Top 10 Overhyped Events That BOMBED Hard

[@WatchMojo]

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[@avisenareza8683]

😊😊

[@TimLoyalToWifeHaterFreeZoneA]

Love It WatchMojo.

[@allyson891]

Get rid of the spiders!

[@cstephen98]

There's something satisfying about a bunch of spoiled, rich kids getting scammed by another one before he ended up in jail.

[@brianarbenz1329]

But he went to jail precisely because his victims were from rich families. If he'd ripped off average income people, he'd more likely have been sued, paid a settlement which could be deducted from his taxes, and avoided incarceration.

[@cstephen98]

@@brianarbenz1329 very true. Don't steal from the rich. Lots of examples of that, and what happens, in the last few years.

[@thesomethingthatisntathing514]

But they weren't rich, though. They were just regular people.

[@brianarbenz1329]

@@thesomethingthatisntathing514 Well, they or their families could afford a trip to the Bahamas. That certainly sounds upper middle to rich.

[@thesomethingthatisntathing514]

@@brianarbenz1329 They could afford it because the tickets were dirt cheap.

[@martinh8784]

Y2K might have been disappointing, but it resulted from impeccable planning and preparation. I worked and led task forces in the run-up. In a small Bank, we found and resolved 87 bugs. None of them "blew everything up", but combined ... they would have stopped the Bank for at least a week or two. The electrical system (including elevators) failed when ticking over on a test weekend. The servers shut down, disabling the branch in the building. We got electricians in to install a new switching system. The vault also has issues. But we reset the date to 1910, and it worked fine ... must be 1934 now ;-) So, Y2K was a bust, but mainly because of all the preparation work that went in.

[@rw8873]

Thanks for sharing, I always wondered how it turned out for businesses. In my world, we had a good number of families who stocked up on canned food such as vienna sausages and soup. Their kids were not doing to eat any of that when nothing happened and McDonald's and Dominos was still open. Food pantries in my area were soon stocked.

[@shanesauby6423]

I worked in the financial industry at the time and it was not a disaster *because* we planned for it. We spent months hunting and fixing bugs in our software. It was basically all my friend in the IT department did for six months. Y2K is a perfect example of how, as a society, we can plan, prepare, and mitigate major events. Of course, it helps when it impacts basically every business on the planet and there is the possibility of losing money...

[@MadChickenPictures]

Wait. So in 60 years we'll have the same problem?

[@jurassicstaff8639]

Thank you ! People act like nothing happend on Y2K ..like 2012 when the world was supposed to end cuz of the myan calendar ending. Y2K didn't happen because they stopped it from happen, that's the whole point, it's strange MOJO wouldn't include that and there research teams are getting so lazy... like power glove wasn't an event it was a product and is so out if place on this list, MOJO has lost so much credibility I'm sure their viewership has gone down significantly

[@goodfellabeats]

Glad you mentioned this.

[@donaldwert7137]

Having participated in the Y2K preparation at the company where I worked at the time, I can say that one reason nothing much happened was so many people worked on it. A lot of people with old programming skills made a lot of money, though.

[@ThePinkDragon]

i was scared of y2k but nothing much happened

[@donaldwert7137]

@@ThePinkDragon The way it was hyped up, I can't blame you. I recall reading a "what-if" scenario where things were chaos on 1/1/2000, with cars refusing to start because their computer chips malfunctioned, credit cards not working, etc. It was older technologies that we needed to worry about and that's why older programmers were making big bucks. Those technologies used programming language that was no longer in use.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

I still remember Videos of people at The Fyre Festival, those reactions were Hilarious, people spent Millions on basically a Scam Vacation.

[@IronmanV5]

The final episodes of Game of Thrones are so bad, the show went from cultural phenomenon to hardly being talked about.

[@Belgiannnn]

I’m STILL mad at that season. Smh

[@Denis-89]

to be honest, by the time the final season was annunced I think people already started to get tired of it

[@WatchMojo]

[@mariovillarreal8647]

I barely saw the ending ones, leading up to the ending, I never saw, never read the books, but I still liked the episodes I saw... I love ❤️ dragons.

