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*'''OBEY''' is a parody of a previous YTMND that had ]'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. The music used in most of the sites is the "Shinra Inc." Music from the video game '']''. *'''OBEY''' is a parody of a previous YTMND that had ]'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. The music used in most of the sites is the "Shinra Inc." Music from the video game '']''.

*'''DYTMND''', sites that are often stupid or pointless. The point of DYTMND was to make sites look "newbie-ish", dumb, or random to the point they were actually funny. '''Note: Do not remove this from the list. Anyone who removes this will get reported to Misplaced Pages Staff. The fad is official and there are other users doing it."


=== YTMND User Related Fads === === YTMND User Related Fads ===

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The website ytmnd.com is known for its tendency to propagate a great number 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 intertexuality 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?, 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 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

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Before adding anything to the list, see the talk page to see if it complies with the definition of a fad. When you are describing these fads, please be specific, or they may be removed from the list.This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Follows the actual fads in lists and divided by category.

Most Popular Fads

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 in stead of Nedry. The First Nedry YTMND
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.
  • "I believe you have my stapler.", Office Space: Milton Waddams's catchphrase.
Sometimes combined with the failing horns from The Price Is Right.
  • 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 commerical 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". This fad has enough of a following to stand alone but cannot offer enough material to be an ongoing one.
  • Sonic advice, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic the Hedgehog gives advice on sexual harassment, in an audio sniplet taken from one of the "Sonic Sez" announcements shown at the end of every episode. The highlight of his speech is That's no good! This particular sniplet was taken from episode 3 "Lovesick Sonic".
  • "lol, internet". 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 upward.
  • Batman: "ualuealuealeuale": an image of Batman shaking his face strangely as if electrocuted, 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 are 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 hidden swastika in a German forest.
  • "Nigga Stole my Bike!". NES 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.
Was moderated and moved to nsfw status.
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 done stole my bike" has appeared in the song Hate It or Love It by The Game featuring 50 Cent.
  • "Brian Peppers", a sex offender in Ohio with an abnormal appearance. 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, photoshopped 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 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 adress YTMND of his frustration. "The Truth about Brian Peppers" and many of its spinoff sites are accompanied by the song "Forever Rachel" from Final Fantasy VI. Another variety involves the original Allen Peppers letter.
  • "...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 wearing a mullet attached. 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 "Scarface (Push It To The Limit)".
    • The photoshopping of the ad for other people (example: Cheney, Dr. Emmett Brown, Crono, etc...)
    • Various photoshopping of the "mullet man" in various historical events (example: The Last Supper, Vietnam War, etc...)
  • "Punch the keys, for God's sake!" 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!".
  • "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's theme from Chrono Trigger instead of "Burn Bobonga" and the text "Go Brian!" instead of "Brian no!"
  • The Joker singing another part of "Macarron Chacarron" instead of Batman.
  • Colonel Sanders of KFC fame saying, "omg, internet" instead of Ronald McDonald saying, "lol, internet", set to "Golden Age" by Max Covelli.
  • Gruntilda from Banjo-Kazooie with the song "Defying Gravity" from the Broadway musical "Wicked" instead of Cookie Monster singing "The Internet is for Porn" from its competing Broadway musical "Avenue Q".
  • 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.
  • 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.(Also, Ashley Tisdale doesn't change facial expressions.)
  • 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 Yes, yes! was created as a result of PTKFGS, featuring another Connery quote. However, this universe is not as popular. It has a green water mark.

There's also a ptkfgs.com that redirects to a random ytmnd each day. These ytmnds 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 9 volumes, each made to fit on standard 72 Minute Compact Disc length. Volume 9 was released on March 1, 2006.

Film-related fads

  • "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 The Rock will be used.
  • "Uber Hax!!1". Dramatic depictions or scenes paired chronologically with semi-related 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.
  • "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 Picard shooting a gun at Chunk and that portion of the clip has also been used in fads. He uses his truffle shuffle to deflect the bullets Usually accompanied by the song "Feuer Frei!" by Rammstein
  • 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).
  • "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.

