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Violin

**Violin** is a forced alternate universe fad by user Basset-Hound which gained prominence after several $50 donations were made to his violin-themed sites by front page moderator SocialDemocracy. In Violin sites, pictures of violins are photoshopped into YTMND fads, and the music/sounds that the YTMND's use are replaced with music played by violins, or "violinized" versions of the fad music. Both are simply sourced as "violin". The first violin site created by Basset-Hound was Violin: You're the violin now dog on December 16, 2006.

While it is likely that Violin is a satire of the overabundance of YTMND alternate universes (or simply lowbrow trolling), some other users have taken the fad seriously (or have played along with it), and several Violin sites have been made by users other than Basset-Hound. (most notably VIOLIN RAVE - a parody of LASER RAVE, which notably got donated $125 instead of $50 like the other Violin sites by SocialDemocracy).

## Links

https://ytviolind.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **Basset-Hound**

https://violinrave.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **KKyuubi**

https://seancon.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Sillender**

https://violinxp.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Basset-Hound**

https://violinweakness.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **GeckoYamori**

https://nsmviolin.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **aemann777**
Tim Allen

**Tim Allen** is an comedian/actor famous for his roles in "Home Improvement", "Toy Story" and "The Santa Clause", who has been featured recently (as of early 2008) in YTMND music remixes with sound of the famous grunts that his character, **Tim Taylor** made on Home Improvement.

While Tim Allen/Tim Taylor sites have been around for almost as long as YTMND itself, the fad really began around February 2008 when YTMND user kanks made the site Toolman F, a remix of the song Alex F by Jan Hammer with grunts from Tim Taylor. The site became very successful and spawned more remixes.

## Links

http://morepower.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **TimAllen**

http://toolmanf.ytmnd.com/ - Axel F remix by **kanks**

http://timmorrison.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **steventhompson**

http://allensiren.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **flyingrodent**

http://tim-allen-toolman-love.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **icesnow**

http://timtheecstacymantailormadesuit.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Coolgamer**
Future Conan

**Future Conan** is a fad that shows American talk show host Conan O'Brien in the future enslaving the world. The original YTMND, Conan in the Future, was actually an edit of a syncan YTMND called Conan ... has GONE INSANE!, which is a part of the Conan is... fad. Besides borrowing from syncan, the creator of the fad also borrowed from the Apple Computer, Inc. television ad "1984".[1] Spinoffs, such as Future Conan is defeated use more of the ad than the original YTMND. The main music used in the fad is the classic Eurythmics song *Sweet Dreams* (*Are Made of This*).

The footage of Conan O'Brien used in the original Future Conan YTMND comes from an episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien from late 2005, in which Conan is mocking an Abe Vigoda impersonator banging trashcan lids together in a Late Night comedy segment called "New Off-Broadway Shows".

The fad has been just as popular as the original "Conan Is..." fad, and has spawn various "Future" spinoffs featuring other fads. In some fad conglomerates, both Alligator Conan and Future Conan may be used.

## Links

NOTE: The original site by **wtfuxz** is now lost.

http://conandefeat.ytmnd.com/ - Another site by **brdude**

http://futureconansaved.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **syncan**

http://futuramaconan.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **money-hat**

http://futureconanasia.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Cranberry**

http://loyalfutureconan.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **imborden**
YTMND Soundtrack Vol. 15

On March 12, 2007, Volume 15 was released as a two-disc set. The characters on the covers are a Thwomp and Muhammad Hassan.

## Disc 1

* 1: "Intro" - YTMND
* 2: "YTMND vs. Sega" - DZK
* 3: "Poland Tool Kit" - Kassius
* 4: "Exceeder" - Mason
* 5: "KKKramer" - xoc
* 6: "Mmm Skyscraper I Love You" - Underworld
* 7: "Remind Me" - Röyksopp
* 8: "Bonnie Brae" - The Twilight Singers
* 9: "Thriller" - Michael Jackson
* 10: "Don't You (Forget About Me)" - Simple Minds
* 11: "Mega Man 3 - BlueLightning (OC Mix)" - Disco Dan
* 12: "Ignition (Remix)" - R. Kelly
* 13: "Un-Finale" - Robyn Miller
* 14: "The Darkness That Lurks In Our Mind" - Akira Yamaoka
* 15: "New Car" - The Kids Of Widney High
* 16: "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen

## Disc 2

* 17: "Intro" - YTMND
* 18: "Shinobi 3 - Whirlwind (GaleForceMix - OC Mix)" - Rayza
* 19: "Brazilian Flower" - Jean-Jacques Perrey
* 20: "Fly Like An Eagle" - Steve Miller Band
* 21: "Musipal" - Wagon Christ
* 22: "The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air" - Will Smith
* 23: "Brick House" - Commodores
* 24: "Building The Deathcoaster" - Joseph LoDuca
* 25: "Billie Jean" - Michael Jackson
* 26: "The Little Mermaid" - Out Of Bounds
* 27: "Ghostbusters" - Ray Parker Jr.
* 28: "Law and Order" - Mike Post
* 29: "Just Like You Imagined" - Nine Inch Nails
* 30: "Stone In Focus" - Aphex Twin
* 31: "In The Dark Of The Night" - Jim Cummings
* 32: "Wishmaster" - Nightwish
* 33: "Beans And Cornbread" - Louis Jordan
* 34: "Ballad Of The Wind Fish - Symphonic" - Koji Kondo
* 35: "We Didn't Start This Website" - Feedrosie
Tra La La

The "tra la la" fad involves a clip from Gunther's aptly titled "Ding Dong Song", and is usually accompanied by pictures of people "touching tra-la-las", or replacing "tra-la-la" with a different item, such as "stapler" or adding the tra-la-la sample into a different song.

