April 19th
This week on the ytmnd, I expected to see people talking about the tragedy at Virginia Tech. Sure enough, not only were people talking about it in the forums but also some have created ytmnd sites about the killer Cho Seung-hui. A user on the forum has gone as far as to create a tag out of one of the pictures of the killer holding his guns. Users on the forums, mostly in the NSFW forum, joke about the incident as if it was nothing. This didn’t surprise me one bit. Comments left on the site www.nospoonvt.ytmnd.com, which depicts an image of Cho Seung-hui with the text “There is no spoon”, an obvious matrix reference, had mixed reactions. The first user to comment, freedomflakes, says, “VTech ytmnds are getting really gay. F”. The last comment on the page is by a user named Cho-Seung-Hui, most likely an alternate account crated by another user for a laugh, who simply posts, “lol”. I would not be surprised, a few weeks down the line when the VTech story dies down in the media, that this is turned into a fad. Nothing is sacred in the world of ytmnd. Anything can be used and manipulated and if a site elicits one “lol” from a user, everything is good and well.
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