As a former Animal Crossing addict, I feel your pain.

+34

Exactly. Whoever said Nintendo games can't envoke emotions is a tool.

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I think it would have been cooler had the mom written erotic fantasy letters to her kids and the "presents" were actually animal droppings.

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f*ggy short film

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You should've used authentic Animal Crossing letter backgrounds

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heartbreaking :'(

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zabijam you are a f*ck and may any one you love die a horrible death in a great explosion of great magnitude...and you suck...dick....and balls..and ass...and any other gay comment I can not think of right now.... what a tasty -11 for you f*ggot

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LOL

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dear me. That was one of the best ytmnd's I have ever watched.

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I thought this was so stupid.. i saw the ytmnd about digg.com so i re-watched it and i saw the end. f*ck i am still in tears.. i haven't cried in years.

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What have you done?! As much as I like it (the music's well chosen btw), you've unleashed a monster possibly even greater than that humorist prank call crap that was #1 top viewed for months. Hell, this is even in top sponsored after a few hours.

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Where's the funny?

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I laughed, I cried. It moved me. I need to play my GC version again. I miss my town!

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I read that there is an in game character that sends you messages and presents named Mom and after a long time a lot of presents and generic messages would accumulate and that this is a big joke that people who were addicted to the joke would be able to get. The real mom didn't sent any gifts, this is just a farce, and a pretty funny one at that, made even funnier by the fact that all these people buy into it as well as the creator, but it's still stolen. Very funny how gullible people are, though.

+43

I cried my *ss off! ;'{

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Maybe the stupid c*nt should have spent time communicating to her daughter rather than playing a f*cking game to get dumb presents the kid didn't care about. Or she could have gone out and got a f*cking job to buy real presents for the little sh*t.

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Digg this: http://digg.com/nintendo_wii/The_Saddest_YTMND_ever

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edited until digg goes away.

+67

Haha wow, epic Max edit.

+4

Now that's some damn fine coding!

+2

i should have known not to click on the edit from work.

+3

I am SO pissed off right now.

+8

i will never vote 5 or + simply because of max, but man, max, you earned this +. f*cking brilliant. if only we could have pranked those tom mabe fans

-5

Why not just referrer ban digg.com? Unless you want digg to ban ytmnd links in future, which makes sense I guess.

+1

I didn't Digg this. All I wanted was a high rating, and now because of your editing, I probably won't even get to keep that. You didn't do this to Telemarketer, and this is something actually worthwhile, that touched the hearts of a lot of people and started to give YTMND a reputation for being more than a den of heartless, mindless idiocy. I wouldn't have minded if you went and just established a referrer ban from Digg, but you've gone and defaced my site. Yes, it's not original, but I cited that.

-11

Very few things that ever gained massive popularity on YTMND are original. Blueballmachine was stolen from Something Awful. Batman was some clip from the TV show mashed up with a Spanish song. Your original YTMND was a picture of Sean Connery and an out of context movie soundbite, for Christ's sake! Please, for the love of GOD, find a way to block Digg without defacing my YTMND for everyone else.

-7

It comes down to the fact that every YTMND that drives a massive amount of traffic is stolen content, I don't care if you didn't create this, but I don't want to see this on the top viewed for the next 6 months and I'm going to send people away from it for a few days until things die down. I don't feel the need to pay to host for tens of thousands of people to view a YTMND that was ripped off from elsewhere. Don't get your panties in a bunch.

+44

Is there any way to keep it off the Top Viewed without editing it or Hall of Faming it?

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' all i wanted was a high rating ' - saddest ytmnd ever :(

+65

can we mirror the original, i kinda want to see what it was

+1

Why do people here continue to fail to understand, after all these years, the difference between recontextualizing and stealing. Don't they teach "context" in school anymore? Original ytmnd = recontextualized, juxtaposed irony. Lifted video/slide show/meme from _______ = stolen content. It's just not that hard to understand.

+15

Max is a gigantic f*ggot. That is all.

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I watched the assets just for fun and laughs. max should just keep it edited. Stick with sites like penisy.ytmnd.com, that sucked far less. :)

+3

Don't blame max, I see his point, this site WAS costing him money. I just wish there was another way to stop digg from linking to it so much >_<

-2

Why didn't max do the same during the whole telemarketer thing? Last week that site got 5,986 hits. Which is still a lot.

+5

Couldn't you just delete the site if you don't want all the views and the ensuing drama? 404 Man Not Found Dog deserves the extra attention anyway.

