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YTMND is known for its tendency to propagate a great number of List of fads and in-jokes. Note that the fads almost never consist of only the elements indicated for them. Indeed, the fads could not be as popular without variation.

Intertextuality

Intertextuality is a relationship between two or more texts that quote from one another, allude to one another, or otherwise connect.

One form of intertextuality is the relation of elements within a single site. Sites of the "classic" picture/sound/text variety use intertextuality between the image, the sound and the text to amplify or even create new meaning in their source materials. In instances where all the materials are from the same source, the elements build upon one another to make even a throw-away line one of significance. Sites with unrelated source materials repurpose each element to work toward a meaning that could not be reached from any one individual picture, sound or text alone.

Examples

The subject matter of YTMNDs are evolving and producing new combinations as replication continues by the second. One example is the What is love!? YTMND. The YTMND features an animated GIF clip of a sketch from Saturday Night Live with Chris Kattan, Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell with a repeating section of Haddaway's song "What Is Love". It was soon followed by What is NES Love?, in which the clip is rendered in an 8-bit graphics style similar to those found on a game from the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), complete with an NES version of the song. This was followed by What is a-ha?, with the clip drawn in a style similar to the music video for the song "Take on Me" along with a clip of the song. The fad was then merged with the Tiger Handheld fad for What is Tiger?. It was even mixed with the Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince spoiler fad for What is Dumbledore?.

In some cases, a YTMND is framed to incorporate as many fads as possible, often called a fad conglomerate or fad compilation. One such example is the "YTMND: For Game Boy" site, which features a Pokémon-like Game Boy game where elements from other fads duel to the death. This is not a fad on its own but communicates the popularity and nature of borrowing from other fads (However, it recently got a "real", functional game of its own.). Another is "YTMN Damacy", which involves Katamari Damacy-style balls rolling up other fad images. This is combined with sound clips from other fad YTMNDs arranged to the song "Katamari on the Rocks".

Fads

Follows the actual fads in lists and divided by category.

Most Popular Fads

  • "KHAN!"; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Kirk's KHAN! fury scream.
The first major fad on YTMND aside from the original You're The Man Now Dog.
Previously part of the /contrib folder on the original www.yourethemannowdog.com. No original YTMND existed for this fad.
  • Dennis Nedry The line "Ah Ah Ah you didn`t say the magic word," from Jurassic Park mixed with the song Better Off Alone. Sometimes Wayne Knight's Seinfeld character Newman is used instead of Nedry. The First Nedry YTMND
  • The Picard Tribute, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Jean-Luc Picard|Picard's quote samples from "The Picard Song" by DarkMateria.
The first YTMND to have passed 1 million views as of August 2005. On January 2, 2006, a hacker found the password for the site creator's account and deleted the site. Max Goldberg promptly replaced the YTMND with a previous backup, but was unable to restore its view count. By February 2006, "The Picard Song" reached 2 million views.
In addition Picard has another fad, thought not as popular as the original Picard Song
  • "I believe you have my stapler," Office Space: Milton Waddams's catchphrase.
  • "NOOOOO": Darth Vader's cry of agony from Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
  • 2 fads involving Conan O'Brien
Conan is...AN ALLIGATOR, Conan O'Brien waving his arms like alligator jaws, with the song "Straight Ahead" by Tube & Berger. Sometimes the fad expands to other "Conan is..." ideas that do not use the "alligator" animation.
Future Conan is a popular variation of the Conan fad. Conan O'Brien in the future as the leader of a New World Order, illustrated with images from the 1984 Apple Macintosh computer commercial with an image of Conan repeatedly spreading and closing his arms and OBEY CONAN at his top left, with a clip of the Eurythmics song "Sweet Dreams".
  • What is love?, Haddaway's song "What Is Love": SNL skit featuring Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan and Jim Carrey in a car.
  • Sonic advice or Sonic Says..., Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic The Hedgehog gives advice on sexual harassment, in an audio sniplet taken from one of the "Sonic Says..." announcements shown at the end of every episode. The highlight of his speech is If someone tries to touch you in a place or in a way that makes YOU feel uncomfortable, that's no good! This particular sniplet was taken from episode 3 "Lovesick Sonic". This is often combined with other fads, and occasionally a different sonic advice segment is used.
  • "lol, internet" or "Steam Steam". People in moving objects with a speech balloon saying "lol, <insert word here>", accompanied to a loop of "Running in the 90s" by Max Coveri. The original "lol, internet" featured Ronald McDonald in a blue car pointing diagonally upward.
  • Batman: "ualuealuealeuale": an image of Batman doing a sort of weird dance, accompanied by the song "Macarron Chacarron" by El Mudo. This YTMND was the first to overtake The Picard Song as the most viewed YTMND on the site. There were many YTMNDs featuring screenshots of the two shown side by side with the number of hits shown on the day before Batman overtook Picard.
  • "OMG, Secret Nazi...!" This fad hides a swastika in a picture and adding a seizure-inducing flashing picture of a person (usually Hitler) to the corner, accompanied by the song "Heute Ist Mein Tag" by Blümchen. The fad originated from an article about a Forest swastika|hidden swastika in a German forest.
  • "Nigga Stole My Bike!". Punch-Out!!: Doc Louis riding a bike in front of Little Mac that was accompanied by the statement "Nigga stole my bike!" with those same words spoken by the YTMND's creator, Duezce. This was followed by the popular animated version with Duezce's words spliced into Punch-Out's music.
    • The fad originated on Something Awful for Photoshop Phriday, March 20, 2003, created by Allanon858. [1]
    • Was moderated and moved to NSFW status because of racial reasons.
    • There was a rumor that the quote "Someone stole my bike" came from the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
    • The line "Woke up the next morning, niggas had stolen my bike" has appeared in the song Hate It or Love It by The Game featuring 50 Cent and has been used in a few YTMNDs.
  • "Brian Peppers", a sex offender in Ohio with a facial malformity. [2] Typically accompanied with song "Burn Bobonga" from the SNES game Chrono Trigger. The one that pretty much initiated the fad featured an image of a woman sitting on a bench, digitally altered to look as though Peppers was hiding inside of a mailbox behind the woman and watching her. This was the first to use "Burn Bobonga" as the background song, and also introduced the most common text to be displayed, a cry of "Brian No!!!"
    On January 31, 2006, Grimaf created a YTMND purporting to display "the truth about Brian J. Peppers", detailing his difficult, convalescent life, which led to some users removing their Brian Peppers sites. This new information was seemingly verified by a man claiming to be Peppers's brother, Allen Peppers. On February 2 of the same year, Kyeson created "Allen Peppers: Hypocrisy" which displays a screenshot proving that the person upvoted many of the "offensive" Brian Peppers sites that he criticized. Furthermore, other YTMND users pointed out multiple inconsistencies in the man's story including a time discrepancy regarding a "Faygo" soda can that appeared on a table in a picture that the man claimed to be from 1976. The can design was discovered not to have been created until the early 90's. Subsequently, the man created one last site which confirmed that this had all been a joke. The site first shows a "final letter" to address YTMND of his frustration. "The Truth about Brian Peppers" as well as "A Letter about Brian Peppers" are accompanied by the song "Forever Rachel" from Final Fantasy VI.
  • "...doesn't change facial expressions". A fast-moving animated GIF of a person in different photos. The person has the same (or very similar) expression in all of them. Accompanied by Eric Prydz's song "Call on Me". In more recent versions the picture may also be static. It originated from a flash file that was found in an update (on May 24, 2005) at Albino Blacksheep called 'The Face'. The .gif used in the Lindsay Lohan version of this fad became infamous when it was posted and watermarked on eBaum's World without permission.
  • Safety Not Guaranteed; a newspaper ad from a person asking for someone to accompany him in time travel with image of a stone-faced young man with a mullet (haircut)|mullet. The ad warns that a potential respondent's safety is not guaranteed as he only tried once before; There are 2 varieties of this fad, both accompanied by the song "Push It To The Limit".
    • The photoshopping of the ad for other people (example: Dick Cheney|Cheney, Dr. Emmett Brown, Crono, etc...)
    • Various photoshopping of the "mullet man" in various historical events (example: The Last Supper, Vietnam War, etc...)
  • "... has one weakness" It all started with a YTMND called "Professer X has one weakness". It was a picture of The X-Men character Professor X being pushed down a flight of stairs by Sinister (from Ultimate X-Men #49) saying, "Stairs." Since then, people have either edited that same picture or used another picture using the same music, a remix of Axel F.
  • Bill Cosby from a fictional Kids Say the Darndest Things skit shown on The Simpsons where he asks a child what he likes to play. The child says "Pokémon," which Cosby then rambles about incoherently.
    • Recently, there have been various remixes of the Cosby scene set to various fad music (PSP, Stop the Rock, etc...)
  • "Punch the keys, for God's sake!" or "PTKFGS" After the original scene from Finding Forrester in which "You're the man now, dog!" originated was made as a YTMND by Aphex350, a new fad was born from the line also featured in the scene, viewed to be an alternative catchphrase to "You're the Man Now, Dog.". Most people view this as an "alternate dimension" version of the site (with "Punch the keys, for God's sake" as its tagline, obviously), and as such, they create alternate versions of existing YTMNDs. (One popular PTKFGS said that the time traveller from the "Safety Not Guaranteed" fad went back in time to change this.) Some of these alternatives include:
  • "R U SHUR" instead of "O RLY?"; complete with appropriate pictures of cats.
  • The John Sheridan (from Babylon 5) song instead of the Picard song.
  • Darth Vader yelling "Yeeeeeeesssss!" instead of "Nooooo!".
    • There is also another verson with Luke Skywalker yelling "NO!", from The Empire Strikes Back.
  • Milton questioning his stapler using a clip from Weird Al's song "Dog Eat Dog" rather than asking someone to give back his.
  • "Spic stole my bike!" instead of "Nigga stole my bike!".
  • Sex offender Marvin Wayne Stevens popping out of a post office box instead of Brian Peppers peeking out of a mailbox.
In addition, Brian Peppers is portrayed as a ladies' man in several PTKFGS, featuring a clip of Robo (Chrono Trigger)|Robo's theme from Chrono Trigger instead of "Burn Bobonga" and the text "Go Brian!" instead of "Brian no!"
  • A clip from the American version of Iron Chef is used where the host eats a green apple instead of a bell pepper.
  • Oprah killing Tom Cruise instead of the reverse used in ytmnd.
  • The Joker singing another part of "Macarron Chacarron" instead of Batman.
  • Or The Green Hornet uttering his own babble.
  • Or Spider-Man singing a part of Lemon Demon's The Song You Hear before you die.
  • Colonel Sanders of KFC fame saying, "omg, internet" instead of Ronald McDonald saying, "lol, internet", set to "Golden Age" by Max Coveri.
  • OMG, Secret Communist!, a play on the OMG Secret Nazi! fad with the original forest photoshopped to look like the sickle and hammer insignia of the Soviet Union (or anything implying connections to Communism or the Soviet Union), accompanied by a strobing photo of Josef Stalin and the song "All the Things She Said" sung by t.A.T.u.. Originally, the English version was first used, but due to the request of others, the Russian version has been the main choice.
  • Lindsay Lohan changes facial expressions a lot, instead of Lindsay Lohan doesn't change facial expressions, accompanied by the song "Hazel Eyes" by The Darkness.
    • Another version involves Ashley Tisdale doesn't change facial expressions, this one accompanied by "We Built this City" by Jefferson Starship.
  • Summoning of an ice spirit instead of a fire spirit, set to the original "Requiem for a Dream" song from the movie of the same name.
  • A third universe, known as YESYES was created as a result of PTKFGS, featuring another Connery quote. However, this idea was rejected by several YTMND users. It has a green water mark pasted on the bottom right corner of an image.

