I was just thinking about them recently, and remembered laughing my head off to an old Ernest Borgnine gem I found.
RIP.
RIP.
I don't remember them being called fads at all. I remember calling them macros.Back when we commonly called memes "fads".
Yet ironically, despite that name, they had far more staying popwer compared to many of the memes that pass us by today.
To this day this is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. And I do know it's a real song. Same is true for "lol, internet". Cosby Bebop is also great just because of the work back then.Ah man. RIP. You brought me so many laughs. I don't think memes would be the same today without YTMND.
A tribute to my all time favorite:
Also, I played Chrono Trigger after I knew about the Brian Peppers YTMND. Once that fucking music started playing it just didn't sound right for the situation in the game since it was The Brian Peppers theme in my mind.
Remember when Ebaum's World sent YTMND a legal letter than literally had "LOL" in it?
For me the most memorable types of YTMND's were the ones that had consistent music. The secret Nazi ones with that one woman singing the techno song, the Call On Me face ones, etc.
Here's a Legends of the Hidden Temple-themed one that's a collection of various YTMND memes. I distinctly recall one with '05 memes that I enjoyed, although I'm assuming that's also lost.
http://web.archive.org/web/20180317054634/olmecguide.ytmnd.com/
this one works for me, but it's not a meme edit and is just an extremely long Olmec speech (that runs so long the background music ends first, lol). Still amusing
I still have all the ytmnd soundtrack releases somewhere....
...I hope
rip db
YTMND has suffered a catostrophic failure. Whether or not the site will ever be back is still undecided. I am actively working on data recovery, but who really knows what the future holds. Join the chat to reminisce, or if you have concerns about the direction in which your life is heading, feel free to send an email to support @ ytmnd.com (and expect to be ignored).
That's actually happened before. There was a commercial that used the first 20 seconds of a song, and it suddenly got really popular on iTunes. Then suddenly not popular, because the cool intro was the only part of the song was good, and the rest of the song was completely different and awful. I wish I could remember what song it was.Oh man. Legit, this is an AMAZING sample of how crowdsourcing can achieve amazing things. Of course, the best part was the profound disappointment everyone had when they heard the entire song and realized that everything after the intro kinda sucked.