Ever spent a day at work and all you wanted was a little bit of good news? Well, maybe this website is not for you. For the rest of us, the Unfortunate Cookie is good for a laugh.
Using historical events and old news clippings as proof that the awful fortune you just got told came true to someone else, the Unfortunate Cookie is a good way to spend an afternoon slacking -- or a good way to scare yourself if you are paranoid.
What's Driving This Trend
- Dark Humor
- There is a trend for online platforms that offer humorous content revolving around unfortunate and negative predictions.
- Cynicism
- A trend for prediction sites that offer a cynical perspective on the future.
- Humorous Pessimism
- A trend for sites that provide humorous predictions with a pessimistic viewpoint
Who This Affects Most
- Entertainment
- The entertainment industry has an opportunity to provide the market with dark humor content that is traditional and humoristic.
- Marketing
- Marketers can use prediction sites to create cynical or humorous advertising that plays off of current trends or events.
- Technology
- Developers and tech industries have opportunities to create more predictive algorithms that are able to offer more accurate and meaningful predictions to people.