## Links

http://dingdingdong.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **tumult**

 http://ringmybellespn.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **swamphox**

http://pepperstralala.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **grungygamer**

http://utouchsmytralala.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **KKyuubi**

http://soccertralala.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Zeratanis**
Tighten Up the Graphics

The "Tighten up the Graphics" fad is based off a laughably bad commercial from Westwood College Online for their courses in programming video games. In the commercial, two guys in their twenties are playing a video game; one says to the other to hurry up, since their boss is coming, implying they'll get in trouble if she catches them playing instead of working. Instead, their boss asks if they're finished testing the game yet; they tell her that they need to "tighten up the graphics", even though you can't work on graphics using a controller, and the people who work on graphics are generally not the same people who play-test them. Their boss somehow believes this, and after she leaves, the two guys speak to each other: "I can't believe we got jobs doing this." "I know, and my Mom said I would never get anywhere with these games."

The first site was created in early July 2006 with others spawning afterwards.

## Links

https://tightgraphs.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **PMRG**

https://tightengraphics.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **NeoMatrixClt**

https://graphicstribute.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Patriarch**

https://lexluthorgraphics.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **silenoz**

https://cosbytestspokemon.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **RaCailum**

https://tightgraphicsnotguaranteed.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Patriarch**
Max Goldberg

Max Goldberg currently resides in New York. He is the creator of YTMND. He started the website when watching a Finding Forrester commercial one day, putting an image of Sean Connery, and a sound of him saying "You're the man now dog", as well as text running across the screen saying "You're the man now dog.com". The site became an instant internet phenomenon, and since then, over 200,000 sites like it have been created.

Max should also pay attention to his user page and actually put something on it besides the origin of YTMND looololoolll
Tomahawk Missile

The **Tomahawk Missile** fad is based on a rather confusing description of a missile subsystem, describing how it finds where it is by knowing where it isn't.

## Where it isn't

The first site to use the confusing description was Vitehite's Where's My Missile???, on September 11, 2005. It would be used again in February 2006 by MercenaryFoxMcCloud in Tomahawk Missile is smart; his site, with a gif of a long orange-red missile being fired from a ship's cannon, would inspire a flood of new sites.

### Spinoffs

Spinoffs of "Tomahawk Missile is smart" usually feature the original audio explanation mixed with Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Missile F1-11". They often make fun of the phallic nature of the missile in the gif. As such, some sites are considered NSFW.

## Script

The original description reads as follows:

*The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviation to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn’t.*
*In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn’t, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is and where it wasn’t. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn’t, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn’t, or vice versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn’t be and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called **error.***
## Links

https://missileerror.ytmnd.com/ - **Vitehite's** site that inspired the fad

https://tomahawk.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **MercenaryFoxMcCloud**

 https://iamwhere.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **jp2m5**

https://englishmissileguidance.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **netsurfer-x1**

https://tomahawkhot.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **krowa04**

https://lovemissile.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **boomaga**

https://tomahawklogicrevealed.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **bostonpatriot**
You lose! Good day sir!

**You Lose!** is one of the early fads and a fairly flexible fad, in that can be applied to many different situations. The reasoning for this is the audio used within the fad; the audio is a speech which was given by actor Gene Wilder, who played the role of Willy Wonka in the 1971 movie *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.* Usually, a site creator will take lines, bits, and pieces from the speech to get his or her point across.

## The Speech

The whole speech, as transcribed by the Internet Movie Database , is as follows:

**Grandpa Joe**: Mr. Wonka?
**Willy Wonka**: I am extraordinarily busy, sir.
**Grandpa Joe**: I was just wondering about the chocolate - Uh, the lifetime supply of chocolate... for Charlie. When does he get it?
**Willy Wonka**: He doesn't.
**Grandpa Joe**: Why not?
**Willy Wonka**: Because he broke the rules.
**Grandpa Joe**: What rules? We didn't see any rules. Did we, Charlie?
**Willy Wonka**: Wrong, sir! Wrong! Under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void if - and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy - "I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained," et cetera, et cetera..."Fax mentis incendium gloria cultum," et cetera, et cetera..."Memo bis punitor delicatum!" It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole fizzy lifting drinks. You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!
**Grandpa Joe**: You're a crook. You're a cheat and a swindler! That's what you are. How could you do a thing like this, build up a little boy's hopes and then smash all his dreams to pieces? You're an inhuman monster!
**Willy Wonka**: I said "Good day!"
**Grandpa Joe**: Come on, Charlie. Let's get out of here.

## Structures of the Fad

When the site creator wants to get a "you fail" message across to a certain person or topic, they often use the single line "You LOSE! Good DAY sir," as in the original site.

## Links

http://wonka.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **Kess**

http://judgewonka.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Mohrdikai**

http://firstcontact.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **jnorris441**

http://obiwonka.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Kyera**

http://willywonkaaddressescongress.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **cowpatch5**

http://willywonk.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **glitch**
In Soviet Russia

**Russian Reversal,** better known as "In Soviet Russia", is a joke by Yakov Smirnoff which frequently appears in many YTMNDs, the first site being

created by SethAechi in April 2004. The general form of the Soviet Russia joke is that the subject and objects of a statement are reversed, and “In Soviet Russia” or something equivalent, is added. For example:

*In the US, you can catch a cold.*
*In Soviet Russia, cold catches YOU!*
All of Smirnoff's original “In Soviet Russia” jokes made use of wordplay that carried Orwellian undertones. For example, in the jokes “In the US, you watch television. In Soviet Russia, television watches you!” or “In the US, you check out books at the library. In Soviet Russia, library checks out you!” both punchlines refer to systems of omnipresent surveillance characteristic of police states. The first joke alludes to video screens that both reproduce images and monitor the citizenry, as in *Nineteen Eighty-Four*. The second joke refers to the use of libraries as another official means to monitor or keep tabs on the thoughts of the citizenry and especially its dissidents, which is uncharacteristic of free societies.

