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Hobo-Cruise

The **Hobo-Cruise** fad spawned from the popular Break My Stride fad. The first site was called "Can't break the eyeballs' stride!" (formerly known as "Can't break Hobo-Cruise's stride".). It was a clip from the movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise was pursuing a pair of eyeballs he once had across a narrow corridor.

But it wasn't until the next site created by stratos-the-bratos, Hobo-Cruise vs. Mario & Toad, that started the fad. In this site, the eyeballs were replaced with Mario and Toad racing kart sprites from Super Mario Kart, set to "Mario Circuit Final Lap". Sites that followed would have the eyeballs replaced with various things, and in rare occurrences, Tom's face would be photoshopped by another face.

Some sites would have the image of Tom Cruise's character walking in a different scenery either grabbing an item off the floor or running across another path.

## Links

https://hobocruise.ytmnd.com/ - Site that inspired the fad by **stratos-the-bratos**

https://hobocruisekart.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **stratos-the-bratos**

https://n64mollusc.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Kalahari**

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

https://hobocruiseincoming.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **bmcd10**

https://hobomooreburrito.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **davedevil16**
GAYTMND

**GAYTMND** (pronounced Gay-tee-em-en-dee) is a selection of YTMNDs specifically geared towards homosexuals. One could easily argue that 'GAYTMND' has existed for a long time without a watermark on YTMND. "Gay Fuel", "Hey Bro" and thousands of other sites have explicitly or subtly intended to be 'gay'.

It has been rumored to be an alternate universe as some have made "alternate universe" style GAYTMND.com pages. However, its watermark (a pink star logo over a darker shade of pink background) is located in the same position of the YTMND logo; the top left corner, and was never at any time during its original creation intended to be a springboard to make variations of existing fads. The original GAYTMND, created in June 2006, was created by MasterSitsu's "George Costanza". The clip of Jason Alexander is taken from a very 'gay' 90's film *Love! Valour! Compassion!* - the adding of a watermark was a joke added after the first posting of the site, feeling a pink triangle in the corner for such a site would not only bring a little extra humor, but would be entirely appropriate.

## Types of GAYTMND Sites

There are several different variations of the GAYTMND fad:

* The most common song in the fad is Sin With Sebastian's "Shut Up (and Sleep With Me)". This song will be used for most normal GAYTMND sites (example: GAYTMND Gets a Delivery).

* Royalty of Gay YTMNDs are also popular in GAYTMND. These YTMNDs include a (sometimes modifed) picture of a person, flipped back and forth to the beat of the introduction of Spice Girl's "Who Do You Think You Are". The song is also modified to include the words "You are a fag, *(YTMND subject)*, you are a fag" (example: Jewson, King of Gay).
* Another popular set is "GAYTMND Presents: A Faggy Short Film" which are overly lengthly synced sites with bleeped words from movies to change its context, punctuated at the end by a noise from Reading Rainbow and a recorded laugh from a Ventrilo user, accompanied by a GAYTMND CareBear bluntly declaring the YTMND over (example: F\*\*\* Club - A F\*ggy Short Film).

## Links

https://gayourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **MasterSitsu**

https://mix.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MasterSitsu**

https://gaytmndarmy.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Sylvester**

https://gaytmndlogo.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MasterSitsu**

https://changaytmnd.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Krochy**

https://northpole.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MasterSitsu**
Catch That Man

This fad began on January 6, 2006 with an animation of a man in a milk crate wearing a motorcycle helmet manually propelling himself forward while being chased by a bunch of Asian-looking men in tight wet suits down a slick roadway, accompanied by a sped-up version of the Eurobeat remix of "Japan Break Industries" by a Japanese worker. Initially submitted by infernalmeep, the image source was attributed to 2chan, a Japanese imageboard from which the infamous 4chan.org is based.

## Created by?

User infernalmeep has not commented on whether or not he was the creator of this animation or just a reposter of this image. It has been speculated that the image was created by British animation artist Cyriak since it so closely resembles his style and sensibilities.

## Spinoffs

To date there are more than 100 spinoff sites from this initial entry. In a typical spinoff site, both the man in the box and the men chasing him are replaced by others; ex. Pac-man being chased by ghosts.

## Links

http://boxchase.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **infernalmeep**

http://catchthat8bit.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **omnitarian**

http://stealthatytmnd.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Amada**

http://doomcatchthatman.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **JacKThERiPPeR**

https://badgercatchthatman.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **aneskimo**

https://catchthemin.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **alefaso**
NES

**NES** is a fad dating to 2004 involving taking an existing ytmnd fad or other subject from pop cuture and turning it into a bitmap pixel art image or NES game, usually including NES style music. The most viewed is What is NES love?. Although there were other NES-themed ytmnds before it, this was the first of its kind to truly catch on. Currently, there is an NES version of almost all of the more popular fads.

