C/D -- Making fun of the myspace suicide kid on ytmnd.com?

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― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

I guess I vote dud.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

Classic!

http://hacksawmyspacesuicide.ytmnd.com/

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

This is horrifying.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 5 December 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

http://myspace911suicide.ytmnd.com/

I must wash my brain now.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

This is like the Comiskey Park disco demolition of emo-hate.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

Classic cause that Bluemchen song never gets old.

ALLES MIEN TAG!

http://hitlermyspace.ytmnsfw.com/

― YTMND.FAN, Monday, 5 December 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

classic

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

OK.

http://schiavomyspacesuicide.ytmnd.com/

Just a little bit funny.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

it sucks that he killed himself. dood could have spell checked his final bulliten or put a less schmucky picture though.

― howell huser (chaki), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

― bato (bato), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

Wait, wait, what's this "Myspace suicide" thing about?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 5 December 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

the right people never commit suicide

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 December 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

xpost A teenager who was active in the 'emo' myspace communities posted a note telling people where to find his body, then shot himself.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 5 December 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

i wonder how much of his body was where he said it would be

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 5 December 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

Here's a news story about it (the suicide, I mean, not the ytmnd trend).

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10295066/

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah these are pretty damn classic

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

the right people never commit suicide

So if you never commit suicide, that means that you're one of the right people to do so, and if you do commit suicide, then it follows that you shouldn't have. Whoa.

― xero (xero), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

dud because:

1) its a lazy shtick (lolol zomfg its darht vaders myspace profile XD), unlikely to result in greatness like some other
fads
2) people keep using that awful HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME cliche emo song

― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

the right people never commit suicide

lol emo

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

They're funny, some of them anyway, but I can't quite get behind it. I had a friend whose 18-year-old son did the same thing, it utterly devastated her. I can't describe or imagine the pain she went through. And I mean, I know what's being mocked here is not this kid so much as the whole myspace realm and everything, I get that. I just ... I dunno, it's sad.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

2) people keep using that awful HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME cliche emo song

that's the best part, really.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh, definitely, the "How Could This Happen To Me" is by far the funniest thing when you look at them all in rapid succession. It was really hilarious on the Kurt Cobain one in particular.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 5 December 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

who does that song anyway?

― amon (eman), Monday, 5 December 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Simple Plan. I watched the video last night at music.aol.com - the YTMNDers are actually using the least-bad part of it.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 5 December 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

A teenager who was active in the 'emo' myspace communities posted a note telling people where to find his body, then shot himself.

Oh sheesh. :-((((( I just saw a program on cybersex addiction. The woman took a bunch of pills and gulped it down with a few gallons of alcohol. Apparently she was in a chatroom at the time and the people there contacted the police. She was luckily saved in time.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

"This could of ben stoped,'' read one posting about 11 hours after the boy shot himself.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I currently have the #1 rated YTMND on the entire site.

Myspace suicide fad now played out, not as much so as "Jesus lol" or "Sailor Moon meets" though. "X Gon' Give It To Ya" fad still hilarious.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

I only just saw this was an OC case. Figures.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

Apparently she was in a chatroom at the time and the people there contacted the police. She was luckily saved in time.

-- Nathalie (stevi...), December 6th, 2005 1:26 AM. (later)

Very lucky, as she went on to discover a cure for cancer.

Oh, no she didn't, she went on the internet again.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Worst thing about the internet = giving solipsistic and/or fiercely entitled pricks even more reason to imagine that other people don't actually exist except in some hilarious anecdotal netherworld where nothing really matters. People killing themselves = bad and not particularly funny, even if some of the surrounding circumstances are.

(Arf blah blah blah "irony has only emergency use"; the reverse of this shit is always gonna be that anyone who finds it shitty will be regarded as a humorless prig and/or hysteric, but yeah, I'm just thinking again of that early-90s DFW "E Unibus Pluram" deal and the still-true idea that this kind of ironization can't quite assert anything constructive, that it works for destruction and ground-clearing but annoyingly refuses to actually mean anything -- and now, judging from the internet, it's gone down the level of refusing to accept real meaning or any experience of real people in anything at all. Grrr.)

― nabiscothingy, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

dude, what happens on the net stays on the net

― Paul Mattick, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

The extent to which you're right, nabisco, gets muddied up by the fact that the kid who killed himself was engaging in the same internet reductivism, up to and including the point where he killed himself. I agree with what you said, but this was a deliberately public Spectacle - as many suicides are.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

i made a thread about this two days ago but no one replied to it.

it made me sad.