As another example, in the joke “In California, you can always find party. In Soviet Russia, Party finds you!”, the second use of the noun “party” denotes the Communist Party. The punchline makes light of the grim Soviet reality that all citizens at all times were subject to the apparatus of the state.

In modern popular culture, “In Soviet Russia” jokes often lack any Orwellian undertone, and merely make use of a grammatical transposition to achieve some absurd, but apolitical, result. One example is, "In Soviet Russia, tobacco smokes YOU!" as a play on a common American anti-smoking campaign.

At the peak of Smirnoff's celebrity in the mid-1980s, he did not say “Soviet Russia” — he said simply “Russia,” as the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic had been around since 1917, was still extant, and showed no signs of imminent collapse. Smirnoff added the “Soviet” qualifier after the fall of the USSR, long after his fame had faded, to specify that he was referring to the communist regime and not the present state.

Many modern variants on the “Soviet Russia” theme do not make sense outside of specific contexts, for example: “In Soviet Russia, floor rolls on YOU*!!*” Or even: *Roses are red Violets are blue In Soviet Russia Poem writes YOU*!

Many YTMNDs feature the German song "Moskau" ("Moscow") by Dschinghis Khan.

## Links

http://sovietrussia.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **SethAechi**

http://sovietetris.ytmnd.com/ - Example with "Moskau" by **Kahalachan**

http://ytmndpwnsyou.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Punisher28**

http://sovietchurch.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Tendo128**

http://sovietdog.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **DZK**

http://russianedm.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **ImTheDogNowMan**
United States of Whatever

**United States of Whatever** is a song by Liam Lynch that first appeared on his show Sifl & Olly in 1999, and was later released as a single in 2002. Though there were sites in 2004, the fad truly did not kick off until 2005 when jondiesel created "United States of Barrel Roll" featuring Peppy Hare. This lead to other sites and it became a massive fad. There are probably around 200 different takes on the song with different fads.

## Links

http://unitedstatesofbarrelroll.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **jondiesel**

http://unitedstatesofno.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **LocutusOfBorg**

http://telemarketingsongcomplete.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **TightenUpTheGraphics**

http://unitedstatesoftheunitedfederationofplanets.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Ruckgesicht**

http://unitedstatesoftourettesguy.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **father-superior**

http://usmonty.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **AWatts420**
What is Love

**What Is Love** is a YTMND-turned-fad created by user ligamentx based on the song "What Is Love" by Haddaway. The original YTMND shows a scene from a skit from *Saturday Night Live*  wherein Chris Kattan, Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell go clubbing to many dance clubs and fail to pick up chicks.

## The Song

*What is Love* was originally a song by dance artist Haddaway, recorded in 1993. It only reached #11 in the US, but was #2 in the UK and Germany and #1 in several other countries. It was Haddaway's only US hit. The chorus was sampled in 2010 for the song *No Love* by Eminem featuring Lil Wayne.

## The Skit

During the nineties, *Saturday Night Live* did a series of skits featuring the song called 'A Night at the Roxbury'. In them, Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, and a guest star would go clubbing at many dance clubs and fail to pick up chicks. Guest stars for this skit included Jim Carrey, Tom Hanks, Martin Short, Alec Baldwin, and Sylvester Stallone. It was made into a movie in 1998.

## The Fad

In 2005, user ligamentx made a site with an image from on of the skits, featuring Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, and Jim Carrey bobbing their heads up and down. The domain for this site is ckjcwf, which stand for **C**hris **K**attan, **J**im **C**arrey, and **W**ill **F**errell. This YTMND has spread into its own fad, in which other people's faces are photoshopped over the original YTMND, and the YTMND plays a parody on "What Is Love" by Haddaway. Some other sites may take clips from different TV shows/movies where the drivers and passengers may be moving their heads up and down as seen in the original video. The fad also achieved (relative) mainstream success when a flash movie compilation of the fad circulated around the internet.

## Links

http://ckjcwf.ytmnd.com/ - Original by **ligamentx**

http://whatisnes.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **leileilol**

http://claylove2.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **sonicrulez10**

http://whatishoth.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MasterSitsu**

http://machinecity.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Gafaddict**

http://whatislovereloaded.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Coolgamer (has flashing lights)**
YTMND Soundtrack Vol. 10

On April 10, 2006, Volume 10 was released as a three-disc set. The first two discs featured songs from then-recent fads and older Moderator Favorites, while the third disc was a bonus disc featuring the Dew Army Contest winners. Featured on the covers of the first two disks is Brian Peppers, while the third disc features a colored image of the Dew picture.

## Disc 1

* 1: "Intro" - YTMND
* 2: "Overdose (Lady Radio Version)" - Tomcraft
* 3: "Du Hast" - Rammstein
* 4: "Kernkraft 400" - Zombie Nation
* 5: "Bright Eyes" - Radix
* 6: "I Like That" - Houston, Chingy, I-20, and Nate Dogg
* 7: "Stealing Fat" - The Dust Brothers
* 8: "Rock Me Amadeus" - Falco
* 9: "MacGyver" - Randy Edelman
* 10: "Golden Age" - Max Coveri
* 11: "Janie's Got A Gun" - Aerosmith
* 12: "I Want Candy" - Bow Wow Wow
* 13: "Mega Man 3 - Select Screen" - Yasuaki Fujita and Harumi Fujita
* 14: "Don't Dream It" - Tim Curry
* 15: "One Winged Angel" - Nobuo Uematsu
* 16: "Everywhere" - Fleetwood Mac
* 17: "Hey Boy Hey Girl" - The Chemical Brothers
* 18: "Killing In The Name Of" - Rage Against The Machine
* 19: "The Bauman E-mails: A Dramatic Reading (PTKFGS Version)" - boomaga
* 20: "I <3 Michael Wolfson (Also Cocks)" - syncan