Television-related fads

  • Osaka from the anime Azumanga Daioh kicking her shoe off into the street. In the anime, 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): Opening of the English-dubbed version.
  • "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.
  • 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 Tower".
    • 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.
  • The Bill Nye the Science Guy theme song. Various YTMNDs, usually involving Bill Nye, include clips of the popular theme song. Usually accompanied by a loop of "BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL!".
  • "They spinnin', nigga, they spinnin'!". Chris Rock's comedy skits, usually accompanied by an image of something spinning.
  • The Closing of Nickelodeon Studios This fad combines sad music with pictures of the de-construction of Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida, and/or pictures from classic Nick shows. The fad also includes many YTMNDs about the removal of the Slime Geyser and several YTMNDs about the Nickelodeon Time Capsule located near of the Slime Geyser crater.
  • Ducktales. Various translations of the theme from around the world.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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!"
  • Geordi Epic Maneuver: Features Geordi LaForge from Star Trek: The Next Generation (played by Levar Burton) rolling underneath a closing containment door in the Enterprise's engine room. It is obvious that the stunt was completely unnecessary, as Geordi would have had a lot of time to simply duck and run under the descending door.

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.
  • "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. Recently though, Tarzan Boy is being phased out for not being "gay enough". The new song that represents homosexuality on ytmnd is "Menergy" by Patrick Cowley featuring Sylvester. It debut on this site: http://gayfuelslogan.ytmnd.com
  • Banana Phone by Raffi, one of the original ytmnd fads. Its popularity might have originated from an online flash.
  • Various emo songs are used to parody Emo's target audience. The most popular song for this is Simple Plan's "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.
  • "Ding Dong Song" by Günther.
  • Famous songs being played in reverse to show hidden messages, often showing that the singer is a "Nazi". Some of them are fake with a voice mixed in.
  • "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk, usually accompanied by a person dancing with the title "____ Works It". Made popular by a flash video featuring the video game character Kunio.
  • "Space Jam" by Quad City DJs (from the soundtrack of the movie of the same name) referred to as "Super Slam" and associated with 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".
  • 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 "Heut Ist Mein Tag" by Blümchen, "Call on Me" by Eric Prydz, the German version of the ending to Super Mario Bros. Super Show! ("Do the Mario"), the classical "O Fortuna", the Swedish and Dutch versions of the DuckTales theme, and the Finnish version of the Pokémon rap.
  • "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.
  • "Die motherfucker, die motherfucker still fool". Lyrics from the song "Still" by Geto Boys usually to people dancing, getting beaten up or shot.
  • "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.
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.
  • "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, normally used for Hurricane YTMNDs (most recently Hurricane Katrina) as well as anything related to "rocking" or "scorpions."
  • "Bomb" by The Bucketheads, usually accompanied with animated pictures of someone or something falling.
  • 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.
  • 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 that described the sound a chainsaw would make. The original zazazaza site featured Zack Taylor from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers performing his popular dance inside a wooden box from the popular ABC TV show LOST.

Video game-related fads

  • The song "Burn Bobonga" from Chrono Trigger, commonly used for various sites involving perverts. This was originally the theme for Brian Peppers sites, but recently, it has been used for sites indicating perverts, most notably...Harry Potter.
  • A Tiger Handheld made to resemble any other YTMND fad, with beeping music that also sounds like a Tiger Handheld.
  • "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.
  • Rolling Katamari Damacy balls of various random objects, usually accompanied with the Katamari Damacy theme song.
  • "Nothing Moves the Blob!" A scene from the X-Men 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.
  • "G-Man Adventures", Animated gifs created with Garry's Mod of G-Man 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. More recently, however, a spinoff YTMND entitled "Gman is Not Having a Wonderful Time" has vastly surpassed the site that inspired it. It has now spawned many of its own spinoffs.
  • Parodies of video game hardware, for example, the Playstation 3 Boomerang controller, the Xbox's size, power cable and graphics, and the Nintendo Revolution 'revmote'.
  • Rejected Megaman Villain #, Parodies the screen in all of the Megaman games prior to entering a stage, where edited pictures of Megaman sprites (Always having the suffix "Man" after their names) is used. The pre-battle intro theme from the first Megaman game is always used in these YTMNDs, although there are some variations using later Megaman titles.