## Links

http://xgongivit2ya.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **tumult**

 http://whatisnes.ytmnd.com/ - What is Love parody by **leileilol**

http://neszidane.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Cataclaw**

http://neshalo.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **TheDreadnaught**

http://matrixonnes.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **casman**

http://secretnazines.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **NinjaSetsuna**
Ted Danson

**Ted Danson** (full name Edward Bridge Danson III) is an actor famous for his roles on Cheers, Becker, and now as a forced fad on YTMND that started in October 2007. Most of these sites involve Ted Danson either shopped into other fads (such as in Ted Danson Quickly Visits YTMND.com), or in new material that displays him as a god-like figure. Original Dansonism sites featured a centered image of Danson on a bright background with either no text or 'http://ted-danson.com' as the site text. He is also sometimes associated with Neil Flynn, who plays the janitor on the television show Scrubs (see Danson is Indestructable) . The song often associated with this fad is the moon level theme from the NES DuckTales game (the original site uses "Relax" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood).

## Links

https://ijfjoiajoij.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **filibuster**

https://dansonremembers.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **hdofu**

https://epicdanson.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **tkx7**

https://ihvefilhwfhilkhr.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **filibuster**

https://ddrwatchesyouplay.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **duckferret**

https://ted-danson-lol-why-is-this-url-available.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **keatonkeaton999**

https://dansoninthemoonlight.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MasterSitsu**
Champion

The **Champion** fad consists generally of Presidents of the United States (or other countries) holding a professional wrestling championship belt.

Originally started as a forced fad by bythorsbeard, each site would show a president holding the World Wrestling Federation Championship belt with Hulk Hogan's theme song, "Real American", playing in the background.

Shortly afterwards, alternative universe versions of the fad were made using belts from other wrestling promotions such as the WCW Championship for PTKFGS and the ECW Championship for YESYES. In the former, Hulk Hogan's theme songs from WCW, such as "American Made" and the nWo theme, were used.

## Links

https://wwfchampionharrytruman.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **bythorsbeard**

https://georgehwbush.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MattressMan**

https://worldwrestlingfederationchampiontheodoreroosevelt.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **bythorsbeard**

https://iwasreallyboredandihadtowakeupearlyonasaturday.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **WESTBEN2002**

https://wwechampkennedy.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **mrtuesday**

https://wwfchampionronaldreagan.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **bythorsbeard**
Ted Stevens

**Ted Stevens** (November 18, 1923 – August 9, 2010) was a United States Republican senator from Alaska whose angry rant on net neutrality has received a certain level of infamy online due to his obvious ignorance on the issues behind the net neutrality debate and the way the Internet works in general. A transcript and audio recording of this rant can be found on the Public Knowledge blog entry relating to it.

Starting in July 2006, several YTMNDs were made from this recording, most of them mocking Senator Stevens' comparison of the Internet to "a series of tubes" and his claim that his staff sent him "an Internet", as well as his insistence that the internet wasn't "a big truck". Others made fun of his stuttering speech patterns, such as this one.

Most variations of the fad involve remixing his quotes to other remix. One such remix by manish called *Series of Tubes dance remix* mashed with a club mix of "Groove Coverage" by 21st Century Digital Girl, became popular amongst many.

## Links

https://sentedstevens.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **lo-fi**

https://seriesoftubesmovie.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **krebstar**

https://tubesdance.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **manish**

https://speedtubes.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **kingstefan**

https://tedstevensbmg.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **b2lskirnir**

https://lovenet.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **State-of-mind**
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

**AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA** is an ear rape fad created by anystrom. The fad consists mostly of sites with an image of a wrestler performing his finishing move, along with a sound file created by lacrossestar83 of Marv's scream in Home Alone when he steps on a nail on the basement stairs and "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" in all three lines of text.

anystrom created the first site on May 23, 2009, using a picture of Chris Masters performing the Master Lock on Steven Richards. After taking a break from YTMND, he returned in July and made three more AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA sites, one of which was sponsored by s3m1lol. After taking another break from YTMND, he returned in October and began a rampage of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA sites, which superdreamkilla (now IP banned by Max) joined in on, resulting in many people erroneously believing that superdreamkilla created the fad and not anystrom.

At first, anystrom exclusively used the Masterlock image for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA sites, but later started using other images. The first AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA site to use a wrestling image besides the Masterlock was Max Goldberg for Congress, which used an image of the Undertaker chokeslamming JBL. Other images used for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA sites include, among others, John Cena using the STFU on Chris Masters, Ric Flair using the Figure Four Leglock on Kurt Angle, Randy Orton RKO'ing Jeff Hardy, Steve Austin stunning Vince McMahon, and Razor Ramon about to hit the Razor's Edge on Jeff Jarrett.

The fad has been met with mixed reactions. Some users enjoy the sites, while others absolutely despise them. Lacrossestar83 is known to 5 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA sites solely because they contain his sound.

## Links

**NOTE**: Most of these sites contains loud audio; proceed with caution.

https://suesanboil.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **anystorm**

https://everyfewhours.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **amindlessidiot**

https://palmsugar.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **eightbitprodigy**

https://ualuealuealeualemirror.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **anystorm**

https://edmundfitzgeraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **PoHandle**
Billy Mays

**William Darrell "Billy" Mays, Jr.** (July 20, 1958 – June 28, 2009) was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson most notable for promoting OxiClean, Orange Glo, and other cleaning, home-based, and maintenance products. His distinctive beard and loud sales pitches made him a recognized television presence in the United States.

