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  • Awesome Music: A lot of users decided they liked the music used for fads, resulting in another user, fyrestorm, creating a soundtrack for the website. It's got more than 10 collected volumes to date.
  • Discredited Meme: One of the major reasons for sites being downvoted, when certain fads are overused. Notable examples include NEDM, Cosby, Khan, and Moon Man. However some users are of the opinion that certain classic fads always have been and always will be funny.
  • Fan Nickname: Faggy Short Films for YTMNDs consisting of an animated gif that is meant to be synched up with the sound file that is playing. The name comes from the user inkdrinker, who did not like any YTMNDs that did not follow the fundamentals of making a YTMND. Even people who enjoyed (and made) that type of YTMND began using the nickname eventually.
  • Fandom-Enraging Misconception: Don't call the site "YMNDT", as the Stickam user known as Cyberman once did.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: This YTMND was uploaded seven years before the Edward Snowden scandal revealed that the NSA has been doing these kinds of things all along.
    • this one, which was made in 2006, had a crazy lady accusing Cosby of being a rapist, among other things, while he rambled on incoherently. Not so funny now.
  • Memetic Molester: The site portrayed real-life sex offender Brian Peppers as one.
  • Memetic Mutation: The site thrives off this, but is more prone to calling them fads. Some of the memes in YTMND have escaped to the other internet too. Its wiki provides information of the more famous of them.
  • Memetic Psychopath: McDonald's' Mac Tonight mascot, originally created to promote the restaurant's extended operating hours, became the Moon Man in the hands of YTMNDers, a violent, racist criminal who bragged about raping women and committing hate crimes while spewing bigoted remarks, possibly because his head looked like a Ku Klux Klan hood. Once AT&T became aware of the fad in 2009, typing "moon man" into their text-to-speech generator started turning up an error message.
  • Misaimed Fandom:
    • The Forgot Poland Army was formed to create intentionally bad YTMNDs that made fun of the actual bad, no-effort ones. Soon after, it became what it was making fun of, which led into creation of KHANTMND.
    • The Moon Man fad was eventually co-opted by the alt-right and other hate groups, to the point that the Anti-Defamation League added the character to their list of hate symbols. After that, the site's users largely turned against it, as the joke was no longer funny.
    • The website caused this for Gay Fuel, an energy drink marketed for the LGBT Community, with many heterosexual and even homophobic users making it into one of YTMND's fads.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
  • Opinion Myopia:
    • The user Umfuld, who thinks only the kinds of sites he makes are any good and anyone who makes different kinds of sites is deliberately trolling and trying to ruin YTMND, and he does things like automatically downvoting the sites of every user he doesn't like using multiple alternate accounts because of this
    • This was also the reasoning of the famed user "inkdrinker", who believed that the only YTMND's that were any good followed the original site's mission of "picture, text, sound". He downvoted thousands of pages that included videos, effects, soundclips that went on longer than a few seconds or anything that bucked the trend of the original sites.
  • "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny: During the mid-2000s, the concept of uploading your media content and spreading memes was amazing. But once YouTube arrived and allowed users to upload real videos, YTMND almost immediately appeared quaint.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many people have this reaction every time Max changes the site layout and color scheme.
  • Unintentional Period Piece: The peak of YTMND's popularity was in the mid-'00s, so most of the pages made for it would have been made around then. Any that are still online today can come across as time capsules containing '00s memes and pop-culture references. Even Max acknowledged this in 2016, saying that he didn't have much interest in it beyond "good memories". Max is still looking out for the site though, partly restoring its functions after the site database suffered a fatal crash in May 2019, and has since been working on creating a proper archive version of the site so that future generations might explore the old content.
  • Values Dissonance: A lot of the fads from the early-2000s involve bigoted jokes that, if an attempt was made to popularize them in the 2020s, would be far less acceptable due to the use of racist or homophobic expressions and stereotypes, such as a certain fad about stolen bikes and the use of the Gay Fuel energy drink as a mockery of the LGBT Community rather than a celebration of it.

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