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Your skill is not enough.

From the dawn of time, there have been winners and losers. And it has been the sole responsibility of those who win, to point out to the loser, just how much they suck.

Hence the creation of the "YOU FAIL IT" meme.

Essentially, the format goes like this: "YOU FAIL IT (it is ____)." A common and easy substitute for the blank is simply life, implying that the target lacks the skills necessary to deserve being spared from shipment to Auschwitz, post-haste. Of course, other failures can be substituted as the poster feels appropriate. A more severe form is known as epic fail.

When you fail, Oh Yeah by Yello is played in the background. Chic. Chic-chicachicaaah. The meme originates in the arcade game Blazing Star.

1 Using You Fail It In Conversation
2 How to fail
3 Failing on teh Internets
4 The Gallery of Fail
5 See also

[edit] Using You Fail It In Conversation

klb's journal
- "It's slang from slashdot, k5 and other places. Started primarily by some of the more obnoxious members of these sites. The full original form is 'YOU FAIL IT (it is the thing you failed)'. And has branched out from there in a variety of forms."
Athletes.com Forums
- "Bulking is for professional bodybuilders. You are not a professional bodybuilder. Therefore, you fail it (it is not being a loser)."
Want A Billion Dollars?
- "Seeing as you can't even stabilize a URL. You Fail It. It is using the World Wide Web. (It's not much fun at the top. I envy the common people, their hearty meals and Bruce Springsteen and voting.)"
Sporks R' Us
- "YOU FAIL IT ('it' is properly posting)"
Paris Hilton's Notebook Gets Hacked
- "Goddamn it, learn to troll would you? If you going to be taken as credible, you need to at least come from a somewhat reasonable position. All you're doing is trying to defend something that is quite clearly the best thing that's happened on the internet in, I dunno, MONTHS. You fail it (it is being worthy of 20721). Go back to your trollaxor gaysex, chutney ferret."
Rep. Mark Foley (R,FL) resigns after 16-year-old boy releases inappropriate e-mails and chat logs to ABC
- "LOL, did you see that congressman resigned? He totally failed it. You fail it (it is not raping children).

[edit] How to fail

Decide on something to do.
Jump up and down, while running around in circles.
????
PROFIT!!!

[edit] Failing on teh Internets

Stupidity often leads to failure

These are some useful spellings of fail you may come across in your travels:

fayel
fhail
fhayle
fhaile
fhaiyle
fahyll
failzorz
fhailskies
fhaylezorz
phail
ph4il
ph41l
phailzorz
fhphaiiylle

 FFFF  AAAA  III  L
 F     A  A   I   L
 FFFF  AAAA   I   L
 F     A  A   I   L
 F     A  A  III  LLLL

You get the picture.

[edit] The Gallery of Fail

the mudkip occasionally fails, but we liek him anyway	YOU FAIL IT (it is killing dirty Ay-rabs)	You're OUT OF ORDER and you FAIL	YOU FAIL AT LIFE
Failure via Myspace	FAIL	FAILURE	FAILURE (edit with EFG)
Conversation: YOU FAIL! (IT)	FAIL!!	FAIL	Gotta whole lotta fail
Your parents failed with you	Bad luck meme	Sheezyart fagerans even know fail.	Failcat doing what he does best.
Jews are made of fail and jew gold	The iPhone doing what it does best.	FAIL	bringing a sword to a gun fight = fail
	Children Fail
		Because you're a fatty
Lol. Snail.		Multiple Fail	Fail.
This is how to ~~fall~~ fail	Hide and seek fail		Fail desu
He must have forgot his steroids
Gonna get fat	When furries fail	Failure IRL

EPIC FAIL	FAILBOAT!		Yes? Wait...No. I forgot i was ghey.
Some ED editors fail too.	Bob Dylan says you fail.	Your fail does not amuse...