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Usually refered to as someone who has made a complete and utter failed attempt to find humor in something completly irrelivant or in no way humorus to begin with inside the internet in a despriate attempt to be popular.
An E-fail can be multiple things and include but are not limited to:

Trying to make up something utterly stupid to post on the internet to impress a bunch of people who don't really don't care to begin with.

A more direct example would be kids with no lives trying to duplicate the 'numa numa dance' to become an e-celebrity.
E-fail by oldmanwithagrudge October 6, 2009
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1) Failing an online course, most commonly used for extremely easy online courses.
2) When an e-mail is not sent for whatever error (user, hardware, software).
3) A failed pickup attempt online with a chatroom companion; rejection
1) "Damn, I cannot believe that my online basket weaving course turned out to be an e-fail. Now I'll never graduate."
2) A: Did you get my e-mail? It was very important.
B: No.
A: Crap. The TPS reports are going to be late because of a stupid e-fail.
3)A: you wanna cyber
B: No.
A: Well that was a total e-fail.
e-fail by Induhvidyooul January 19, 2007
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e-pic fail 

The combination of an epic fail and a picture which fails epically.
Kevin: Oh, yeah. We moved in last week. We had a new pool put in because the old one was only 50 metres. I'll send you a pic on my phone.
David: Is that your wife? Why does that say 'for Matt'?
Kevin: Uh...

An e-pic fail.
e-pic fail by AcousticSmash October 30, 2010

e-failure 

Someone who fails hard, and often on the internets. Often a failure in real life, also.
Spark is very much an e-failure as he often tries to create pitiful jokes and gets pwned by noobs on XBL and on IRC.
e-failure by Adieu12345 April 19, 2008

e-mail failure 

when you type someone’s name wrong in an email but the government knows who you were trying to contact and contacts them through esp anyways.
The e-mail failure had someone thinking about the sender during the day.
e-mail failure by Coop Dupe December 12, 2019
A failed email. One that gets lost in cyberspace
My best friend sent me an "efail", which I never recieved.
Efail. by Max T. November 27, 2003
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
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