![]() ![]() ![]() By 2009, the term had gone mainstream: That year, the popular TV medical drama House had an episode called “Epic Fail,” featuring a video-game creator who crowdsources his medical treatments. Fail it was shortened to fail in internet slang, especially among gamers on websites like SomethingAwful and 4chan, and came to signal any failure, big or small.įail was entered on Urban Dictionary by 2003, with epic fail emerging on internet message boards in 2007. A 1998 Japanese video game, Blazing Star, used the humorously clumsy You fail it! as a Game Over message. The hyperbolic epic has been slang for anything “ notable” since at least the 2000s.Įpic fail may be due to an epic fail of translation. ![]() An epic fail is a tremendous failure, with fail being a noun that actually dates back to the 1600s. ![]()
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