+3

Whoa! DIGG this! http://phoenixmelt.ytmnd.com

+2

I apologize, RySenkari. If it wasn't for me posting the link, the edit would not have happened in the first place.

+1

I have to think it probably would've made it to digg eventually anyway. I just wish there was a place I could host this that lots of people could enjoy it without it really being a big deal that it's stolen/costing the site owner a lot of money.

Max did change HTPAT. He changed it to a guy urinating on another guy for a day.

+6

i dunno how long it stays but it got diggmirror'd http://duggmirror.com/nintendo_wii/The_Saddest_YTMND_ever/

I thought it was hacked and it wasn't done by max.

I'll 5 something that the original user didn't make once. Just this once. I can't speak for someone I don't know... and I certainly can't speak for someone who I only find out about after their death. I can only say that this boys mother most likely wasn't able to care for her children the way she wanted too. Through Animal Crossing, I think she finally felt like she was giving her children something they could enjoy. It just goes to show you how tragic life can be. She never got to see them happy from this

All of your examples for "massively popular" ytmnds are years old. Go check the top rated/top faved sites and you will find that they are all original creations. There is no correlation with quality and the number of hits. Hell just because a site gets a relatively large amount of hits doesn't mean it is necessarily popular...it just happened to be linked to a heavily trafficked site.

+1

what happened to the edit? Or did i miss something?

This used to be Teens4Christ, but it was hacked and replaced with a schlocky webcomic about a woman who played Animal Crossing and died.

+5

stupid f*ckin momma's boy, i hope the maker of the site kills himself

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Oh, REAL mature.

-2

queer bait

-4

so sad, it should be hall of famed for sure. Hear that max, hall of fame.

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it's not on digg anymore

+4

thank you max!

-3

There should have been a fart at the end.

+3

yay max

-2

Why do we care what happens to ytmnd anyways.

+1

Does no one realize that this story isn't even real? I played this game a couple of years ago and always got presents from my 'mom', the in-game mom. If you didn't play the game for 18 months, you'd receive loads when you turned it on again.

+5

lol, -48, someone had to say it, so I did. I wonder how many people from digg made accounts just to minus my comment...

+2

Bottom line....this does not belong on ytmnd. Delete this site immediately. You don't want to end up being "that guy that posted the f*cking Animal Crossing site", do you?

+3

Well? Do you?

+1

RySenkari, keep in mind Max is the guy who has to pay the bill on all that bandwidth being used. A lot of people who have mega volume sites either edit them or have them edited/removed temporarily by Max so he isn't bankrupted by his hosting provider.

+1

I'm already gonna be known as that guy. Besides, I like that I touched SOME people, even if most of YTMND hates me.

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"I just wish there was a place I could host this that lots of people could enjoy it without it really being a big deal that it's stolen/costing the site owner a lot of money." You can host it the same place you stole it from, 4chan, or ANY IMAGEDUMP ON THE PLANET. It's a farce that you're treating as a true story. THE MOM DIDN'T SEND ANY PRESENTS. The mom sat on her chair and indulged in a game for purely selfish reasons. It's not a touching story, it's fake and it's depressing if taken as real.

+4

"All I wanted was a high rating" - There are no points for first place. Going around the internet and stealing other people's work in order to get high ratings on ytmnd is not a noble practice, nor does it make you "deserving", if that term even relates, of a high rating. Just because other people are unoriginal does not mean that your unoriginality is a good thing. They also gained nothing and are unoriginal thieves that tried to turn this place into a sh*tty, uncreative image dump.

+5

"Besides, I like that I touched SOME people, even if most of YTMND hates me." ...I don't want to be touched by you. I don't want to be touched by the guy who originally made this. And I definitely don't come to ytmnd to get touched. Go touch some youtubers with this sh*t.

+6

"All I wanted was a high rating" - "I just wish there was a place I could host this that lots of people could enjoy it without it really being a big deal that it's stolen/costing the site owner a lot of money." YTMND is not a popularity contest. It's supposed to be a creative outlet. Just because max has loose standards of enforcing that principle doesn't mean that what he did was wrong or undeserved. You're attempting to profit off the stolen work of others, but there's no profit to be had.

+6

Make your own sh*t, don't be a votewhore. Nobody hates you, they just hate that you're an unoriginal votewhore who is the of the diametrical opposite of the intention of this site and the part that keeps it alive. The biggest thing you have to realize is that this image that you stole is a farce. The mother is a literary device intended to mock the narrator (who is not the writer), who is falsely attributing the actions of the in game mother for those of his real mother and thus glorifying her selfishness.

