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Re: Blue Ball Machine

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Post by sabellito » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 9:11 AM UTC

Jordan-117 wrote: post #18

https://freecow.ytmnd.com/ https://takemeoutflanders.ytmnd.com/ https://finalstaringcontest.ytmnd.com/ https://vaderloveschristmas.ytmnd.com/ https://sixtymins.ytmnd.com/ https://tequilatts.ytmnd.com/ https://butteringobama.ytmnd.com/ https://pianos128.ytmnd.com/ My favorite: https://whatyouseewhenyoudie.ytmnd.com/

My favourite: https://krullraves.ytmnd.com/

Still know the URL by heart.

Re: Blue Ball Machine

#42

Post by maxcoder4 » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 9:25 AM UTC

resource_waste wrote: post #40

Part of me likes all the insanity with the internet back then, with mixed feelings. I probably got computer skills wasting time on YTMND for one reason or another. I 100% attribute 4chan's b for inspiring me to program. Their raids inspired me to learn programming when I was a teenager. But... I see that the alt-right came out of 4chan and the previously funny memes were no longer funny memes but serious accusations.…

I think you give too much agency to 4chan. It's just a imageboard - an internet forum - that happened to have some subforums related to alt-right. Maybe it had (has) a bad influence on people, but it's hundred times smaller than Facebook, Twitter or Reddit. To say it has single handedly started a movement is a huge stretch.

Re: Blue Ball Machine

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Post by keketi » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 9:43 AM UTC

YTMND was the TikTok of its time.

Re: Blue Ball Machine

#44

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 9:58 AM UTC

maxcoder4 wrote: post #42

resource_waste wrote: post #40

Part of me likes all the insanity with the internet back then, with mixed feelings. I probably got computer skills wasting time on YTMND for one reason or another. I 100% attribute 4chan's b for inspiring me to program. Their raids inspired me to learn programming when I was a teenager. But... I see that the alt-right came out of 4chan and the previously funny memes were no longer funny memes but serious accusations.…

I think you give too much agency to 4chan. It's just a imageboard - an internet forum - that happened to have some subforums related to alt-right. Maybe it had (has) a bad influence on people, but it's hundred times smaller than Facebook, Twitter or Reddit. To say it has single handedly started a movement is a huge stretch.

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Re: Blue Ball Machine

#45

Post by defrost » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 10:00 AM UTC

sabellito wrote: post #41

Jordan-117 wrote: post #18

https://freecow.ytmnd.com/ https://takemeoutflanders.ytmnd.com/ https://finalstaringcontest.ytmnd.com/ https://vaderloveschristmas.ytmnd.com/ https://sixtymins.ytmnd.com/ https://tequilatts.ytmnd.com/ https://butteringobama.ytmnd.com/ https://pianos128.ytmnd.com/ My favorite: https://whatyouseewhenyoudie.ytmnd.com/

My favourite: https://krullraves.ytmnd.com/ Still know the URL by heart.

Might be worth chasing up a decent quality version of Simon Pegg | Edgar Wright's Spaced S01E06 Epiphanies club scene - it's only for UK hard core ravers.

Re: Blue Ball Machine

#46

Post by AlecSchueler » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 10:01 AM UTC

maxcoder4 wrote: post #42

resource_waste wrote: post #40

Part of me likes all the insanity with the internet back then, with mixed feelings. I probably got computer skills wasting time on YTMND for one reason or another. I 100% attribute 4chan's b for inspiring me to program. Their raids inspired me to learn programming when I was a teenager. But... I see that the alt-right came out of 4chan and the previously funny memes were no longer funny memes but serious accusations.…

I think you give too much agency to 4chan. It's just a imageboard - an internet forum - that happened to have some subforums related to alt-right. Maybe it had (has) a bad influence on people, but it's hundred times smaller than Facebook, Twitter or Reddit. To say it has single handedly started a movement is a huge stretch.

Very little in human history has had the reach of those websites you're talking about, and on those users tend to be in their own bubbles. On 4chan, with its millions of users over the past couple of decades, attention is centered around a few boards.

Re: Blue Ball Machine

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Post by neonroku » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 10:09 AM UTC

https://rockthetaskbar.ytmnd.com/

Re: Blue Ball Machine

#48

Post by dapf » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 10:14 AM UTC

I thought it was goin to be this: https://youtu.be/orBH_Qnw3eY

Re: Blue Ball Machine

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Post by dorkwood » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 10:19 AM UTC

This started out on the Something Awful forums back in the early 2000s. They made a few more after this one was such a hit. I joined in one year, probably at about age 18, using a bootleg copy of Photoshop that I got at a LAN party. My contribution is floating around somewhere.

Re: Blue Ball Machine

#50

Post by darylteo » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 10:26 AM UTC

Jordan-117 wrote: post #18

https://freecow.ytmnd.com/ https://takemeoutflanders.ytmnd.com/ https://finalstaringcontest.ytmnd.com/ https://vaderloveschristmas.ytmnd.com/ https://sixtymins.ytmnd.com/ https://tequilatts.ytmnd.com/ https://butteringobama.ytmnd.com/ https://pianos128.ytmnd.com/ My favorite: https://whatyouseewhenyoudie.ytmnd.com/

Mine will always be https://picard.ytmnd.com/