YTMND disappears

Classic video-clip humor site YTMND ("You're the man now dog!") is gone. Hailing from an era before web video was commonplace, its distinctive juxtapositions of images, superimposed text and looping audio had a towering influence over the emerging web culture of the 2000s.

Death's approach was slow but inexorable. Gizmodo reported YTMND's imminent demise three years ago:

On August 29, 2016, Max Goldberg announced that YTMND would likely soon be shutting down, citing ill health and the site's inability to fund its own hosting fees from ad revenue. Goldberg stated "Besides being a time capsule I dont really see a reason for it to continue to exist... It seems like the internet has moved on...And Ive moved on too. I dont have much interest in the site beyond it being good memories."

An explosion of abusive, politically toxic users appears to have been the point of departure for the site's creator; logins became impossible some time ago due to Google deprecating a Captcha library and Goldberg did not fix it.

YOU'RE THE ARCHIVE NOW, DOG

Archive Team just backed up YTMND because DUH. 787gb of repeating memesanity. Good work, team

— Jason Scott (@textfiles) August 13, 2018

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