## Disc 2

* 21: "Intro" - YTMND
* 22: "Fuck Off Dad" - DZK and Haley
* 23: "The Bomb!" - The Bucketheads
* 24: "Da Funk" - Daft Punk
* 25: "YTMND Dub (It's a Feeling)" - boomaga
* 26: "If You Wanna Be Happy" - Jimmy Soul
* 27: "All The Things She Said" - t.A.T.u
* 28: "I'm a Playa" - Tech N9ne
* 29: "Pokémon" - The Poké Gangsta
* 30: "Danger! High Voltage" - Electric Six
* 31: "6 in a Row" - Stamper
* 32: "Break My Stride" - Matthew Wilder
* 33: "These N\*ggaz Ain't Real" - Big Tuck, Trae, and Z-Ro
* 34: "Mario Circuit - Final Lap" - Soyo Oka
* 35: "Yeha-Noha" - Sacred Spirits
* 36: "Boil 'em" - EnigmaMonkey
* 37: "Internet Going Nutz" - Paul Wall
* 38: "Follow the Yellow Brick Road / You're Off to See the Wizard" - Judy Garland and The Munchkins
* 39: "I Believe I Can Fly" - R. Kelly
* 40: "Flash" - Queen
* 41: "You're My Honeybunch (Cuppycake)" - Amy Castle
* 42: "lol, Bedtime" - TheEvilTwin

## Disc 3

* 43: "Du" - David Hasselhoff
* 44: "Communication Breakdown" - Led Zeppelin
* 45: "What You Waiting For?" - Gwen Stefani
* 46: "Rammstein" - Rammstein
* 47: "Control Myself" - LL Cool J and Jennifer Lopez
* 48: "Let Her Cry" - Hootie and the Blowfish
* 49: "Human Behaviour" - Björk
* 50: "Just Because" - Jane's Addiction
* 51: "Touch of Grey" - Grateful Dead
* 52: "Buddens" - The Game
* 53: "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston
* 54: "Rape Me" - Nirvana
* 55: "Svefn-g-englar" - Sigur Rós
* 56: "Drop It Like It's Hot" - Snoop Dogg
* 57: "5 Minutes Alone" - Pantera
* 58: "No Place To Hide" - Korn
Ualuealuealeuale

"**Ualuealuealeuale**" is the closest anyone has come to transcribing the chorus of El Chombo's song "Macarron Chacarron (feat. Andy's Val Gourmet)", in which the singer seems to mumble incoherent gibberish. Usually, however, the song is falsely credited to El Mudo. It became a fad when MowtenDoo created Batman: Ualuealuealeuale on September 9, 2005.

## Fad Structure

The image of Adam West dancing as Batman from the TV series, as seen on Batman Gets His Groove On, had been a familiar staple on YTMND, but by shortening the animation to just have the closeup of Batman at the end and using "Macarron Chacarron", MowtenDoo made Batman look like a retarded man speaking complete nonsense. The success of the site easily inspired a fad of high-speed animations of people acting retarded and singing "ualuealuealeuale" or similarly bizarre lyrics.

## Controversy

Batman: Ualuealuealeuale (often known simply as "Batman") quickly became an intensely popular and controversial site. It was a constant fixture on the Top 15 as people circulated links to it around internet forums. As it approached 1 million views, YTMND users who hated the site refused to believe that the site's success was legitimate, and accused MowtenDoo of viewhacking. The controversy grew more tense when MowtenDoo retitled the site "The Picard Song" as a prank, which all but confirmed the charges of viewhacking in the eyes of the site's opponents.

As Batman threatened Picard Song's almost sacred status as the all-time most-viewed YTMND, the Batman vs. Picard rivalry became a fad in itself, with sites endorsing one or the other and chronicling the struggle for the top spot. Batman's unseating of Picard has earned the ualuealuealeuale the eternal emnity of many disgruntled Picard fans. Eventually, the ualuealuealeuale site was surpassed by the Blue Ball Machine as YTMND's most viewed site.

## NARV Status

The fad often takes very little effort, as all it takes is an image of a person or thing moving around to be set to the music. Most ualuealuealeuale sites do not take in a high rating.

## Links

http://ualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **MowtenDoo**

http://obiwanualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **SaqibSaab**

http://smb3ulae.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **vaderpizza**

http://batpepperz.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Kurushimi**

http://darthvaderualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **isamu**

http://pspbatman.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Kurushimi**
A Dramatic Reading

**Dramatic Reading** sites are YTMNDs in which a user reads aloud from a passage in a way which makes the text in question appear out-of-context. A good example of this is The Bauman E-mails: A Dramatic Reading a site created by boomaga after the eBaum's World controversy in January 2006 which he read the Cease and Desist emails sent by the the Baumans in the voice of a mock Shakespearean actor. The sheer ridiculousness of the hammy, faux-English accent coupled with the use of internet slang (the term "lol" is used in one email, boomaga decided to pronounce it how it's spelled) and other odd phrases (for example, "you have lost your Yiddish cup!") gained it mass popularity and caused it to stay at the Top-rated YTMND spot for several weeks. While The Bauman Emails is not the first "reading" site to be made (sites such as Peta People Smart! predate it by at least a month), it is undoubtedly the most famous and was added to the Hall of Fame, later starting the Dramatic Reading fad.

