Life isn't always fun and games, sometimes life is full of disappointment, and it's tough. We all get excited about things, which is fine, but from time to time, those things don't go right at all. Everyone has been the victim of a clever advertising campaign before. Everyone has seen the fast food advertisements and thought they looked good, only to order it and get a sad version of the photo posted. It's never fun to be disappointed by things, especially when money was spent on them, but it happens to everyone and Reddit's /r/ExpectationVsReality is proof of that.

This subreddit invites users to share all of their worse "expectation versus reality" posts with the world. The subreddit serves as a way to deal with the pain of being disappointed by something and it serves as a warning to others not to fall for what they did. So here are 25 very disappointing side-by-side comparisons of what someone was expecting versus what they actually got.