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NARV
Join date January 01, 2006
Birthdate unknown
Avg. site rating:
Avg. vote rate:
...as of unknown
Notable Sites:
they cant make YTMNDs :(

NARV is an acronym for New Age Retarded Voters. As of January 2006, YTMND has had a rise in popularity and has attracted a wider range of user base. Without knowing exactly the age of the users, and level of sophistication, NARVs seem to be inexperienced and their influence can be attributed to the rise in votes for relatively novice sites that would have never reached popularity in the hey-day of YTMND's past. This is a result of these voters appealing to the lowest common denominator and upvoting almost everything they see. NARVs seem to have no knowledge of YTMND history or the classics that define the tone of the website at large, and have no desire to learn, unlike the common noob. Many NARVs will dedicate all their votes to being either or . A NARV is not simply a hated downvoter or attention whore that many have deemed "retarded."

NARV-like behavior is not entirely new to YTMND. In the days of "ualualualue" and "ridin' spinnaz", you could find this type of user on YTMND. However, by rising in numbers they have justified each others stealing of already well known "funny pictures" from sites throughout the Internet, be they from other YTMND users (see Parasite), 4chan, b3ta, SomethingAwful, screenshots of bizarre news stories, and so forth. Due to a lessening amount of users willing to openly downvote or point out site theft for fear of being "e-venged", NARVism has flourished.

NARVs are not unique to YTMND, either. Any site that features “original” content and a voting system is vulnerable to NARV invasions. See: YTMND NARV becomes a YouTube NARV. (WARNING: extreme NARVism)

NARVs that actually create YTMNDs rarely, if ever, use Google or YTMND's own search feature to see if their site has been made already. They do, however, believe it to be funny or cute to claim the source to be "internets."

Confusion

Some users consider any voter who they do not like, eg. a downvoter, an eBaum's World supporter, or who is generally disliked, to be a NARV. Many use the term simply to describe any user who they feel is ruining the website. The phrase has been thrown around loosely, and one should be careful of such accusations, seeing if the accused meet the symptoms described in this article.

Overuse of Music

NARVs seem to enjoy overdone fad music. Major examples involve:

• Axel F
• The Price is Right "failure" sound (sometime's Darth Vader's Nooo)
• Various video game tracks, the most overused one is the Super Mario World sped-up ending song
• Ghost Love Score by Nightwish
• "Requiem for a Tower (The Two Trailers soundtrack)"
• Untitled by Simple Plan, currently the most overused sound asset on ytmnd
• Running in the Ninties by Max Coveri
• The Lonely Man Theme" from The Hulk
• Fury of the Storm by Dragonforce
• Yakety Sax (the Benny Hill Theme) by Boots Randolph

Bottom Feeders

NARVs create and cluster around fad sites that require the least amount of work, continuing to make and upvote them long after the fad has peaked. Most notably:

Artist's interpretation of a typical NARV

• Any fad, with stolen images or with friends headswapped
• Best Day Ever
• Chuck Norris
• CRAPTMND
• dancing fads
• eBaum's World
• Eon8
• Epic Maneuver
• ...is having a wonderful time
• GoogleFight
• iGod
• lol, internet (especially after the lol, tutorial site was made)
• Medieval sites
• Myspace suicide / Emo, especially those featuring Simple Plan's "Untitled"
• News Events with no changes in material being shown, like Dick Cheney's Hunting mishap and Pluto's downgrading from a planet
• Raiding other websites (This includes "Forum Registration Disabled" sites, which tends to appear after a forum raid.)
• Safety Not Guaranteed
• Screenshots of news items edited with Paintbrush adding "lol", "pwned", etc. in blurry red letters.
• Secret Nazi...
• Shoe on Head
• Stride
• Ualuealuealeuale
• Wikipedia vandalism

Not all of these fads are undistinguishable. The original submissions of these fads mentioned are worthy, but NARVs blindly upvote any site containing these elements without discernable inference. NARVs quickly obliterate fads by attaching gifs posted many times before on YTMND with the new fad music, creating a "double unoriginality" syndrome that experienced YTMNDers find unbearable.

