YTMND (http://www.ytmnd.com/)

common sense media says

Instant Internet pop culture. Not for kids.


parents & educators say

What parents need to know

Parents need to know that this site isn't suitable for kids due to the user-supplied content, which often features vulgarities, hate speech, violence, and more.

Educational value: Some of the animations show a lot of creativity and forethought, although many are offensive.
Positive messages: If you watch enough of these, you'll see many racial, religious, cultural, and gender groups slurred.
Violence: Both cartoon and real violence are shown. A realistic snuff film shows a bound woman being shot in the head (is that blood or chocolate syrup?).
Sex: User-supplied content is sometimes NSFW ("Not Safe for Work").
Language: Some of the user-supplied content includes vulgarities and hate speech, including the n-word.
Consumerism: Google ads.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking: All three, including a Photoshopped image of Harry Potter drinking a beer alongside Hermione and Ron smoking weed while "How Could This Happen to Me?" plays.

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What to talk about

Talk to your kids
Families can talk about why people laugh at the expense of others. Where's the line between poking fun and hurting someone's feelings?

Is it any good?

Is it any good?
 
The problem with the site is obvious. Users create and submit all sorts of things, from Scientology exposés to bestiality. For example, one features a Photoshopped image of Harry Potter drinking a beer alongside Hermione and Ron (who are smoking weed) while "How Could This Happen to Me?" plays ("How could this happen to me/I've made my mistakes/Got nowhere to run"/etc.) The same tune is used for "Bambi's Suicide," a photo of a dead deer mangled on the highway. Another shows apparent news footage of a man in a spinning, burning wheelchair (as Dead or Alive cheerily sings, "You spin me right round, baby, right round...").

To be fair, you have to put in your 18-and-over birthdate to see the "NSFW" (Not Safe for Work) sites, but that's all that stands between your young kids and a cartoon of Aladdin and Princess Jasmine in which the Genie makes an obscene suggestion over and over and ... well, you get the idea.


This review was written by Jean Armour Polly
 
 

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ForceUser
teen, 18 years old
 
Best site ever.
YTMND is a site for everyone. I've never seen the harry potter site and that's probably because it has a low rating. Most people just view the top rated YTMNDs. And for the guy burning on a wheelchair that was just funny i'm sure he's fine now. My family members feel this site is safe for everyone. I've never been influenced by it and neither have they.

 
hay guyz
nedm and stuff

 
From an avid YTMND user and author
As an avid YTMND user I would like to chime in on my thoughts. YTMND encourages creativity by allowing users to create sites. Because YTMND is 100% user created content like youtube or wikipedia YTMND has contents of all maturity levels. The content on YTMND is no better or worse than any public forum with user created content like youtube. In fact much of the content on YTMND are just "mash-ups" or parodies of content from from youtube or the news. To understand the merits of user created content, I highly recommend looking at the YTMND's hall of fame. And as always the best way to know what your kids are looking at on the internet is to browse with them. *://ytmnd*/users/alphasuede/sites

timmyGijoesqua ...
kid, 11 years old
 

tamamaroro
teen, 15 years old
 
EPIC WIN.
The internet at it's finest. NEDM and all that stuff.

 
NEDM NEDM
Not even doom music can justify retarded reviews of YTMND.

NEDM
adult
 
Humans rejoice!
This social network gives people of all ages a chance to celebrate and poke fun at pop culture. From cats making funny faces to cats not justifying using Doom music to do bad things, this site is just hillarious! You can also join the cause and make your own sites about anything, although cats seem to be a popular one right now!

 
LOL INTERNETS
This is captain Jean Luc Picard of the U.S.S. YTMND, we are currently circuling the LOL ROMULIN's system and I bring this message live to you now. YTMND is the greatest website known to man kind, why? becouse i say so and im the D**n captain so start viewing set warp to 5 star's factor number 2

homestar52
teen, 15 years old
 
A saw a scary picture on YTMND once
I clicked this thing on YTMND that said 'linsay lohan as a kid' and it was a scary picture.

 
YTMND is hilarious.
I have a 2 year old son, our favorite site on YTMND is *://smrpgremix.ytmnd*/, he loves the music.

 
This website is the best.
And with the 'review' posted (propoganda put up by the man to keep us people down), it downplays that this site is the best. Offensive content? There is none! Insults? Dont take them seriously! God, cmon. If you cant take an insult, and go cut yourself or cry yourself to sleep, I'm suprised you can handle... well, anything. Oh, and these 'words' that are 'offensive', shouldn't be. If they weren't, nobody would use them. Seriously.

rster10
teen, 15 years old
 
Bad site!
I mean seriously, why would anyone go on this site? Bad words are everywhere.

Dr-L337
parent of 4 and 6 year old
 
"A must-read book for every 8-year-old"
Wait, no. :-) This site teaches important internet lessons about internet hazards such as meatspin, goatse, tubgirl, and many others. It might also teach you how to laugh, and how to love (my sites particularly ;-). You could turn the rare viewing of inappropriate content into a teachable moment; I do that for my kids Mr Ross and Tony all the time. Until next time, Dr-L337 is... signing off. :-)

 
An Internet Fad Hodgepodge
YTMND* pulls no punches. In an attempt to lampoon anything and everything in the real world and online, some extremely touchy issues have been turned into humongous fads, ranging from Zidane's World Cup confrontation to North Korea's missile misfire, suicide, and Scientology. There's no question that a number of the "YTMNDs" hosted are absolutely inappropriate for children, and I wouldn't recommend more than a few of them to anybody below the age of 11. However, it has a feature in place requiring age verification for the saltiest ones, making this relatively safe for teenagers on up. As for quality, not all of them are winners and far too many get their humor from being part of an "inside joke" (NEDM, for instance). However, enough time on the site will open up a treasure trove of funny pages.

 
This is the definition of the internet.
Plain and simple, read the title. So what, there's Google ads - where isn't there? Content - 13+, definately, except for some things - there are clear NSFW labels if you're worried. All around light humor - fans of SomethingAwful and Fark will love this.

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