[@mikitz]

It is worth remembering that if the tech companies didn't carefully prepare for the Y2K event, things could have easily gone to hell. It is impossible to assess the outcome afterwards.

[@KingdomofEvania100]

The Phantom Menace is not as bad as people think. Definitely had a pretty cool fight scene between Qui Gon, Obi Wan, and Darth Maul

[@ilanlaham6911]

The Lego Star Wars levels based on episode 1 were generally great, so I'll give the movie that

[@Denis-89]

I justt hink people expected more instead of a family movie

[@judith8693]

That doesn't make it a good movie.

[@WinsberryEntertainment]

Yeah, 1 or 2 good scenes don't make a good or even decent movie. But it lead to Revenge of the Sith, so there's that to be thankful for.

[@TheMrSugar]

"There was nothing in Al Capone's Vault, but it wasn't Geraldo's Fault..."

[@millerhxc]

Arrgh you beat me to it! That always enters my head whenever this moment gets mentioned somewhere. I didn't even get the reference when I first saw it on The Simpsons.

[@philsie204]

How the hell did they miss that opportunity???

[@tysonjdevereaux]

Willy wonka where u at

[@abemcg3803]

He’s hiding in his (rundown) factory

[@schindlerteejay94]

With ‘The Unknown’.

[@roxdbox]

*Willy McDuff

[@rogue7723]

They probably thought it’d be too easy to include that one.

[@icemanslim8236]

"I love the Power Glove. It's so bad!" Boy, it certainly was.

[@malaguero3134]

What about the Willy Wonka experience in Glasgow???

[@argoth231]

Probably to late to include in the video

[@MikeMJPMUNCH]

Don't think that was overhyped, as I don't think many people knew it was happening til after when people started complaining about how terrible it was.

[@ScarysReviews]

too late?@@argoth231

[@zaphodthenth]

This event was virtually unknown outside of the area: And only became famous afterwards when the police were called in.

[@wojtek1765]

First thing that comes to mind is the raid area 51. Honestly man that was just a shambles the amount of people that said they were going to go in like what was it like under 100 people showed up not even that. and then there was also going to be a after a fan organised at the same time .which doesn’t get talked about but I remember they were going to have people go on ships and go out to the Bermuda Triangle yeah that didn’t even take part in the end

[@zephyer-gp1ju]

I know in part that they didn't have that much time and schools across the country had started. I wondered if they had six months and did it in June or July if a bigger crowd would have came. In the long run I don't think that many people were looking at messing with the Feds and getting arrested.

[@chris55529]

Poor Geraldo, he was actually pretty good with that Tommy gun...

[@imranak]

The 3rd Star Wars trilogy makes Phantom Menace look Oscar worthy

[@PixiePrincess501]

Ah, yes. New Year's Eve 1999: I remember being at my family's annual party when the clock struck midnight. All my adult relatives, jolly from the fun and drink took one look at their watches simultaneously and went "Well, it's midnight, and the world hasn't blown up! Happy New Year!! XD"

[@Paradigmfusion]

As a computer tech, 1998-99 was possibly the best financial years. The only time one could get away with charging $75 to install a Y2K "Compliance patch" (that one could just download form MS for free)

[@SPDYellow]

Fyre is at #6?! The same Fyre Fest that has two feature-length documentaries showing what a clusterfuck it was?! C’mon, of the stuff listed, Fyre is easily #1!

[@dogsrlcatsdl4524]

....I (and I'm sure many people) was not that shook about it....a bunch of trust fund turds got it up the pooter.... so what......oh wait.....HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA .

[@goodfellabeats]

The average person doesn't care or know about the Fyre. It really was only a big deal to a sect of the population the rest of us couldn't care less.

[@joelwillems4081]

What are you, 15? You realize stuff happened before you were born, right?

[@Animeguy300]

Amazing video WM, Keep it up

[@kevindagame]

Since you're putting movies on here, you should put Batman vs Superman on here.

[@TravisPope-z2u]

It wasnt like... the worst though. But yeah batman sucked ass for a bunch of that movie. Its been so long. I can watch it now with a smile.. but i gotta see justice league right after.

