Tuesday, April 24, 2007

In my latest observations, I’ve seen more talk on the Vtech situation. More sites have been built around Cho Seung-hui. One user, Vitafin, posted three sites around the Vtech killer but, as I clicked on the links, it led to a page that said the “site was not found”. Since the start of my observations, I’ve noticed that nothing is sacred in the world of ytmnd; everything is ripe for parody. Perhaps those “site not found” pages were on the money and there was an error trying to find the page or, quite possibly, the higher-ups of the site decided that the pages were in bad taste and purposely squashed them. If this is true, I find it to be interesting because it’s the first case of censorship I’ve seen on the site. A site were I’ve seen pictures of dead babies and mature gay porn (don’t ask). In any event, it is good to see that someone is watching over the users. Another interesting thing I’ve observed is a new advertisement on the front page of the site. It is an ad for a site called YFLY.COM. This caused a small stir causing users to complain about the ad. One user went on to call for a civil war within the ytmnd community. I cannot be sure if it was a joke or not, other users did not take it seriously, but it seems that any attempt to criticize the creator and/or maintainers of ytmnd usually fall on deaf ears. Yes, users have made statements about the ad and have made ytmnd sites about the ad. It seems that the only way users can get a point across to other users in the community is to make a site.

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