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The website ytmnd.com [1] is known for its tendency to propagate a great number of fads and in-jokes. The list that follows identifies several major such fads; as such, it may be incomplete. Note that the fads almost never consist of only the elements indicated for them; indeed, the fads could not be as popular without variation. Also, these variations tend to include elements from other fads.

  • Raffi's "Bananaphone" song
  • Dschinghis Khan's hit song "Moskau"
  • The excerpt "Crawling in my skin/These wounds they will not heal," from the song "Crawling" by Linkin Park (often accompanied with the phrase "ANGST!") (The CRAWLING IN MY SKIN phrase was originally used to make fun of whiny forum users, attaching Linkin Park's angsty lyrics to their mood)
  • Liam Lynch's song "United States of Whatever"
  • Günther's "You Touch My Tra-la-la"
  • Various famous songs being played in reverse to show hidden messages, such as celebrities are "Nazis". Some are just fake with a voice mixed in, such as an already-famous YTMND.
  • The song "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk. It usually accompanies animated pictures of people dancing or moving their body.
  • The song from the movie soundtrack "Space Jam" by Quad City DJs, though almost exclusively referred to as "Super Slam" and associated with Randy Savage. Derived from a Flash animation made popular on 4chan.
  • A clip from "Requiem of a Tower" (a remix of the Requiem for a Dream theme from a The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trailer), used as dramatic music in non-dramatic events.
  • Boots Randolph's "Yakety Sax," the theme from Benny Hill.
  • Biz Markie's "OH SNAP!" from his hit song, 'Just a Friend'.
  • The song "Running in the 90's," a song featured in the anime show Initial D. Other songs featured in Initial D have been popping up lately as well, such as "Speedy Speed Boy".
  • Various parodies and recreations of the A-ha music video 'Take on Me'.
  • Other countries' versions/dubs/languages of popular cartoon theme songs, the lyrics of which have been "interpreted" phonetically to English, the most popular being the Finnish theme song of DuckTales, and the German version of "Do the Mario". Also, the pictures are usually of the main character saying "WTF?". (See also "Fake Lyrics" in Animutations)
  • Clips from the guitar solos featured in DragonForce's "Fury of the Storm" from the album Sonic Firestorm
  • The song Jurassic Rhythm from Chrono Trigger. It is often used to accompany a picture of someone with a grotesque appearance (usually Brian Peppers).
  • The song "Ridin' Spinnaz" by Triple 6 Mafia, often accompanied by something spinning.
  • A short clip from "Independent" by Ayumi Hamasaki, which is used as the token song in sites depicting rave culture. Glow sticks mandatory.
  • Baltimora's song "Tarzan Boy", particularly the "Ohhhh" excerpt. This song is practically a requirement for Gay Fuel YTMNDs. It's also used for most spoiler YTMNDs.
  • Misinterpretation of "Rock the Casbah" by The Clash as "Lock The Taskbar"
  • The lyrics "Die motherfucker, die motherfuckers still fool" from the song "Still" by Geto Boys usually to people dancing.
  • MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This." More often than not, the clip used is the "Stop! Hammer Time!" excerpt. Usually a picture of a Hammer Brother from the Super Mario Brothers video game series is used with the song.
  • The Vengaboys song "We Like to Party" is often used in racist related YTMND's. At one time, the advertising mascot for the Six Flags theme parks (Mr. Six) was compared to Edgar Killen an 80 year old man that was recently charged for killing 3 civil rights workers in the 1960's while he was in the KKK. Six Flags then threatened to sue anybody that makes the comparison on YTMND. The site was then taken down, but today, the song remains to be on any YTMND that involves a famous figure, headline news, or images to be racist.
  • The Blob from the X-men arcade game, along with the phrase "Nothing moves the Blob!"
