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(More or less all G-man things are from HL2, and they seem to think Garry's Mod is a "fad." It's like calling photoshop a fad.)
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* '''Select-a-fad'''; Various parodies of selection screens in video games, often altered to show various fadsThe most popular choices include the ability selection screen from ''Kirby Super Star'', and the Mega Man level select screen.
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This is a group of minor fads related to video games.  Those with articles can be seen in the Category:Video Games list:  [[:Category:Video Games|video game-related]] [[fads]].  
  
* '''[[Super Mario World ending|The ending theme from ''Super Mario World'' sped up]]''' and usually accompanying something wacky (typically with "lol" as the site's phrase or edits done by 4Kids Entertainment).
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== Burn Bobonga ==
  
* '''The song "Burn Bobonga" from ''Chrono Trigger''''', commonly used for various sites involving perverts.  This was the original song choice for the [[Brian No!|Brian Peppers]] fad.
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"Burn Bobonga" from ''Chrono Trigger'' commonly used for various sites involving perverts.  This was the original song choice for the [[Brian No!|Brian Peppers]] fad.
  
* '''"You Fucking Stole my Cloudsong!"''' A ''Dark Age of Camelot'' player screaming at a fellow complaining that he stole his Cloudsong. ''Note: the first "cloudsong" YTMND depicted the player as playing ''World of Warcraft'' which has caused some confusion.'' The original website was called "WoW is Serious Business", starting the Serious Business fad as mentioned under miscellaneous fads.
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== Donkey Kong ==
  
* '''Link finds...''' A scene from ''The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'' where Link opens a treasure chest and finds various items.
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The character Donkey Kong throwing barrels. Examples include {{y|dkanime|Donkey Kong hates Anime}}, {{y|kongbarrel|Kong ties up loose ends}}, and {{y|vannedammesworstenemy|Van Dammes's Worst Enemy}}.
**Also from the Zelda series is a fad involving various people receiving the triforce.
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* '''''Metal Gear Solid''''''s "''Snake? Snake? SNAAAAAAAAAAKE!''" death sequence. The original one in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' had Otacon calling out for Solid Snake, and is the most commonly parodied death sequence.  The fad started with a sequence involving Mario and Luigi.
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== DDR ==
  
* '''"Do a barrel roll!"''' Peppy Hare's catch phrase from ''Starfox 64''. This has been joined with his other lines.
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Various people playing Konami's rhythm game Dance Dance Revolution.  Sites will often have a person dancing and arrows in front of them flying up.  Most of sites use music from DDR or dance remixes of various songs. Dance Dance Revolution YTMNDs contain photoshops of other YTMND characters playing DDR, or videos of people playing DDR.
  
* '''Rolling Katamari Damacy balls of various random objects''', usually accompanied with the Katamari Damacy theme song.
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== ...hates Toad. ==
  
* '''A Thwomp crashing into a character''', usually with the ''Super Mario Bros.'' "thwomp" and "death" sounds.
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Toad from the Super Mario series gets chased, hurt or killed by various people, such as {{y|toadshouse|Mario}} and {{y|scroogetoad|Scrooge McDuck}}.
  
* The '''Leeroy Jenkins''' video from ''World of Warcraft''. Usually paired with a picture of Martin Lawrence from the film ''Black Knight'' with a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken photoshopped in.
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== Kirby's ipod ==
  
* '''"Blob!"''' A scene from the X-Men arcade game where the players confront the villanous Blob, often with the original sound clip in the background.
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An image of Kirby from the series of the same name holding up an ipod with a video on it. This is usually porn, but can be other images as well. Ex: {{y|mounteverest|Kirby scales Mount Everest with his ipod}}
 
