YTMND

YTMND is a website community that centers around the creation of YTMNDs, which are pages featuring a juxtaposition of a single image, optionally animated or tiled, along with large zooming text and a looping sound file. YTMND is also the general term used to describe any such site. YTMND is an acronym of the phrase "!"

Fads and memes

: For more information about YTMND fads and memes please see the list of YTMND fads article.

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The content of YTMND remains one of the most definitive examples of memes and memetics on the Internet. The format of the original YTMND has obviously become self-replicating in nature, and fads in the subject matter of YTMND's are fairly rampant. As memetic "mutations" occur, new influences come in, intertextuality builds and some YTMNDs become phenomenally popular, after which other members come up with ways to create alternate "spins" on this YTMND, after which more "spins" are formed. Many of these fads had previously or have since spread to the Web as a whole. By this point, the topic of the original YTMND could be - and usually is - considered a fad.

Related Topics:
Meme - Memetics - Intertextuality

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