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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-Website/YouTube days, the site became a prime breeding ground for many an internet meme. And the rest is history.

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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-Website/YouTube pre-Platform/YouTube days, the site became a prime breeding ground for many an internet meme. And the rest is history.



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 Facebook 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.

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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 [=YouTube=] and Facebook 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.



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

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* RaptorAttack: Raptor Jesus, stolen from Website/FourChan Platform/FourChan and made into a {{Leet Speak}}ing CloudCuckooLander who occasionally liked the flesh of his followers.
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* StealthExpert: "[[https://ninjafield.ytmnd.com/ 1,845 ninjas stare into your soul]]": A photograph of a flat, empty, barren field in broad daylight, with not a single ninja in sight.
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True Art Is Incomprehensible is now an in-universe trope as per TRS.


* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible[=/=]Offensive: Invoked by the troll "hivemindedindividuals", whose [=YTMNDs=] were artistic montages of [[ShockSite shock pictures, such as gore, beheadings, naked corpses]], et cetera, and would make bizarre, glitchy Dali-like statements in the comments. Despite all the annoyance towards him, he managed to make front page somewhat regularly.
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** Similarly, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]] is portrayed as being obsessed with [[Film/StarTrekTheWrathOfKhan Khan]] to the point where he [[TheScapegoat blames him for every bad thing that happens]] and [[SayMyName yells at him constantly]].

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** Similarly, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]] is portrayed as being obsessed with [[Film/StarTrekTheWrathOfKhan [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan]] to the point where that he [[TheScapegoat blames him for every bad thing that happens]] and [[SayMyName yells at him constantly]].

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* AnimalReactionShot: Dramatic Prairie Dog.

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* AnythingThatMoves: Dr-L337.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Baron Lasers.

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* AnythingThatMoves: Dr-L337.
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* BeamSpam: Baron Lasers.

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* BlackComedyRape: Used in a lot of fads, including Moon Man (who usually goes after [[YourMom people's mothers]]), Brian Peppers (who goes after [[AnythingThatMoves everyone]]), the guy who yells at cats (who goes after [[BestialityIsDepraved cats]]), etc. One particular site ("Sonic gives advice on anal rape") actually triggered a legal threat from Sega.

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* BlackComedyRape: Used in a lot of fads, including Moon Man (who usually goes after [[YourMom people's mothers]]), Brian Peppers (who goes after [[AnythingThatMoves everyone]]), everyone), the guy who yells at cats (who goes after [[BestialityIsDepraved cats]]), etc. One particular site ("Sonic gives advice on anal rape") actually triggered a legal threat from Sega.



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

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* EvilTwin: Doctor-L337 claims to have one, an evil twin named "Elshteveo". Moon Man is also sometimes portrayed as one of Mac Tonight.



* AGodAmI: Ted Danson.

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* LuckBasedMission: The game itself.

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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Baron Lasers

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* TeensAreMonsters: The [=FaggotPSA=] gang.

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* YourVampiresSuck: Eric the Vampire.

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* ThoseTwoGuys: Lcadwallader and dunsparce/abomstar

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* ThoseTwoGuys: Lcadwallader and dunsparce/abomstardunsparce/abomstar (two users who make very similar sites and often collaborate on projects, their output is prolific and their style distinctive, and they have started or popularized a few minor fads, but they never really achieved 'mainstream' success or popularity, thus effectively relegating them to the roles of 'side characters')
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The user Murdarmachene was the first one to make a site using the soon - to - be - infamous Moon Man gif (pairing it with a completely non-offensive song). Farkle and the Moon Crew then created the Moon Man fad by taking the gif from that site and reposting it hundreds of times, accompanied by racist TTS messages and the signature KKK chant. Murdarmachene allegedly quit YTMND (at least, under his original name) because he was so ashamed of what he had accidentally started.
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* LongTitle: "[[http://ylmtiotocytstwotdadsfse.ytmnd.com/ You Let Me Take It On This One 'Cause You're Too Scared To Walk Out The Door And Do Something For Somebody Else.com]]", based on a line from the TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in ''Film/FindingForrester''. Incidentally, the actual movie had a word that was cut out of the trailer ("...'cause you're too [[PrecisionFStrike damn]] scared...").
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** Before that, there was [[http://endofworld.ytmnd.com 'The End of the World']], which consisted of a bunch of different fad sounds mixed into an apocalpytic - sounding explosion.

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** Before that, there was [[http://endofworld.ytmnd.com 'The End of the World']], which consisted of a bunch of different fad sounds mixed into an apocalpytic apocalyptic - sounding explosion.

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