History Website / YTMND

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: The Medieval fad of turning other fads into the Bayeux Tapestry.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Raptor Jesus, stolen from Website/FourChan and made into a {{Leet Speak}}ing CloudCuckooLander who occasionally liked the flesh of his followers.

* NothingIsScarier: PlayedForLaughs in the "For the last time" fad. Taken well UpToEleven in [[http://baboongone.ytmnd.com/ this particular YTMND]], however. [[spoiler:There's a screamer at the end.]]

* DarthVaderClone: As Darth Vader's ''NOOOO'' is a major fad, several spinoffs and original characters were created, including the nonsensical Vadre, the ''Series/LazyTown'' inspired Darth Stapler, Darth Khan, and many others.

* ForTheEvulz: Seemingly Moon Man's primary motivation, aside from racism

Though the site was a well-known internet humour nexus in the mid-2000s, peaking in popularity around 2006-2007 and even getting mentions and write-ups in traditional media, the site began to sharply decline in relevance and traffic in TheNewTens as sites like Website/YouTube, Website/Tumblr, Wesbsite/Reddit, and Website/Twitter grew in popularity, absorbing the niche market that YTMND had originally catered to. Left largely un-updated, most of the infrastructure that the site was built around has been slowly rendered obsolete, though a small but loyal userbase kept the site profitable enough to remain running through the middle of the decade.

Though the site was a well-known internet humour nexus in the mid-2000s, peaking in popularity around 2006-2007 and even getting mentions and write-ups in traditional media, the site began to sharply decline in relevance and traffic in TheNewTens as sites like Website/YouTube and Vine grew in popularity, absorbing the niche market that YTMND had originally catered to. Left largely un-updated, most of the infrastructure that the site was built around has been slowly rendered obsolete, though a small but loyal userbase kept the site profitable enough to remain running through the middle of the decade.

YTMND went down on May 13, 2019 after the site database suffered a major crash. This made quite a few news sites (and even this very wiki) to erroneously report that the site was down for good, but Max soon stated that this was not the case, and that he would commit himself to get the sites back to working order, even if it meant that new subpages could not be created. Max was able to restore the site's ability to display already existing subpages, and his focus shifted toward creating a properly working archive version of YTMND so that the site can be preserved for future generations. The website itself was revived in earnest on March 30, 2020, just in time for its 16th anniversary.

* NonNaziSwastika: The "OMG, Secret Nazi!" fad mostly consists of pointing these out and facetiously claiming that who/whatever they are displayed on is secretly a Nazi.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Two fads based on them:

* EvilTwin: Doctor-L337 claims to have one, named "Elshteveo". Moon Man is also sometimes portrayed as one of [[UsefulNotes/Mcdonalds Mac Tonight]].

* LoudnessWar: The FPA and ear rape fads, some mixes would easily reach levels 12 or 13 on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness, such as [[http://vote5moonmankhanvaderbergkampfpa.ytmnd.com/ this]] (and that's only a roughly typical example). There's also the requisite screamer [=YTMNDs=], some of which manage to crawl up to the front page.

The creator, Max Goldberg, made the first site after watching the trailer to ''Film/FindingForrester''. This first site (recreated [[http://oldschoolytmnd.ytmnd.com/ here]]) consisted of some ASCII art and Creator/SeanConnery's "You're the man now, dog!" line from the trailer. As other people started to create their own Spinoffs of the page by copying the code, Max started listing them. Eventually the list became overly long, so Max bought an entire domain for the sites and made an easy-to-use site generator. Indeed, in the pre-Youtube days, the site became a prime breeding ground for many an internet meme. And the rest is history.

It has its own [[http://wiki.ytmnd.com/Main_Page wiki]].

Though the site was a well-known internet humour nexus in the mid-2000s, peaking in popularity around 2006-2007 and even getting mentions and write-ups in traditional media, the site began to sharply decline in relevance and traffic in TheNewTens as sites like Youtube and Vine grew in popularity, absorbing the niche market that YTMND had originally catered to. Left largely un-updated, most of the infrastructure that the site was built around was slowly rendered obsolete, though a small but loyal userbase kept the site profitable enough to remain running through the middle of the decade.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Baron Lasers.

* JailBaitWait: Many users eagerly counted down the days until Julianna Rose-Mauriello, the actress who played Stephanie on ''Series/LazyTown'', would become 18, and made many [=YTMNDs=] celebrating the occasion when it actually did happen.

YTMND went down on May 13, 2019 after the site database suffered a major crash. This made quite a few news sites (and even this very wiki) to erroneously report that the site was down for good, but Max soon stated that this was not the case, and that he would commit himself to get the sites back to working order, even if it meant that new subpages could not be created. Max was able to restore the site's ability to display already existing subpages, and his focused shifted toward creating a properly working archive version of YTMND so that the site can be preserved for future generations. The website itself was revived in earnest on March 30, 2020, just in time for its 16th anniversary.

* DyingTown: The site itself. There was a time when the internet was young (not actually, 2006 and 2007) the when front page moved so fast, it'd be different every time you refreshed. Now, it stays static for days on end. It's portrayed as a zombie town in [[http://returnofmax.ytmnd.com/ this site]], and a wasteland in [[http://newuserytmndtutorial.ytmnd.com/ this one]]. In 2016, Max said he was thinking about shutting down the site, saying "I don’t have much interest in the site beyond it being good memories.", and in 2018, they stopped accepting new user signups because of Google shutting down version 1 of its [=ReCAPTCHA=] anti-spam mechanism. And in May 2019, YTMND was shut down for good after its database crashed.

YTMND went down on May 13, 2019 after the site database suffered a fatal crash. This made quite a few news sites (and even this very wiki) to erroneously report that the site was down for good, but Max soon stated that this was exactly not the case, and that he would commit himself to get the sites back to working order, although he was and is still unsure whether or not he will restore the ability to create new subpages. Although for now, Max has since restored the site's ability to display already existing subpages, and his main focus is first and foremost on creating a properly working archive version of YTMND so that the site can be preserved for future generations. The website itself was revived in earnest on March 30, 2020, just in time for its 16th anniversary.