History ScheduleSlip / WebOriginal

* The ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' web serials were affected by this ''heavily''. When they first began in '07, each week regularly had one or two chapters to offer. At around '10, the chapters were separated by months. After the toy-line ended, Franchise/{{LEGO}} still allowed writer Greg Farshtey to continue doing the serials to tie up loose ends, but they stopped being updated during the summer of '11, and the website where they have been published is now deleted. And the story was nowhere ''near'' tidied up at that point. He has since claimed he has no plans to continue writing the serials, since he's too busy and has no place to publish them.

* '' WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' has a long history with this. Initially, it had a consistent schedule of one episode per month in its first season. As the creators grew older, however, it became harder for them to keep to this. The fifth episode of the second season was released on August 1, 2013, with the next episode being planned to release in September. Which it did as a new season called ''IDFB'' on '' September 1, 2016, 3 years later''. This new season then experienced its '' own'' schedule slip. The next episode was planned to be released on October 1, but this never materialised. Instead, viewers got a ''fourth '' season, on November 3, 2017. Predictably, even this suffered its own schedule slip. Episodes initially released biweekly, and then moved on to a monthly schedule. However, after the release of the twelfth episode, it took another full year for the next episode to release. (Granted, its writing was much better, and the episode much longer, compared to previous episodes.)Then in September 2023, a decade after the second season's sixth episode was supposed to come out, the creators finally released it. Episodes taking much longer to release than predicted have now become a common trope among object shows.

* ''WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries'' has come to a grinding halt, four episodes short of completing the first season. The last episode was sometime in 2009. The author [=GanXingba=] put out a small clip of a scene from the second season, and hinted at possibly doings shorts like that instead of full episodes. That is a bit of a letdown.

* '' WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' has a long history with this. Initially, it had a consistent schedule of one episode per month in its first season. As the creators grew older, however, it became harder for them to keep to this. The fifth episode of the second season was released on August 1, 2013, with the next episode being planned to release in September. Which it did as a new season called ''IDFB'' on '' September 1, 2016, 3 years later''. This new season then experienced its '' own'' schedule slip. The next episode was planned to be released on October 1, but this never materialised. Instead, viewers got a ''fourth '' season, on November 3, 2017. Predictably, even this suffered its own schedule slip. Episodes initially released biweekly, and then moved on to a monthly schedule. However, after the release of the twelfth episode, it took another full year for the next episode to release. (Granted, its writing was much better, and the episode much longer, compared to previous episodes.) Episodes taking much longer to release than predicted have now become a common trope among object shows.

* The "weekly" [=MuggleNet=] CaptionContest has run for months a few times.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' Season 18, ''Machinima/RedVsBlueZERO'' was meant to drop in March/April of 2020,as was normal for most ''RVB'' seasons. However, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Creator/RoosterTeeth to push it back until October. ''Then'', two weeks before its premiere, [[Creator/AchievementHunter Ryan Haywood]], who would have played a villain in that season, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor was forced to leave Rooster Teeth after getting caught in an sexting scandal]], forcing them to push it back to November.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' Season 18, ''Red vs. Blue ZERO'' was meant to drop in March/April of 2020,as was normal for most ''RVB'' seasons. However, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Creator/RoosterTeeth to push it back until October. ''Then'', two weeks before its premiere, [[Creator/AchievementHunter Ryan Haywood]], who would have played a villain in that season, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor was forced to leave Rooster Teeth after getting caught in an sexting scandal]], forcing them to push it back to "sometime in 2020".

* TabletopGame/VoteUpACampaignSetting once promised to be released in "Spring 2009." Over a year later... it may not be {{Vaporware}} yet, but that's probably due to fan dedication to the discussion threads.

* Given how many sporkers there are for Blog/DasSporking, this tends to happen thanks to work, school, computer problems, lack of interest, and so forth. Some sporkers are better about keeping to a schedule than others, with the most notable ones being Das Mervin (who regularly updates her ''Breaking Dawn'' recaps on Fridays) and Gehayi and Ket Makura (who update their ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' sporkings on [[FanNickname "Catsuit Tuesdays"]]. Some missed deadlines do happen in those instances, but tend to be because of serious illness or personal issues.

* ''WebVideo/TheJokerBlogs'' has endured two hiatuses for episodes 4, 5, 6 and 7 of its second season, each lasting three years as of 2020. Despite promises from WordOfGod that such a hiatus wouldn't happen again, they have been silent since 2017.

* TheJokerBlogs has endured two hiatuses for episodes 4, 5, 6 and 7, each lasting three years as of 2020. Despite promises from Word of God that such a hiatus wouldn't happen again, they have been silent for the last three years.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' has also taken this to ridiculous extremes. The third "season" started in 2007 and has only had 15 episodes, with three in 2010. Since then, very few actual "episodes" have been made; most are just short one-offs.

** [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] started suffering some slippage late in 2010, affecting his regular output as well as ''Wrestle! Wrestle!''. After a while he revealed that it was because he was seeking treatment for [[TheWoobie a rather nasty heart condition]], and viewers were willing to forgive.

** The releases of WebVideo/JesuOtaku's reviews are very few and far between. [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder Her other videos, however...]]

* Many of the contributors to ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' have trouble keeping to a schedule.

* Team Four Star's ''[[WebVideo/DragonballAbridged Dragonball Z The Abridged Series]]'' normally has no set schedule but has flirted with this trope in the past. The team announced that episodes 7 through 9 would all be uploaded before the end of 2008, but only episode 7 was released during the last week of the year, with episode 8 coming a month later and episode 9 a month after ''that''. Later, it was announced that episode 10 would be split into separate videos to be uploaded over the course of a week. Episode 10 Part 2 (of 3) was uploaded about two weeks after Part 1, and the prior announcement made by Team Four Star was "mysteriously" deleted in the interim. Since then, the team has made no promises regarding release dates, presumably having learned their lesson from these instances.

* Website/GaiaOnline's Evolving Items are ''notorious'' for this. Since the site never officially releases a schedule or declares when the next evolution of any given item will occur, they're free to ignore complaints about the lack of updates. This causes TONS of InternetBackdraft when users (who pay real, actual money for the items in question) express their outrage on the site. The most egregious of these are probably "The Case of Pietro", jokingly named "The Cold Case of Pietro" ''by its own creator'' due to lack of updates, and the Kottan Bell, which saw a 75% drop in its marketplace value because of the several months-long wait between evolutions, stuck on phases with dull items. The Catastrophe! item has evolved twice, with the latest evolution having happened in ''September of '09''.

* The ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' web serials were affected by this ''heavily''. When they first began in '07, each week regularly had one or two chapters to offer. At around '10, the chapters were separated by months. After the toy-line ended, Franchise/{{LEGO}}{{LEGO}} still allowed writer Greg Farshtey to continue doing the serials to tie up loose ends, but they stopped being updated during the summer of '11, and the website where they have been published is now deleted. And the story was nowhere ''near'' tidied up at that point. He has since claimed he has no plans to continue writing the serials, since he's too busy and has no place to publish them.

--> '''Melvin:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Hahahaha!]]

* The LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} and [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit Total Biscuit]] had promised to release a pair of episodes of their ''{{Magicka}}'' co-op LetsPlay on Website/YouTube each Friday and Saturday, or Saturday and Sunday if they were slightly delayed; the three had increasingly busy schedules starting after Part 8, and they slowed down release to the point that some weeks had no episodes or only a single episode. Total Biscuit explained that he had to do the editing and that Part 14 had severe audio issues, which ''still'' weren't fixed when the episode was released ''two months'' after recording.