Reminds me of that time Microsoft created a smart watch, when that kind of thing was actually kind of new. It was a pretty nice watch, with plenty of features and a totally new tech gadget at the time. A lot of people bought them for xmas that year, the perfect gift for that tech-enthusiast loved one.

Then on December 26th a huge earthquake hit Indonesia (9.3 on the Richter scale) followed by a major tsunami. It killed a lot of people and threw the region into chaos for a while. The world rallied to get aid there, but it was still a horrible time for everyone involved.

Unfortunately one of the features of the smart watch was breaking news being pushed out as alerts. As this was huge news, it was pushed to the smart watches. This left a lot of people waking up during the holidays with terrible news pushed into their lives. People began te reconsider if having such a thing is a good idea.

This, combined with poor battery life, killed of that particular smartwatch.

Humanity as a whole decided we absolutely needed bad news injected as fast and directly as possible at all times and has pursued all technological means to do so. Even going so far as to generate so called 'fake news' or 'alternative facts', when no real bad news is available that very second.