Harry Potter and the ...
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| Original YTMND: An important announcement at Hogwarts! |
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Harry Potter and the ...
The Harry Potter and the ... "fad" originally began(?) back on October 8, 2007 when YTMND user bettabomb posted a site containing an animated GIF of Harry, Ron, and Hermione looking up at the loud speakers in Hogwarts from the movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Accompanying it was an audio from South Park of a man spewing out profanity due to his Tourettes syndrome. In the movie, the three students are actually listening to Professor Dolores Umbridge explaining some of her new rules at Hogwarts. A few spinoffs were made in 2007, but not a whole lot - hence it not being a real fad.
On Halloween Night of 2009, prairiedogeric10 - convinced of his own importance - brought the "fad" back by posting this site. The site had originated in 2007, but was deleted, so prairiedogeric10 recreated the echoing audio and stole bettabomb's GIF. The original site was edited so Ron had a corny smile on his face as the GIF ended, but prairiedogeric10's editing skills on GIFs are terrible because he only knows how to make GIFs with the MySpace GIF Maker. - (it's about an apparent fad, not you, right?)
amindlessidiot (you said it, not us) then posted this site and the "fad" was "quickly reborn" - in his mind. For about half an hour, the recently created had several Harry Potter sites - mostly Eric's - and they were supposedly still being made as of the morning of November 1st (no). It's worth noting his scheme kicked off in the final hours of the 31st, so the sites in question wouldn't have had a chance to disappear so quickly. Unfortunately, this article would not be enough to stall Eric's lust for an Internet Legacy, as he spammed the wiki with bogus articles on his antics - of which never influenced the site or its fads and users.