[@andrescardoso7731]

Even worse as it was my first midnight premiere ever! Such a shallow experience

[@brianarbenz1329]

The Hands Across America was by no means a flop. It forced the power elites to acknowledge that homelessness was a real and growing problem. When Tip O'Neill, the leader of the Democrats in the House, announced he would join the chain (or one of its disjointed portions), Ronald Reagan, who had scoffed at the event and at the idea that homelessness was a real issue, had to relent and join in. Since those days, the nation has only made homelessness much worse through free trade treaties, skyrocketing housing costs, and corporate pharma addicting people to painkillers. So much for awareness.

[@dancytancy192]

I remember watching the one about Al Capone's vault.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Long before the Frye Festival, there was the Us Festival in 1982 put on by Steve Wozniak, who figured his Apple computer success could be replicated in a newer version of Woodstock. But the music-oriented gathering in the desert was blisteringly hot, short of facilities and overall meh. When I googled this, I found he did another in '83, so if people were willing to come back, then not everybody considered the first one so awful. Still, the idea that it would have the impact of Woodstock was overblown. Often, a meteorically successful person doesn't realize their limits.

[@darkangel_1978]

With Phantom Menace, the two biggest complaints I heard about were Jar Jar and the explanation of the force. To say the force pretty much came from Midichlorians was super dumb. If they left that unanswered, I think people would have been a little happier.

[@Marksey33]

I agree about the series finale of Game of Thrones, but the 3rd episode, Winterfell v The White Walkers, was one of the best hours of tv I’ve ever seen

[@introvertsrock9843]

Wonder if influencers/celebrities ever returned $$ received for endorsing/appearing in ads for Fyre and/or FTX

[@Deimnos]

Nope, they did their part and fulfilled their contracts.. the rest.. was a lesson for the people

[@SilverSpectre266]

Diablo 4 Live Event in S. Korea Blizzard hyped the hell out of D4 prior to release with multiple promotions and collabs ranging from KFC, to giant banners plastered on buildings, and beyond. And fans frothed at the mouth after it being a decade since the last entry. However the game was much to be desired on release. Still, Blizzard did everything in their power to keep the embers burning and the passion for the game alive. One of those things was doing a live event in S. Korea. Its one of Diablos seemingly most passionate foreign communities so it seemed like the perfect spot and time. However the S. Korean fanbase was so pissed off about Diablo 4 that almost no one showed up to the event. Live broadcasts of it only show the staff and a handful of the actual players in attendance. No one else.

[@GigiButterflie]

I binged the first 7 seasons of GOT 2 months before the 8th season started. Needless to say, when I watched the final season, I was PISSED.

[@hendrix4597]

Release of Google Glass

[@GoddessPallasAthena]

HA! If Al Capone's vault hasn't been #1 (or close) I would have been disappointed. There was so much hype about it and people tuned in to see maybe a few pieces of litter at most. I was there at Hands Across America. The 1980s were a time that I think people WANTED to help. We had Band-Aid, Live-Aid, Farm-Aid, USA for Africa . . . it was a time of greed but also, some segments of people really DID want to help, and I remember dragging my parents out for this. I THINK we went to Disneyland parking lot or something. I'm sad that it didn't help people like we had hoped. BUT it did give me some cool photos of my parents and me (most hilarious was how GRUMPY my dad looked while holding hands with people. 😁 - miss ya dad!!💖)

[@goodfellabeats]

The Y2K thing really isn't a good example. A lot of software was supposed to reset and we were going to basically be back in the 1900s. But companies had software engineers working day and night to prevent it and they did. It wasn't like the concern wasn't real.

[@joelwillems4081]

Considering there were no computers in the decade of the 1900s, it wouldn't have been too bad. Worst that would have happened is some appointments and bank accounts messed up. Only some software that was at least ten years old had that problem anyway so needed an upgrade.

[@rmannayr2129]

THE FYRE FESTIVAL WAS THE WORST!

