Do you get mad when a sale advertises cheap stuff but the fine print is microscopic? How about a dating app that charges you when you try to delete your account? Or an oven that makes you sign terms and conditions? How about a food delivery service that literally steals the money you tip its employees? These and many other terrible and misleading products designed by monsters can be found in app stores and regular stores all around the globe.
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Would you like to pay for a subscription to drinking fountains? How about shoes that you have to charge? Internet of Shit highlights these disappointing marvels of technology and many more in what seems like a rapidly approaching dystopian future of awful products that simultaneously don't work and make life more inconvenient when they do work.
Who sells these? Like, we would be completely surprised if any of these worked at all. At the same time, we mostly feel bad for all the models who got roped into this venture. You can see the bewilderment and disappointment in their eyes. But hey, there are worse gigs out there. For more terrible products that are otherwise useless or misleading, here are 25 awful products designed by monsters
If you didn't grow up with garbage disposals and cheez wiz, you might also think that they aren't real. Also paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for education. Here are some things people were dumbfounded to discover actually do exist in the US of A. For the other way around, here are some culture shocked Americans describing sharing things they didn't realize were so American.
The world has its fair share of design fails. When people are involved in anything, things will go wrong. And since design is specifically a thing people do, there's a lot to go wrong. From stupid signs and dumb mistakes in products to crappy attempts at fixtures and doorways, every facet of life is at risk of failure.
Boy does it not feel good to be totally had by manipulative and terrible products, but sometimes it just happens. You wouldn't think while downloading an app that someone would be so brazen that they'd charge you to do something like delete the app, but hey, we live in a world with EA micro-transactions, so you've gotta be wary about what you spend your money on. Here's the land of extra fine print and hallowed-out candy bars.
Yeah, it almost feels like a crime how cheap some of this stuff is. Actually, some of it is! That said, a few bucks for a pineapple that started growing in 2017? Holy crap! If only someday we could add something like healthcare or housing to this list then that'd be cool too, but for now, we got these.
If you find some nice boots on amazon for 3 dollars, you should half expect to get a picture of boots mailed to your house. This stuff is either ridiculously small, a completely shoddy version of what was advertised, or just something totally different entirely. For some more amazon shenanigans, here are some fantastically funny and creative reviews.
If you just keep doing something you learned in childhood without any self reflection, you might end up doing some stupid things for way too far into your adult life. Sometimes song lyrics or figures of speech don't make sense until you see them in writing. People are often wrong, even about their own health, but what sucks is when you're publicly, idiotically wrong for waaaaay too long.
Companies don't necessarily have to be shifty and predatory, but some definitely are. Here are some products that have mastered the bait-and-switch, as well as the just-plain-bad. If you wanna see more creatively misleading products and services, check out these 21 deceptive designs and manipulative products designed by jerks.
Not much compares to a poorly designed masterpiece of stupid. One man's mistake at work is another man's sweet, scrumptious fail. We love seeing all the fruits of the world's strange coincidences, laziness and poor judgement. When they're unintentionally filthy, that makes them even better. And holy crap, these seem to happen a lot.
Deceptive products make our blood boil, and these ones take the cake. Make sure to read the fine, fine, impossibly fine print. Some of the contents of these packages are comically smaller than advertised. And it doesn't just end with false advertising, this type of crap is pretty common.
