nedz moar emo music

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Thank you for making me smile.

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i agree that people are being more demanding. so are you leaving or was that just a footdoctor site?

All jack and no work is makeing me tired of staying awake.

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Sure, upvote this one.

10

an end of an era IMO...

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the best way to get real feedback is to send PMs to other users asking their opinions on your sites.

YES!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS YTMND!

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You saved it.

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Goodnight sweetheart well its time to go (doo doo doo doooo) Goodnight sweetheart well its time to go (doo doo doo doooo) I'd hate to leave you but I really must say, goodnight sweetheart goodnight!

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also, I highly respect originality. ratings and views are not important though. that's what people don't seem to realize. instead, everyone competes to try to "manufacture" the best site that the most people will vote for. these usually include edited movie scenes, popular fads, and references to pop culture in general.

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And that's the problem. I make a site. And two dozen people see it, and then two more a week forever. The most embarassing piece of sh*t that I've ever made though, gets 8000 views in a day. It ain't right.

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don't hate the player hate the game. I make alt account for upvoting you

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deep......

didnt watch/kill self

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There isn't a problem with taking memes and inserting your own stuff in. You just have to be funny. I also think there's not so much of an outcry against fads as there is with forced fads, like...oh...I don't know...YTMNDief? Foot Doctor? I mean sites that were mere copy/paste jobs 'JUST ADD DIEF' like http://disseddieflast.ytmnd.com/ especially. On a site founded on pop-culture parody, were you really expecting something big to happen with your Diefenbaker escapades? Was worth a try, I suppose.

Was expecting Poland, but got footdoctor! Brilliant, and you're right about the actual stuff it's about.

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hmm.. I agree whole-heartedly with your attempted message.. The sites today are no longer what they used to be.. I was gonna 5 and fav this, but that damned footdoctor showed up. :P lol *goes off to check your other sites before they get deleted*

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Yes and the sites are no good because the audience doesn't as consistenly reward the kind of off the wall creativity that it once used to. Maybe putting out 5 straight sites that didn't manage a 2 was what set me off, but it also helped to focus the mind on what the problem was.

honeslty the BEST foot doctor ever. Really good site.

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as an author, i am writing and am working on publishing my first book. i would like to say you inspired me, but ive been working on this for years and im already close to publishing. but you made some sites i liked, so just remember that

ps, its true, good foot doctor stuff

Nice to see some other writers here. I don't do novels though, I'm a freelancer of poetry, prose, and articles in literary journals/ magazines. I probably shouldn't even mention this, but I found a web art site last year that's similar to ytmnd (humor, minimalist art, etc) where users can submit sites which combine images, sound, words, except we can also include web links and other coding in the sites. It's like ytmnd except a lot more interactive.

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That's the main reason I don't make sites on ytmnd anymore, because I'm usually on the web art site. I feel sentimental about ytmnd, and I still like viewing sites and commenting here, but I've really just lost interest in actually participating otherwise.

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SUCH A SAD STORY ABOUTYOUR INTERENT WEBSITE BROWSING THAT IT MADE ME CRY

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Godspeed, roving downvoter.

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don't delete your sites. YTMNDief was always hilarious, especially because nobody understood it.

i hate good bye sites... :'(

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Well, I'm leaving James Coyne Saves the Economy. And you can still get the rest of my sites before they go poof. Or everyone can clap their hands and tinkerbell will suck off peter pan, or something.

wait, i thought this site was just one big settup for F00TD0CT0R....

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^ lulz. Works on both levels though, doesn't it?

Youll be back..........

-5 for stupidity, +5 for F00TD0CT0R!

But, then again, your main complaint is that your fad never caught on, so I guess you really never were interested in creativity to begin with, just changing the subject matter and doing the same arbitrary headpasting and replicating the same jokes with different names. So, no, your sh*t never stood a chance because it never aimed higher than "trite".

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^ No... I thought it'd be neat, but you misread me. I thought there was a place for infotainment. YTMNDief wasn't going to catch on, and that's fine. And honestly, I fail to see how an analysis of the Munsinger affair is trite.

Well, uhh, what's your complaint if not the public reception? If this "analysis of the Munsinger affair" is so high-brow and done well on your part, then, umm, the only thing left is "my analysis wasn't well received". I know this, because I've made some sites that have say 500 layers in 250 frames of animation or so and they weren't well received. But, they were well made. And, I think I got my point of view across. If people don't like it, well, I hope they find a point of view they like somewhere else.

You said YTMND despises the things that built it. Which, I would say, is true, but irrelevant in the sense you use it. YTMND was built on being creative and innovative. The first was just an image and a sound byte, and people liked it. Now, if you're saying that we now hate images and sound bytes then you are correct, because IMAGES AND SIMPLE SOUND BYTES HAVE BEEN DONE TO DEATH. We don't like the things we used to like if represented to us because THEY HAVE BEEN DONE. Sh*t. Be creative.

The first ytmnd and subsequent ones were different from what people were experiencing. They were, at the time, creative, "different" (meaning not replicated, which means created independently, which is the most important creative element), and whatever. It's not the exact subject matter or form that people liked, it was THAT the subject matter and form were different from the norm. Now, that same subject matter and form IS the norm, and thus IS NOT creative. So, creativity is still important...

BUT DOING THE SAME SH*T IS NOT CREATIVE. We hate the subject matter if we get the same subject matter again and again, but if you give me creativity again and again I won't say, "God damnit I'm sick of this creative sh*t all the time, I wish people would just copy other people's ideas and make less interesting sh*t." If you confuse "that which made ytmnd good" as "that exact arrangement of sounds and pixels" then no, we do not want that replicated. If you mean the creative spirit, then please, give it to us

YTMND hates fads like Americans hate slavery. so ungrateful...

I never heard of Diefenbaker before, but now, because of your sites, I'm eventually going to get around to reading up on him on Wikipedia, for whatever that's worth. Whenever you do something different or your own thing here, it's inevitable that you're going to feel like you're working in void. Everyone here I've ever talked to about that has said the exact same thing, including plenty of "name" YTMNDers. Don't delete your sites just because they didn't get the reception you wanted or expected.

Or, if you must delete them, at least wait a few weeks and make absolutely sure that's what you really want to do. I think if you approach in a less ardent state, you'll feel differently.

Also, 5'd for Foot Doctor.

true man, so true, foot doctor does pwn :]

This site needs more Stephanie and Foot Doctor music IMO.

Delightful ending. :)

that f*cking rocks! FOOT DOCTOR!!

NFC

i know your pain

I think that despite what anyone had to say about fads, YTMND itself was a fad. It simply got old after a while and it's charm didn't stand up against all the other things that entertain people on the net. That's why there's been such a steep decline in it's popularity.