YTMND is a community website at its best when parodying pop-culture and creating internet fads that usually end up being eaten alive on YTMND itself.
Recently YTMND’s forum members and roughly a dozen other internet communities lashed out at perennial internet punching bag, eBaum’s world. The spitting match over the usual beef with Eric Bauman; that he misleads people into thinking the content is his own and profits from it.
The internet “war” started when eBaum’s world accepted the submission of a animated gif file that shows Lindsay Lohan’s facial expression doesn’t change terribly much from photoshoot to photoshoot. It was originally created and posted on YTMND and later found itself on Bauman’s site with the infamous “hosted by eBaumsworld” watermark on it.
The play-by-play is a fascinating look at social communities online and the wikipedia entry doesn’t even scratch the surface at all the shenanigans which went on. (for that you have to scour endless blog and forum comments)
My favorite take away from this incident is that it provoked someone to do a dramatic reading of a cease and desist letter Eric’s father sent to YTMND.