[@zephyer-gp1ju]

I watched Al Capone's vault, there was a night wasted. Like Capone was going to leave thousands of dollars just laying around. Y2K was iffy. Lot of computer geeks said it might have been bad if they hadn't spent a year working to upgrade the software. Some companies early on just moved the computer clocks to 12/31 and watched to see what happen. In most cases, nothing. I did laugh, my father ran a grocery store and people started coming in with the big 5 gallon bottles of water and asking for a refund. He told me he didn't have to order water for months after that, it was stacked up in his back room. NPR interviewed one of the main guys pushing Y2K. He got so worried he moved to the middle of the California desert, bought a house and turned it into a fort, guns, food, etc. 60 Minutes interviewed him and that didn't help. He was telling the NPR guy what was going to happen. A few days after Y2K they called him up and asked what happened. He swore that it still going to happen. The NPR guy kind of made fun of him but in a nice way.

[@rakowsda]

Imma add my 2 cents also. Y2K was a nothing burger for a reason. A LOT of people worked VERY hard to ensure that it WASN'T a big deal. Had no one done ANYTHING, then... It's nearly impossible to predict the ramifications of that... Kudos to all you out there that busted your ass to take care of that problem. WatchMojo, you need to change this list...

[@TwistedSpiralX]

The release and promise of Segway's lol hypes as the next world changing invention that would be and used everywhere lol

[@rmannayr2129]

LOL THE FYRE FESTIVAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

Why would anyone try storming Area 51?

[@joelwillems4081]

Low brain power and even worse running ability.

[@TheMrSugar]

*coughs* Where's DashCon and the Willy Wonka experience?

[@bravewater5737]

6:46 7:34 it's way better than The Last Jedi, imo. 🤷‍♂️ 8:35 that's true.

[@tsbrownie]

Oh I absolutely disagree about Y2K. It was a total success... for computer companies. They raked in years worth of sales in just months. Execs and sales reps got huge bonuses. Of course there's always a ying for every yang, and those years of sales cannibalized the following year's sales bringing down company revenues. But "success" is about short terms profits, so it was a "success."

[@zaphodthenth]

I remember the Y2K hubbub, the various programs all commenting on the "HORRORS" it was going to unleash... Then watching live television feed of Australia where the change was going to hit first because of the international date line. And when Australia DIDN'T go up in flames or crash down into a Road Warrior wasteland, multiple people posted to the Internet: "It didn't happen after all" and "TOLD YA SO!" ( Ha Ha)

[@crimsonmoonrise9785]

Let's not forget the Mayan Apocalypse.

[@zaneps151]

Y2K gets more and more ridiculous the more you think about it Why would computers crash just because the dates reset?

[@michelsylvestre3949]

It's not computer crashing by themselves, it's about all the calculations based on dates (there's a lot). You have to remember that pre-1990s (the more you go back, the more it's true) storage space cost a lot of money. Programmers had to optimize whenever they could. That meant the standard representation for years in databases, and pretty much everywhere, was done with two numbers instead of four. Oh and there were a LOT of old computer systems (coded in Cobol or Fortran for exampel) running in banks, governments, etc... just because it worked already and were never replaced with modern ones.

[@jurassicstaff8639]

Do your research, the stuff people say outloud these days or even watch MOJO research is so lazy like a quick Google search is literally all this is needed lol remember " KNOWLEDGE IS POWER " Y2K was prevented not nothing happened, that's kn such poor taste to discredit all the people who did so much work to prevent it

[@minakomel]

hey @WatchMojo , you didn't mentioned on the "raid Area51" event the fact that most of the people who wanted to go where for some reason "Naruto fans" (hence that cosplay dude talking) and this made the US Army made a "crash course" on the "Naruto run"...i'm not inventing this, there's a picture somewhere on the internet where there's this army guy with a chart doing the "pose" and it's hilarious but I understand the army feared thousand of 4channers running towards the base "this way" and by army laws, they would had to shot them down and that would be even more sad and ridiculous

[@ecksbest]

Now do 10 Overhyped events that lived up to the hype.

[@GlobalStrike1]

Is it really overhyped if it lives up to said hype?

[@ecksbest]

@@GlobalStrike1 Makes sense

[@marioorellana1176]

Willy Wonka + Glasgow = "OOOOVVVVEEEERRR HYPED EVENT" !!

[@williamnhargis]

Not even an honorable mention for Woodstock 99??

