GoodbyeTMND
Created on: June 17th, 2007
All work and no play makes Nitz a dull boy.
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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.
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.
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.
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".
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
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