There's also a ptkfgs.com that redirects to a random YTMND page each day. These YTMND pages appear to be high-rated ytmnds not necessarily relating to the ptkfgs fad.

Popular YTMND songs

Many popular YTMND songs have been made available to download in a compiled soundtrack by YTMND user, fyrestorm via BitTorrent. The soundtrack currently has 10 volumes, each made to fit on standard 72 Minute Compact Disc length. Volume 10 was released on April 10, 2006.

Film-related fads

  • "It's a trap!"; Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi: Admiral Ackbar's popular line. Originated on Something Awful in 2002 or 2003 and migrated to Fark.com and other web communities, such as 4chan. It's a trap can be found here: http://www.itsatrap.net
  • "Indiana Jones can't stop the rock"; Raiders of the Lost Ark: Indiana Jones running from a boulder as well as other images of people running with boulders. Usually accompanied by the song "Stop the Rock" by Apollo 440. Sometimes, images of WWE wrestler Dwayne Johnson|The Rock will be used. 1
    • In 2005, the creator of the original site Fooliano decided to test out something with the sound. He changed the song from "Stop the Rock" to "Hulkamaniacs in Heaven" by Hulk Hogan and company. Around this time though, max was making some changes to the site, one which would allow sites with the same music so that any sites that used the same sound would use the same file to conserve space. Max turned off uploading just after Fooliano finished uploading his song...resulting in 50 sites that had used the original "Stop the Rock" loop having their song replaced with the Hulkamaniac song. Once max turned uploading back on again, Fooliano decided to change it back to the Stop The Rock track, but none of the sites affected by the glitch had their song changed back. Contrary to rumors, the incident was not the work of hackers.
  • "Uber Hax!!1". Dramatic depictions or scenes paired chronologically with semi-related leet|leetspeak, usually as if the scenes occurred on a multiplayer game server. These YTMNDs have dramatic music, most commonly from "Pompeii" by E.S. Posthumus.
  • "You lose! Good day sir!", Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: Gene Wilder.
Sometimes combined with the failing horns from The Price Is Right.
  • Gandalf; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: "You shall not pass!" often accompanied by a picture of a Monopoly board, students taking a final exam, a crossing guard, etc.
  • "MINE! MINE! MINE!"; Finding Nemo: Seagull call. Usually used when someone wants complete ownership of something. Commonly used to poke fun at websites that did not update their copyright year from 2005 to 2006 immediately after the new year began, especially high-power franchises like Google.
  • Chunk is indestructible; Various permutations of the Chunk character from The Goonies, usually showing off his supposed invincibility (his truffle shuffle dance). It should be noted that the original site featured Jean-Luc Picard|Picard shooting a gun at Chunk and that portion of the clip has also been used in fads. Chunk uses his truffle shuffle to deflect the bullets Usually accompanied by the song "Feuer Frei!" by Rammstein. Sometimes "Du Hast" also by Rammstein may be used.
  • When Spongebob Meets; a scene from the Spongebob Squarepants movie where Spongebob and Patrick meet David Hasselhoff. This was one of the old fads from 2004
  • "The Curb-Stomp scene" from the movie American History X, showing a man killing another person by stomping on his head, often parodized with other persons (for example, The Burger King stomping on the Hamburglar).
  • ...sees so much beauty; A scene from the movie American Beauty where a plastic bag flies across a street corner. The fad involves various people, normally feeling sad and depressed watching the bag fly. Sites are set to the main theme of American Beauty. The original site featured Jack Bauer from 24.
  • "McFly stole..."; an altered scene using 2 movies: "Back to the Future Part 2" and "Time Bandits", depicting the Back to the Future character Marty McFly running in a hallway. The original one featured McFly carrying a butterfinger while running from Future Conan.
  • Hobo-Cruise; a scene from the movie Minority Report where Cruise's character is pursuing a pair of eyeballs through a corridor.
  • Snakes on a Plane; various parodies involving the upcoming movie as well as a quote from Samuel Jackson. This was based on an on-going internet phenomenom.
  • It's behind!; a scene from the movie Signs where a television shows a news clip of an alien walking by near a residential area. That person has been photoshopped to show various other people or reactions from others.
  • The Line Must be drawn here, a quote from Star Trek: First Contact by Picard, used in "defining rules" and "teaching classes", for example, the original showed Picard instructing an art student on where to draw the line. Another example focused on recent immigration laws in the U.S.
  • "You're joking. You're joking. I can't believe my eyes.", a line from Nightmare Before Christmas as said by Oogie Boogie. The sound loop is usually coupled with an image of 'badly dressed cosplayer's' or low quality products, that often look nothing like what they are meant to be. (Such as men in Sailor Moon costumes)
  • Agent Smith from The Matrix Playing the piano usually accompianed by a classic song.