  • A GIF of a PlayStation Portable ejecting its disc automatically, usually with a loop of Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" playing in the background. "Take Me Out" was used in the PSP commercials in the United States.
  • Parodies of the death sequence in Metal Gear Solid. One of the original death sequences (the sequence used is random) had Otacon calling out for Solid Snake in a memorable way: "Snake? ...Snake? ...SNAAAAAAAAAAKE!
  • Parodying the Playstation 3 controller, usually its resemblance to a boomerang.
  • A scene from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out of Doc Louis riding a bike next to Little Mac, accompanied by the statement "Nigga stole my bike". The original image (third one down) was made by a member of Something Awful in a Photoshop Phriday. (Doc Louis's name in the fad appears to have been changed to simply "Nigga")
    • There was a rumor that the quote "Nigga stole my bike" came from the game 'GTA: San Andreas'. However, on the original YTMND that started the fad, the recording of the quote was made by the site's creator, Duezce, and it is Duezce himself speaking it.
  • Peppy Hare's catch phrase, "Do a Barrel Roll!" This has been joined with his other lines such as "Press Z or R twice!" and "They're on me!"
  • A scene from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time where Link opens a treasure chest to find various objects.
  • A Thwomp crashing into a character, usually with the Super Mario Bros. "thwomp" and "death" sounds. This is usually used to interrupt in a manner similiar to the Hassan fad.
  • The World of Warcraft Leeroy Jenkins video.
  • 8-bit console (usually NES) remakes (e.g. DMX's "X Gon' Give It To Ya", Dschinghis Khan's "Moskau", Haddaway's "What Is Love", Gunther's Touch my Tra-la-la)
  • Various characters saying they "got the Triforce".
  • FPS Doug from the internet series Pure Pwnage saying "BOOM! HEADSHOT!"
  • "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY", a scream associated with the series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and popularized in a Flash video disseminated widely through 4chan. The original video combined Dio Brando's "The World" super move, which could stop time; Dio's "Road Roller", in which he crushed his opponent with a steamroller, and Shadow Dio's "Charisma", in which he screams and sends sparks toward the opponent. Of these, the "Charisma" scream is most prevalent, followed by the "Road Roller" steamroller.
  • A Dark Age of Camelot player screaming at a fellow complaining that he stole his Cloudsong.
  • Rolling balls of various random objects, similar to Katamari Damacy. Usually accompanied with the theme song, sometimes with appearances of the main character(s) of the game.
  • Depictions of many YTMND fads on the LCD screen of a Tiger™ handheld gaming device.
  • "Select a Fad", in which a character selection screen from a game such as Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Megaman, or Kirby is edited so that the game's original characters are replaced by characters from various YTMND fads.
  • General artwork created with Mario Paint, or recreating a fad in its art style, complete with music remixes made with its music composer.
  • The quote "My name is Reggie. I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games" by Nintendo's Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing Reggie Fils-Aime at E3 2004.
  • Democrat Howard Dean's infamous speech and frenzied scream at the Iowa Caucus.
  • Terri Schiavo. Sites usually made fun of her and combined her with other fads. After her death in early 2005, the fad died down.
  • Jack Thompson
  • California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Accidental sentences (aka "Bushisms") spoken by President George W. Bush. The most popular ones include "I hear there's rumors on the Internets" and "Actually he forgot Poland" Both of these in the 2004 Presidential debates.
  • The original site ("You're the man now dog!")
  • Tributes to other fads and/or YTMND itself that generally combine or incorporate many fads into a single YTMND.
  • Spoof of new shirts being sold by the webmaster of YTMND. Usually saying "You WILL buy a shirt!" while hypnotic additions are made.

