28 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (March 30, 2025)

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

Mar 30, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

In the words of the immortal wig-wearing pop star Hannah Montana, "Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has those days. Everybody knows what I'm talking about, everyone gets that way." Those are words that everyone needs to listen to. There is no being a human without slipping up every now and again. Sometimes you slip up so hard that you end up on Memebase where a crowd of anonymous strangers is going to make fun of you. It's nothing you can't get over.

I know this because Chumbawumba told me so in their wonderful song "Tubthumping." They said, "I get knocked down, but I get up again. Ain't nothing gonna keep me down." Another prescient phrase we should all be etching into our hearts. It doesn't matter if you get taken down a peg one day, you'll just move that peg right back up the next. And so on and so forth and scooby dooby doo-wah.

These images have a lot to learn from these two songs. They failed and they failed spectacularly. They may have failed at their initial usage (whatever it was supposed to be), but they've been made useful by us. Because we will take delight in them, not in spite of, but because of their mistakes.
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