I was a loony leftist when I made these comments. I profoundly regret them.

I was a loony leftist when I made these comments. I profoundly regret them.

I was a loony leftist when I made these comments. I profoundly regret them.

all these retards pimping themselves as mods can gtfo

Yay it's another war movie + consumer product mashup. I love these

"I know that the sites you had were all original pictures taken by you, sounds you created, and completely original ideas." Sigh. Why do I even bother? I've explained myself repeatedly. "I have NEVER EVER said that using elements from movies/tv/music/whatever is stealing... as long as you're creative with it! "

"Now you are suggesting that I've stolen "the work of others"? " Yeah someone actually found this themselves and put the effort into encoding/uploading it. You just stumbled across a video linked on some forum or something.

I don't get it, a year ago everyone and their grandma denounces Ebaum for stealing the work of others. My, how quickly the winds change around here.

"but if something is funny and was meant to be funny and people find it funny why are you going to get angry about the fact that it's not something they created 100%" Because what's to stop someone from taking entire scenes from movies and making it a YTMND? Sure it's funny, but is it worth a 5?

"Hey downvote lemme get this straight, if I went onto MS Paint and drew a picture of a donkey getting raped by Dr. Phil that would be a good ytmnd because I was creative? " Nope, I also downvote creative, but sh*t YTMNDs.

I'm a little unclear as to whether you are a native speaker of english, hence our trouble communicating, so if I must continue to spell it out for you until it sinks in I will: YTMND is about creativity. When you take the work of others, and add nothing creative to it, you are stealing. Stealing = bad. Creativity = good. Be creative. Make something.

That you would continually misinterpret my promotion of CREATIVITY is nothing less than astounding.

Lawl, who's lame alt are you?

Excuse me? I have NEVER EVER said that using elements from movies/tv/music/whatever is stealing... as long as you're creative with it! How much more plain do I need to get?

Please explain how Max wasn't creative when he registered the site yourethemannowdog.com

The deranged notion that I would believe taking anything from a movie, media, etc. would constitute as stealing is borderline offensive. If that were the case, 99.9% of all YTMNDs would be stolen! Be creative! That's all I ask!

Let's see, Max took a line that was not intended to be funny and created an entire cult around it. If that's not creative, I don't know what is.

Ouch LooBarlow, not more than 15 minutes after giving my definition of stealing do you respond with your comically ignorant nonsense. In case you somehow missed it the first time: "My pretty simple definition of stealing is thus: If my mentally handicapped cousin could create the same YTMND, your site is stolen. "

"YTMND isn't always about creativity but it's always about entertainment." BRB I'm going to go convert my favorite Office Space scene into a YTMND.

Hiding? Don't flatter yourself. I kept that and other sites up for far over half a year. Your cited example of the SLJ site featured over 10 audioedits, and was at least somewhat creative. Can you really say the same about your YTMND? But hey, if you think that being creatively bankrupt somehow gives you the moral highground, then feel free.

My pretty simple definition of stealing is thus: If my mentally handicapped cousin could create the same YTMND, your site is stolen. Understand? All I'm doing is trying to promote creativity, not outright theft on YTMND. Why do we rail against Ebaum for stealing, but accept this?

I don't need to create a movie in order to call one bad, and the same is true of YTMNDs. With that said, I felt like deleting this accounts YTMND, lest some ignoramus try to use those admittedly sh*t sites against me.

"their opinions and jokes" Exactly.

Must thieves always be so defensive about their YTMNDs?

However, I must offer you my congratulations on your masterful use of both the print screen button and the Windows Sound Recorder! Okay, sure, so my mentally retarded cousin Billy could have made the same YTMND, but don't let that stop you from being proud of this... art.

Yup, anyone who disagrees with you is a jackoff or [insert other childish remark]. It would be one thing if you had happened to have been recording CNN at precisely the moment it occured. In fact, I might have upvoted it! But of course there's no explanation why it took you several hours to post it and why the image obviously has the compression artifacts of a flash video. If completely ripping off someone else's mildly humorous find is not stealing, what is?

I am admittedly clueless as to why anyone would stand up for such blatant thievery. Please enlighten me.

No, I am not wrong. If you had the brain cells to copy the split link you would see the same image. It doesn't matter if it came directly from Youtube or not: It's still stolen and belongs on Ebaumsworld, not YTMND.

Sitsu, out of your nearly 400 highly creative and influential YTMNDs, it should pain you to realize that this uninspired garbage outrates every single one of them.

Here's the real source of this YTMND: http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/08/video-cafferty-asks-blitzer-is-anna-nicole-smith-still-dead-wolf/