Offenders/Prominent NARVs

#	User	NARV level	Crimes Against YTMND
01	vex5	Critical	AOTS contest runnerup with stolen material; posts stolen material; resubmits to make top 15, then downvotes all other sites on the up-and-coming list so he can make the top 15.
02	FanaticallyInsane666	Stable	Posts stolen material.
03	deepbluevibes	Stable	Votes either 1 or 5, allmost all his sites are NSFW.
04	Keyblademaster99	Critical	Downvotes all Classic style YTMNDs, but has yet to make a YTMND.
05	BananaClock	Critical	Fond of the "Van Damme dancing" GIF, which has been posted over 100 times before.
06	zuljinforthewin	Stable	Update - seems to just be a troll account, not a true NARV.
07	likeakiller	Critical	True NARV, by title definition.
08	Tal27	Critical	Split voter, even upvotes sites without sound; e-venges.
09	scorpkris	Caution	Puts other GIFs to the new NARV fad music; makes screenshot YTMNDs.
10	sboss	Critical	NARV voter; NARV site maker; revenge voter.
11	Acidrainman	Hopeless	100% NARV.
12	zalbane	Critical	Entirely split voter, WoW YTMNDs.
13	WTL	Stable	Split voter.
14	SenatorZuul	Stable	Loves all crappy fads; a "bad" upvoter; admits to e-venging.
15	Dallin	Critical	It's amazingly obvious.
16	nathanfat37	Critical	E-venger; relentless nag; dead fad whore.
17	n4rvst	Hopeless	NARV and proud of it, but apparently just an attention whore. (see downvoter) Has recently upped his game by posting stolen GIFs of popular YTMNDs with the audio dubbed over with a laugh track.
18	redhex	Critical	Split voter; relentless nag.
19	Lambon	Critical	Split voter; genuine dumbass; loves "fuck you" posts.
20	Ziggah	Critical	Picking up on a theme here?
21	chimp-toaster	Critical	...because you should.
22	rawr	Caution	Homophobic, jingoistic, evenging junior high reject. Can't spell the word "hamster," but loves to insult people anyway.
23	yourpenis	Hopeless	A NARV that calls other users NARVs.
24	EmoFTW	Critical	Split voter; has never even 3'd or 4'd.
25	JazRad	Caution	Split voter; CRAPTMND enjoyer.
26	blizzard	Hopeless	Lacks sense of humor; mass downvotes non-WoW sites; posts links to viruses in comment pages.
27	st00pid-n00b	Hopeless	Only votes and ; downvotes sites that clearly don't deserve it.
28	jimtownresident	Hopeless	Massive split voter; votes on whether or not he likes the movie the GIF is recorded from.
29	galaxhood	Hopeless	Big time split voter; upvotes crap and downvotes good sites.
30	dunesw64	Caution	General troll; e-venger; split voter.
31	SIZK	Stable	Big split voter, but somewhat new user; wait and see.
32	spatan117	Caution	Not entirely split voter, but downvotes often (and has the nerve to whine about downvoting).
33	falco1234	Critical	Split voter; repetitive "gay" styled comments.
34	Kratos222	Caution	Split voter; obsessed with penis pumps and advertising IRC channels that no-one could possibly care less about.
35	K7	Hopeless	Split voter; one of the original NARVs; makes alternate accounts (now known as downvoter/attention whore ZEROEVILDARKCOOL).
36	koning	Hopeless	Makes screenshot YTMNDs and NARV YTMNDs; split voter.
37	lambon	Stable	Split voter; mildly annoying commenter (usually either a "lol" or "fuck you").
38	KingD	Hopeless	Split voter, e-venges everyone who gives him a 1 and 5s everything else. Posts stolen and very old material.
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Anti-NARV sites

• You're The NARV Now Dog.com
• Don't Let NARV Happen to You
• Dennis Nedry steals & submits crap
• NARV anti-virus