staff account had started begging people to come back; a month after the ban the site's total traffic had dropped by 54%, and never stopped dropping. By May 2019, Verizon had started shopping around for someone -- ''anyone'' -- to take Tumblr off its hands.

== Western Animation ==