25 Products and Events That Didn't Live Up to The Hype

RustyBuckler Published 11/18/2021 in facepalm

Marketing gets ahead of itself, rumors spread or cheap production are just some of many things that can really kill a product.

We discovered some of those overhyped things over at r/AskReddit.

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1. The Power Glove. If you weren't there at the time, you can't imagine how awesome NES kids thought that this thing was going to be. Then you finally played something with one, and tried convince yourself that it was indeed awesome before slowly, oh so slowly, accepting that it was lame as hell. -u/xjuggernaughtx
2. Olestra was a fat substitute that had no calories. Chips would have no fat content and less calories! It was a craze until they realized it gave everyone the sh*ts. Like for some people a few
3. Floam. It was that early 2000s toy that looked really fun on TV but then we got it and it fell apart almost instantly. -u/whippedcreamcheese
4. Some years back, there was some a**hole that hyped up a huge live event of him being eaten by a snake in a digestion proof suit. I thought it was incredibly stupid, but kept hearing about from co-workers. -u/VenomousHydra
5. Google+. -u/livingcool22
6. 2020. Remember that meme showing how all the holidays were on weekends? -u/AwesomeDawson
7. Fyre Festival -u/ImTheState
8. Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone’s safe -u/livingcool22
9. Anthem. The flight mechanics and ‘Iron Man-ish’ bada** feeling of huge explosions and gameplay is so damn cool to have just let it rot in a gutter. What a waste, such potential -u/ImaFrakkinNinja
10. Quibi. I saw ads and promotions for it CONSTANTLY for months leading up to its release, and they had some pretty famous celebrities in the shows. Then it disappeared after like a month of its release. -u/chjett10
11. Mini CDs -u/livingcool22
12. 3-D TV -u/threedogafternoon
13. I think the Ouya was partially over-hyped by the company itself but partially by the public who got very excited over ideas that were never promised. -u/SyrusDrake
14. I feel like “hoverboards” were seriously misnamed. I expected Back To The Future not Back To The Hospital with bone fractures. -u/Stormaen

$I feel like “hoverboards” were seriously misnamed. I expected Back To The Future not Back To The Hospital with bone fractures. -u/Stormaen$
15. Google Glass got a lot of hype, but then it was gone. -u/anithemal18
16. Floyd Mayweather vs Logan Paul. Glad I didn't pay for it. -u/ChaseDonovan
17. Ted. Back in the early 2000s billboards went up all over Denver saying "Ted is coming" "Are you ready for Ted".. and a whole bunch of other cryptic Ted stuff, nobody knew who or what Ted was. It escalated to the point everyone was talking about Ted. Turns out Ted was an airline. It lasted like a month. and failed. -u/CastleOfBravo
18. Segways. Not necessarily terrible, but incredible, over-the-top hype. -u/Skinner936
19. Raiding Area 51 -u/impish_kid
20. Harry Potter and the cursed child. Awful and I don’t actually believe it’s part of HP. -u/PastaM0nster
21. Hands Across America -u/buttmike1
22. No Man's Sky at launch. Granted it did got a lot better afterwards. -u/Knodsil
23. Game of Thrones Season 8 -u/CaptainBlighe
24. Suicide squad. Movie was so hyped like it was the second coming of Jeesus. Then we saw Leto lol. -u/Stephenburnett98
25. The 2012 Apocalypse. -u/signaturefox2013