Television-related fads

  • Various Burger King advertisements.:
    • Ugoff, a self-important character in Burger King commercials saying "Please. I am Ugoff." and "Ugoff is hungry!". Ugoff appeared to be a demanding male fashion designer.
    • The Burger King "King" with the words "Where is your God now?" placed in the image. Usually accompanied by "Requiem for a Dream" or "King of Kings" by Motörhead.
    • Darius Rucker's Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch ad.
  • Throwing the shoe, a scene from the anime Azumanga Daioh where a girl named Osaka kicks her shoe off into the street. In the original scene, the shoe is carried off by a fast-moving truck. This sequence is replaced by other outcomes.
  • "It's Time to D-D-D-D-D-Duel."; Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime): Opening of the English-dubbed version.
  • "Nobody Expects the The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python)|Spanish Inquisition!"; Monty Python: Michael Palin's cry, often showing up as trap sites.
  • I Love Bell Peppers; Iron Chef's Takeshi Kaga devouring a large piece of a bell pepper, as seen on the original show. The scene has been parodized to show him eating various other objects. Sometimes, his face will be photoshopped so that others (Brian Peppers, James T. Kirk, etc...) are eating them.
  • "Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?"; Chappelle's Show: Wayne Brady. Other words usually replace "choke a bitch" and/or "Wayne Brady".
  • "Lieutenant Commander Data|Data just ran"; features an animated gif of Lieutenant Commander Data from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Data's Day running in place while the song "I Ran" plays in the background.
  • "Walker told me I have AIDS"; Walker, Texas Ranger: Made popular from Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the "Walker, Texas Ranger Lever". They are often accompanied by pictures having to do with Africa, food, etc.
  • "Giggity Giggity"; Family Guy: Glenn Quagmire's (nonsensical) catchphrase.
  • "Hassan". Mark Copani (a.k.a. Muhammad Hassan) a wrestler with an Arab in-ring persona named suddenly appearing in unexpected places with his theme song referred to as "ALEAALEA", interrupting them in the process. Recently though, his theme has accompanied anything Arab-related. Note: Hassan really interrupts people with his theme song, which inspired the fad.
  • Tom Cruise's love fueled incident on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Various sites parodize this incident, the most infamous being a site called Tom Cruise kills Oprah, which showed Tom Cruise shooting lighting at Oprah, accompanied by a clip from Star Wars where Emperor Palpatine is using his lightning.
    • Tom Cruise getting squirted by a water gun at during an interview on the red carpet.
  • Marguerite Perrin's rant on Trading Spouses, concerning the un-Christian practices of the D'Amico Flisher family, the presence of Jeanne D'Amico Flisher in her home, and what Marguerite believed Jeanne had planned to spend the $50,000 reward on. The highlight of this rant was her exclamation, "Everything's ungodly!"
  • 2 scenes from the live action Sailor Moon TV Show (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon)
    • Sailor Moon Meets...", A scene where the 5 sailors meet various people. Also accompanied by "Requiem for a Dream".
    • Sailor Moon vs. where said character fights various people by reflecting their attacks (mainly projectiles). This particular clip is accompanied by the refrain from the song "Invincible" by Pat Benatar. The original one featured Sakaki from Azumanga Daioh.
  • "Don't say his name!"; WB Television Network's Freakazoid!: Freakazoid meets his enemy, Candlejack. His name is replaced with other spoiler fads.
  • Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius: A scene from a musical version of Planet of the Apes, shown on The Simpsons, where the actors sing about the Dr. Zaius character. The song is a parody of the song by Falco called "Rock Me Amadeus" detailing the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The Bill Nye the Science Guy theme song. Various YTMNDs, usually involving Bill Nye, include clips of the popular theme song.
    • A popular variation of the fad invovled the excerpt "Bill Bill Bill Bill" repeated again and again, accompanied by images of phone bills, people named Bill, etc...
  • "They spinnin', nigga, they spinnin'!". Chris Rock's comedy skits, usually accompanied by an image of something spinning.
  • George Costanza! A gif of a shirtless George Costanza shooting various items out of his nipples (usually milk), mainly accompanied by "Go Go Naruto" from the anime Naruto.
  • Chuck Norris, known for his role in Walker, Texas Ranger. The fad originated from a Chuck Norris Facts|website that displayed fake facts about his godlike powers.
  • The More You Know, where little vox pop-style clips from celebrities are presented as public service announcements in the style of NBC's "The More You Know" PSAs.
  • MacGyver saves..., from the TV show, where he would make absurd items from common household items, eg: a paper clip and string becoming a jet engine. The typical MacGyver YTMND starts with someone in trouble, MacGyver shows up, asks "What do I have to work with?", then it shows the items, then "14 seconds later", MacGyver completes what he needed. Then someone says "How'd you do it?", with MacGyver's reply being "I'm MacGyver, LOL," or some variation thereof. These sites are accompanied by the TV theme song.
  • Lamb Chop is goin crazy, a gif from the early children's TV show showing Lamb Chop moving out of control, mainly accompanied by HIM's "Soul on Fire", sometimes mixed with the "Chunk is Indestructible" fad.
  • Volkswagen commercial: features actor Peter Stormare as a German auto-engineer "un-pimping ze auto" by destroying sports cars of non-German style, then declaring "Oh Snap!"
  • A-HA! Caught you, with Sean Connery; A scene from Jeopardy where Alex Trebek imitates the original "You're the Man Now, Dog!" scene featuring Sean Connery. Afterwards, he gives the answer to the contestants of Jeopardy with "A-ha! Caught you, with Sean Connery, in Finding Forrester!" when they could not answer this quote. Sites often play around with either of his 2 quotes.
  • Kirby explains..., a counterpart to "Sonic Sez", in which Kirby points at a blackboard with a pointer and explains what he has drawn. This is a scene taken from "Kirby: Right Back at Ya!", and originally had Kirby pointing a board filled with his random scribbles, and babbling on about a plan. His speech and/or his drawings are edited.

