Nine Times The 'Next Big Thing' Turned Out To Be A Major Flop
Capitalism insists on trying to make "fetch" happen every few years. Sometimes we get smartphones, but other times we get Quibi.
Capitalism insists on trying to make "fetch" happen every few years. Sometimes we get smartphones, but other times we get Quibi.
"In American strip clubs you have to throw money at the girls, but in Japan..."
James Cameron clearly gives no f—cks.
It's called Lost Island and it's located in Waterloo, Iowa.
"Listen Kari, your gardener didn't do this right... he just wants to keep coming over to take your money," her mother said.
In 2024, it's almost impossible rent a property on your own, however small, for less than $1,000 in America's biggest cities.
A woman contemplates if she actually snapped during a work meeting.
"Hey, you racist but accurate b****," Cristela Alonzo said.
Craft artists in California are earning a pretty penny.
The past week or has given us "Challengers," "Knuckles" and a lot of good stuff to watch. Forget summer time, everyone should stay indoors!
Opened in the 1830s, the waterway was an impressive feat of human engineering — but the brutal conditions endured by its construction workers claimed at least 1,000 lives.
Kendrick Lamar's new song shows why it's important to have at least one film buff in your circle.
This is why I always sit in the back.
I've extended a bag of Hot Cheetos by weeks doing this.
You just know couples have broken up after this.
There are quite a lot of big-ticket series premiering during the summer months, and the most anticipated are all brand new shows.
In an interview with Dan Rather, Weird Al spills the beans on how he got his foot in the door, not by being good early on, but by being an oddity.
There's a curvy line of hockey players that stretches from sea to shining sea.
A master at work.
For a short time in the '80s, you could buy movies on vinyl record — but there's a reason the idea didn't catch on, and cost RCA a whopping $650 million.
Agriculture workers have over three-times the unemployment rate of education and healthcare workers.
The cost of living crisis is making some people go to great lengths to reduce their budget.
"I was gonna say, the dress section is popping today, but WTF is going on," Tiana Renay said.
If kids wanted to watch cartoons on the go in the early aughts, they needed one of these terrible devices with a smeary display that didn't even have a backlight.
All the author wanted was a nice summer cottage. What they got was a $500,000 lesson in contract law.
What's worse is that it happened twice.
There are six cities where earning more than $300,000 would still put you in the middle class.
While Trump being a criminal scumbag was the main topic of discussion, Jost also had a killer line about his wife Scarlett Johansson.
Jeff Pearlman, then a student at the University of Delaware, submitted his name out of nowhere to the NBA draft. How they reacted helped launch his career.
From staying in dead-end jobs to losing touch with friends, people share their biggest mistakes with online strangers.
Unlike normal chess, in "Really Bad Chess" the piece allocations are randomized and not mirrored.
Invented in East Germany in the late 1970s, "superfest" is heat resistant and around 15 times as durable as ordinary glassware — but despite its impressive qualities, it hasn't been produced in decades.
This summer isn't deep with a lot of options, but if a few titles pop off, then we'll be happy.
Tesla's Cybertruck is a beast of an electric vehicle, but some features make the expensive product feel rushed out the door.
I can literally feel my skin crawling after watching this.
These works offer unflinchingly honest glimpses into the lives and experiences of their creators.
Two sisters fall out after public breastfeeding leads to cropped wedding pics.
One time in college I read that beards are like makeup for men, then the article showed a picture of Drake and I've never looked back.
Even when the song is a stone-cold jam on its own, an iconic use in film or a marketing campaign can rewrite our sense memory.
The majestic property sits on a whopping 40 acres of land.
This footage, captured by cinematographer Jay Christensen, shows off the psychedelic Phish concert that you either missed or don't remember because you were on heavy, copious drugs.
These movies are funny, deeply weird and dark, and there's a very good chance they'll have you on your couch saying, "what in the world is going on?"
This week, an employee being asked to attend an all-staff “cleansing,” a letter writer nervous to ask their boyfriend to pay back a $3,128 loan and a mother who made a dig at her daughter’s appearance after years of estrangement.
With no asphalt needed, the community is reported to be thirty degrees cooler.
The US is a big place, so maybe consider going somewhere else.
Men aren't working at the same rate they did in decades past. Business Insider asked two economists to help figure out why.
Ali Heibati was about to fight in his first MMA fight when he made the worst decision of his life.
Most of Pokémon's estimated $147 billion revenue comes from merchandise sales.
At 81, Biden is the oldest president the US has ever seen.
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