Thou art the homo sapiens now, canine ...
September 22, 2007 11:08 AM 
Subscribe
Once upon a time, there was a
very bad Sean Connery movie (directed by "
the Good Will Hunting guy"). In it, Sean Connery looks at an inner-city African-American teen and says, "
Punch the keys, for God's sake! Yes ... yesssss ... you're the man now, dog!" A NYC resident, Max Goldberg, saw this and said, "The world needs to hear that last part on
an eternal loop." From
Forrester's hammy dialogue was crafted
YTMND...
...which, since 2004, has been an online community in which
users, armed only with a sound file, an image, and the occasional zooming text, have set loose on the 'Net
fads,
remixes of its fads, a
strange obsession with a
16-year-old (sometimes becoming
profoundly creepy),
remixes of a strange obsession with a
16-year-old, another
strange obsession with a
nursing home resident suffering from
Apert's syndrome (as well as
a call for compassion), its own
self-
analytical wiki, and
alternate-
universe versions of itself.
Noticed by Mefites but apparently never the subject of its own front-page post, the site is often both the birthplace, or feeding ground for, '
Net memes, a
locale of
remixes of and
commentary on pop culture, and also of stuff that's
just plain weird-funny. It's not always constrained to
humor, however: there's a little
history and
science mixed in there. The site's enemies are as diverse as
Eric Bauman, the
Church of Scientology,
Sonic the Hedgehog,
Harry Potter (Book 7 spoilers), and, most dangerously of all ...
Screech.
This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm pretty sure we already did the ubiquitous YTMND post here which posted every single YTMND to date making every other YTMND post a double. Sorry about that. -- jessamyn
posted by A189Nut at 11:10 AM on September 22, 2007