Name: Super Fails
Released: 2023-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

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Some ideas have moved forward humankind. Others have been epically bad. Super Fails looks at the latter.

Educational · 2023 · 6 min

EPISODE 1

Nothing Else Metas

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.

5 min · 1 Jan 2023
EPISODE 3

The Worst Release in Gaming History

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...?

4 min · 1 Jan 2023
EPISODE 4

Death on Two Wheels

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.

4 min · 1 Jan 2023
EPISODE 5

The GameStop Short Squeeze

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.

5 min · 1 Jan 2023
EPISODE 6

The VW Scandal for Dummies

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.

4 min · 1 Jan 2023
EPISODE 7

The Fall of Adidas and Kanye West

When Adidas made its partnership with Kanye West official in 2016, the brand hoped to redefine the future of sneakers and beat sworn enemy Nike. But at the time, who could have known that Kanye would go off the rails?

4 min · 1 Jan 2023

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