The Sad Internet is a place full of unwatched videos, unliked photographs, unheard music, tweets that no one cared about, and crowdfunding projects that nobody backed.
Forgotify plumbs Spotify’s unheard depths to present you with a random selection from the zero-listen archives.
There’s a note of optimism, or at least yearning, in the name of No Likes Yet - yet! As a practical matter, the site is designed to let you “discover” Instagram photos with zero likes. Or you can just indulge in the potential schadenfreude of narrowing results to your own circle of Instagram contacts. Or wallow in the self-pity of reviewing your own unliked pictures.
Sad Tweets: Connect the application to your Twitter account, and it presents you with a lowlights reel of your attempts at “sharing” that attracted no likes, and no retweets. It’s “a graveyard for your most depressing Twitter failures”. And despite his (rather depressing!) wish that the service would expand to allow users to peruse other people’s sad tweets, for now it remains purely a mechanism for self-loathing.
Petit Tube plays a stream of YouTube videos with zero views.
Kickended, a site that collects campaigns launched on the crowdfunding platform that failed to attract a single backer.
A pioneer of the form: the Tumblr Screenshots of Despair. It set out to collect “a bunch of screenshots illustrating the feelings of desolation that can often accompany social networking and life online,” its creator wrote.