It seems so appropriate that there’s no header picture for this thread. Like the regret is so strong that it’s too embarrassed to flaunt it with a picture.
@cinoclav It was a group effort: I asked our freelance writers to make some suggestions, just like we did with you all. One of them came up with “Instant Regret.” (Stuff very close to this was suggested in this forum, too.)
Then @snapster said that was “good but we need a physical manifestation of it” and “Bag of Instant Regret is clunky.”
So then I tried a few things out and eventually came up with Kit, both to give us a “thing” to talk about, and because of the handy acronym. Plus, I like the sort of Rube Goldberg feeling Kit has, like you’re going to use all these things to build an Instant Regret machine.
@dave Thanks for the explanation. I’m still surprised that no one came up with that exact name yesterday. Given another day or two I’d imagine someone would have done so.
Here is a gif of the video which was originally posted by @medz, then embedded by @f00l, and in an alternate timeline where I did not embed a screenshot.
This is only lightly related but @dave and I had a discussion back in April on what the opposite of Buyers Remorse would be. We thought it possible that there were foreign terms for this feeling (e.g. Schadenfreude) but our searches didn’t find anything. Our context was that hitting the Meh button (and not buying the item) is a “pleasure of restraint” experience. (btw, with @matthew’s help we revised the FAQ to help define the Meh Button experience a bit better for newcomers)
The term Instant Regret is catchier than Buyers Remorse and still fits our edge-philosophy: Building a store that you should enjoy not buying from and even occasionally dissuades you from buying.
The full name & acronym being proposed by @dave after the style match really locked it in.
Whew, I was a little worried when I only read one or two comments hating the new name. Thanks for restoring my faith in everyone’s cynicism.
@dave
/giphy “pay it forward”
It seems so appropriate that there’s no header picture for this thread. Like the regret is so strong that it’s too embarrassed to flaunt it with a picture.
@cinoclav
Perhaps my thoughts were just “extra pure” this morning. Too pure for Google images.
I’m just
/giphy “so superior”
@cinoclav well they can put one in once they decide on the bag design
Btw @dave, who came up with the name? It wasn’t from the thread yesterday so I’m assuming it came from someone within mediocre?
@cinoclav It was a group effort: I asked our freelance writers to make some suggestions, just like we did with you all. One of them came up with “Instant Regret.” (Stuff very close to this was suggested in this forum, too.)
Then @snapster said that was “good but we need a physical manifestation of it” and “Bag of Instant Regret is clunky.”
So then I tried a few things out and eventually came up with Kit, both to give us a “thing” to talk about, and because of the handy acronym. Plus, I like the sort of Rube Goldberg feeling Kit has, like you’re going to use all these things to build an Instant Regret machine.
@cinoclav @dave @snapster I tried to assemble my own Instant Regret machine from my past purchases and now my house looks like this
@dave Thanks for the explanation. I’m still surprised that no one came up with that exact name yesterday. Given another day or two I’d imagine someone would have done so.
It’s good. Good and terrible.
@medz
/giphy exactamente!
@medz
PS. Here is medz’s @good and terrible" vid link, embedded.
Here is a screenshot of the video which was originally posted by @medz, and which @f00l embedded as a video.
@f00l @PlacidPenguin Thanks for the contributions.
@PlacidPenguin
/giphy MORE please
Here is a gif of the video which was originally posted by @medz, then embedded by @f00l, and in an alternate timeline where I did not embed a screenshot.
They shouldda named it “Smitty”.
I’m going to call it a TIRK. As in, “I just scored a TIRK on meh.com today!”
@medz
/giphy Turk scrubs
@Ignorant
This is only lightly related but @dave and I had a discussion back in April on what the opposite of Buyers Remorse would be. We thought it possible that there were foreign terms for this feeling (e.g. Schadenfreude) but our searches didn’t find anything. Our context was that hitting the Meh button (and not buying the item) is a “pleasure of restraint” experience. (btw, with @matthew’s help we revised the FAQ to help define the Meh Button experience a bit better for newcomers)
The term Instant Regret is catchier than Buyers Remorse and still fits our edge-philosophy: Building a store that you should enjoy not buying from and even occasionally dissuades you from buying.
The full name & acronym being proposed by @dave after the style match really locked it in.
@snapster So are you going to give him a fuko prize too? It seems only fair…
I think it is a great name, becuase it features IRK.
You do realize this name makes the possibilities of IRK plushies even closer to becoming reality, right?
I don’t believe in “ragrets”!
KuoH