Miscellaneous fads

  • Tennis Man: a picture of forum user MillionsV, usually combined with a certain theme and the song "Nightwish" by Ghost Love Score or a different sound having to do with the theme. The phrase used in the original, "I'm serious/about tennis," is usually modified to match the theme as well.
  • Failing at life or failing in general (using the losing horns from The Price is Right) [2]
  • Muhammad Hassan interrupting a scene, using his theme song that consists of some chants in an Arabic language, "Alleyliaaliaaa!". Hassan is known for interrupting people during his wrestling shows, which obviously inspired the fad.
  • Gay Fuel, an energy drink marketed to homosexuals. Usually paired on YTMND with Baltimora's song "Tarzan Boy." The "Tarzan Boy" song is considered equivalent to homosexuality on YTMND now. This was a forced fad made by forum members.
  • A young man named Mike, pictured apparently too drunk to stand. The original was accompanied with the text "Mike is Done," and it has since been mutated to the point that "Mike Done," has become his name by popular standard. This is another forced fad made by forum members.
  • Shock sites.
    • One of these is Ridin' Spinnas, which consists of an animated GIF of two men in anal sex, with the penis of the man on top spinning around. In the background is the song "Ridin' Spinners" by Triple 6 Mafia.
  • A YTMND featuring Bethany Massamilla, a.k.a. BethanyM, an administrator for GameFAQs/GameSpot's forums. She became the prey of GameFAQs forum users, due to their hostility towards CJayC "selling his soul to GameSpot". One such example of BethanyM is "I AM BETHANYM", in which a picture of her is accompanied by an obviously male voice.
  • Spoiler of an important plot point from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. (The plot point in question is descibed in the previous link.) Borrowing from the "Gay Fuel" fad, this fad is also usually paired with the "Tarzan Boy" song.
  • At one point (before the release of Half-Blood Prince), many Harry Potter YTMNDs were being created by one user, usually consisting of nothing more than an image of Harry Potter. However, this fad sparked a backlash, and people started to post YTMNDs insulting the most prolific Harry Potter site creator, known as Cage. Within a couple days, all of Cage's sites were deleted.
  • Pictures of the FBI, SWAT team or other covert and/or tactical law enforcement agencies accompanied with the text "BRB FBI." This fad grew from the forum and the repeated threats of FBI involvement against its users made in reprisal for raids on Natalee Holloway sites.
  • Brian Peppers, a sex offender in Ohio with an abnormal appearance, due to a disease linked to Treacher Collins Syndrome.
  • Pictures of plane, train, automobile and boat crashes called "Great Moments in _____ History." These are set to a music clip from Gorillaz' "Feel Good, Inc." - in particular, the line, "watch the way I navigate - ha ha ha ha ha!"
  • Summoning a fire spirit (The music from The Lord of the Rings trailer that is associated with the fad also became a fad of its own. The music is originally from the movie Requiem for a Dream.)
  • A picture from an X-Men comic showing the wheelchair bound Professor X getting pushed down the stairs by Mr. Sinister, declaring stairs as Professor X's only weakness.
  • An animation of an Asian man appearing to spin in the air like a helicopter. This is referred to as "AsiaCopter" or "AzNCopter". These clips are frequently accompanied by an orchestrated version of the Final Fantasy VII airship theme Highwind Takes to the Skies, or songs about spinning.
  • An animated GIF of a girl showing her breasts to a webcam when her father walks in the room.
  • A hypothetical fight created from GoogleFight, usually to show who would win by most popular vote. Often, fights created on GoogleFight are between two popular fads. [GoogleFight Website]
  • The infamous "LUEshi" ASCII art popularized by GameFAQs.
  • Burger King's new chicken fries from the commercial with Coq Roq.
  • Parodies of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the recent Hurricane Katrina usually accompanied to "Rock You Like A Hurricane" by Scorpions, as well as to "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid
  • "Butt Racing", which consists of various animated GIFs of teenagers racing around parks, houses, etc. edited to look as if they were racing on the ground while sitting down. This is usually accompanied by "Speedy Speed Boy" by Marko Polo

Further Reading

It is not uncommon that many of these fads are used in conjunction with others. (For example, Darth Vader dancing in front of Dschinghis Khan, before the entire scene is crushed by a Thwomp). Some of them also rely on having an element in the original YTMND getting replaced by another one, usually another fad (most notably the PSP and Hasselhoff ones). It is also not uncommon to see fad YTMNDs redone in the style of older computers or video game consoles. As memes, the subject matters of YTMNDs are constantly evolving and producing new combinations as mass self-replication continues by the second.

In addition, while not full-blown fads, certain songs have been used a lot for ytmnd sites. These include music from the band Kronos Quartet and Nightwish, "Requiem of a Dream" (aka "the fire spirit song"), Yakety Sax, "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, songs from Dance Dance Revolution, The 45 King's "The 900 Number" break beat (aka "The Ed Lover Dance," "Let Me Clear My Throat"), Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy", and others.

The YTMND forum community has, on occasion, pushed several invented fads to the front page users, with the occasional successes including reaching the Top 15 Viewed YTMNDs list as well as the Top 5 Rated YTMNDs. Forum fads, by definition, begin on the YTMND forums. The first of the forum fads, Mike Done, was created with the intention of taking an inside joke even the forum users didn't get and thrusting it into the spotlight to confuse or annoy front-page users. Other forum fads followed, including "Tennis Man,", Gay Fuel, and Brian Peppers.

As some forum members have explained, the unifying purpose of forum fads is not humor as much as the attempt to interfere with the fad-heavy business as usual on the front page. Despite this, however, this has led to many arguements between forums members, usually between people joining simply to express their annoyance with seemingly non-sensical series of YTMND's and regular users of the forums. It has even led to arguements between other regular users themselves, which as a result some users have put images of fights and with the words 'YTMND FORUMS' displayed in several users signature's(this can also be attributed to the general childishness of some users). It has also led to a YTMND itself entitled 'THE OFFICAL YTMND FORUMS YTMND' with an excerpt of the trailer for the film 'green street hooligans' edited with the avatars of some users to give people an idea of how disorganised the forums can be.

Most attempts at forum fads after Gay Fuel have failed (Except Asiacopter).

See also

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