+8

The joke: Even if the mother did send presents to her kids, it's still not touching as people who are completely out of touch with reality would say, but as she didn't send the presents the entire point of the story is to show how stupid the narrator is for falsely assuming his mother cared about him. Is that the uplifting story you were going for? I doubt it. It's pretty funny, though, but very dark. It's just too bad that you didn't bother to understand the material you stole.

+4

All I see here is a war playing out between the hardcore lulzmongers of the darkest corners of the internet, who will call you an emo f*ggot for displaying even the slightest bit of emotion, the people who think that a young girl committing suicide is somehow funny, the people who don't want to have anything to do with you if you're not a f*cking Photoshop genius like syncan, vs. the hordes of people who bawled their eyes out at seeing something that, while not in the least bit original (cont.)

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still, in their heart of hearts, were so moved to emotion by this site that they didn't care, and wanted to share it with as many people as possible. It's culture vs. counterculture at its basest level. I've been on both sides, and today, I'm in the middle of a goddamn tug of war between the 90% sheeple idiot emo majority and the 10% heartless *ssh*le intellectual minority. And I f*cking hate it, but I'm too weak and imperfect myself to end it.

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Analysis FTW.

"lulzmongers" Who the do you think we are? 4chan?

+5

Your statements are pretty telling as to how much you think of yourself. You're not "in the middle of a war", and if you were, you put it there yourself by stealing something written by those 10% and marketed for the 90% in order to mock their initial sentimental reaction to it. In a vacuum, it's funny, but in that sense it's just a stupid inside joke. Regardless, your site isn't very important, it isn't yours, and nothing will change as a result of this site. That's one hell of a WAR.

+3

In spite of what you may believe, I'm simply telling the truth. No YTMND since the "Deathly Hallows Spoilers" has kicked up as much of a sh*tstorm as this one has.

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I also don't think that just because you're an *ssh*le means that you can qualify yourself as an *ssh*le intellectual. I also think those categorizations are stupid stereotypes which are only useful for self aggrandizing propaganda, which doesn't surprise me. "All of you stupid emo kids or smart *ssh*les are ruining the world I'm stuck in the middle of you." Why don't you change your name to RyJesus and just be honest with your self.

+3

I just don't like being treated like I created this site with the sole intention of causing trouble. I wanted a high rating. Are we NOT supposed to want a high rating? Are we supposed to come to YTMND, and make something original and creative, and say "I don't care if this gets 50 1s, as long as I made something original and creative I'm happy!" Yes, of course being noticed is nice, but when I get a high rating it means people ENJOYED what I made. I don't care whether it's original or not.

-5

Of course, if I can make something creative and original AND score a high rating, that's great! But if I see something that I think people will like, I'll make a YTMND out of it. People LIKED this YTMND. Lots of people did. I read the comments about it on digg, and I felt good that I was able to warm the hearts of a lot of people. I don't give a sh*t who it pisses off.

-5

"Yes, of course being noticed is nice, but when I get a high rating it means people ENJOYED what I made. "...BUT YOU DIDN"T MAKE THIS!!!!

+5

Also sentimental is not the same as emo. Sentimentality is part of romanticism which is the dominant modern cultural influence, and sentimentality is frivolous and superficial, as the reactions to this site clearly show. Also, if you asked a romantic whether a parent who spent all their time on a video games was a good parent, they'd probably feel the opposite of the way the feel now about this site, but I guess that spin reveals hypocrisy, doesn't it?

+3

people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made people ENJOYED what I made

+6

"Are we NOT supposed to want a high rating? Are we supposed to come to YTMND, and make something original and creative, and say "I don't care if this gets 50 1s, as long as I made something original and creative I'm happy!"" That's not a bad place to start. Some people also say, "I put this onto ytmnd for other people to enjoy." However, saying "I want other people to enjoy this" when really you mean "I want a high rating" is incredibly dishonest. Now, who would say that?

+3

""I had NO idea it would take off like it did, and frankly, I don't care." "All I wanted was a high rating."- As in, I care more about the rating of a site than how many views it gets. 3.00 rating with 500,000 views means a lot of people saw it and HATED it, and that's no good. 4.70 rating with 5,000 views means that not many people saw it, but those that saw it enjoyed it. And that's what I like to see. And yes, "made" was a bad choice of words. "Posted" would've been better.

-1

Well let's see. If I post something and it gets a low rating, that means that A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO SAW IT DIDN'T ENJOY IT! Meaning that I wasted a minute of somebody else's life. But a high rating means that I made someone laugh, or cry, or whatever.

-1

What is the difference between romanticism and sentimentality?

+1

lol

+3