Here we have a site which is barely linked anymore, or even known by younger users, yet it mysteriously is still going strong. Is there still avid YTMND users out there? Is YTMND doomed to have a older cult following? What do you think Hubski?
I have to agree with you there. The fact isn't that it's dead, but it's also a type of expression that has been superseded by other more open and useful tools such as youtube poops and plane old tumblr style blogs.
I had always seen it as having a more constant fan base rather than attracting new people. Obviously I was wrong. Boards such as /r/YTMND are long from dead yet, mind.
Though I don't have tons of experience with YTMND, I feel that it's going to become a relic of the internet, if it hasn't already. It's style of content (one not very closely tied to "sharing") doesn't fit as well with the highly contagious type of media experiences of today. It seems more like art than "media": static, crafted works that stand alone. There are no share features, no comments, no interaction. To bad really. It's internet history, like Geocities and AOL :)
Do you remember the first time you ever saw the Hitler Dance? Personally, I think that as long as social media excists, there will be a need for YTMND. Maybe not a big one, but there needs to be a one up from gifsoup I guess.
Yeah, I think that it'll always have a place. But I think it's been succeeded by other things.
I'll comment that YTMND is much slower today then i remember it being. It's ads really slow down the experince, and I can't imagine that it makes it easy to be a regularly repeating visitor. Even with Adblock, the website just seems to load even easy content incredibly slowly. Frankly, It usually feels that I could start watching someting on youtube in the time it takes a YTMND to load and launch.
I suppose that is what happens when a site which holds a large amount of content loses its fan base. Its a shame really, YTMND supported a lot of more artisitic creators as well as jokes and memes.
YTMND is going the way of SomethingAwful. It's not well known anymore, and not really a focal point of internet activity, though it can still have its moments and its community will probably still be plugging away for years to come until it eventually shutters due to lack of funds.
I haven't visited YTMND much in the last five years. I think it was largely supplanted by sites like youtube and tumblr as bandwidth became more available and social features more demanded. Some of the funniest snippets of creativity were found on YTMND back in the day, but who knows if they're even still available. I just wonder what those creative members have become. Greater artists, or boring adults?
I just struggle to see how anything filled the service provided by it. Gifswithsound ,schmifs with schmound.