<story><title>YTMND is down for temporary maintenance</title><url>https://www.resetera.com/threads/looks-like-mid-00s-meme-factory-ytmnd-has-shut-down-for-good.116990/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyllo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve heard that dril on Twitter is actually Richard &amp;quot;Lowtax&amp;quot; Kyanka from SA, can anyone confirm&amp;#x2F;deny?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;dril&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;dril&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>nostalgk</author><text>SA truly had a massive effect on Internet culture as a whole, something I rarely see attributed to them. Spent quite a lot of time on that site as an adolescent.</text></item><item><author>ctvo</author><text>I hope someone accurately attributes SomethingAwful.com to these early iconic internet memories.&lt;p&gt;Image macros, the lowest form of comedy on SA, became memes and is still the lowest form of comedy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomble</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not Lowtax, but some of the most prevalent &amp;quot;weird twitter&amp;quot; accounts, like @fart and @dril established their brand of humor at SA: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;nzg4yw&amp;#x2F;fuck-you-and-die-an-oral-history-of-something-awful&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;nzg4yw&amp;#x2F;fuck-you-and-die-a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>YTMND is down for temporary maintenance</title><url>https://www.resetera.com/threads/looks-like-mid-00s-meme-factory-ytmnd-has-shut-down-for-good.116990/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyllo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve heard that dril on Twitter is actually Richard &amp;quot;Lowtax&amp;quot; Kyanka from SA, can anyone confirm&amp;#x2F;deny?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;dril&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;dril&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>nostalgk</author><text>SA truly had a massive effect on Internet culture as a whole, something I rarely see attributed to them. Spent quite a lot of time on that site as an adolescent.</text></item><item><author>ctvo</author><text>I hope someone accurately attributes SomethingAwful.com to these early iconic internet memories.&lt;p&gt;Image macros, the lowest form of comedy on SA, became memes and is still the lowest form of comedy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scaevolus</author><text>dril and many other Weird Twitter posters are migrants from the FYAD subforum on Something Awful, which had similarly absurdist memes.</text></comment>