Yes we all emulate ROY4L. In fact, anyone who doesn't make fad related YTMNDs emulates ROY4L. Also, the unfunnyness is the quality I, personally, aim for. I figure that a moving animation is much more unfunny and boring than a pure black background. I was actually hoping that would be an obvious joke, but people LOVE to see sh*tty blank webpages with assorted obvious and overused jokes about blind people or black people. Pitiful.
Not only is ROY4L given credit for inventing artistic YTMNDs, but now looped media in its entirety. I suppose that savvy gentleman who saw fit to affix both ends of a film stip some time around the turn of the century owes him some money. ROY4Lties perhaps? Oh, I kill me...