Politics related fads

  • "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 speech about rebuilding New Orleans into a "Chocolate New Orleans", very often being compared with Willy Wonka.
  • 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 "Sairin: Katayoku no Tenshi", the heavy metal arrangement of "One-Winged Angel" used in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children though there are many exceptions.

YTMND-related/Miscellanous fads

  • 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, which is currently being used to replace inappropriate YTMND sites.
  • 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 will be edited.
  • Pictures of people failing at tasks are 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 "forced fad" started by YTMND user, inkdrinker. Another example of a forced fad is editing wikipedia to create a fad such as kdj997 attempting to make the song "Menergy" by Patrick Cowley the new Gay Fuel theme as featured in this ytmnd: http://gayfuelslogan.ytmnd.com/
  • Jesus, usually in modified bible illustrations. Most notable are those of Jesus with a raptor head (often accompained with the phrase "he went extinct for your sins"), pulling pranks, winking or using web speak, the most frequent being LOL. Some are parodies of RPGs and Christian expressions (e.g. showing Jesus at a save point with the caption "Jesus saves.") Often accompanied by the song "Awesome God" or the Battle music from Final Fantasy VII. Sometimes Jesus is combined with the MacGyver fad: Jesus solves a problem with a miracle, someone asks "how did you do it?!" and Jesus replies "i'm Jesus, lol." Some sites also feature the Buddy Christ from Dogma (film).
  • "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 Sumons 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.") These are often accompanied by a dance remix of the Popcorn song.
  • "One Weakness: Stairs." A panel from the Ultimate X-Men comic showing the wheelchair bound Professor X getting pushed down a flight of stairs by Sinister, declaring stairs as Professor X's only weakness. Sometimes, sites do not show the picture but it still follows the format "____ has one weakness". These sites are usually accompanied by a version of the instrumental "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer. Recently the "Juggernaut, Bitch!" X-Men parody has been used. Example
  • "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 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 horror 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 the character from Family Guy.
  • A hypothetical fight created from Googlefight, usually to show who would win by most popular vote. Often, fights created on GoogleFight are between two popular fads. Sites involving googlefight have now been banned.
  • Parodies of the 2004 and 2005 Atlantic hurricane seasons, including Hurricane Katrina and the city of New Orleans in September 2005.
  • "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 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.
  • Misplaced Pages vandalism fad, wherein YTMND participants mock certain subjects by going to their Misplaced Pages articles, vandalizing them, and taking screenshots, claiming that Misplaced Pages 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 "Misplaced Pages 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?"
    • Later on, sites began to show Moore appearing like he was 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 recieved 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.
  • 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. (See the "eBaum's World incident" paragraph for more details.) 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.
  • "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 (usually Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy") and look like zombies.
  • "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.
  • 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.
  • Bilbo/Butterfinger - a site parodying the Butterfinger commercials of the 90s features Bilbo and Frodo in a scene where Bilbo is overtaken with a desire to reclaim 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.
  • Bill Stickers, a site involving a sign in a park saying "Bill Stickers will be prosecuted". Sites often parodize the imaginary person, often set to music from Law and Order and Dragnet.
  • 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.
  • Test, where a picture of a high school exam is shown (or another pun on the word "Test") while 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.
  • YTMND Bop, versions of YTMND songs in Kids' Bop form. This started with Nigga Stole My Bike, and has gone to include the Picard Song and What Is Love.
  • 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.
  • 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. He starts dancing as if it was a big victory, along with his sister. Various music and beat related fads are mixed with the N64 kid. The N64 kid is so excited that it can be mistaken as terror. This has led to the audio being used in sitions such as 9-11 where an Nintendo is crashing in to the towers or Michael Jackson attempting to fool the N64 kid by wearing an N64 box over his head: http://jackon64.ytmnd.com http://n64911.ytmnd.com
  • Ceiling Cat A picture of a cat poking its head out of a square hole in a ceiling. The original picture had the caption "Ceiling Cat is watching you masturbate".
  • 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. 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 is 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. The music used in most of the sites is the "Shinra Inc." Music from the video game Final Fantasy VII.
  • DYTMND, sites that are often stupid or pointless. The point of DYTMND was to make sites look "newbie-ish", dumb, or random to the point they were actually funny. Note: Do not remove this from the list. Anyone who removes this will get reported to Misplaced Pages Staff. The fad is official and there are other users doing it."