Music-related fads

  • The Dew Army - combining an image with a song where the lyrics are taken out of context, are misheard, or are taken literally. Whenever anyone makes a site that fits this description, comments on the site will almost always include "Dew Army FTW", in reference to a site called "DEW" which was among the first of this nature, using the song "Du" by David Hasselhoff.
  • "Everyone has AIDS" from the film Team America: World Police
  • "Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora is frequently used to symbolize male homosexuality. It's also used in a fad involving printed, written-word "recreations" of other fads. This is the main song choice for the Gay Fuel fad (listed under Other Fads). Though there have been some suggestions for different music (like "Menergy"), these suggestions never really picked up.
  • Banana Phone by Raffi, one of the original ytmnd fads. Its popularity originated from the online flash.
  • Various emo (music)|emo songs are used to parody Emo's target audience. The most popular song for this is Simple Plan|Simple Plan's "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me) (Simple Plan song)|Untitled".
    • Previously, the main choice was Linkin Park's "Crawling", mainly used in sites depicting angst.
    • Notably, the overuse of the Simple Plan song has become severely irritating to most.
  • "United States of Whatever" by Liam Lynch (musician)|Liam Lynch. The word "Whatever" and sometimes, phrases from the song, are replaced by sound clips, sometimes from other fads.
  • "Ding Dong Song" by Günther, sometimes used in sexually implicit sites as well as parodies of the original disc cover by Günther.
  • Famous songs being played in reverse to show hidden messages, often showing that the singer is a "Nazism|Nazi". Some of them are fake with a voice mixed in.
  • "Technologic" by Daft Punk, usually accompanied by a person opening his/her mouth back and forth to the lyrics. The original featured Osaka from Azumanga Daioh.
  • Various songs used for people dancing:
    • "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk, usually accompanied with the title "____ Works It". Made popular by a flash video featuring the video game character Kunio.
    • "Die motherfucker, die motherfucker still fool". Lyrics from the song "Still" by Geto Boys, used for "hardcore" dancing. Also may be used for people getting beaten up.
    • O-Zone's song "Dragostea Din Tei", commonly called "Numa Numa" after the Internet phenomenon of the same name with Gary Brolsma lip-synching the words, usually accompanies people dancing by swaying their heads in a manner similar to Brolsma.
    • "Moskau (Dschinghis Khan song)|Moskau" by Dschinghis Khan, usually accompanied by synchronized dancing as seen in the original video.
    • Bebubebududeh, a nonsensical line from the song "Party Like it's 1904" by Rex Navarette, set to people dancing in a "retarded" way. Some consider this to be an alternate of the ualuealuealeuale fad.
    • Get Crunk, by Lil John, often showing people rocking back and forth OR drinking some alcoholic beverages.
    • Don't hold back, from the song "Galvanize" by the Chemical Brothers and Q-Tip. Sites normally have one person saying "Don't hold back" followed by another saying "K, lol" and starting a break dance, usually synced to the song. Sometimes, the dancer may say "You got served" at the end.
    • Zazazazazaza, an excerpt from the song "Control Myself" by LL Cool J, often accompanying people dancing or pictures of bees. The excerpt originated from a dew army site called "My Chainsaw", that won one of the top prizes in a recent Dew Army contest. The site described the sound a chainsaw would make. The followup featured Zack Taylor from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers performing his popular dance inside the Hatch from the popular ABC TV show LOST.
  • "Space Jam" by Quad City DJs (from the soundtrack of the Space Jam|movie of the same name) referred to as "Super Slam" and associated with Randy Poffo|Randy Savage. This was derived from a Flash animation made popular on 4chan. Another popular version features the Space Jam song's lyrics being mixed into a MOD chiptune named "Funky Stars". Sometimes, the song will accompany people getting slammed.
  • "OH SNAP!". From the song "Just a Friend" by Biz Markie.
  • Initial D Soundtrack. Various songs from the soundtrack of the anime Initial D, often set to various vehicles racing. The 2 most popular choices are "Running in the '90s", by Max Coveri featured and "Speedy Speed Boy" by Marko Polo. Songs may also show up in some rave sites.
  • Parodies and recreations of the music video for "Take on Me" by A-ha. Usually done in the same style of animation as the music video. This might have been made popular by a similar sequence involving Chris in the Family Guy episode "Breaking Out is Hard to Do".
  • Songs "interpreted" phonetically to English. The fad first involved the Finnish version of the theme song from DuckTales. Some of the misinterpreted lines from the Finnish DuckTales version were used for many sites ("Your arms are broken" and "Taco Nazi" are the best examples of it). Other popular songs misinterpreted include "Heute Ist Mein Tag" by Blümchen, "Call on Me" by Eric Prydz, the German language|German version of the ending to Super Mario Bros. Super Show#The Super Mario Bros. Super Show.21|Super Mario Bros. Super Show! ("Do the Mario"), the classical "O Fortuna", the Swedish language|Swedish and Dutch language|Dutch versions of the DuckTales theme, and the Finnish version of the Pokémon rap.
    • One popular mis-interpretation involves a song by Sacred Spirits called "Wishes Of Happiness & Prosperity", where Kirk Douglass's line is mis-interpreted as "I want Sundaes".
  • Two songs involving spinning:
    • "Ridin' Spinnaz" by Three 6 Mafia, original use was a GIF of male to shemale anal sex (List of shock sites#Klerck.org|Spin.gif), where the receiver's penis was spinning clockwise. It is now used in animations involving someone randomly spinning around something, with zoomed text reading "also" and the name of what the person is spinning around.
    • "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" by Dead or Alive.
  • "Evolution (Time is Pop Mix)" by Ayumi Hamasaki is used as the token song in sites depicting rave culture.
    • Other songs used in rave sites include Darude's Sandstorm, Zombie Nation's Kernkraft 3000, and Transa's Supernova.
  • "Living in ths Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight" by Tiny Tim, used to show various people "having a wonderful time". The song is associated with some of the gman sites.
  • "We Like to Party" by the Vengaboys is often used in YTMNDs about racism.
The advertising mascot for the Six Flags theme parks (Mr. Six) looked similar to Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old man that was charged with killing three civil rights workers in the 1960s while he was in the Ku Klux Klan. Six Flags then threatened to sue anyone that made the comparison on YTMND. The site was taken down, but the song is used on YTMNDs that declare something or someone to be racist. The original website created by "Radio-F-Software" was relisted, but as an ad for their site.
  • "Drop It Like It's Hot" by Snoop Dogg. An acapella version is combined with other songs with similar beats.
  • "The Internet is for Porn" from the Broadway musical Avenue Q. Sometimes featuring Cookie Monster due to similaries in the voice.
  • "Great Moments in History." Pictures of plane, train, automobile and boat crashes are set to a clip of "Feel Good, Inc." by the Gorillaz — in particular, the line, "watch the way I navigate—ha ha ha ha ha!" The title of said YTMND's were likely a take-off from a nationally syndicated radio talk show, "The Bob and Tom Show", where they have had numerous segments with titles such as "Great Moments in Presidential History" or "Great Moments in Olympic History".
  • "Move Bitch" by Ludacris is accompanied with pictures of things colliding. Very often, this song will accompany an infamous picture of a runner walking on a racetrack and getting trampled by another runner.
  • "Get Low" by Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz, usually used for things related to "skeet" or people "getting low". The former will feature both the censored and uncensored versions of the "Aww skeet skeet" part of the song.
Sometimes, the song "'Ya Get Skeeted On" by Dark Heartz will be used instead.
  • "X Gonna Give it to Ya" by DMX, accompanied by anything named X or "Ex", sometimes accompanied by pictures of FedEx trucks, packages, and caps.
  • "Rock You like a Hurricane" by The Scorpions (band)|Scorpions, normally used for Hurricane YTMNDs (most recently Hurricane Katrina) as well as anything related to "rocking" or "scorpions."
  • Darth Vader Sings!. Various songs altered to sound like Darth Vader is singing them. Previously, songs were altered to sound like previous YTMNDs of Zordon of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and The Chipmunks.
  • "Bomb" (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) by The Bucketheads, usually accompanied with animated pictures of someone or something falling.
  • Can't Break My Stride, Someone running away from something with Matthew Wilder's "Break My Stride" playing. In some sites, an alternate version of the song by Blue Lagoon or Ace of Base may be used.
  • Pi, by Hard 'n Phirm. A portion of the lyrics of the song consists of approximately the first 150 digits of the decimal expansion of pi.
  • The Real... where the "real" version of a song replaces that traditionally used by YTMND creators. Originally started when, in response to the "OMG Secret Communist...!" PTKFGS fad (which had been using the English lyrics for the t. A.T.u. song "All the Things She Said"), someone posted the original PTKFGS with the Russian lyrical version. Others include the "real" version of the "Batman uelelalelale" song, and other non-music related fads.
  • Smack my Bitch up, the song by Prodigy, accompanied by people smacking other people in the face either once or consistantly. The most infamous image associated with the song is a gif of two Pikachus from Pokemon smacking each other.
  • Ghost Love Score, by the rock group Nightwish. An excerpt from the song is often used to make things more "epic" than they really are. The excerpt first camed from an attempted forum fad called "Tennis Man", but was then used for various other sites including the recent "Epic Geordi Manuevers".
  • Cuppycake Gumdrops, a song sung by a little girl, and is used in conjunction with any YTMND that is excessively cute. First used by Max in a YTMND featuring the "Kittyloaf".
  • Various songs involving winning
    • Queen (band)|Queen's "We Are the Champions"
    • The victory fanfare from Final Fantasy VI
    • The "success" song from The Price is Right (usually accompanied by "______ Succeeds at life")