On the morning of June 28, 2009, Mays's wife found him dead in his home. Because of the close temporal proximity of May's and Farrah Fawcett's deaths to Michael Jackson's untimely demise, MAX converted the Michael Jackson contest to a general dead celebrity contest.

In response, YTMND users made many sites that pay tribute to Mays. Interestingly, Billy Mays has won the hearts of many YTMND users and this is reflected in the number of positive, respectful sites and site comments about him. For example, many users lovingly refer to the late Billy Mays as follows: **"Rest in peace sweet bearded prince."**

Before his death, Billy Mays was already the subject of various high rated sites.

## Links

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

https://whybillymays.ytmnd.com/ - One of the earliest sites by **Valhan**

https://selforangeinate.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Fluk3**

https://nobodyisbetterthenbilly.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Supel**

https://tombstones.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MatrixBuffalo**

https://imgladyouredead.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Fluk3**

https://ripbillymayes.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **lolpwned**
Anymore

This fad, created in June 2007, is similar to the For the last time fad. The original site had Pennywise from Stephen King's "It" hidden in darkness at the bottom of a staircase. Because of it's similarities to the For the last time fad, right down to using Silent Hill music to boot, the fad was not well recieved from the start and faded away quickly.

## Links

https://nevercome.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **BearsCanSmellThis**

https://cocainescare.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MEO**

https://bobstairs.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **FGoat**

https://neverpit.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **bettabomb**

https://watchlazytown.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Zafa**

https://weneverforgetpolendanymore.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **ghcghcghc**
Space Jam

The Space Jam fad from 2005 is unique as it originated from a 4chan video, which in turn was based on a (since take down) website created by Something Awful user L-ShapedTetrisBlock. The video showed various images of legendary wrestler Randy Savage "The Macho Man", accompanied by a remix of "Space Jam" by the Quad City DJs. The remix involved the lyrics being mixed into the MOD chiptune "Funky Stars". The remix and images both originated from the website.

The video made its way to ytmnd sometime in April 2005 and shortly became a fad. Early sites would show various people getting slammed, but the most popular variant of the fad was the ability to remix the song with other music due to its limited use of instruments other than percussion. The song has been remixed with various other fads, like lol internet, andWhat is Love. The song was later used as part of the Snoop Nye the Slam Guy fad.

The original unremixed song was included on Volume 3 of the YTMND Soundtrack.

## Links

http://savageslam.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **Kou**

http://superslam8mixes.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Dasyati**

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

http://slaminsult.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **omgitsacid**

http://weinterruptthisspacejam.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **mik3m**
Bah!

The "BAH!"/"Crazy Old Woman" fad is based off an unreleased Xbox 360 ad. In the commercial, an old woman is pretending she's in an FPS game, shouting "BAH" each time she "shoots" as she moves around. The first site was released in September 2006, though the fad was very slow to start up, and eventually was made popular by syncan and MasterSitsu, each with a pair of sites.

Currently, the most popular variation involves adding the woman's "BAH!" to random songs.

Other sites feature the "BAH!" lady in combat, as if her imaginary gun-shots (through her hand) were actually real.

## Links

https://bahbahbahbahbah.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **TheMayor**

https://whatisbah.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Improvisor**

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

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

https://ramoneslive.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MasterSitsu**

https://bahbaraann.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **sammich22**

https://thenamesbahjamesbah.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Feedrosie**

https://theempirestrikesbah.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MasterSitsu**
Blur

The **blur fad** involves original YTMND's or random movie quotes being blurred and/or bleeped in key areas so an illusion is created, making it sound as if some offensive word was said. It is similar to Jimmy Kimmel Live's This Week in Unnecessary Censorship segments.

It started in May 2006 with a comment by jp2m5 in the comments page of a site that Spotz made which can be found here. ac6517 made the first blur site. Said site was accompanied by the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Under the Bridge".

The blur fad was eventually associated with GAYTMND, where lines would be blurred so that it appeared that a dirty message was received.

## Links

https://blursite.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **ac6517**

https://stephanielovestheblur.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **choopie911**

https://vaderblur.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **burpingcat**

https://nixonblur.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **LordXanthus**

https://thecountsong.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Echoer**

https://obeyblur.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **LordXanthus**
It's a Trap

Originating as an Internet meme on Something Awful, **It's a Trap** eventually became a YTMND fad by Spring 2005.

Ackbar sites can be done in one of various ways

* Other characters saying "it's a trap" such as Solid Snake, Frank Burns from M\*A\*S\*H, Peppy Hare from Star Fox (e.g. Solid Snake).
* The quote used to describe something as a possible trap (e.g. The Superdome during Katrina)
* Remixed with another song (e.g. Rap Remix)
* Sometimes, Ackbar's quote may come randomly in another site without warning (e.g. Enraged Cake)

Recently though, a medley of various characters saying "It's a Trap" including Ackbar has been used for trap sites.

