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you're the man now, dawg

YTMND was a classic meme format where you would combine a short repeating audio clip on a webpage that uses a repeating image or gif as the background. Then you put text on the page that is most often whatever the sound bite is saying. And that's it.

There is a website that hosts YTMND pages that were inspired by the original and it's pretty cool that it's still going. But I find the modernization of the site since about 2020 to be a bit depressing.

Modern browsers don't like to start playing audio or video on pages without getting interaction from the user first, so it makes sense why they had to add the play button, but the length of time that the start animation takes really detracts from the enjoyment of browsing posts for me.

As a result I just host mine here and coded the start functionality myself. It's very fast compared to the official one. And since there's no way to avoid some modernization, might as well dial up the insanity; I use any combination of Javascript and CSS in these to make them as crazy as possible.

So they're not strictly YTMND posts anymore, but more like single page multimedia shitposts that were inspired by them.

Prepare for audio and moving graphics when you click start. Click again to stop it.

  1. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, USS Enterprise
    A remake of a classic with some extreme CSS animation
  2. You Can't Do Nothing With "Get Out Frog", Bro
    Fucking sluts, fucking whores, fucking bitches, fucking retards
  3. Terrible Secret of Space
    Do you have stairs in your house?
  4. Would You Like to See My Penis?
    Created with thispersondoesnotexist.com and SAM Software Automatic Mouth (sfw lol)
  5. I've Been Sober for Seven Days
    Someone added a bassline to a random girl's crashout video
  6. My Name is Stace and I Hate Everything About Myself
    MySpace user "missattitude1987" vibes to "Zap Em Dead, Bartholomew"
  7. Everything I Touch Turns to Rust
    Made from 246 different pieces of Sad Boys Entertainment / Drain Gang merch art
  8. When It's Time to Party We Will Party Hard
    Dancing GIF spam + Andrew WK (click anywhere to start/pause music)