Video game-related fads

  • Select-a-fad; Various parodies of selection screens in video games, often altered to show various fads. The most popular choices include the ability selection screen from Kirby Super Star, and the Mega Man level select screen.
  • The ending theme from Super Mario World sped up and usually accompanying something wacky (typically with "lol" as the site's phrase or edits done by 4Kids Entertainment).
  • Kratos Aurion's "Judgement" remixed into various songs.
  • The song "Burn Bobonga" from Chrono Trigger, commonly used for various sites involving perverts. This was the original song choice for the Brian Peppers fad.
  • "You Fucking Stole my Cloudsong!" A Dark Age of Camelot player screaming at a fellow complaining that he stole his Cloudsong. Note: the first "cloudsong" YTMND depicted the player as playing World of Warcraft which has caused some confusion. The original website was called "WoW is Serious Business", starting the Serious Business fad as mentioned under miscellaneous fads.
  • Link (Legend of Zelda)|Link finds... A scene from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time where Link opens a treasure chest and finds various items.
    • Also from the Zelda series is a fad involving various people receiving the triforce.
  • Metal Gear Solid's "Snake? Snake? SNAAAAAAAAAAKE!" death sequence. The original one in Metal Gear Solid 2 had Otacon calling out for Solid Snake, and is the most commonly parodied death sequence. The fad started with a sequence involving Mario and Luigi.
  • "Do a barrel roll!" Peppy Hare's catch phrase from Starfox 64. This has been joined with his other lines.
  • Rolling Katamari Damacy balls of various random objects, usually accompanied with the Katamari Damacy theme song.
  • A Thwomp crashing into a character, usually with the Super Mario Bros. "thwomp" and "death" sounds.
  • The Leeroy Jenkins video from World of Warcraft. Usually paired with a picture of Martin Lawrence from the film Black Knight (film)|Black Knight with a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken photoshopped in.
  • "Nothing Moves the Blob (comics)|Blob!" A scene from the X-Men X-Men (arcade game)|arcade game where the players confront the villanous Blob, often with the original sound clip in the background.
  • "WRYYYYYY", a scream associated with the series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and popularized in a Flash video disseminated widely through 4chan. The original video combined Dio Brando's "The World" super move, which could stop time; Dio's "Road Roller", in which he crushed his opponent with a steamroller, and Shadow Dio's "Charisma", in which he screams and sends sparks toward the opponent. Of these, the "Charisma" scream is most prevalent, followed by the "Road Roller" steamroller.
  • NES, various fads remade as if they were on the NES system.
  • "G-Man (Half-Life)|G-Man Adventures", various gifs created with the Half-Life 2 Garry's Mod of the G-Man from the Half-Life series dancing around and "having a wonderful time", often set to various songs like "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" by Tiny Tim. The original featured G-Man spinning in an office chair. Other G-Man sites may parodize various fads like butt racing and Moskau and be set to different songs.
  • Rejected Mega Man Classic|Mega Man Villain #, Parodies the screen in all of the Mega Man games prior to entering a stage, where edited pictures of Mega Man sprites (Always having the suffix "Man" after their names) is used. The pre-battle intro theme from the first Mega Man game is always used in these YTMNDs, although there are some variations using later Mega Man titles.
  • Parodies of various video game hardware, for example, the Playstation 3 Boomerang controller, the Xbox's size, power cable and graphics, and the Nintendo "Wii-mote". Some of the most popular hardware fads include:
    • A Tiger Electronics|Tiger Handheld made to resemble any other YTMND fad, with beeping music that also sounds like a Tiger Handheld.
    • "It's not a defect, it's a feature." A picture of a PlayStation Portable ejecting its disc automatically, usually with a loop of Franz Ferdinand (band)|Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out (song)|Take Me Out". It is usually titled "It's not a feature (or defect), it's a...". "Take Me Out" was used in the PSP commercials in the United States.
    • Wii, the fifth generation console from Nintendo that was initially codenamed "Revolution". Within hours after the name change was annouced, the inevitable YTMND's began to pop up, some including various people saying "wii" (for example, Adam West's quote on Family Guy[3], the flash video Gonads and Strife, and a reinterpretation of "WRYYYYYY") and those with a name similar sounding to "wii".
    • Sites about Playstation3's Pre-E3 2006 Conference, which either condemn Sony for taking ideas from Nintendo or ridicule its high price point.
  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl Newcomer. A fad that started after Super Smash Bros. Brawl was advertised at E3 2006. The fad consists of random characters or even real people pretending to be characters you could unlock when the game was released. Sites include characters such as John Madden, Megaman, Sonic, Captain Picard, "The King of Cosmos" and others.

Politics related fads

  • Howard Dean's Howard Dean#Iowa results and the campaign's collapse|infamous speech and frenzied scream after the Iowa Caucus.
  • Bushisms; George W. Bush statements, like You forgot Poland and internets.
  • "George Bush doesn't care about black people": Kanye West's well-known and controversial comment during a Hurricane Katrina disaster relief telethon.
  • "Chocolate New Orleans" New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin's bizarre speech about rebuilding New Orleans into a "Chocolate New Orleans", very often being compared with Willy Wonka. The song is often set to the music heard in the Land of Chocolate episode on The Simpsons.
  • Dick Cheney goes hunting, sites making fun of Dick Cheney's mishap during the weekend of February 11, where he accidentally shot an attorney on a hunting trip. Usually accompanied with the song "Janie's Got a Gun" by Aerosmith. In the song, Steven Tyler's voice makes the name "Janie" sound like "Cheney", which in a way makes the purpose of the music similar to the interpretation-based YTMNDs. Sometimes, parodies invovling the video games Duck Hunt and Doom are used.
  • Hitler Seizes Control, sites using photographs of an auditorium filled with Nazis with Hitler at the podium. Hitler and the swastikas are modified to make it look like someone other than Hiter has "seized control". These sites usually have "One-Winged Angel#Sairin: Katayoku no Tenshi|Sairin: Katayoku no Tenshi", the heavy metal arrangement of "One-Winged Angel" used in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children though there are many exceptions.
  • Richard Nixon, a fad which actually has very little to do with politics. These sites feature various pictures of former President Richard Milhous Nixon, along with amusing sound and/or text. The sites are often random in nature, and occasionally incorporate Nixon's image into existing YTMND fads.