Despite not being as popular as other fads like Picard, Vader, and Milton, Ackbar will often show up in conglomerate sites.

## Links

https://itsatrap.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **MultiKoopa**

https://iatiat.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **GenesisHell**

https://itsatrapjailtime.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **DarkMatrix4506**

https://trap.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **variable**

https://itsatraprap.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **mikeypuff**

https://ackbarlendsahelpinghand.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **megamanrocks**
Epic Maneuver

The **Epic Maneuver** fad is devoted to animations of people doing heroic things, mundane or ridiculous actions

in a needlessly flashy manner. It began with Epic Geordi Manuever in April 2006, which features *Star Trek: The Next Generation* character Geordi LaForge dramatically rolling beneath an isolation door before it seals off a warp core breach (although some say merely ducking would have been more than sufficient given the circumstances). The middle of the Nightwish song "Ghost Love Score", which had been previously used on many other YTMNDs, is often used in the fad and has now become synonymous with epic maneuvers. The song is sometimes slowed down for *Epic Effect*.

## Criticism

The fad has received a lot of negative attention. Despite its origins involving an unnecessary maneuver, the fad has mutated into taking "funny" and "extreme" videos from the internet, some that are not even maneuvers. Others believe the usage of "Ghost Love Score" was not a good idea as it was already popularized before. Just like other fads like "Best Day Ever" and "Stride", it often takes no effort to make an Epic Maneuver site. According to MasterSitsu, the main problem of the fad is that the music could be used for any gif/picture and has ruined any hopes of new fads or fad music.

In addition, the fad is itself undergoing something of a civil war, between those who think the fad is about something important and truly 'epic' (such as Epic Wheelchair Maneuver) and those who think it is about simple tasks overblown and overhyped (such as Epic Ninja Maneuver).

Despite this, around 100 epic maneuver sites have broken a rating of 4.00 and above, some involving alterations while others involve images taken out of context. Sites will commonly pop up each day with no signs of stopping.

A common occurrence is any epic site on the front page at midnight making the top viewed list and quickly rising towards the top. This trend simply encourages people to stray from originality and just make their site idea into an epic maneuver, even if it doesn't fit.

## Links

https://epicgeordi.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **airbornebryan**

https://epicxp.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **spazdor**

https://epicmacgyveragain.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **WakaLaka**

https://bundy-epic2.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Ginsain**

https://ytmndspinmaneuver.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **sixzerofour**

https://maneuver.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MattressMan**
Salute

* **"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 Little Mac's Bike, Milton's stapler, and the victim in said *Harry Potter* spoiler.
Patrick Duffy

Patrick Duffy is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Bobby Ewing on the soap opera Dallas.

Patrick Duffy sites, making their first rounds in late 2004, consist of gifs of a floating Patrick Duffy head shooting lasers (and sometimes bolts of lightning, flame balls, etc) from his eyes, causing destruction. People get injured. Buildings are destroyed. There is no mercy from Patrick.

The site NEDM: Revenge! features the head of happycat in lieu of Duffy going around setting people on fire (a reference to the original photos). WPFP, who made the site, says he knows about Duffy but that he made his image from scratch.

## Links

http://patrickduffy.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **Longshot**

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

http://duffygmantime.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Cymoro**

http://wtfomgcathavok.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **zig**

http://duffyhldaround.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Cymoro**

http://kirbyvsduffy.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Deathhand**
George Washington

**George Washington** (commonly abbreviated "GW") was a general during the American Revolution and later first President of the United States of America. YTMND user tkx7 created a site featuring George Washington from a G. Stuart painting and the song "Swingtown" by the Steve Miller Band. Tkx7 produced 9 sites on October 3, 2008. Although the first sites did not receive a large audience, the combination of the cut-out GW image and "Swingtown" has been used many times by other users. It is often considered a forced fad due to tkx7's overload of sites.

## Links

https://snowy.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **tkx7**

https://gwracist.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Brandon00151**

https://cherrytree.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **tkx7**

https://gwcrossing.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Skizzick**

https://gwbikini.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **hathair**

https://player1.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **tkx7**
Move Bitch

The "Move Bitch" fad did not catch on quickly. The first site was actually an image of Batman's popular "bomb run" picture with the song "Move Bitch" by the rapper Ludacris" playing in the background. However, it wasn't until a few months later that the fad began. The image showed a female runner walking across a racetrack without noticing that another runner was in her way. They collide and fall. The image origin is unknown and there have been various speculation regarding what happened in the original scene. Some believe that the female runner died due to injuries, but no proof has been discovered. The zooming text "OH SNAP" is used.

Recently, according to the user archon888, he mentioned the following regarding the images, but did not cite any sources:

*The “random female athlete” is Gabi Szabo, walking into Kofi Prah’s path after winning the mile (in 4:23) at the Sparkassen Cup in Stuttgart, 2001. Neither was injured.*
A slow-motion replay of the action can be found on YouTube, in which the athletes are identified by commentators as Kofi Amoah Prah and Gabriela Szabo.