Dramatic Readings continues to be a strong fad with incredible submissions.

The site Breakup Letter, Dramatic reading is currently the second-most viewed site on YTMND.

## Links

https://baumanletters.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **boomaga**

https://paquetteletter.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **syncan**

https://fanfiction.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Orlics**

https://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **NonDripHelmet**
YTMND Soundtrack Vol. 6

Volume 6 was released on November 12, 2005, along with an update to the first five volumes, fixing a few mp3's and updating some songs to fuller versions. Featured on the cover is Darth Vader.

## Track list

* 1: "Intro" - YTMND
* 2: "Breakfast Machine" - Danny Elfman
* 3: "Ghost Love Score" - Nightwish
* 4: "Get Low" - Lil Jon and The East Side Boyz
* 5: "Zeromus" - The Black Mages
* 6: "What's New, Pussycat?" - Tom Jones
* 7: "Everyone Has AIDS" - DVDA
* 8: "Nipples 'n Clits" - DJ Assault
* 9: "Hit The Road Jack" - Ray Charles
* 10: "Stomp To My Beat" - JS16
* 11: "Let's Get It On" - Marvin Gaye
* 12: "Come to Daddy (Pappy Mix)" - Aphex Twin
* 13: "Better Off Alone" - Alice DeeJay
* 14: "America, Fuck Yeah" - DVDA
* 15: "Strokin'" - Clarence Carter
* 16: "Bicycle Race" - Queen
* 17: "Cheers (Where Everybody Knows Your Name)" - Gary Portnoy
Upvoter

An upvoter is someone who creates a YTMND account, focusing mainly on voting on every site. This is the opposite of a downvoter, and is treated in a similar way as downvoting in most situations. Often people choose to upvote simply because of the existance of downvoters, saying that as a result the vote is averaged out.

"La Liga de Cinco Estrellas" is the current highly active group of upvoters. This group works in an effort to neutralize the negative impact of downvoters. They are also an anti-NARV and anti-Parasite group that promotes effort and originality. The Great Race to 100,000 Stars! is a friendly contest among this band of upvoters that helps inspire people to their cause. This group has helped convert many NARVs and downvoters into more positive and encouraging users on YTMND.

Members currently include

Dancing-is-Forbidden (founder)

BTape (second in command)

mrupvoter (spokesman)

NESer

LordXanthus

FriendlyNeighborhoodUpvoter

unknownkadath

Niloc14

lanedek

murphvelocity

Decisi8ns

ForceUser

MeatwadPwnsYou

Dr-Pizza

Dfo

YourTheCoconutMan

HappyBoy

Bupo

BaftA

iglooandme

Note: several of these users have many downvotes, as they were converted from their diabolical ways. Decis8ns in particular is the most extreme case of a conversion YTMND has ever seen. Many of these users change their past transgressions by 5-ing sites they once 1'd without just cause.

Previously upvoters were defined by the actions of The Upvoter, a ytmnd user who upvoted all sites, including those of his downvoting nemeses, such as adverb and inkdrinker. The Upvoter assumed a super hero persona, and presumably moonlighted as a regular ytmnd user. He used the Sesame Street song "twelve" as his theme song. He has since retired[1]. A similar upvoter who is somewhat well-known, though not very effective, is Pronoun. The whole "gimmick" behind his existence is that he is the opposite of Adverb. Like The Upvoter, he, too, acts as a superhero. Upkateers were a large group of upvoters who mimiced TheUpvoter by upvoting every site they found. However, in recent times, registered Upkateers halted their blind upvoting actions and settled down voting normally due to max's update to YTMND that removed blind voting.
YesYes

**YesYes** or "**Yes, yes**" is a Sean Connery quote from *Finding Forrester*, he says it in triumph after he says the PTKFGS line. It is also featured in the trailer for the film that Max saw before creating YTMND, although it only used the second "Yes". It is one of four alternate universes on YTMND.

## History

The YesYes YTMNDs were inspired by the PTKFGS fad. The first one was doubley, created March 15, 2006 by Typhlosion. It featured the same background image as Yourethemannowdog.com and PTKFGS. Two days later, Mewchu11 released his version of the YTMND, with a YESYES logo embedded on the bottom right side of the image, inspiring the fad of an alternate universe to an alternate universe. With PTKFGS already a popular fad, it didn't build the same momentum. Its popularity dropped dramatically days after its introduction. Starting with July of 2006, YESYES experienced a resurgence, starting with KomradePedrovsk's OMG, Secret Islamic Night Sky!. This was a YTMND which inspired a lot of other YESYES Islamic ytmnd's. This helped cement YESYES's defacto place as YTMND's 3rd corner universe.

After the recent events surrounding the EON8 Hoax, Deebsdavid received an envelope with a letter inside from from someone claiming to be Supercat. The letter explained how in Supercat's time, EON8 really happened and the world was destroyed, but Supercat traveled back in time to stop the disaster. Some hold to the belief that the alternate universe where EON8 happened is the YESYES universe, while others discard it purely as myth.

## Links

https://doubley.ytmnd.com/ - **Typhlosion's** site which inspired the fad

https://ytmndaa.ytmnd.com/ - **Mewchu11's** site that kickstarted the fad

https://yesyesvader.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **GCNMario**

https://spaceghostnoo.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Mewchu11**

https://skeeterletters.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **boomaga**

https://howdouno.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Trenchgun**

https://secretislamicnightsky.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **KomradePedrovsk**
YTMND Soundtrack Vol. 13

Volume 13 was released September 10, 2006 and contained two YTMND-themed desktop wallpapers from user typogra's YTMND T-Shirt submission. Featured on the cover is the ninja from Karateka.