YTMND-related/Miscellaneous fads

  • The original YTMND ("You're the man now, dog!") [4]
  • Spoofs of the new shirts being sold by Max, the webmaster of YTMND. Usually saying "You will buy a shirt!" while hypnotic additions are made.
  • Screenshots of the YTMND homepage with varying captions.
  • "You can't see this YTMND!" Pictures (modified or otherwise) of a page stating that you cannot see this YTMND.
  • The "Batman and Picard" war, referring to how "Batman: ualuealuealeuale" replaced "The Picard Song" as the most viewed YTMND.
  • ...Needs Therapy, Various people appearing to be acting crazy or strange, with a loop of "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches. Sometimes a scene from Donnie Darko where the actor Jake Gyllenhaal is holding up a knife, will be edited.
  • ...Fails at life; Pictures of people failing at tasks, accompanied by the music from The Price is Right when a person loses a game.
  • "Gay Fuel", an energy drink marketed to homosexuality|homosexuals. This is usually paired with Baltimora's song "Tarzan Boy". Most appearances of "Tarzan Boy" is a reference to homosexuality. This was a "forum fad" started by YTMND user, inkdrinker.
  • Jesus, usually in modified bible illustrations. There are many different variations of the fad:
    • The most popular variation shows images of Jesus with fictitous captions, mainly having the words "It's Jesus, LOL" in it, accompanied by the song Awesome God.
    • Parodies of RPG games, accompanied by the battle theme from Final Fantasy VII,
    • Raptor-Jesus, images of Jesus with his head replaced by that of a raptor with the phrase "he went extinct for your sins", also accompanied by Awesome God or the main theme to the movie Jurassic Park
    • Sometimes, the fad is combined with the MacGyver fad.
    • Some parodies show Jesus in a duel with Adolf Hitler.
  • "Summoning". A picture of someone "summoning" a fire spirit into existence. It often appears between their hands. The original was "Al Gore Summons a Fire Spirit!!!!!" by Phange and did not feature The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trailer theme that came to be associated with the 'summoning' YTMNDs. The fad truly took off two months later, with the creation of "Kerry Summons a Fire Spirit" by paphan, which for the first time utilized the music from the "Requiem for a Dream" Remix by Clint Mansell in the 'summoning' context. The song "Escape" by Craig Armstrong is sometimes used instead of the "Requiem for a Dream" Remix.
  • Spoiler from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. There are 3 varieties of the fad:
    • Parodies of the page of the spoiler using "Tarzan Boy" from the "Gay Fuel" fad.
    • An Audio clip from the "Potter bookstore crash" video hosted online, in where a male drives by people outside a Barnes and Noble at the hour the book was released, shouting the spoiler out loud to them, resulting in a fan screaming and cussing.
    • Sometimes, there may be parodies of spoiler, either mixing it with other spoilers scenes (for example, Final Fantasy VII and Back to the Future).
  • "O RLY?" A common internet abbreviation of "Oh, really?" usually paired with a picture of a snowy owl. Also paired with a picture of a great horned owl with the caption "YA RLY." ("Yeah, really.") The earlier sites used a short clip from "Rock Lobster" by the B-52s. The most popular choice has been the song Popcorn by the M & H Band, which is a remake of the original song.
  • "MySpace Suicide". Josh Ballard's MySpace bulletin warning people that he is about to commit suicide. This fad is usually accompanied with the song "Untitled" by Simple Plan, and is intended to mock the Emo subculture. This was one of the fastest growing fads with about 500 sites in approximately one day. It was a fast passing fad only lasting a few days.
  • "Asiacopter". An animation of an Asian man appearing to spin in the air like a helicopter. These clips are frequently accompanied by an orchestrated version of the Final Fantasy VII "Main Theme" or songs about spinning. This is another "forced fad" by inkdrinker, but made popular by DrWorm. Inkdrinker has commented before that Asiacopter's success was totally unintentional and that he believed the difficulty of editing an animated picture frame by frame would make Asiacopter impossible to popularize.
  • "...Addresses Congress". Various characters, usually YTMND fad characters, pasted onto a podium in the U.S. Senate. A sound clip of the corresponding charcter with an added echo effect is played in the background.
  • "...Lives!" This is when users post of people who look like cartoon character with some dramatic music (Originally the "Duel of the Fates" from the Star Wars prequel trilogy) for the background. It was started when a user submitted a YTMND with a picture from a yearbook of a man named Peter Griffin who looked like Peter Griffin|the character from Family Guy.
  • Parodies of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season|2004 and 2005 Atlantic hurricane season|2005 Atlantic hurricane seasons, mainly accompanied by the song "Rock you like a Hurricane" by The Scorpions.
    • The most popular parody involves Hurricane Katrina. Sites often show images from the disaster.
    • There also were some sites that parodied Hurricane Rita by making fun of the name by using Rita Repulsa's opening monolouge from the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as the sound clip.
  • "Butt Racing", which consists of various animated GIFs of teenagers racing around parks, houses, etc. edited to look as if they were racing on the ground while sitting down. This is usually accompanied by "Speedy Speed Boy" by Marko Polo.
  • Remakes of fads as Apple iPod commercials, accompanied by the song "Jerk it Out" by The Caesars, as heard in the original commercial.
  • Remakes of fads in a medieval Bayeux tapestry form, generated with the bayeux.php program. Usually set to Heather Dale's recording of "This Endris Night", a Catholic hymn.
  • Wikipedia vandalism fad, wherein YTMND participants mock certain subjects by going to their Wikipedia articles, vandalizing them, and taking screenshots, claiming that Wikipedia espouses a certain viewpoint (e.g. editing the article on "The Biggest Douche in the Universe," a South Park episode, to refer readers to Jack Thompson if they were looking for "the person"). A variant is to start nonsense articles (usually referencing another YTMND fad in some way), wait for it to be nominated for deletion, and then make a YTMND claiming that "Wikipedia hates X", where X is whatever the article concerned.
  • "Michael Moore is too easy to make fun of" shows Michael Moore pounding his fists on a podium. The original was set to a soundclip of Homer Simpson saying "Where's My Burrito?" as a protest against the overused "Peter Griffin outfarted Michael Moore" fad.
    • A popular variation of the fad shows Moore appearing like he is running with/from a group of people, often accompanied by "Mona Lisa Overdrive" by Juno Reactor from The Matrix.
  • "BethanyM", an administrator for GameFAQs/GameSpot's forums. She became the prey of GameFAQs forum users, due to their hostility towards CJayC "selling his soul to GameSpot". One such example of BethanyM is "I AM BETHANYM", in which a picture of her is accompanied by a male voice.
  • "MySpace Haley", a 15-year-old MySpace user named Haley, the victim of spamming due to the immense popularity of her MySpace profile. Her YTMNDs include "Haley Doesn't Change Facial Expressions", and two original songs by DZK (Haley - What's Your Age Again) and "Haley - Her First Train Ride".
    • On March 30, 2006, DZK, the creator of the 2 Haley songs, posted an email he received from max, describing complaints written by Haley's father. This site led to the rebirth of the fad as many of the original Haley sites have shown up in the top 15.
    • On March 31, DZK removed the email ytmnd as well as his 2 songs on Haley from the site.
    • Recently, her MySpace page has been redirecting to g00ns.net and even more recently the profile itself has been changed, claiming that it's owner is now a 24 year old man.
  • "Ten bell salute", a tradition in professional wrestling in which ten ring bell tolls are sounded at the beginning of a show to honor a wrestler who has recently died. This fad started as a tribute for late WWE Superstar Eddie Guerrero. The salute has been adopted for other YTMND-releated items that have been removed such as those described below such as Little Mac's Bike, Milton's stapler, and the victim in said Harry Potter spoiler.
  • 1920s. Various YTMND fads made to look like they were set in the 1920s. They are made complete with moustaches and top hats. They are also accompanied by black-and-white screens and film scratches, often accompanied by music from the movie Cinderella Man. They may also have the theme song from Battlefield 1942.
  • Supercat. A cat being thrusted in the air after a rescuer flings it off a pole, often accompanied by the Superman theme song and a different image appearing at the sidewalk after falling down, sometimes being referred to as Supercat. The fad originated from a still photograph of a white cat jumping through the air entitled "Up, up, and away!" with the Superman theme as accompaniment. The fad's name "Supercat" was given by the community and the cat jumping off a pole soon emerged to continue the fad (the white cat has been seen photoshopped into the pole cat's footage on several occasions). The original Supercat YTMND was taken down on February 7, 2006 due to copyright reasons.
  • Anti-eBaum's World YTMNDs. After eBaum's stole the image from lohanfacial.ytmnd.com and watermarked it, there have been a lot of YTMNDs expressing hate towards eBaum's world and encouraging a raid. Most have been accompanied to "Still" by the Geto Boys. There have also been many documenting the raid.
