Thursday, May 18, 2006

MADNESS!!!!

[Warning Essentially Nobody But Me Will Understand Everything In This Post]
[Warning, Parental digression Advised]

I can't properly express through text the message I have. The only proper way would be a repeating animated Gif of Invader Zim dropping to his knees and screaming MADNESS!!! As he does at various times over the course of the show. It would only work if it had audio too.

The closest summary I can give you is www.YTMND.com I kind of advise against you going there, its... I've tried to think of an artful way to say this, but all poetry and prose fails me, it is the insanity of the internet so perfectly refined. The only proper phrase to describe it is "Fuck Damn Loco." It blends the obscure, the outdated, the pop, the underground, everything. It's reached the point of self commentary and blown it away. There is self commentary on the Self commentary.

It all started with a website that was just an image of Sean Connery pointing and a repeating Wav file of him saying "You're The Man Now Dog" There are now well over a thousand creations along the same premise. Some of them are genius, some of them have extremely amusing stories to tell, some of them a dross. The Site has a forum, but given the nature of this site, and my "Third Barrel" theory I'm not even going to touch that shit.

The Third barrel Theory, which I don't remember if I've mentioned before goes like this. If you took all of the content of the internet and put it in a barrel, then got the bottom of that barrel and put it in a second barrel, got the bottom of that barrel and put it in a third barrel, the bottom of that third barrel would be forums.

I've listed a few of the ones that I enjoy and I think could have wider market appeal as well

Safety Not Guaranteed


Take That Myspace


Sunshine Day

Future Conan

Not Funny but a very important story

Stole My Bike

The whole "Stole My Bike" thing is redone a million times. In fact everything on that site has a remake of itself, and alterations, parodies etc. That's one of the reasons it's so.... Fuck Damn Loco. I'm sorry but that's the only way you can properly describe this. This is also particularly true of the safety Not Guaranteed, and Future Conan things. I'll show you

Future Conan remake

Saftey Not Guaranteed remake

Stole my Bike counter post

They can also make things that mock the entire list of running themes

Like This.

Or This


Then they've got people who question the very action of doing this

They've also got this theory that if they could've used a diffrent line from Connery in the first post. Which has lead to all kinds of PTKFGS posts which are variations on recurring YTMND recurring themes. There's even a summit to resolve the two warring factions.

Also, check this out, It's freaky

And this one uses footage from E3, which was less then a week ago. It's a clip from the Teaser of Super Smash Brothers 3. It's also my favorite one that I've seen thus far. Before I post the link to it I must warn that the original reason I added a "Parental digression Advised" warning was for this one, you were warned.

The Greatest!

Once again, and in conclusion. The only proper way to describe this site is
Fuck.
Damn.
Loco.

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