1. The Power Glove. If you weren't there at the time, you can't imagine how awesome NES kids thought that this thing was going to be. Then you finally played something with one, and tried convince yourself that it was indeed awesome before slowly, oh so slowly, accepting that it was lame as hell. -u/xjuggernaughtx
2. Olestra was a fat substitute that had no calories. Chips would have no fat content and less calories! It was a craze until they realized it gave everyone the sh*ts. Like for some people a few
3. Floam. It was that early 2000s toy that looked really fun on TV but then we got it and it fell apart almost instantly. -u/whippedcreamcheese
4. Some years back, there was some a**hole that hyped up a huge live event of him being eaten by a snake in a digestion proof suit. I thought it was incredibly stupid, but kept hearing about from co-workers. -u/VenomousHydra
5. Google+. -u/livingcool22
6. 2020. Remember that meme showing how all the holidays were on weekends? -u/AwesomeDawson
7. Fyre Festival -u/ImTheState
8. Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone’s safe -u/livingcool22
9. Anthem. The flight mechanics and ‘Iron Man-ish’ bada** feeling of huge explosions and gameplay is so damn cool to have just let it rot in a gutter. What a waste, such potential -u/ImaFrakkinNinja
10. Quibi. I saw ads and promotions for it CONSTANTLY for months leading up to its release, and they had some pretty famous celebrities in the shows. Then it disappeared after like a month of its release. -u/chjett10
11. Mini CDs -u/livingcool22
12. 3-D TV -u/threedogafternoon
13. I think the Ouya was partially over-hyped by the company itself but partially by the public who got very excited over ideas that were never promised. -u/SyrusDrake
14. I feel like “hoverboards” were seriously misnamed. I expected Back To The Future not Back To The Hospital with bone fractures. -u/Stormaen
15. Google Glass got a lot of hype, but then it was gone. -u/anithemal18
16. Floyd Mayweather vs Logan Paul. Glad I didn't pay for it. -u/ChaseDonovan
17. Ted. Back in the early 2000s billboards went up all over Denver saying "Ted is coming" "Are you ready for Ted".. and a whole bunch of other cryptic Ted stuff, nobody knew who or what Ted was. It escalated to the point everyone was talking about Ted. Turns out Ted was an airline. It lasted like a month. and failed. -u/CastleOfBravo
18. Segways. Not necessarily terrible, but incredible, over-the-top hype. -u/Skinner936
19. Raiding Area 51 -u/impish_kid
20. Harry Potter and the cursed child. Awful and I don’t actually believe it’s part of HP. -u/PastaM0nster
21. Hands Across America -u/buttmike1
22. No Man's Sky at launch. Granted it did got a lot better afterwards. -u/Knodsil
23. Game of Thrones Season 8 -u/CaptainBlighe
24. Suicide squad. Movie was so hyped like it was the second coming of Jeesus. Then we saw Leto lol. -u/Stephenburnett98
25. The 2012 Apocalypse. -u/signaturefox2013

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2. Olestra was a fat substitute that had no calories. Chips would have no fat content and less calories! It was a craze until they realized it gave everyone the sh*ts. Like for some people a few

3. Floam. It was that early 2000s toy that looked really fun on TV but then we got it and it fell apart almost instantly. -u/whippedcreamcheese

4. Some years back, there was some a**hole that hyped up a huge live event of him being eaten by a snake in a digestion proof suit. I thought it was incredibly stupid, but kept hearing about from co-workers. -u/VenomousHydra

5. Google+. -u/livingcool22

6. 2020. Remember that meme showing how all the holidays were on weekends? -u/AwesomeDawson

7. Fyre Festival -u/ImTheState

8. Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone’s safe -u/livingcool22

9. Anthem. The flight mechanics and ‘Iron Man-ish’ bada** feeling of huge explosions and gameplay is so damn cool to have just let it rot in a gutter. What a waste, such potential -u/ImaFrakkinNinja

10. Quibi. I saw ads and promotions for it CONSTANTLY for months leading up to its release, and they had some pretty famous celebrities in the shows. Then it disappeared after like a month of its release. -u/chjett10

11. Mini CDs -u/livingcool22

12. 3-D TV -u/threedogafternoon

13. I think the Ouya was partially over-hyped by the company itself but partially by the public who got very excited over ideas that were never promised. -u/SyrusDrake

14. I feel like “hoverboards” were seriously misnamed. I expected Back To The Future not Back To The Hospital with bone fractures. -u/Stormaen

15. Google Glass got a lot of hype, but then it was gone. -u/anithemal18

16. Floyd Mayweather vs Logan Paul. Glad I didn't pay for it. -u/ChaseDonovan

18. Segways. Not necessarily terrible, but incredible, over-the-top hype. -u/Skinner936

19. Raiding Area 51 -u/impish_kid

20. Harry Potter and the cursed child. Awful and I don’t actually believe it’s part of HP. -u/PastaM0nster

21. Hands Across America -u/buttmike1

22. No Man's Sky at launch. Granted it did got a lot better afterwards. -u/Knodsil

23. Game of Thrones Season 8 -u/CaptainBlighe

24. Suicide squad. Movie was so hyped like it was the second coming of Jeesus. Then we saw Leto lol. -u/Stephenburnett98

25. The 2012 Apocalypse. -u/signaturefox2013

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