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Necronomicon

In the summer of 2000, Necronomicon went to the local campus movie theater with some friends, and he witnessed the greatest movie trailer that ever existed. The movie they had intended to see was quickly forgotten, and "You're the man now, dog!" became a running joke among his friends well before www.yourethemannowdog.com had ever existed. Every time a game of Beiruit was won, or someone pulled an amazing comeback in Super Tecmo Bowl out of thin air, rest assured the phrase "You're the man now, dog!" was shouted. Little did he know the phrase would spawn an internet phenomenon.

Necronomicon discovered www.yourethemannowdog.com in late 2001, and he was not surprised when it became a phenomenon in his dorm. It wasn't uncommon to hear Sean Connery's dulcet tones eminating from three or four different rooms at once, as students would leave the site runnning on a loop for hours while they were away at class. Only in the morning. That's like an alarm clock!

Necronomicon discovered ytmnd in May of 2005, when an IGN article mocking Revenge of the Sith linked to several ytmnds, including NOOOller Coaster and Vader turns on a light switch. He registered in July and quickly made several awful sites that got decent ratings simply because they were part of the then-popular ONE weakness fad. Slowly he began to lose interest in the site, as its sensibilities degenerated into a quagmire of self-reference, its users becoming less interested in making humorous sites and more about referencing each others' fads and combining them into every possibly permutation. In October 2005, Necronomicon said goodbye to ytmnd forever.

Then in May 2006, almost exactly one year after his first discovery of ytmnd, Necronomicon decided to check back on the site, to see if it was still the same inside-joke factory that it was when he had left it. To his astonishment, the site had undergone a Renaissance, led by users like MasterSitsu and syncan among many others. A war had been waged with eBaum that had completely passed him by. Hundreds, if not thousands, or brilliant sites had come and gone without his notice. Users like zer0hue had even experimented with ytmnd as an art form, with limited success. It was clear that this was not the ytmnd he had left behind. This was a newer, stronger ytmnd, hardened by the fires of war and refocused into a laser beam of comic precision. This was a ytmnd he could stand behind. This was a ytmnd that he could respect.

Necronomicon's name is a reference to H.P. Lovecraft. Not Army of Darkness. Not Warcraft III. Necronomicon thinks it's important to make that distinction. Also he finds it very disconcerting to write about himself in the third person.

YTMNDs

Necronomicon's first twenty sites or so were just half-assed curiousities that he knew were not very good. It wasn't until he made Jeopardy Judges Revealed that he decided to make more of an effort with his sites. It was also when he discovered that he is not very good at editing images. At first he tried to overcome this deficiency, by putting more effort into his sites, but when he spent over twenty hours struggling to edit his next ytmnd, Whose Film Noir is it Anyway? only to see it flop with only 11 votes, he decided it's not worth his time. Nearly every one of Necronomicon's sites since then has used unedited images, as he shifted his focus to sound and sound editing.

Most Overrated and Underrated

Necronomicon is pretty realistic about the quality of his ytmnds. He believes some of his sites have higher ratings than they deserve, while others he feels are overlooked.

Five Most Overrated

• Rape Me Once, Shame on You... 203 votes, 4.00 rating as of 3/31/07

Necronomicon: A straight audio rip from a TV show, way too long to be a good classic style ytmnd, and I didn't change the context or do anything creative whatsoever.

• Grimlock is Metal 454 votes, 4.20 rating as of 3/31/07

Necronomicon: I could do this so much better today, but I don't want to go all George Lucas on it. Its rating is probably about 0.25 stars too high in my opinion.

• ytmnsfw.com has one STRENGTH! 443 votes, 3.98 rating as of 3/31

Necronomicon: Not only is the site horribly dated by both its content and its message, but I didn't even think it was funny at the time. I was simply making an observation, and I was planning on deleting it the next day. But I have a policy that I won't delete a site if somebody fav'd it. I guess my MS Paint drawing skills are funny to other people, but I think this site is an embarassment.

• Uh, yeah. What he said. 413 votes, 4.38 rating as of 3/31

Necronomicon: I thought it was a funny line when I saw it on TV, and sure I thought it'd make a great classic-style ytmnd. But is it really better than There Are Two Kinds Of People or zazazazazaza? Or whoa... (pizzatheft) for Christ's sakes? There's no way.

• Arnold's got hoes 807 votes, 4.69 rating as of 3/31

Necronomicon: I know, I know. It's my one insanely successful site, and it's only two days old as of this entry. I should just keep my mouth shut and enjoy it. And even though I do think it's the best site I've made, I don't know about 4.69. I'd think somewhere between 4.4 and 4.5 would be a perfectly acceptable score. Not that I'm complaining, I'm just surprised is all.

Five Most Underrated

• Whose Film Noir is it Anyway? (refresh) 27 votes, 3.85 rating as of 3/31

Necronomicon: The site that broke my will to edit images. I spent more hours working on this than I got votes. I'm not at all bitter.

• Bill Murray misses Steve Irwin 40 votes, 4.00 rating as of 3/31

Necronomicon: Sure, now this site has crawled its way up to 4 stars after six months, but at the time it barely made it over 3. I was staunchly anti-resubmit at the time (a position I've softened on since then), so there it sat.

• Otis never stops looking 18 votes, 3.78 rating as of 3/31

Necronomicon: Back in Nov/Dec '06, I made a trilogy of Superman II sites. TGhe first two made U&C and did well. This one didn't. It's not brilliant by any means, but I thought it was better than its score.

• Saturday Night's Alright (For Sodomy) 43 votes, 3.81 rating as of 3/31

Necronomicon: See, this site is why I think "Arnold's got hoes", is overrated. It's pretty much the exact same type of site, only this one has 43 total votes and that one's a Top Rated site. I don't get it.

• Whose Buddy Band is it Anyway? 17 votes, 3.65 rating as of 3/31

Necronomicon: Yes, I made two sites with "Whose ______ is it Anyway?" as their title, so sue me. But this one was a tribute to both Whose Breakdance is it Anyway? and Buddy Bands. And it would have been a hugely successful and popular site if it hadn't been for PCF. He knows what he did.