What's up with "FAIL"?

Maybe this belongs in the "You're getting old" thread, but a couple weeks ago I was reading a column that had "Only one beer stand for the left half of the crowd? FAIL!"

Since then, I've seen it on some other sites and on here.

What's up with this? How did this come about? Where are my pants?

 

You're so random.

 

You don't know? EPIC FAIL!

 

http://failblog.org/

 

Its first use on the board was by Mystery Meat almost 2 years ago, back when it showed how many people had you on iggy. MM said of one poster, "You're at the Baskin-Robbins of fail, getting 31 flavors of GTFO."

 

For a moment, when I saw Moddy had replied to this thread, I thought he was going to be the one to explain it to me. That would have been like needing Ted Kaczynski to explain DVRs or Wi-Fi to me.

Anyway Moddy, here's where I first came across it. So the virus apparently has broken past quarantine here and has infected pop culture.

 

Folks, it's not just an SJ thing.

Think of it as the current version of "duh" or "not!"

 

I laugh nearly every time I encounter it. I guess there's something abrupt to it that I find humorous.

 

But, yet, I love the pictures.

At this attempt, you are a FAILure.