if trees could speak
posted by max on November 07, 2006 at 08:01:51 AM
hallo! guten tag!
I know I haven't updated in some time, I've been visiting the fatherland. I'm not back yet but I figured I'd pop in for a little contest.
Some promotional company asked me to do a promotion for the new Borat movie, and while I profit nothing and the prizes are lame, I figured it might cause a spurt of creativity.
More inside.
Some junk the promotional company sent me:
Borat Conan Interview - WMV - part 2
Borat Conan Interview - Quicktime - part 2
Badly resized copy of the soundtrack cover
Use this stuff or find whatever you want. The basic rules:
1. put borat in the keywords
2. make it somewhat relevant
3. contest ends on sunday the 12th.
4. i am the only judge (aka funny police)
lame prizes:
1 "Grand Prize": 1 Borat soundtrack and 1 poster
2 "You fail prizes": 1 Borat poster and sticker
When I have some more time I'll set up an easy listing of Borat sites.
Now, to address something else entirely, ads. I know you guys have been getting raped by all the ads lately, especially the popups. To clear things up, every time YTMND shows a pop-up, I die a little. AdSense revenue has been slipping for months so I've finally dropped it all together for the time being. In the next few weeks you will be seeing a lot of changes to how the site is organized, mainly to benefit the advertising. Pop-ups can't be a long term solution for YTMND's lack of revenue, so I'm working on a few things to try to avoid them. They pay more than any other ads and they lower traffic, so it's sort of a double whammy. If you have a family member or friend in media buying or internet advertising, tell them about YTMND and to drop me a line at max@ytmnd.com.
More (and better) updates soon.
Cheers from Germany
-Max
I know I haven't updated in some time, I've been visiting the fatherland. I'm not back yet but I figured I'd pop in for a little contest.
Some promotional company asked me to do a promotion for the new Borat movie, and while I profit nothing and the prizes are lame, I figured it might cause a spurt of creativity.
More inside.
Some junk the promotional company sent me:
Borat Conan Interview - WMV - part 2
Borat Conan Interview - Quicktime - part 2
Badly resized copy of the soundtrack cover
Use this stuff or find whatever you want. The basic rules:
1. put borat in the keywords
2. make it somewhat relevant
3. contest ends on sunday the 12th.
4. i am the only judge (aka funny police)
lame prizes:
1 "Grand Prize": 1 Borat soundtrack and 1 poster
2 "You fail prizes": 1 Borat poster and sticker
When I have some more time I'll set up an easy listing of Borat sites.
Now, to address something else entirely, ads. I know you guys have been getting raped by all the ads lately, especially the popups. To clear things up, every time YTMND shows a pop-up, I die a little. AdSense revenue has been slipping for months so I've finally dropped it all together for the time being. In the next few weeks you will be seeing a lot of changes to how the site is organized, mainly to benefit the advertising. Pop-ups can't be a long term solution for YTMND's lack of revenue, so I'm working on a few things to try to avoid them. They pay more than any other ads and they lower traffic, so it's sort of a double whammy. If you have a family member or friend in media buying or internet advertising, tell them about YTMND and to drop me a line at max@ytmnd.com.
More (and better) updates soon.
Cheers from Germany
-Max
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"Stares Into Your Soul" was a bit old when I started coming here regularly, but it never struck me as a very challenging or interesting kind of site to make. I like Moonlight Sonata, but most of the images used aren't even above average for the purpose (that is, they aren't even really of someone staring towards the viewer).
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Now this is weird. I look out the window and I see car lights. The car is facing towards this canyon trail where a car can't fit through. The only way they could've got there was through the park through the very narrow opening (which you'd have to go down a steep grass hill to get to). They turned the car off, and it's dark so I can't see anything. I'm real curious to see what they do
in approximately 17 hours, an update will happen in which max declares a supreme ruler. It will not be you. It will not be me. He will pick a leader, and he will lead the raid. The aids raid. He will be considered a loser by all of ytmnd, but a savior to 4chan. He will take over the chan forums, and singlehandedly stop all traffic from ytmnd to 4chan and vice-versa.
Telemarketer Site makes it into the HOF. I guess, supposedly, it has made this site a lot of money, so it deserves recognition. Not that the HOF isn't a joke anyway. I mean, let's face it. We've got a horrible still image from Revenge of the Sith complete with timecode and a shoddy wav full of clips. Then we've got two others that are the same joke done with Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan with the same sound file. Max probably got 100 emails asking for the site to be deleted so HOF'd instead.
It finally happened. I actually heard someone reference YTMND without me intiating. It was very strange. Some "black kid" was doing Cosby impressions, you know, the ones that were already parodied through Family Guy and the Simpsons. Then someone said "you should check out YTMND." I did a double take. I wonder if he'll come back next week singing NSMB...