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Brown Paper Bag, apparently. azlyrics.com/lyrics/lilwayne/brownpaperbag.html Shocking, I know.

doesnt that make this not a dew?

"However, many site creators take too literal of an approach and simply attatch an image of exactly what the phrase is talking about, and these sites are not judged favorably." Not judged favorably.

owned.

A valid opinion, but unfortunately the ytmnd overlords decided the contrary. Enlighten yourself and follow the wiki link I posted twice already

Absolutely it is in this case, I'm not citing empirical data here. As members of the YTMND community, the definitions for our jargon and style is created and maintained by us collectively. The section where the Contextual Style is defined has remained there unedited since the very first iteration of the article.

Fair enough, it's your right to 1. But careful, my position isn't even an argument-- it's RIGHT THERE on the wiki, i don't even need to explain it. people just think they're YTMND masters even though their accounts are from 2007

This is a simple pun based on a portion of the song taken out of context, which does not fall into the "traditional" DEW category. Consider the phrase "hoes in dis house." A traditional DEW site would portray a fire hose in a house, whereas the style you employ here would portray a row of actual garden hoes in a house.

Whether that makes this site funny or not is an entirely different story. This just didn't have the same punch as some of the other "contextual style" examples in the Wiki.

Andy. You are wrong. The original DEW site is FLOOOR. It is called a DEW, because the fad started out with DEW. A fad doesn't start out with the original lol internet, that is just the original. What makes it a fad, or fad starter, is another site that is a spinoff of the original site. It causes such an outrage of it being so funny to the original, it becomes a fad. The Dew is the fad starter, therefore it sets the fad perimitters.

You are arguing that the style used by this YTMND was the reason the DEW Army was started because it led to the creation of the original DEW YTMND. This does not follow- at least, not the way you intend. DEW itself was considered the primary example of what a DEW Army YTMND is (duh!) and with the help of popular users and the style's easily duplicated nature soared to YTMND fad status. Any number of sources could have created "inspiration" for DEW; it needn't have been the example you are so wont to cite.

People started thinking that dew army was all about the "cleverness" of finding an opportunity for mishearing lyrics, in the same way people grossly misunderstood and abused the "epic maneuver" fad. It really comes down to a failure to comprehend the aspects of humor inherent in the original, until it becomes simply a copycat contest. I'll repeat; it's NOT about just finding lyrics that can be easily misheard. That itself is NOT funny. Adding a generic supplemental image doesn't help either.