The Rise And Fall of YTMND
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https://youtu.be/KcxwJYeUJgA
https://web.archive.org/web/20160119171003/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DeaderThanDisco/NewMedia
As late as 2007, YTMND was one of the most powerful forces on the Internet. The day it managed to coordinate a raid among Something Awful, 4chan, and Newgrounds remains one of the most astonishing achievements in trolling history. These days, its Alexa rank barely scratches the top 50,000 sites on the web, and it seems to risk a shutdown every other month. This is largely due to the novelty of a bunch of GIFs filling up the screen with looping audio having worn off in the wake of sites like YouTube, which offers far more substantial content, and the kind of memes that would thrive on YTMND can be more easily done as Tumblr audio posts or as Vines.
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