## Track list

* 1: "Intro" - YTMND
* 2: "Series of Tubes (Net Neutrality Dance Mix)" - Manish
* 3: "Battle 1" - Hellion Sounds
* 4: "YTMND Orchestra" - Xer0
* 5: "Balla da Li" - Boom Boxx and Linda O
* 6: "Fantasy" - Mariah Carey
* 7: "Any Other Name" - Thomas Newman
* 8: "Jurassic Park Theme" - John Williams
* 9: "We're Going to Be Friends" - The White Stripes
* 10: "You Are A Pirate" - Stefán Stefansson and Julianna Mauriello
* 11: "Who Do You Think You Are?" - Spice Girls
* 12: "Let's Party Like It's 1904" - Rex Navarrete
* 13: "Miracle" - Cascada
* 14: "Rnay" - Bodenstandig 2000
* 15: "(I've Got A) Golden Ticket" - Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
* 16: "Somebody's Watching Me" - Rockwell
* 17: "Lee" - Tenacious D
* 18: "Alive" - Peral Jam
* 19: "Chewing Gum" - Annie
* 20: "Deception" - Blackalicious
* 21: "Snakes On A Plane (Bring It)" - Cobra Starship
* 22: "A Message from Cyberman" - YTMND
XP

**XP** is a fad based on the operating system, **Windows XP**. The image in XP sites often only uses the maximize, restore, minimize, and close buttons found at the top right corner of a Windows XP window, or variations thereof. It is often made to seem like a sprite, often from a game from the 8-bit era. The sound is often music made from sounds and error messages from Windows XP, made to sound like music relating to the image. The first one, released in April 2006, included Super Mario, but the fad kicked off when the author of the original site made a second XP site featuring Pacman.

## Trivia

In original site, Mario was first walking backwards. When this bug was fixed, a window button with swastika was added on Mario's finger. Later, a hammer and sickle symbol was additionally added.

## Links

https://supermarioxp.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **Artman40**

https://sonicxp.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Bajeezus**

https://paxmanxp.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Artman40**

https://marioxpbev.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Petrarch**

https://metroidxp.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **TheDailyRooster**

https://anotherxpfad.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MMZ**
YTMND Soundtrack Vol. 8

On January 12, 2006, fyrestorm released Volume 8. It was dubbed the "Wartime Edition", due to the events between YTMND and eBaum's World at the time. The image on the cover is not from a particular YTMND (It's an edited cover of Call of Duty 2).

## Track list

* 1: "Intro" - YTMND
* 2: "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" - Eurythmics
* 3: "Korobeiniki" - Ozma
* 4: "Light My Fire" - Necro
* 5: "The 900 Number" - The 45 King
* 6: "Scarface (Push It To The Limit)" - Paul Engemann
* 7: "Livin' In The Sunlight, Lovin' In The Moonlight" - Tiny Tim
* 8: "Invincible" - Pat Benatar
* 9: "Supernova" - Transa
* 10: "Japan Break Industries Eurobeat" - Japan Break Industries
* 11: "Frontier Psychiatrist" - The Avalanches
* 12: "Ass Up!" - Barracuda
* 13: "Battlefield 1942 Loading Theme" - Joel Eriksson
* 14: "The Weight" - The Band
* 15: "White Rabbit" - Jefferson Airplane
* 16: "Ebaum's World Dot Com" - Lemon Demon
* 17: "The Lonely Man Theme" - Joe Harnell
* 18: "Kurukururin" - Kaoru
* 19: "The Bauman E-mails: A Dramatic Reading" - boomaga
You Forgot Poland

The **You forgot Poland** YTMNDs were satirical references to George W. Bush's unanticipated retort to John Kerry during the 2004 *Presidential Electoral Debate.* John Kerry had omitted Poland as a member of the coalition participating on the War on Terror (whether or not this was intentional is debated) and Bush took it upon himself to enlighten Kerry.

The newer Forgot Poland sites contain no real world political message. This type of YTMND is quickly becoming popular, though it has very little to do with the original "forgot Poland" political fad. The original YTMND was posted by deevo in October of 2004 (which is now deleted). Since then, "Forgot Poland" sites merged with the influences of DaltonofZeal2, Kassius, and AegisReflector to pull away from lame political jokes and pushed more towards its own unique realm. "Forgot Poland" sites are currently entirely guided by AegisReflector's "Forgot your Poland fundamentals" site. The same user was responsible for letting the fad take off in February 2006. In order to create a You Forgot Poland site, you need to know your fundamentals: Remix, increase volume, and beg for votes. Pumping up the bass doesn't hurt either.

AegisReflector's site is now considered lost unfortunately.

## Source Materials for sites

Many Forgot Poland sites use loud sound clips such as "KHAAAAAAN!", "NOOOOOOOOOOO!", square waves, and "WRONG!" in addition to the classic 2004 election debate clips. Fad music is also often used in these parodies to try to show the problems with everyone making fad sites without humor or effort. The truth is that many classic Forgot Poland sites took about the same, if not more effort as any masterpiece that often lands in the top 5. The intentional use of loud noise, distorted images, spelling it "polend", and "voat 5!!" running gags is often unnoticed, as many voters believe that these sites are just poorly made. For a long while now though the quality of these sites has tanked and the running gags are simply pounded into oblivion. Most FPA members don't make Poland sites and few even make noise sites at all anymore.

## Links

**NOTE**: As stated above, the 2004 site that inspired the fad and AegisReflector's site are considered lost. Also, some of these have loud noises and the last example has flashing lights.

https://youforgotpoland.ytmnd.com/ - One of the earliest sites by **barbarian**

 https://vote5captainpoland.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **NESer**

https://believepoland.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **alholm2000**

https://mesopoland.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Peepsalot**

https://vote5polandmachine.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **BTape**

https://vote5polandbuiltcity.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **NESer**
YTMND Soundtrack Vol. 17

On April 22, 2008, Volume 17 was released after several delays, and it is also the final soundtrack album. Featured on the cover are the emo oranges.