[@scienceofficerash8791]

6:43 Prequel trilogy is much better than the sequel trilogy

[@iLuseMy1v1s]

Honorable mention ( apple vision pro )

[@RayvenLunaNite]

Fyre festival burnt out before it even started

[@yourlocalentertainmentchan9153]

Speaking of “BOMB”, how about Top 10 Explosive Villain Deaths? (A list of villains dying from explosions) 🧨 💥

[@danilutka]

I'm surprise that Tanacon wasn't on here. That was a pretty big mess as well.

[@carrioncrow13]

Imagine being the bunch of psychopaths, who actually expect someone to let a snake eat him.

[@robertsaul234]

Seinfeld's final episode. When the cast reunited on Curb Your Enthusiasm it felt like finally getting closure.

[@WinsberryEntertainment]

I liked the Seinfeld finale.

[@robertsaul234]

@@WinsberryEntertainment To each his own. I always thought a better episode to finish it on was the backward episode which ended with Jerry moving into his apartment and meeting Kramer.

[@Jose-ht2lw]

Lmao! I remember the fb ads for fyre festival. 😅😂

[@thedragonauthority]

Phantom Menace was NOT that bad. Sure, the political talk was crap but the music was kickass, the lightsaber battles were kickass, the race was cool. It has good points.

[@judith8693]

It actually was that bad. Especially for a star wars movie.

[@thedragonauthority]

@@judith8693 to each their own.

[@JasonMcCord-qk3yb]

The worst of these was Game Of Thrones! Every season was a masterpiece! And then there was that last one…. The last season felt rushed, chaotic and disorganized. Very disappointing.

[@toyninja5959]

Its been 25 years from Episode 1 Move The F@$k on and a Brit taking Basketball 😂😅😊😂

[@spaceo8568]

Omg. I totally forgot about the power glove. Lol

[@gfear24]

Ironically, Super Power Ball played better on controller than for the Power Glove it was designed for.

[@tnorris2204]

Fyre fest was so satisfying. Watching influencers be stranded and disappointed

[@redohealer2]

Now I know what Fyre Festival was all about.

[@seantlewis376]

Michael Jordan was one of the best players ever seen on the boards. Some people think he was the absolute best. I will not disparage a professional athlete who can beat me at any athletic endeavor, but when Jordan was playing for the Bulls, he also had Scotty Pippin and Dennis Rodman on his team. The three of them were a force to be reckoned with. When Pippin moved to the Trailblazers, their season record improved too. Y2K was *not* overhyped! I worked on the issue myself starting in the early '90s, working with both programming and operating systems. The lack of anything too serious happening when the calendar changed is testament to the fact that corporations and nations spent billions of dollars and billions of staff hours making sure the effect of it would be minimal. The most disappointing thing I remember about NYE 2000 was the thousand doves released in Israel that were inadvertently slaughtered by fireworks going off at the same time at the same location. Now that's bad planning!

[@matthewbrozovich5915]

What overhyped event fell short for me?? Life bro. 😂

[@randomreviews4278]

5:00 he should be in prison for life

[@bwines16]

We all knew area51 was a joke. It wasn’t overhyped lol we all knew what it was and only die hards would go and meet other die hards and just have a good time. The fact news and older people took it so seriously is ridiculous.

[@lacountess]

I would put The Mueller Report somewhere on this list.

[@craigmartyn1279]

1st world problems, if the vault is as bad as it gets, I must be in the lucky multiverse

[@AtsumuHinata]

When it hits, it hits hard. When it misses, it misses badly. It really either hits or misses.

[@christopherbraley7571]

Phantom Menace was better than 7, 8 and 9

[@topfranluis1]

Star Wars 7 deserves the spot more

[@jewelia3871]

tanacon not being here in CRIMINAL

[@sheilaholmes8455]

I participated in Hands Across America. I just recently got rid of the t-shirt.

