With technological innovations seemingly breaking the speed of sound, it’s easy to believe that we’re always on the verge of revolutionary breakthroughs. The hype machine tells us that thing X or Y is going to “change the game”, and, most of the time, many of us fall for it, especially at the early-adopter end of the bell curve.

Someone asked an online community, “What was supposed to be ‘The Next Big Thing’ but totally flopped?” and netizens didn’t hold back with their answers. From NFTs to Cybertrucks, here’s a collection of some of our favorites.

Cyber truck. WeeklyMath9 reply: They’re just so ugly. I always felt like the design team stopped like 25% in and said “we’re done”

Segway. vikki_1996 reply: SNL news once discussed the Segway launch by saying ‘this amazing invention is going

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