    • There were sites that talked about instigating DDoS server bombs and other various forms of hacking to screw up Ebaums World's servers, but Max Goldberg has recently condemned the acts and stated that he had to delete over a hundred Anti-Ebaums sites that talked about such attacks.
  • Hey Dude. Pictures of a person (specifically male) winking his eye at another person (mostly a male), set to "Soccer Practice" by Gay Pimp.
  • "The Lounge", a forced fad revolving around a full screen picture of a lounge, accompanied by the song "Deja Vu" from the Price is Right Soundtrack.
  • "Sweatshirt Guy", an obscure fad featuring the sign language man from lifeprint.com, usually edited into an environment (or used with a sound) that takes his hand gestures out of context. Sometimes the sheer novelty of showing the Sweatshirt Guy is the joke. His name comes from the fact that he is almost always wearing a gray sweatshirt.
  • "Yiddish cup". After eBaum's World executive VP Neil Bauman sent a cease & desist letter to Max Goldberg which stated the following line: "Obviously you have lost possession of your Yiddish cup," YTMND users started to poke fun in many ways (and YTMNDs) at this insult attempt, due to the lack of professionalism this sole line denotes.
  • "...stares into your soul" This fad combines a loop of the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and an extreme close-up of one's face. Their facial expression is usually serious. The original Soul YTMND featured Conan O'Brien, and was much more serious than other YTMNDs.
  • Diet Coke With... Consists of Sites containing photoshoped Diet Coke Cans With unusual flavors. Started out with "Diet Coke With Bacon"
  • CATCH THAT MAN! An image of somebody in a box moving down a wet path with several people running behind him, trying to catch him, accompanied by Japan Break Industries (Eurobeat).
  • ...Revolución! replaces the too common photograph of Che Guevara seen on T-Shirts with other pop culture icons. The first site used replaced Che's face with that of Brian Peppers. The song used in all of the YTMNDs is "Killing in the Name Of" by Rage Against the Machine (Who used the Che Guevara picture as their logo).
  • "...will eat your soul!" Various popular ytmnd and their fads modified to sound and look like zombies (usually Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy").
  • "Carmen Sandiego" This small YTMND fad was started with a Google page that had apparently "found" Carmen. These YTMNDs are usually accompanied with the Rockapella Carmen Sandiego theme song.
  • "Calvin and Hobbes" The last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip with various edits, commonly involving other fads. The first site was accompanied by the song "Concerning Hobbits" from The Lord of the Rings.
  • Razor Gator, a product designed to clean "razor gunk" from disposable razors, accompanied by a song advertising it.
  • Muhammad, sites containing the Danish cartoon drawings of Muhammad from the Jyllands-Posten newspaper that caused a stir in the Islamic world. Many of these sites may have Muhammad Hassan's entrance music added in.
  • Where it isn't, sites that are about the Tomahawk missile, usually making fun of its rather confusing description about how it finds where it is by knowing where it isn't. Remakes usually feature the original audio explanation along with Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Missile F1-11". Some versions of the fad made fun of the phallic nature of the missile in the picture.
  • ...Took Meth and all he got was..., sites that have two pictures of a character before and after "taking meth", though this can range from anything to a clean and dirty picture on an actor to a before and after picture of a young person becoming shriveled and old. Set to the song "Overdose" by Tomcraft. Began when a user created a site that featured a slideshow of disturbing "before/after" pictures of crystal meth addicts that had been published by authorities in Multnomah County, Oregon|Multnomah County, Oregon.
  • Bilbo/Butterfinger - a site parodying the Butterfinger commercials of the 90s features Bilbo Baggins|Bilbo and Frodo Baggins|Frodo in a scene where Bilbo is overtaken with a desire to reclaim One Ring|the ring. Sites followed both featuring other items in Frodo's hand, as well as shots from other movies used to parody the same Butterfinger commercial. The song "I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow is the most popular choice.
  • Kids go crazy for..., a part of Hard n' Phrim's "Pi" video showing kids getting excited for random things, like ytmnd or Lamb Chop/Sin City, set to the song "James Brown is Dead" by L.A. Style.
  • age 9, where various fads are recreated with childlike Microsoft Paint-style animations, accompanied by purely acapella renditions of the fads' respective music and sound.
  • YTMND Bop, versions of YTMND songs in Kids' Bop form.
  • Test, where a picture of a high school exam is shown (or another pun on the word "Test") while Rush (band)|Rush's "Spirit of Radio" plays. Intended to parody a YTMND that appeared on March 10, 2006, where a user created a similar "test" page that inexplicably was upvoted to be one of the top sites that day.
  • Hey Bob, A series of offensive and even some racist comics, based on the format of comics used on Morning Glory Comics. All of the comics are based on a single strip, and the strip is then edited in various ways to display some joke. The joke usually involves Fred saying "Hey Bob..." and then Bob making an offensive joke about Fred (the black character). In some instances, the characters die, but then re-appear in the next comics. The comics were also submitted to Morning Glory's fan submission section.
  • March 3, 2006; A error glitch involving HTML took over, leading to pages not being displayed properly. Sites often show the infamous error and are combined with other fads.
  • The Shocker, a forced fad by blunkhead depicting various people holding their hand up in the air, accompanied by a funk remix of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
  • Hypnotic Hands A gif of actor Charles Martinet sitting behind a desk while moving his hands around, making it look like he is dancing. Usually accompanied by the song "Stealing Fat" by The Dust Brothers.
  • Nintendo 64 kid A little boy screaming at the top of his lungs, "NINTENDO SIXTY FOOOOOUUUUUUUUR" after getting a brand new Nintendo 64 for Christmas. The original video that spawned the fad can be seen on Youtube here.
  • Life Beyond Fads Sites showing a square lens over a portion of a landscape picture, often altering the pic.
  • Serious Business, sites that often involving gamers yelling and over-reacting, mainly in World of Warcraft. Sometimes, such sites may involve other genres like sports, ytmnd fads, etc... The original Cloudsong site was called "WoW is Serious Business". This fad has been getting negative hype from users due to the constant high views from WoW forums.
  • OBEY, a parody of a previous YTMND that had Richard Nixon's picture inside of a computer screen, of which it had the words "OBEY" on it. The fad uses other YTMND or pop culture icons in place of the Nixon picture on the computer screen, mostly accompanied by the song "Shinra Inc." from Final Fantasy VII. The fad was forced by users of the forum "The Price is LOL", a group mainly consisting of '06 forum users.
  • Horse Dick, an audio clip of the user lizardman saying the phrase "Horse Dick". The audio clip was originally used in a site that showed Thomas "Neo" Anderson saying who he really is to Agent Smith from The Matrix. Sites often have that sound clip showing up in random places.
  • holy crap, a meteor!, A landscape picture with a dot entered in the first row of text. The zooming text quality of YTMND made the black dot look as if it was giving off smoke from re-entry, appearing like a meteor. This YTMND's popularity comes from its simple yet ingenious use of said zooming text. Usually accompanied by Lavos' theme from Chrono Trigger. Various other sites show parodies based off the first one, like the dot representing a ball swung by a baseball, or a line of dots made to represent an army.
  • Oozinator, various parodies featuring a recent ad from Hasbro featuring their Super Soaker. The ad shows a kid shooting his water soaker at various people. Parodies are often sexually implicit and may include "Get Low" by Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz.
  • Blur, various sound clips of fads are edited with a "Buzzing" sound to them into words that are not vugarities to make the sound clips seem like vulgarities were edited from the clip, even though no such vugarites are spoken in said clip. Usually pictures of the fads are edited with mosaics over the fad, hence the fads name of "Blur".
  • Windows XP, Various sound clips taken from Windows XP default sound setup, composed into music, accompanied with images of various Windows XP buttons that are combined together to make sprites and animations. The majority of these sites have been Windows XP versions of classic video games, such as Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Bubble Bobble, and Pac-Man.
  • NEDM stands for "not even Doom (game)|Doom music." it is was said on user spotz's site in reference to him five starring a YTMND that showed a kitten being burned. He had five starred because it featured Doom music, then the infamous quote was used. User moheevi then made the original NEDM site and continued making NEDM sites as an homage that "not even Doom music" justifies burning cats. Several users then made subsequent YTMNDs, including users stratos-the-bratos and awesomebob. An explanation by user krytycal then followed that explained that NEDM fad despised burning cats. For inexplicable reasons, it also seems to involve chapstick somehow.