[@tracyndiyob162]

just remember no. 8 for sgb's matt saying he expected them all to be shot(which those guys are lucky they didn't just do that.) which just gave me the image of them running in naruto cosplay only to record scratch with them booking it from a literal tidal wave of bullets like looney tunes. no. 6 makes me think of godzilla vs. hedorah when the main character's uncle has a fire festival for some reason when that'd attract him/obviously gets killed for it(also that weird shot of the old men that i 1st though were neighbors/the owner's of the mountain.) 4. is a nice concept if half the u.s weren't selfish idiots. clone war's/rise of skywalker is way worse(granted think star wars is a hit and miss series even back then.) but really remember the hype around phantom menace. looking back nintendo had way more failures back then compared to just missteps/whiny fanboys of both it and apologist of ps/xbox's huge failures. do like programmer's did their job preventing y2k from happening(think 2012's mayan calendar silliness should've been on here instead.)

[@PhilipCarroll64]

I think Y2K was a big let down that everyone wanted.

[@brandonclarke5775]

Joke is about Fyre festival is there is another one coming and it’s almost sold out 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[@7amart177]

Wonder how that 90s show going to do star wars episode 1

[@waynesteffen3262]

I watched the Al Capone vault show-well, flipped channels back and forth to keep track-hoping it would fail and spell the end of Geraldo Rivera’s career. That it didn’t was the biggest rip-off.

[@danieldavid9887]

Star Wars Episode 1 [minus Jar Jar] was fucking amazing!!! Take out Jar Jar, and you have a 10/10 star film. I’ll never understand the hate

[@langolier9]

I could not have been a bigger Nintendo fan when that glove came out, but I knew I knew for certain without any reviews that it would be total garbage and I was right

[@KevinDondrea]

I liked Phantom Menace.

[@dogsrlcatsdl4524]

.....N N N NN NNN NNNN NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD.

[@Deimnos]

so did i

[@LiLsCo0tZ]

maybe next time you could point out the fact you're also giving out spoilers

[@scottjackson369]

I love the Power Glove it’s so, bad and I mean bad- Angry Video Game Nerd

[@senius79]

I loved the final season of Game of Thrones

[@jpmackey1607]

Maybe I’m showing my age, but how is #1… #1? Honestly, #2 (or #6) was more disappointing. 🤔

[@lls3676]

Kony 2012

[@roywilliams660]

Why everybody fear of Y2K because i born in March 2000 you know.

[@joeb.evrythngEclectic5571]

I would mail myself to Texas!

[@keelahrose]

Dec 12 20212 should have been #1

[@joeb.evrythngEclectic5571]

The Year 2012 end of the world, yeah how did that go?

[@AgustinRodriguez-dd6mj]

The Phantom Menace>>>>>Rise of Skywalker

[@steveswangler6373]

wait a minute, michael jordan complaining about his teammates not being good enough? but he's michael jordan, he won all those championshps all by himself. there was no one else on the Bulls those years, was there? the fact is until Magic and Bird and the Pistons got old and left the league, jordan won nothing. until he had one of the greatest coaches ever and several all stars and hall of famers around him, he won nothing. Lebron James took a lackluster Cavaliers team to the finals and was insulted when a reporter questionedhim about the talent on his team. James went to the finals 10 straight seasons with different teams and varying degrees of talent around him, the greatest basketball player of all time, bar none, Wilt Chamberlain played on good teams but had to contend with the juggernaut of the 1960's Celtics, whom he set some of is biggest records against. and the one year in the 60's when he had great talent around him, his team was voted the greatest nba team of all time. the 1967 76ers. and if you just judge a player in a team sport by how many championship teams he was on, then Bill Russell tops everyone. not to mention, jordan couldn't play within the rules and ushered in the era we see now, more of a show than a sport.

[@bernardomello842]

Who's Michael Jordyn?

[@argoth231]

Wheres tana con?

[@joeb.evrythngEclectic5571]

Geraldo always bombs hard!

[@catholicactionbibleonlyist1813]

Y2K should have been number one

[@kamsismith]

Blonde, All Eyez on Me, and Bob Marley: One Love. Three biopics made their subjects either bland or run-of-the-mill cornballs when they were very interesting individuals in real life.

[@LeandroFTW]

iPhone launches should be on the list.

[@NoshikiYT]

no bro iPhones still good

[@Duelinator]

7:35 YES!!!

[@thedealba4652]

What about June 6, 2006 AKA 666 or 2012? 😂