# Bad Luck Brian — Meme Lab

Use Bad Luck Brian when careful preparation or hopeful effort is ruined by a specifically unlucky and embarrassing twist.

- What it expresses: Someone does the sensible thing or expects an ordinary outcome, but improbable bad luck turns it into failure.
- Example: I studied all night, and the exam covered the one topic I skipped.
- When not to use it: Avoid when the failure was predictable, caused by obvious negligence, or merely disappointing without an unlucky reversal.
- Tags: bad-luck, unlucky-twist, effort-backfires, embarrassing-failure, irony, misfortune, studied, exam, test, skipped-topic
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