9 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/28/thumb/failgull.jpg?1229113036 http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Fail http://macrochan.org/search.py?tag=Negative%3AYou%20Fail http://wiki.ytmnd.com/Fail cilLKufYOhE http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/28/square/failgull.jpg?1229113036 2008-12-12T20:17:17Z http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cilLKufYOhE active classics, catchphrase, image macro, failures 124 <p><b>Search traffic for the word &#8220;<span class="caps">FAIL</span>&#8221;:</b><br /> <a href="http://google.com/trends?q=fail"><img src="http://google.com/trends/viz?q=fail&date=all&geo=all&graph=weekly_img&sort=0&sa=N" width="400" /></a><br><br></b>Update (Aug 8,2009):</b><br /> <br /> Subsequently to the above episode, The New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/magazine/09FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">regurgitates in text form</a>, almost verbatim, information found in the above episode, making it easier for us to copy and paste with the expectation for sound sentence structure and tight vocabulary usage:<br /> <br /> &#8220;This punchy stand-alone fail most likely originated as a shortened form of “You fail” or, more fully, “You fail it,” the taunting “game over” message in the late-’90s Japanese video game Blazing Star, notorious for its fractured English.&#8221; 2009-11-09T04:27:33Z 28 15 627 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/28/original/failgull.jpg?1229113036