All too often in life, things aren't quite what we expect them to be, and these days, there are so many products promising so much and delivering so little that you almost expect there to be some creative deception (also known as “marketing”) going on with products you're purchasing. With the rampant application of strategies by businesses like “shrinkflation," which is really usually just “greedflation,” we're almost relieved to discover that a “croissant lamp” is actually a croissant lamp. Of…

These people had buying experiences that were so bad, they had to share it with the world. And thank goodness they did, because now we know a bunch of items that just aren't worth wasting money on. Buying a new thing only to have it not work is infuriating. Lately I've stopped buying things from the billion-dollar company named after a rainforest, because the stuff I get from there just does not work. You really do get what you pay for, sadly. I bought a few headphone accessories from one selle…

We all have that one coworker we can't get along with for the life of us. If you were given a chance to get back at them, would you take it? One person working at a microbiology lab got really petty when she learned that her coworker was quitting, and made sure to be the one organizing the goodbye gifts. She remembered everything that this coworker had ever said about products they did not like and got every single one of them. Why? Well, the coworker in question was doing very… questionable th…

How did we ever live without Photoshop, one of the coolest inventions of these modern times. Before Photoshop, if someone had red-eye in a photo, a real person would go in with an actual paintbrush and paint their eye color on the film to correct it. That was skilled work back in the day, and Photoshopping professionally today takes lots of practice. But also, thanks to the internet, any fool can shop their photos with hardly any effort. The internet has provided us with some hilarious examples…

Oh nice, goat internet?

Great work, everyone.

Mike. Just Doing It.

It didn't have to be this way.

Ah, helpful.

Hotcakes are basically pancakes, right?

Hey, still useful.

They done got us good.

It's something.

They sure are there.

It could use an extra set of eyes.

Great-esque work.