Promising something, but pushing it back for months on end in an attempt to teach a lesson on "delayed gratification" in the manner that YouTuber John Doyle pushed back his documentary on pornography.

Briefly, "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." Originally from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which has a lot more beautiful neologism definitions like this you might enjoy.