## Track list

* 1: "Intro" - YTMND
* 2: "You Just Fell For The Trap!" - keatonkeaton999
* 3: "The à la Menthe" - La Caution
* 4: "Grid]| [] (Trance Mix)" - The Cynic Project
* 5: "Push It" - Salt 'N' Pepa
* 6: "Party Like A Rockstar" - Shop Boyz
* 7: "Eruption" - Van Halen
* 8: "Alpha Beta Gaga" - Air
* 9: "Music Sounds Better With You" - Stardust
* 10: "Chrono Trigger" - Yasunori Mitsuda
* 11: "Professor Umbridge" - Nicholas Hooper
* 12: "Ave Maria" - Jesper Kyd
* 13: "Floods" - Pantera
* 14: "How So Bright Of Universe" - Guitar
* 15: "Bricks" - Chris Clark
* 16: "The City Sleeps" - MC 900 and Jesus
* 17: "Climbing Up The Walls" - Radiohead
* 18: "The Waiting" - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
* 19: "Pure Imagination" - Gene Wilder
* 20: "Irreplaceable" - Beyoncé
* 21: "Tarzan Boy" - Bango
* 22: "Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley
You Spin Me Round

The song "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a single from the British New Wave band Dead or Alive. It was a #1 hit in the UK charts in 1985.

The fad never really took off from the start in late 2004, but was offered as an alternative song to "Ridin Spinnaz". The song is used to show various people/things spinning, including the original "Ridin Spinnaz" image.

Like "Ridin Spinnaz", "You Spin Me Round" is considered a Narvish fad, as pretty much any GIF depicting something spinning is set to the song. Sometimes, the same image is used in two separate sites; one with the "You Spin Me Round" music, and the other with the "Ridin spinnaz" music. This has contributed to its NARV status.

The song has been used in over 300 sites to date.

## Links

http://youspinmeround.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **sekkan**

http://hysmrr.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **apesofdoom**

http://ysmr.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **drcornelius**

http://spidermanspins.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MasterSitsu**

http://azumangaspinme.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **topazina**

https://stellaspinnin.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **DerMetzgermeister**

https://buneary.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MentoEevee**
YTMND Soundtrack Vol. 1

**YTMND Soundtrack Vol. 1** is the first volume of a series of compilation albums containing music used in fads managed and released by user **fyrestorm**. It was released on October 29, 2005 alongside the next four. Sean Connery is on the cover.

## Track list

* 1: "Intro" - YTMND
* 2: "Straight Ahead" - Tube & Berger
* 3: "Call On Me" - Eric Prydz
* 4: "Drop It Like It's Hot" - Snoop Dogg
* 5: "Tarzan Boy" - Baltimora
* 6: "Dr. Zaius" - Troy McClure
* 7: "This Endris Night" - Heather Dale
* 8: "Tender Crisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch" - Darius Rucker
* 9: "Dragostea din Tei" - O-Zone
* 10: "Arab Americans" - Jim Johnston
* 11: "Speedy Speed Boy" - Marko Polo
* 12: "Who's the N\*gga?" - Rx
* 13: "The Price is Right" - Edd Kalehoff
* 14: "The Flintstones" - The Randy Van Horne Singers
* 15: "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand
* 16: "I'm In The Mood For Dancing" - Sharon
* 17: "German Super Mario Bros." - Haim Saban and Shuki Levy
* 18: "United States of Whatever" - Liam Lynch
* 19: "U Can't Touch This" - MC Hammer
* 20: "Mortal Kombat" - Immortals
Yourethemannowdog.com

**www.yourethemannowdog.com** is the the first YTMND site. In 2001, Max Goldberg registered the domain name after hearing Sean Connery say the phrase on *Finding Forrester*. When it was first registered, it did not have the same audio clip as it does now. Instead, it had an Ascii artwork of the words "YOURE THE MAN NOW DOG DOT COM", as seen below:**www.yourethemannowdog.com** is the the first YTMND site. In 2001, Max Goldberg registered the domain name after hearing Sean Connery say the phrase on *Finding Forrester*. When it was first registered, it did not have the same audio clip as it does now. Instead, it had an Ascii artwork of the words "YOURE THE MAN NOW DOG DOT COM", as seen below:
Ugoff

**Ugoff** was a 2004 ad campaign launched by Burger King for their fire-grilled salad. In the Ugoff campaign, a "pouch" designed by a fictional designer named Ugoff (played by Daniel Raymont) to contain hot chicken or shrimp that one orders with their salad was advertised on TV. Originally the website was located at www.ugoff.com, but now that URL redirects to the Burger King hompage.

Several famous phrases of Ugoff's include "Please...I am Ugoff", "Ugoff is hungry!", "Shh...Ugoff needs silence" and "Hot chicken and shramp[shrimp]". These catchphrases became popular and Ugoff's voice began to be inserted into various movie and TV quotes/situations. The most popular use of Ugoff quotes have been dance remixes and user gimmicks.

The original site was created in May 2004 by drokulix. This site is considered lost nowadays. Regardless, it was popular enough to spawn more entries.

## Attack of the Ugoff Clone

As the Ugoff fad grew and became more popular, the YTMND username Ugoff was created. Ugoff's gimmick was commenting "Please...I am Ugoff" repeatedly on many sites. This gimmick was soon copied by someone else, who made Xgoff and did the same thing except they used "Xgoff" instead of "Ugoff". Soon clones for almost every letter of the alphabet were created, and after many sites were flooded with "Please...I am \_goff" comments, max deleted all of the Ugoff clones except Ugoff and Xgoff.