YTMND User Related Fads

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A few notable members of YTMND have also inspired fads for themselves.

  • JoshCube, the owner of SmashBrothersOnline.com created articles around the Internet saying he was in love with Marin from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. He has an extremely large number of YTMNDs that are intentionally unfunny, and many users have made YTMNDs mocking him.
  • Inkdrinker, the creator of the Gay Fuel and Asiacopter fads, consistently downvotes a lot of YTMND websites. Inkdrinker mainly downvotes fad sites, claiming he wants to promote originality on YTMND.
  • tehpwner, also tehpwner2, is much like Inkdrinker in that he is known to downvote popular YTMNDs.
  • syncan, creator of some of the most popular YTMNDs including the one that won the Attack of the Show contest, titled "I want YTMND." 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.
  • VinnyWeapons, known for posting the same line in each YTMND he reviews: "The robots have taken me. Please send help."
  • Adverb, A YTMND user who downvoted almost every single site that he came across.
  • Jammno, a World of Warcraft gamer whose face became a joke through a forum post. During the Brian Peppers truth crisis, there were some people who tried to replace Brian Peppers with him.

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 U2'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 the myg0t clan's catchphrase. (Could actually be from FF8, in which on 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 Ali-G and Ephraim 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 phrase invented by popular forum user "The Legendary Karcist". Having no meaning, this phrase is widely solely in posts, void of any other content. Actually, as it turns out, it does have a meaning, and it's a referance to the saying "It's only gay if the balls touch".
  • "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.gamefaqs.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.
  • 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. Unsuprisingly, YTMND forums has very few female users.

Viewhacking

Template:Mergesectionto A new way to garner votes and views is to change the name of the site or to change the substance of the site to trick people into clicking the site and bumping it up to the top of the YTMND list. Since its inception and spread, the term "viewhacking" was coined for this practice and thus became the general phrase. The original person to do this, TDP, only did it to see how long it would take to get 100,000 views; he was successful, and the final version now lists the site's previous incarnations. However, several others followed after that, and has since become a fairly imminent nuisance. In November 2005, a group of users from the North Carolina State University forums led by the user 'justkeepthatinmind' artificially raised the number of views on their sites in order to get into the top 15 most viewed. When called on their actions by other YTMND users, they viewhacked their critics' sites as well in an attempt to confuse people. Such actions are generally frowned upon and subjected to low votes, much along with the practice of using misleading search terms or titles to attract viewers to a page. On rare occasion, the titles are updated to keep in relation to a site that has been only moderately changed, such as an update, fix, or response to attention. In January 2006, Max deleted hundreds of users who had upwards of 20 alternate accounts that they were using to upvote/downvote theirs and other user's sites.

Another form of viewhacking is the World of Warcraft forums. Due to the extremely high amount of people that play it, people on that forum commonly link to YTMNDs related to their game. This inflates views so much the YTMND ends up getting shot to the top of the most viewed list on the front page. Many YTMND regulars have expressed severe distaste in this and tend to downvote and set the YTMND to "not work safe" status. An idea was suggested, in the form of a YTMND, to redirect anyone coming from the World of Warcraft forum to the "Ridin' Spinnaz" YTMND.

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