Regarding the original image, it has been used countless times, sometimes even with the same song. The original site has racked up more than 100,000 views.

Fad sites will show various other people colliding with various object (for example, a man getting hit by a car, Spock using a nerve-pinch to get past a person, etc.).

## Links

http://getoutdaway.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **pkilla87**

http://spockdropandroll.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **monsterparty**

http://movebitchmario.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **n3z**

http://venomove.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **balloonsex**

http://batmanmovebitch.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **faizal5k**

http://medievalbitch.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **britzman**
Horsedick

This is a strange interruption fad created by lizardman. The phrase originated from a joke site from April 2006 where a line from The Matrix by Neo was altered so that he randomly uttered the phrase in a strange voice. It was a semi-forced fad by lizardman who made 3 more sites before other interruption sites began to flock. The fad is often difficult to find, and can show up at any time due to it's unsuspecting nature.

## Links

NOTE: These sites are NSFW.

https://notmranderson.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **lizardman**

https://horsedic.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MikeyComicsInc**

https://whatareyou.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **lizardman**

https://fordtruck.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **smoothmedia**

https://armed.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **lizardman**

https://notmaximus.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Kayne**
Can't Break My Stride

The **Can't Break My Stride** fad is composed of an animated GIF of people walking or running along, easily overcoming a specific type of obstacle or inconvenience, accompanied by Matthew Wilder's *Break My Stride*. It is occasionally referenced by the acronym **CBMS**. The original YTMND was made by syncan on February 26, 2006, which features a scene from the series *My Name Is Earl* where triple-amputee Cameron Clapp chases after Earl on prosthetic running legs.

## Varieties

A popular variation of these YTMNDs is the "trip stride" variety. These usually involve a character, again, running or walking, but are distracted by something and end up tripping over an item they should normally be able to avoid. At the moment of impact, the music is interrupted, and silence typically follows the remainder of the YTMND. The best example of this YTMND is Can't Break Scotty's stride by NovaDaveX.

Some sites may use other versions of the song, the most popular being a club version of Pink Lagoon's take.

## NARV Status

The fad can be abused as most sites involve just taking an image and setting it to music, but really not to the degree as other fads. Most recent stride sites involve the "trip stride" variety.

## Links

http://mystride.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **syncan**

http://scott.ytmnd.com/ - **NovaDaveX's** site

http://bigtimestride.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **bigtimes**

http://darthstride.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **vinwiesel**

http://neokeepskicking.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Corevirus**
Scientology

**Scientology** is a fad that originated from a cease and desist order by the legal representatives of the Church of Scientology posted to the site in 2005. The church demanded all Scientology related YTMNDs to be removed due to copyright and trademark infringements. Max replied to the group stating their claims were groundless and nothing would happen to the YTMNDs.

Later, Max included a new section on the YTMND main page called "Scientology™ YTMNDs" (™ is a reference to the name Scientology being a trademark), as well as a disclaimer stating "This website is in no way affiliated, sponsored or owned by the Church of Scientology, L Ron Hubbard, SeaOrg, Dianetics, volcanos or aliens of any sort. We are, however, sponsored by Citizens for the Release of Xenu, a not-for-sanity organization."

As a result, many sites related to Scientology and Xenu have emerged, as well as a dramatic reading of the cease and desist order similar to the one from Neil Bauman. A number of YTMNDs claim to tell the Unfunny Truth behind Scientology, notably An Illustrated History of Scientology and The Un-Funny Truth About Scientology. On June 14, 2006 Max mentioned in a news bulletin that harassing voice mails were sent to the lawyers of the Church; Max plans to hold those who made the messages accountable for their actions. There has been no further contact from the Church as of June 23, 2006 and the section on the front page about Scientology has been removed and the fad is largely forgotten.

## Links

https://historyofscientology.ytmnd.com/ - One of the earliest sites by **drhouse**

https://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **smoothmedia**

https://smartscientology.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **foxymcfox**

https://n64scientology.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **ac6517**

https://hubbardlol.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **zako**

https://theemeter.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Jolb**

https://lronfails.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Mechagodzilla**
Bill O'Reilly's Freakout

Bill O'Reilly is a conservative commentator and host of "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News. He was also previously an anchor on "Inside Edition", where this fad originated.

In an outtake of "Inside Edition" that emerged in May 2008, O'Reilly becomes increasingly agitated at the teleprompter, first because there are apparently no words on it, and then because he doesn't know what "to play us out" means. After attempting a few more takes, O'Reilly eventually screams that he'll "do it live" and that the "fucking thing sucks" before managing to get a decent take.

Due to Bill O'Reilly's notority, this video quickly became popular across the internet, including on YTMND starting in May 2008.

## Links

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

https://anchororeilly.ytmnd.com/ - One of the earliest sites by **amindlessidiot**

https://balevsoreilly.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **VIkerTratS**

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

https://oreillydoesntknowlatin.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Ansem**

https://billplaysscrabble.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **micawber**
Conan is...

**Conan is...AN ALLIGATOR** is a YTMND by user Dasyati created on April 17, 2005 and is the original inspiration for the *Conan is...* fad.