## Links

**NOTE**: The original Ugoff site is lost.

http://nipplesandugoff.ytmnd.com/ - One of the first Ugoff sites by **sodae**

http://superugoff.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **ChaosTheFox**

http://burnzeerubbah.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **jabs**

http://wackyugoff.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Sixfortyfive**

http://aquaugoffdance.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Gocule**
Tragedy

The **Tragedy...** fad was first coined by greenbanana in July 2007. The site showed Grover, a character known from Sesame Street, brutally murdered due to being crushed in a door. The YTMND ends with a still of Grover dead fading to gray, with the text "Grover 1969-2007" appearing on the page, and "Floods" by Pantera playing softly in the background. Shortly after this hit the front page, Sark76 made several sites off the bat, including the most popular version "Tragedy at the bakery." Soon after, other users started to pick up on the fad and quickly started to make different Grover death sequences ranging from being trampled to starvation.

The original Tragedy site was inspired by HELLO DERE, which showed the moment of the door-crushing and was posted two days before.

## Links

https://hellodere.ytmnd.com/ - Site that inspired the fad by **Behonkiss**

https://tragedyonscene.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **greenbanana**

https://tragedyatthetoxicwasteplant.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **darrel**

https://groverfather.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **sark76**

https://lumberlodge.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **DonaldMcRonald**

https://tragedyattheresturant.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **q959fm**
I Can Break These Cuffs

**These Cuffs** sites feature a clip from the American TV show Cops where a man, having been handcuffed, announces that he "can break these cuffs" and proceeds to attempt to pull his shackles apart. After the arresting officer assures him of the futility of his actions, he lets out an eccentric yell as a result of his efforts. These Cuffs sites generally feature a song with the sound clips mixed in, and some kind of animated image with the arrested man. officer Rosenthal with the Las Vegas Metro Police was in numerous COPS episodes on the Las Vegas strip and has left us with many memorable episodes. He is by far the best personality we have ever seen on COPS. There is another episode featuring Officer Rosenthal with the dwarf which is just as funny as the foot pursuit segment.

## History of Cuffs

The first site *I CAN BREAK THESE CUFFS*, made by Nitros14, was actually made in May 2007 and featured a still image from the show with the now famous sound clip. However, the fad did not catch on until mcroix created *You can't break those cuffs* in July 2008. This site featured the same sound clip but had an animated GIF instead of the still image that Nitros14 used. Later that day, AndySavage created *Can't Break This*, the first spinoff. By the next day, it appeared that the fad had caught on with the creation of fourest's *Love In These Cuffs*, which is the highest rated site so far.

## Links

https://youcantbreakthosecuffs.ytmnd.com/ - Site that inspired the fad by **Nitros14**

https://icanbreakthesecuffs.ytmnd.com/ - Original site that kickstarted the fad by **mcroix**

https://thismanisamidgetifyoudidntknow.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **AndySavage**

https://cuffs.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **fourest**

https://zombiecuffs.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **bobjina**

https://cuffz.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MrSinistar**

https://breakingthecuffs.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **pdouce333**

https://icanbustthesecuffs.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **RETROnoob**
Tourettes Guy

The **Tourettes Guy** fad takes Danny, an internet phenomenon who allegedly has Tourette Syndrome, and adds him into other famous fads, or replaces original song lyrics or quotes with his.

It would appear as though the **Tourettes Guy** Fad originated in the of Summer 2005. His website, tourettesguy.com, was launched in 2000 so it is difficult to determine the precise time when the material made its way to YTMND.

Due to his frequent and profound use of coarse language, most sites featuring him are deemed NSFW.

## Death

On August 4th, 2007, Tourettesguy.com released a statement, saying that Danny, the **Tourettes Guy** had passed away a couple of days after being released out of the hospital, from a car accident. It was later claimed that he was just in prison.

## Links

https://unitedstatesoftourettesguy.ytmnd.com/ - One of the earliest sites by **father-superior**

https://tourettesbiology.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **ninjaglidin**

https://tourettespebbleschristmas.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **billclay**

https://tourettesguybebop.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **moheevi**

https://touretteswarningsimulator.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **thejoeman14**

https://loltourettes.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **infinityDUCK**

https://sonictourettesguy.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Chester-Copperpot**
WTF Boom

**WTF Boom** (first known as **What the F-Bomb**) is a fad where a normal event gets interrupted by a loud voice screaming "WHAT THE FUC-" cut off by an extremely loud explosion. This fad is commonly used as an element of surprise/interruption, similar to the Hassan, Spanish Inquisition, Horsedick, some NEDM sites, and Thwomp fads. The audio clip has also been used by VideoCompiler in a number of his "Ventrilo harassment" videos. It is commonly called the "WTF Boom/Bomb" on YouTube. In spite of the earliest site being posted in July 2005, the fad didn't take off until late 2006.

## Sound Origin

The sound effect is a compilation of three sounds. The first is the sound of a C4 explosive counting down from the game Counter-Strike. The second is a clip from episode 3 of the Steve Moustache Show, in which a Ted DiBiase action figure is given a makeover to look like a disfigured freak. Everything after the explosion was taken from Mega64's "Interview" with Gunther Galipot, a design and content consultant from the game *Cold Fear*. In Mega64's video, Gunther goes berserk and sets off a nuclear bomb.

## Links

https://linkfindsawtf.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **Omega1**

https://wtfboom.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **davedevil16**

https://diaperpocket.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MachDash**

https://wtfbombmacgyver.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **bobphilips**

https://mariodefeatsaboss.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **golions84**

https://wtfkaboom.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Xoul**