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* '''"WRYYYYYY!"''', a scream associated with the series ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' and popularized in a Flash video disseminated widely through 4chan. The original video combined Dio Brando's "The World" super move, which could stop time; Dio's "Road Roller", in which he crushed his opponent with a steamroller, and Shadow Dio's "Charisma", in which he screams and sends sparks toward the opponent. Of these, the "Charisma" scream is most prevalent, followed by the "Road Roller" steamroller.
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*'''NES''', various fads remade as if they were on the NES system.
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* '''"[[G-man|G-Man is Having a Wonderful Time]]"''', various gifs created with the ''Half-Life 2'' Garry's Mod of the G-Man from the game ''Half-Life 2'' dancing around and "having a wonderful time", often set to "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" by Tiny Tim. The original featured G-Man spinning in an office chair. Garry's Mod has also been used for making various YTMNDs, usually but not always tying the Half-Life series into the joke. However, this does not necessarily mean it is a part of this fad.
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* '''Mega Man Villain #''', Parodies the screen in all of the ''Mega Man'' games prior to entering a stage, where edited pictures of ''Mega Man'' sprites (Always having the suffix "Man" after their names) is used. The pre-battle intro theme from the first ''Mega Man'' game is always used in these YTMNDs, although there are some variations using later ''Mega Man'' titles.
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* '''Parodies of various video game hardware''', for example, the Playstation 3 Boomerang controller, the Xbox's size, power cable and graphics, and the Nintendo "Wii-mote".  Some of the most popular hardware fads include:
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** '''[[TIGER Handheld|Tiger Handheld]] made to resemble any other YTMND fad''', with beeping music that also sounds like a Tiger Handheld.
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** '''"It's not a defect, it's a feature."''' A picture of a PlayStation Portable ejecting its disc automatically, usually with a loop of Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out". It is usually titled "It's not a feature (or defect), it's a...". ''"Take Me Out" was used in the PSP commercials in the United States.''
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** '''Wii''', the fifth generation console from Nintendo that was initially codenamed "Revolution".  Within hours after the name change was annouced, the inevitable YTMND's began to pop up, some including various people saying "wii" (for example, Adam West's quote on Family Guy[http://nobodymesseswithadamwii.ytmnd.com/], the flash video Gonads and Strife, and a reinterpretation of "WRYYYYYY") and those with a name similar sounding to "wii".
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** '''Sites about Playstation3's Pre-E3 2006 Conference''', which either condemn Sony for taking ideas from Nintendo, ridiculing the Genji 2 demo (claiming to be based on Japanese history, only to later fight a giant enemy crab, and to "attack its weakpoint for massive damage), making fun of Kaz Harai's presentation for PSX emulation on the PSP(being overly excited, or yelling out "Riiiiidge Racerrrrrr!") or ridiculing its high price point.
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*'''Super Smash Bros. Brawl [[Newcomer]]'''. A fad that started after Super Smash Bros. Brawl was advertised at E3 2006. The fad consists of random characters or even real people pretending to be characters you could unlock when the game was released. Sites include characters such as John Madden, Megaman, Sonic, Captain Picard, "The King of Cosmos" and others.
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*'''Stan sells EVERYTHING to Guybrush'''. A fad featuring a picture of Stan talking to Guybrush in ''The Secret Of Monkey Island'' with the song ''Hardware Store'' by Weird Al in the background.
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Latest revision as of 09:32, April 19, 2012

This is a group of minor fads related to video games. Those with articles can be seen in the Category:Video Games list: video game-related fads.

Burn Bobonga

"Burn Bobonga" from Chrono Trigger commonly used for various sites involving perverts. This was the original song choice for the Brian Peppers fad.

Donkey Kong

The character Donkey Kong throwing barrels. Examples include Donkey Kong hates Anime, Kong ties up loose ends, and Van Dammes's Worst Enemy.

DDR

Various people playing Konami's rhythm game Dance Dance Revolution. Sites will often have a person dancing and arrows in front of them flying up. Most of sites use music from DDR or dance remixes of various songs. Dance Dance Revolution YTMNDs contain photoshops of other YTMND characters playing DDR, or videos of people playing DDR.

...hates Toad.

Toad from the Super Mario series gets chased, hurt or killed by various people, such as Mario and Scrooge McDuck.

Kirby's ipod

An image of Kirby from the series of the same name holding up an ipod with a video on it. This is usually porn, but can be other images as well. Ex: Kirby scales Mount Everest with his ipod

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