Difference between revisions of "Miscellaneous fads"

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• The original YTMND ("You're the man now, dog!") [1]

• 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 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.

• 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 music". It 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. The first explanation of the fad was given by Spotz in a forum post, which was then put into a site created by the user pork4eva. A more detailed explanation by user krytycal then followed that explained that NEDM fad despised burning cats. For inexplicable reasons, it also seems to involve chapstick somehow.

• Where's Waldo, various parodies of the famous series of children's books.

• Shoe on Head, various chatroom girls are instructed to place their shoe on their head.

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