The *Conan is...* fad normally uses an (appropriately edited) Animated GIF of Conan O'Brien, former host of *The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien*, waving his arms about. Conan was attempting to imitate the opening and closing motion of an alligator's jaws during an interview with Matthew McConaughey. Also commonly accompanying the YTMND is the song "Straight Ahead" by Tube & Berger.

## Other YTMNDs

Besides edits of the original GIF, the 'Conan is...' fad has inspired other sites featuring Conan, some branching out into their own fads. For example, the site Conan...has GONE INSANE! eventually led to the Future Conan fad. Another site, Conan...stares into your soul! spun into the Stares into your soul fad. This YTMND was also the inspiration for the TIGER Handheld fad becoming prevalent on YTMND. It also has a few PTKFGS spin-offs featuring other talk show hosts who also were/appeared to be imitating an alligator.

## Today

The *Conan is...* fad, along with the other Conan-based fads, is rarely seen today. However, Conan O'Brien remains a staple in conglomerates.

## Links

http://conangator.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **Dasyati**

http://conanmakespopcorn.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **wasp2020**

http://conanwtf.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **TheNoooo**

http://conanzeromus.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **DIGIHAD**

http://conanrayden.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **TheDreadnaught**
Extended Cut

**Extended Cut** YTMNDs take sound clips of people singing a long note (or saying/shouting a word in a similar matter), and edit them to make them go on for even longer. syncan is credited with kickstarting the fad in May 2006, using an excerpt from The Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy.

## Components

* **Sound File:** A single word (or a lyric with a long note in a song), edited to prolong the word itself. For example, in David Hasselhoff's "Du", during the definitive "DEW!!!!!" line, it has been edited so that Hasselhoff holds the note an improbably long time, as can be heard here.

* **Image:** Sometimes the image depicting the extended cut has been modified so that the main focus of the image is longer.

* **Zoomed Text:** Optionally, the text transcribes the lengthened word. Often confined to one line in such a way that the text doesn't look right when zoomed.

## Links

https://yesitstrue.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **syncan**

https://wofextended.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Dasyati**

https://khanextended.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MessedRocker**

https://dreddlawextended.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Dasyati**

https://vaderextendedcut.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **poodoas**

https://dewextended.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Dasyati**
George Zimmer

**George Zimmer** is the founder and CEO of the Men's Wearhouse. He is also the subject a fad on YTMND based on various 4chan copypastas. The first site was created by site mod fyrestorm, showing a very obscene drawing of George Zimmer with an enormous cock, accompanied by "The Wings" (the main theme of the movie Brokeback Mountain) by Gustavo Santaolalla. The original site was made in late May, but the fad did not take off until July after a PST-styled site based on his quote was made.

Due to the nature of the original site, many of the Zimmer fad sites have been sexual of nature. The user boomaga made a remix using both Zimmer's quote as well as a quote from porn actor Peter North. Due to the nature of the remix, boomaga only put a short excerpt of the song in as well as a sfw picture. The full uncensored remix can be found on Volume 12 of the YTMND Soundtrack along with the Brokeback Mountain theme.

## Stop posting crap plz

On 2006-07-07 midnight, users saw that the Top 15 viewed was replaced with a picture of George Zimmer's face with text below that said 'stop posting crap plz'. The image, links to Fyrestorm's George Zimmer YTMND. Eventually, the entire YTMND site (except for the bar with About etc. and the YTMND logo) was gone, and the same thing that was on the top 15 viewed replaced the entire website, including the ads. Eventually, things changed to normal. This was one of the major influences of the fad.

## The Scare of July 25th

At midnight of July 25, 2006, Max made every YTMND sound sync to the beginning of Tom's Diner, a remix of the song by Suzanne Vega by a group called DNA. Many users were surprised at this, suspecting eBaum's World or another site that hates YTMND did it. After a few minutes, all images were replaced with fyrestorm's George Zimmer YTMNSFW image mirroring back and forth, with red text under it saying either 'STOP POSTING CRAP PLZ' or 'UNORIGINAL OR STOLEN IMAGE GOES HERE'. This completely freaked out the YTMND community, who created YTMNDs about the crazed madness. Most sites returned to normal in about an hour.

## New Layout Prank

On September 24th, 2006, Max posted a fake front page that came up whenever the main YTMND url was accessed. It featured an "MS Paint"-esque rendition of the old front page, likely a satire on its flawed design. This was accompanied by the text "YOU'RE GOING TO LIKE THE WAY IT LOOKS, I GUARANTEE IT" at the bottom, along with a George Zimmer remix of The O'Jays song Love Train from an old site. This briefly regained interest in the George Zimmer fad.

## Links

WARNING: Some of these sites have NSFW content.

https://georgezimmer.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **fyrestorm**

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

https://thedudeswarehouse.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MasterSitsu**

https://menswearhouse.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **renegade64**

https://zimmerbusiness.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **WitchKingofAngmar**

https://zgi.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **ClownPuncher**
Nintendo 64 Kid

The **Nintendo 64 kid** fad, started in March 2006, incorporates a clip of a young boy and his sister exclaiming

their joy when they unwrap their Christmas presents to reveal a Nintendo 64 game system. The boy cries out in glee saying "OH MY GOD!", and "NINTENDO 64, THANK YOU". This video is from kuzmadv, and is according to him, taken on Christmas 1998. The identity of the boy is Brandon Kuzma, the girl is his younger sister Rachael.

