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Life is full of earnest attempts. Sometimes you're trying to have a good time. Sometimes you're trying to tie down a four-wheeler to a truck bed. Sometimes you're just trying to joke around with your friends. With every attempt, there's a possibility for failure, and these folks did not escape it. Neither did these folks, either.

Misfortune follows us throughout our lives. Sometimes you're trying to insult a celebrity. Sometimes you're trying to skip in front of traffic like a douche. Sometimes you're trying to give a person a compliment, create a work of art or fix something to the best of your ability. On all sides of the spectrum, there is failure.

The successes of the world are propped up on a hulking heap of failure. So grab your failure shovels and get at that heap.

Here are some times things almost worked out, but instead ended with an "I guess they tried." Maybe things will be less mockable next time.

Life is a factory that eats ups attempts and spits out failure. Sweet, sweet failure.

Life is full of attempts. Sometimes you're just trying to send a text. Sometimes you're just trying to write a newspaper headline without messing up horribly. Sometimes you're just trying to make a good point online. Every day, these attempts are met with stark reality and the icy slap of failure.

Life is full of attempts, large and small. Sometimes you're trying to make a good point in a friendly argument. Sometimes you're trying to make a wholesome PTA event. Sometimes you're just trying to look good. More times than you'd like, however, failure will follow.

Life is full of attempts. Sometimes you're trying to make a good point. Sometimes you're just trying to make a good shirt. For one reason or another, not all of these will succeed.

Trying is the seed of failure. And these folks tried to do all sorts of things. Some tried to sound smart. Some tried to send dick pics. Some tried to simply express themselves online. And boy did they mess up big.

Well at least they tried. Did they try their hardest? Hell nah.

It's a modern riddle. "How does one take a picture of a mirror without turning it into a selfie?" Some people really tried to leave no footprint. Other people just leaned into it.

Sometimes people fail to burn a spider and instead burn their house down. Sometimes people spectacularly fail to make their point. Sometimes people try to make a Flat Earth facebook page free of hilarious shit posts. Whatever the attempt, reality is bound to catch up.

Every time we try, we expect a specific result. But what happens when we don't try hard enough? We get results like these.

Life is a series of attempts and failures punctuated by a few successes. Here's to those sad and ironic attempts that just didn't make the cut.

These people all tried their best. However, life has a way of reminding us that sometimes our best is still not good.