Super Fails

When Mark Zuckerberg launched the metaverse it was going to revolutionise our lives. Except it didn’t. How Zuck made the embodied internet so uninspiring.

Mettre en scène des enfants avec des peluches BDSM pour sa nouvelle collection ? Mauvaise idée. Puis faire explicitement allusion à la pédopornographie à travers d’étranges documents dans le décor de la collection suivante ? Très mauvaise idée. Cette fois, Balenciaga, la marque de luxe française habituée de la provoc’, est allée trop loin et s’empêtre dans des théories du complot mêlant pédophilie et satanisme.

It's 2021, you're sitting in front of your PS4, the download is almost complete. And it's finally here: Cyberpunk 2077. Only 10 years in development by a renowned studio, incredible promises and 8 million pre-orders. What could possibly go wrong...?

The Segway revolutionised our world, right? After incredible hype around its launch in 2001, many quickly realised that an expensive, unreliable, and arguably dangerous mode of transport wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.

In 2021, something incredible happened: modest private investors took on the powerful Wall Street hedge fund giants. Their weapons: a financial YouTuber in a cat jumper, a toxic subreddit and an ever-growing following.

Germany: beer, sausages, and Volkswagen? When the German car maker wanted to build a clean diesel engine to conquer the US market, they didn’t. Instead they cheated on the emissions tests.