## Curious Behavior

The video is peculiar because of the extreme overzealous reaction to the present that the boy exhibits. Once revealing the contents of his gift, the "Nintendo 64 kid" begins to claw at the box as if to dig towards the contents inside.

## Structure of Fad Sites

N64 sites come in different varieties

* Altering of the original video to show the N64 Kid doing various other things or holding up other presents
* The kid himself photoshopped into different settings.

## Video Quality

A common complaint about the N64 fad is the quality of the original video. Due to YouTube's horrific compression algorithm, the N64 kid appears blocky, distorted and difficult to work with in image editing programs. Recently, a higher quality version of the video surfaced on the website of the Nintendo 64 kid.

## Today

* The Nintendo 64 kid was found online, all grown up. Several people have invited him to YTMND Ventrilo, and he said his legendary line in a phonecall with Jewson.

* The Nintendo 64 kid was featured in a segment on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno titled "Videos We Found On YouTube".

## Links

https://n64kid.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **SuperSnake2012**

https://nintendosupremacy.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **nutnics**

https://n64kidtypes.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **ac6517**

https://n64mollusc.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Kalahari**

https://spearman64.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Keyguar**

https://peppersvn64.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Ujio**
The Actual Truth

The "Actual Truth" fad uses a short movie to display 1-3 facts about various people. The fad started on January 31 with the site "The Actual Truth About Brian Peppers (sad story)".

The song choice for the fad was "Forever Rachel" from the RPG game "Final Fantasy VI".

## Description

According to the site, the following 3 facts were pointed out:

* He lives in a nursing home.
* He is on a wheelchair and can not walk.
* His only charges were that of groping a nurse.

Controversy spread almost immediately after the site was created. Many people felt sorry for Brian and deleted their sites, meanwhile others decided to use the new information for their own use, such as making other sites involving Brian Peppers riding in a wheelchair.

While the first two facts were true, the third fact was proven to be false as the Ohio state records showed that Brian Peppers did, in fact, molest a young girl, thereby making him a sexual offender, although many others believe that Peppers merely groped a nurse.

grimaf's site led to another fad involving a letter by Allen Peppers, his brother.

As a fad, sites will mimic the original GIF used in the "Truth about Brian Peppers" site, listing 3 "facts" and featuring a message at the end saying "Please, leave him/her alone."

## Links

http://pepperstruth.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **grimaf**

http://truthaboutpicard.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Wubbzy**

http://medievaltruth.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **TastyBabySoup**

http://connerytruth.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **optimuskyle**

http://whythetears.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Wubbzy**
Baron Lasers

**Baron Lasers** is a fad started in February 2008 consisting of an image of The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen from the Dune series with lasers attached to his head and many other changes, including an odd purple eye in which he is sometimes seen carrying. A typical Baron Lasers site is of a past fad being "modified" with Baron Lasers improvements and a highly distorted song, making Baron Lasers a noise fad (WRONG!). On many occasions, the citations of a Baron Lasers site would end in eous, such as "Baroneous Lazereous" The fad was started by the user HouseofCards and carried on by a few such as, DaltonofZeal2, Smith-Man, DarthWang, and YTMNDkg.

YTMNDkg was known to put the most effort into the Baron Lasers sites he created, he was later banned however, he made a few alts to create more Baron sites, one alt being "lasersBaronLasers", that account was also later banned. Since then it appears he has stopped coming to YTMND.

The PTKFGS of Baron Lasers known as Baron Treehats.

The music used for Baron Lasers is a noise removed version of the Tenchu 3 song, "Oninage" by Noriyuki Asakura.

## Links

https://baronlasers.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **houseofcards**

https://lazoridaspersianbaronger.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **YTMNDkg**; reuploaded by **Smith-Man**

https://chemicalbaron.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **mleep**

https://nobaronforoldlasers.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **YTMNDkg**; reuploaded by **Smith-Man**

https://tyblkpd.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **money-hat**

https://umfuldvote5.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **YTMNDkg**; reuploaded by **Smith-Man**
Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey's presence on YTMND is mainly under the sites created by lizardman in 2006. Such 'Carey' sites included film edits and puns in the style of the Dew Army YTMNDs. These often gained a lot of views, but the popularity of his Carey sites was debatable. Some were voted high, but users were often split on the topic, and the sites usually acquired a more average score. On the other hand, they often got a significant amount of views, making the Top 15 Viewed regularly at the time. These sites likely made top viewed due to lizardman's many alt accounts, as the sites tended to not be very well received. In any case, one of these sites would prove to have an impact on YTMND.

