YTMND / YMMV - TV Tropes

Awesome Music: A lot of users decided they liked the music used for fads, resulting in another user, fyrestorm, creating a soundtrack for the website. It's got more than 10 collected volumes to date!
Discredited Meme: One of the major reasons for sites being downvoted, when certain fads are overused. Notable examples include NEDM, Cosby, Khan, and Moon Man. However some users are of the opinion that certain classic fads always have been and always will be funny.
Fan Nickname: Faggy Short Films for YTMNDs consisting of an animated gif that is meant to be synched up with the sound file that is playing. The name comes from the user inkdrinker, who did not like any YTMNDs that did not follow the fundamentals of making a YTMND. Even people who enjoyed (and made) that type of YTMND began using the nickname eventually.
Fandom-Enraging Misconception: Don't call the site "YMNDT", as the Stickam user known as Cyberman once did.
Harsher in Hindsight: This YTMND was uploaded seven years before the Edward Snowden scandal revealed that the NSA has been doing these kinds of things all along.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Oprah Winfrey turned into a pickle 11 years before Rick Sanchez did.
Memetic Molester: The site portrayed real-life sex offender Brian Peppers as one.
Memetic Mutation: The site thrives off this, but is more prone to calling them fads. Some of the memes in YTMND have escaped to the other internet too. Its wiki provides information of the more famous of them.
Memetic Psychopath: McDonald's' Mac Tonight mascot, originally created to promote the restaurant's extended operating hours, became the Moon Man in the hands of YTMNDers, a violent, racist criminal who bragged about raping women and committing hate crimes while spewing bigoted remarks, possibly because his head looked like a Ku Klux Klan hood. Once AT&T became aware of the fad in 2009, typing "moon man" into their text-to-speech generator started turning up an error message.
Misaimed Fandom:
- The Forgot Poland Army was formed to create intentionally bad YTMNDs that made fun of the actual bad, no-effort ones. Soon after, it became what it was making fun of, which led into creation of KHANTMND.
- The Moon Man fad was eventually co-opted by the alt-right and other hate groups, to the point that the Anti-Defamation League added the character to their list of hate symbols. After that, the site's users largely turned against it, as the joke was no longer funny.
Moment of Awesome: Following eBaum's stealing of one of their site pictures, YTMND users managed to unite 4chan, Something Awful, Newgrounds, The Clock Crew, Fark and several other websites. They then raided the living hell out of the place for a couple of days. Disproportionate Retribution? Exceedingly. Awesome? Hell yes. It isn't that they trolled the hell out of a site that's awesome; it's the fact that they organized a raid of that magnitude and united several rival websites to do it.
Nightmare Fuel: This entry in which you're in a dark room and a red-eyed baboon is staring directly at you from the window, while Silent Hill 2 music is playing.
- And in this one, the baboon is now up to you!
Once Original, Now Overdone: During the mid-2000s, the concept of uploading your media content and spreading memes was amazing. But once YouTube arrived and allowed users to upload real videos, YTMND almost immediately appeared quaint.
Opinion Myopia:
- The user Umfuld, who thinks only the kinds of sites he makes are any good and anyone who makes different kinds of sites is deliberately trolling and trying to ruin YTMND, and he does things like automatically downvoting the sites of every user he doesn't like using multiple alternate accounts because of this
- This was also the reasoning of the famed user "inkdrinker", who believed that the only YTMND's that were any good followed the original site's mission of "picture, text, sound". He downvoted thousands of pages that included videos, effects, soundclips that went on longer than a few seconds or anything that bucked the trend of the original sites.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many people have this reaction every time Max changes the site layout and color scheme.
Unintentional Period Piece: The peak of YTMND's popularity was in the mid-'00s, so most of the pages made for it would have been made around then. Any that are still online today can come across as time capsules containing '00s memes and pop-culture references. Even Max acknowledged this in 2016, saying that he didn't have much interest in it beyond "good memories". Max is still looking out for the site though, partly restoring its functions after the site database suffered a fatal crash in May 2019, and has since been working on creating a proper archive version of the site so that future generations might explore the old content.

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