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    Why Do We Love #Fail Videos?

    by David Shultz May 27, 2015 4 minutes

    f the Internet has shown me one thing, it’s my own astounding capacity to waste time. The rabbit holes online are deep and rich and usually absolutely fruitless. But I’m fascinated by anything that’s addictive, and my personal black tar heroin is, without doubt, “fail” videos. You know the sort—a 10-minute compilation of six-second clips of people who are , but don’t know it yet. I love watching a bike jump gone wrong, or . Skateboards, especially, seem to play a role in an impressive fraction of fail videos, and I would like to take this moment to thank their riders for remembering to film and upload their to the Internet; it’s amazing that some of you can still operate a

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