**Mariah Carey Dancing In Butter**, featuring the singer dancing in a tub of butter. This bizarre site became a Moderator's Favorite and the song which accompanied it was her song "Fantasy". Since its creation, a small following of YTMNDs featuring miniature celebrities dancing in various foods have appeared. The celebrities used are often singers of some kind. The most prominent contributor to the original style of the 'Dancing In Butter' site would have to be dctownes, with three particularly impressive additions:

* Smooth Cereal, featuring Michael Jackson

* ¡Fajitas Calientes! with Shakira

* X\_X TOXIC ramen starring Britney Spears

More sites like these began appearing in 2007. Should these spinoffs continue to be made by other users, a separate 'Dancing In' fad could occur. 'Dancing In' or 'Mariah Carey' can not yet be considered a large fad, or even a true fad at this point, largely due to the lack of influence from more than a handful of users. For example, many of the Carey sites only came from lizardman himself, and a YTMND principle is that a users can not create a true fad by making multiple sites on the topic s/he wants to make into a fad. Regardless of this, the original site was certainly memorable, splitting audiences over the actual humour. With over 150,000 views and 2,500 votes, this was one of the more successful, famous YTMNDs of 2006.

## Links (all these created by **lizardman**)

http://mariahcareybutter.ytmnd.com/ - Original site

http://mariahsacrifice.ytmnd.com/

http://mariahblackandwhite.ytmnd.com/

http://mariahvortex.ytmnd.com/

http://mariahcantforget.ytmnd.com/

http://medievalmariah.ytmnd.com/

### Spinoffs by **dctownes**

http://smoothcereal.ytmnd.com/ - Michael Jackson example

http://shakirafajitas.ytmnd.com/ - Shakira example

http://toxicramen.ytmnd.com/ - Britney Spears example
Crazy Telemarketer Call

In mid-July 2006, the user sephiroth112688 created a YTMND that contained a telemarketer call. The call involved a lady going ballistic at a telemarketer, claiming she was harassed. The site became an instant hit and stayed in the top 5 rated sites for a good long time. It did not take long before fad sites sprouted. Most of the fad sites involved other people calling and talking to the woman.

Variants to this same YTMND include Sonic the Hedgehog, Mayor Adam West (played by the real Adam West, a character from the popular adult cartoon show Family Guy), Michael Jackson, and Carl (a character from the Adult Swim cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force).

## Links

https://crazytelemarketer.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **sephiroth112688**

https://sonictelemarketer.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **ac6517**

https://michaeljacksonvstelemarketerlady.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **This-Is-Pretty-Good**

https://deantelemarketing.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **SirLemming**
Cursor

A cursor is an indicator used by mouse-driven interfaces to show the current position of the mouse pointer. A cursor is required to navigate around YTMND.com, as well as most other websites, and is used in most modern operating systems. A cursor is also required to get the full experience of the below fads.

## close eyes, click , open eyes, guess

The first 'cursor site' was "close eyes, click , open eyes, guess" by typogra in April 2006 - an interactive YTMND considered to be the "first YTMND game" according to Wired Magazine's Table of Malcontents blog. Several spinoff YTMNDs ensued, most notably the popular Khan Finds his Pointer. Alternate versions quickly surfaced to accommodate users with custom cursors or Apple's default cursor.

In late 2007, a subfad arose which removed the cursor from the equation. These sites consisted of several images taken from a fad and distributed across the screen in a manner similar to the original site; the music was remixed with soundbites from that fad. This version is associated with the Poland/KHANTMND camp.

A few months after the "close eyes" cursor YTMND came a series of "interactive cursor" YTMNDs which led to the creation of several cursor-based sites, starting with Cursor Paradise.

### VOTE OBAMA

During the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election, typogra changed the title of his site to 'VOTE OBAMA'. The title remained even after Obama won, was inaugurated, and spent over a year in office. He still hasn't changed it back.

## Links

https://getitrightandyouwin.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **typogra**

https://cursorparadise.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **State-of-mind**

https://khanfoundithewon.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **MansionManiac**

https://cursorfuneral.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **DINING-ON-MARIO**

https://cursorplayground.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **State-of-mind**

https://machasdifferentpointers.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Moncur**

https://cursorpoolparty.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **stormbreaker**

https://cursorwelfare.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Josh-O**

https://ytmndcursor.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **State-of-mind**
Skatebird

**Skatebird** was originally a site posted in June 2006 by the user dctownes that featured nothing more than a static image of a bird on a skateboard. He also spelled bird as brid, possibly to add to the humor of the site. We hope.

In 2007, the user nutnics decided to give the bird life by animating it actually skateboarding and grinding. Other sites were created featuring the bird(brid) followed suit.

Skatebird is usually seen riding a skateboard, but it has also ridden other boards, such as a snowboard and even a keyboard. Most sites have music from various electronic artists accompanying them, including tracks from Dan Deacon and Squarepusher.

## Links

https://thepantsdance.ytmnd.com/ - Original site by **dctownes**

https://skatebird.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **nutnics**

https://skatebird-keyboarding.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **lowcast**

https://snowboardbird.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **laundry**

https://skatebirding.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **prairiedogeric10**

https://skatebirdboss.ytmnd.com/ - Another by **Frankenmeaty**