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* ''Live Earth,'' a massive benefit concert co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, was a dismal flop garnering low ratings (especially for the UK and US) and created a massive "carbon footprint," precisely the type of thing the organizers wanted to prevent. The failure of ''Live Earth'' is widely believed to have killed off the concept of the benefit super-concert (in the same vein as Farm Aid and Live 8).

* Depending on where you sit regarding Drum & Bass, Pendulum came close to this, by way of becoming the public face of the genre despite ''never intending to be in it''. Rob Swire himself isn't sure if this has happened, but appears to revel in it, as can be discerned from this extract from his rant on the Dogsonacid forums:

** Drum & Bass really suffered more from the development of Techno more than [[Pendulum]]; [[Pendulum]] even shifted almost completely to a rock style.

* The twin failures of Chingy's "Powerballin'" and Nelly's "Brass Knuckles" killed the St. Louis rap movement as the once-popular alternative to the East vs. West battle has been relatively quiet since then. The Southern rap movement (which also features Chicago native [[Kanye West]]) has gone on to replace it to appeal and popularity.

* [[Broke NCYDE]] simultaneously [[Trope Codifier|codified]] and killed [[Crunkcore]]. Their music is just competent enough to have spawned fans and imitators seeing some good in the genre, but [[So Bad It's Good|hilariously bad]] enough to make literally everyone automatically hate the genre.

* The murder of [[Tupac Shakur]] in 1996 and [[The Notorious B.I.G.]] in 1997, within six months of one another, put an end to the Golden Age of [[Gangsta Rap]]. As [[The Rap Critic]] and [[The Nostalgia Chick]] [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/team-nchick/nostalgia-chick/35488-will-smith-was-a-rapper-once put it] (skip to about 6:21):

'''Nostalgia Chick:''' Suddenly, the dangerous lives and poverty that some of these guys grew up in and rapped about... it was just a little too ''real''. }}

* [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983]] is called that for a reason: Caused chiefly by an overabundance of competitors in a fledgeling market and competition from superior micro-computers, it killed ''the entire medium'' in the United States for about two years. Perhaps more importantly, it effectively wiped out North American game/console development, to the point where it took over two decades to fully regain the ground that had been lost to Japanese competitors. There wasn't a successful game console from an American company between the [[Atari 2600]] (dying around 1983), and the Microsoft [[X Box]] (released late 2001). That's how badly it crashed.

** When [[Nintendo]] debuted the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] in 1985, they bundled it with a light gun and battery-operated robot peripheral primarily to disguise the fact that it actually was a ''video game'' console. [[Crazy Enough to Work|It worked]].

** In the UK, meanwhile, it didn't even make as much impact as two years. Brits started using eight bit microcomputers as the main way of playing home videogames in 1982, which would last until the late 80s/early 90s when consoles started taking off (with the Megadrive and SNES)

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