YTMND User Related Fads

  • JoshCube, owner of SmashBrothersOnline.com. Created articles around the internet saying he was in love with The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening characters#Marin|Marin from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Some sites are screenshots of his forum posts, others are just JoshCube in general.
  • Adverb, inkdrinker, and tehpwner2, three YTMND users who downvoted almost every single site that they came across. Inkdrinker, being the most infamous due to his comments on each page he gives a 1 to.
  • Jammno, a World of Warcraft gamer whose horrible broken teeth became a joke through a forum post. Supposedly he'd tried to commit suicide by jumping off a two-story building, busting some of his teeth out. He has promised, on the internet and in print, to reward the first person to explain to him how to get a girlfriend with WoW cash and prizes. Like Adverb, inkdrinker, and other downvoters on YTMND, he accepts abuse and hatred from YTMNDers as long as they increase his celebrity. The most popular Jammo page was not made by Jammno himself, but by a 27 year old female World of Warcraft player.
  • b00n, a user often known for stealing sites and "viewhacking". His most infamous incident involved a Tetris parody of Katrina. After the site received high votes and views, he, without warning, changed the site to "Strokin'" featuring an image from Punch-Out, a site already done by another user. This led to a drop in rating and parodies of him. Just like with inkdrinker, Adverb, and Jammno, he also accepts hatred and abuse.
  • VinnyWeapons, known for posting the same line in each YTMND he reviews: "The robots have taken me. Please send help." Unlike other users who receive negative attention, sites often parodize him and his well known review quote.
  • syncan, creator of some of the most popular YTMNDs including the one that won the Attack of the Show contest, titled "Money for Nothing (song)|I want YTMND."[5] He also created the popular flash loading feature that changed YTMND forever. Most of the YTMNDs centered around him are in praise of him or his YTMNDs, making him one of the few subjects actually shown in a positive light. However he does have detractors who say that his sites lack originality and are not true ytmnds.
  • Max Goldberg obviously the creator of YTMND gets a lot of fads and sites in his name. (Sometimes an image of wrestler Bill Goldberg will be used).

YTMND forums "forced" fads

The YTMND forum community has, on occasion, pushed several invented fads to the front page users, with the occasional successes including reaching the Top 15 Viewed YTMNDs list as well as the Top 5 Rated YTMNDs. Forum fads, by definition, begin on the YTMND forums; most of these fail to get any views however like the newest attempt at a forum fad "Jew Brew" by the rush of new users but was almost immediately "downvoted" (that is, voted 1 by many users to get it off the front page).

The first of the forum fads, Mike Done, was created with the intention of taking an inside joke even the forum users did not get and thrusting it into the spotlight to confuse or annoy front-page users. Other forum fads followed, including Tennis Man, but only 3 fads were successful, including Gay Fuel, Brian Peppers and Asiacopter.

Asiacopter was an odd fad. Its popularity was sparked only by the remake of a YTMND (originally made by Inkdrinker) by DrWorm, but set to Final Fantasy VII music, plus a thread calling for a Zerg Rush of asiacopters. A select few ytmnd users took it upon themselves to get the fad going, and sparked a huge battle with the big fad at the time "Professor X had one weakness." Eventually the front page was filled with ____copters and weaknesses.

Another such forum fad is where users gather together at a certain time and start producing sites with sound and text, but no image. The purpose of this is to confuse the users who only look at the front page of ytmnd. They will think that there is something wrong with their computer, that YTMND is broken, etc. The forum members then up-vote the site by giving it 5's and they post such comments like 'hahahah this is the best ever!'. Most of the time, they combine loads of fads together in the title and some put a (refresh), indicating that once the page is loaded that the viewer must refresh the page to sync it all up. When the forum members do this, it confuses some of the front page people, but it does not confuse many. This is usually because not everyone participates and sites are not made fast enough, so the 5 recently made sites could have two blanks and 3 regular YTMNDs.

As some forum members have explained, the unifying purpose of forum fads is not humor as much as the attempt to interfere with the fad-heavy business as usual on the front page. Despite this, however, this has led to many arguments between forum members, usually between people joining simply to express their annoyance with seemingly non-sensical series of YTMND's and regular users of the forums. It has even led to arguments between other regular users themselves, which as a result some users have put images of fights and with the words "YTMND FORUMS" displayed in several users' signatures. It has also led to a YTMND itself entitled "THE OFFICIAL YTMND FORUMS YTMND" with an excerpt of the trailer for the film Green Street Hooligans edited with the avatars of some users to give people an idea of how disorganised the forums can be.

Brief list of YTMND in-jokes

  • "BRBFBI", a phrase commonly used when pedophilia or other illegal activity appears in conversation. The phrase was born from frequently threatened police and FBI intervention during a string of forum raids in the summer of 2005, this was mostly due to the raids on various Natalee Holloway chats and forums. All sites in this fad use Moby's rendition of the theme song to Mission: Impossible.
  • "also cocks.", a phrase derived from the infamous 'Ridin Spinnaz' YTMND. Used as a non sequitur way to end a post.
  • "RAGED", often in large capital letters and bold font, is used when a forum member has lost their cool. The forum user who succeeds in angering or "raging" the other is usually seen as the dominant party in the conversation. The origin of this is probably from FF8, in which one of Seifer's 2 goons says very little throughout the game. She is most remembered by saying "RAGED" and kicking the other in the shin)
  • "No Homers" is a term said to a newcomer to YTMND that is very annoying. The phrase originated from moderator MillionsV, who noticed while looking at the ban list, that adinistrator clay had banned long-time member Introducing..., with no reason given other than "no homers". (See also - NoHomers)
  • "gtfo" is an acronym standing for "get the fuck out." Veteran members often use this phrase to quickly dismiss a new user's first post.
  • "amirite" is a contraction of "Am I right?" commonly used after distasteful jokes. An example would be if somebody was talking about Courteney Cox, followed by another person stating, "Courteney Cox, more like Caught-any Cocks, amirite?" or "Halo, more like GAYlo, amirite?! AMIRITE?!"
  • "eabod probleak" or "eat a bowl of dick probleak" is a very offensive phrase that people used to reply to probleak after she spoke offensively to them.
  • "c u @ ALOL" is a common phrase, used on the YTMND forumers by members of the forum almightylol.com to show disapproval of the state of the YTMND forums. almightylol.com was a forum created by YTMND forumers Tokosan and Pidda for users of the old YTMND forums after they were shut down in 2005. almightylol.com may also be abbreviated "ALOL", as to bypass the censor put on the word "almighty lol" on the YTMND temporary forums. This phrase is adapted from a phrase, c u @ allgames, used by members of interflop.com, a forum made for YTMND forumers who registered in 2004.
  • "balls are touching" is a reference to a 4chan saying, "It's only gay if the balls touch;" the original meaning has largely been lost on YTMND, and the phrase can usually interpreted to be mildly offensive nonsense.
  • "gb2/..." Meaning "go back to". People will often quote a person's message and link to a message board, telling them to go back to said message board. Boards.ign.com, for example, a board widely disliked by YTMND forumers will often be someone's response to a bad joke a user posted or in some cases a new user who formerly posted at that board. These messages are very insulting to a YTMND forumer, as they hold the IGN boards and many other message boards in high contempt. Various boards may be used in this insult including:
    • boards.ign.com, specifically the Vestibule, altered with such names as the "Fagstibule".
    • boards.gamefags.com
    • gaiaonline.com
    • almightylol.com, said to almightylol users
    • thepriceislol.com, said to thepriceislol users (a board created after the temporary forums after the crash developed their own culture)
    • fp Short for Front Page, meaning www.ytmnd.com
  • photochop'd is a term for pictures that have been altered allegedly under Adobe Photoshop or similar image editing software.
  • Hating members who joined in 2006. Many threads have been posted along the lines of "GTFO '06ers", "All 06'ers shut the fuck up and get the fuck out", etc. "GTFO 06'er" is commonly used, and veteran members have a tendency to ignore posts or flame merely because a member joined in 2006.
  • "The Robots have taken me, Please send help". More of a comments page in-joke, it was started by user VinnyWeapons, who posted it on every comment he made. It spawned many spinoffs such as "VinnyWeapons has taken me, Please send lube." and "VinnyWeapons has juvenile diabetes, please send insulin". One now seldom goes to a popular site's comments without seeing one of these "robots" spinoffs.
  • "Tits or GTFO". The response to any female user of the forums. Unsurprisingly, YTMND forums has very few female users.
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