Face Me And Scream

Written by: Michael Enger

He probably hates you as much as I do.If you have even encountered the website you’re the man now dog! then you probably know what this is going to be about. It is a fad site (much like YouTube) where people can upload their lovely creations and get rated/commented. This, like 4chan, has become one of those special places on the Internet where fads are born and funny/disgusting things are shared for the whole world to see. I hate them so much.

Their about page references wikipedia so I’m just going to do that:
“YTMND, an acronym for “You’re The Man Now, Dog!”, is a web site 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.”
Again, if you have ever seen a YTMND page then you would know what this is all about. The page also claims that it is there “for the purpose of furthering the creativity of its users” by allowing them to add some stupid text and a looping scream to their picture of a dead cat.

Every time I enter YTMND one of two things happen:
Firefox crashes.
My head crashes.
Everything I see here is the same as I see everywhere else that people are allowed to add whatever they want and get it graded (see Newgrounds for more info). This place is just completely void of creativity and skill. Sure, it takes a good Photoshopper to juxtapose that picture of Angeline Jolie onto a fish body, but where is the “grand creativity” in adding “lol” and some obscure song that nobody likes?

YTMND is a place for shitty people to do shitty things and I don’t understand why everyone loves it so god damn much. At least in Newgrounds you have to have real skill and originality to compete with the masses of users that add things every day (I discovered that the hard way). If you don’t believe me then check out the top rated YTMND page. It fucking sucks.