― petlover, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Definite classic.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeah but so far as I'm concerned the spectacle just makes it sadder!

― nabiscothing, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

This may have overtaken "Nigg--Err, Nick or Treat!" as my alltime favourite YTMND.

http://tomcruisetherapy.ytmnd.com/

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

http://conaninsane.ytmnd.com
http://futureconan.ytmnd.com
http://conandefeat.ytmnd.com
http://futureconansaved.ytmnd.com

best fad ever!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 06:09 (twenty years ago)

lol internet war!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 8 January 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Interesting hearing about YTMND taking on that asshole from Ebaumsworld here: http://manholemusic.blogspot.com/2006/01/you-stole-fizzy-lifting-drinks.html

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Monday, 9 January 2006 05:22 (twenty years ago)

link won't load?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 9 January 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

now it does.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 9 January 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

woah i just read the wiki article i didnt know ebaum and his daddy were such bastards!

― howell huser (chaki), Monday, 9 January 2006 05:32 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://content.ytmnd.com/content/8/7/8735edd176526c7444e48670738aa131.jpg

― vulgardisplayofpower, Monday, 9 January 2006 05:54 (twenty years ago)

It's kind of odd for the ytmnd people to get uppity about possible breaches of copyright and intellectual property rights, given that their entire, uh, movement is based on lifting other peoples' copyrighted images and sounds.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 9 January 2006 06:01 (twenty years ago)

but they are parodying things, which is fair use. ebaum just takes their creative expression and slaps his name on it.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 9 January 2006 06:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure that a picture of Chris Rock with the "they spinnin' nigga!" soundbite playing over top counts as parody. Quasi-racist warping of 50 Cent lyrics + Nintendo game - who's that parodying? etc.

If anyone pushed the matter, I think they'd be on terribly shaky legal ground. Clearly ebaum is a douchebag, but it's hard to believe anyone's getting self-righteous on ownership issues here. When ebaum jacks someone's flash game, OK, they've got a legitimate complaint. YTMND, not so much.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 9 January 2006 06:10 (twenty years ago)

you are questioning the aesthetics of what they do which is irrelevant.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 9 January 2006 06:12 (twenty years ago)

Uh, no, I'm not. That I find the Chris Rock page stupid, or the 'nigga done stole my bike' pages stupid and racist has nothing to do with what I said.

YTMND pages are created, almost entirely, from copyrighted works - images and sound - owned by third parties. Very few of these that I've seen, if any, would fall under 'fair use.' They don't serve a public purpose, they're not journalism, and they don't parody any of the works being used. A Nintendo game and funny sound effects does not a parody make. (Nor even satire, which is less protected).

By the logic that YTMND constitutes fair use, then all musical sampling would also be fair use - which is clearly not the law as of now.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 9 January 2006 06:18 (twenty years ago)

"nigga stole my bike" serves a very large public purpose

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 9 January 2006 06:22 (twenty years ago)

anyway, the most important aspect of the fair use defense is the effect on the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. how is ytmnd affecting the market for mike tyson's punch out?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 9 January 2006 06:27 (twenty years ago)

I can't get this "How Could This Happen To Me" song out of my head. god.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 03:27 (twenty years ago)

A couple of those "_____ fails at life" pages and the Price is Right music starts getting really creepy.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:11 (twenty years ago)

http://baumanletters.ytmnd.com/

CYBER TERRORISM!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

"Obviously you have lost possession of your Yiddish cup"???? ?

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

YIDDISH CUP is an instamem, for sure.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

The remix!

http://myyiddishcup.ytmnd.com/

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Anyway, so "the myspace suicide kid"'s Myspace account was deleted earlier this week. And one of the YTMND forumists managed to register his "jloveb" user account. This isn't safe for work, unsurprisingly:

http://www.myspace.com/jloveb

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 30 January 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://emo-chipmunks.ytmnd.com/

― |l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l| (eman), Friday, 17 February 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

http://cosbyclassic.ytmnd.com/
http://cosbylearns.ytmnd.com/
http://cosbysgolden.ytmnd.com/
http://cosbyissmooth.ytmnd.com/
http://cosbycontinues.ytmnd.com/

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:23 (twenty years ago)

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