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NARV
Join date January 01, 2006
Birthdate unknown
Avg. site rating:
Avg. vote rate:
...as of unknown
Notable Sites:
they can't make YTMNDs :(

NARV is an acronym for New Age Retarded Voter. At the beginning of 2006, YTMND found itself prospering more and more in the public eye, with a number of sites gaining notoriety in the press and blogosphere. With this rise in popularity came an influx of new, inexperienced users. Of these, the stupidest were labeled NARV, first by a discreet group of senior YTMNDers. Although NARV-like behavior has always existed on YTMND, its influence is now much more strongly felt and the term has fallen into increasingly widespread use.

Characteristics

NARVs are characterized by a minimal understanding of YTMND history, culture, or the artifacts that define the tone of YTMND, and exhibit no desire to learn them. Some have stated that the primary result of emerging NARVism is the increase of highly-ranked poorly-made sites that would have never reached popularity even in YTMND's recent past.

Voting habits

Many NARVs will vote exclusively or , with uninformed justifications often accompanying either category of vote. NARVs often view the rating system as a way to make people feel better or, more recently, control the rank of YTMNDs on the front page, rather than as a quasi-objective method of ranking YTMNDs.

Site creation

Although the name NARV refers to voting, it is not limited to that. NARVs that do create YTMNDs often do so with minimal effort. NARV YTMND creation can be observed when a new original YTMND is posted and within minutes, fad music is added and knock-off Ridin Spinnaz/You Spin Me Right Round, Wonderful Time, Break my Stride, Epic Maneuver or Move Bitch YTMNDs of the same GIF are released.

A similar tactic is often employed utilizing GIFs from long-standing classic YTMNDs and pairing them with unrelated fad music. To make matters worse, these uninspired couplings often fail to utilize Google or YTMND's search feature to verify if their created site has already been issued by another NARV. NARVs often do not cite source material of their creations.

Bottom feeding

As described above, NARVs often create fad sites employing minimal effort. NARV sites often cluster around a small group of fads which some view as being overdone. (Primary examples include Best Day Ever, Myspace Suicide, and Epic Maneuver).

See Narv Fads for full listing of NARVish fads.

Other types of sites that are considered to be of NARV nature includes:

• Screen shots of news stories with no alterations, notably Dick Cheney's Hunting mishap and Pluto's downgrading from a planet. Conversely, "lol", "pwned", etc. is added in blurry red letters
• Gloating of raids of other websites (this includes "Forum Registration Disabled" sites, which tend to appear after a forum raid)
• In-Jokes

It should be known that some of these fads will have good sites, but the majority that are created often lacks effort.

Overuse of music

NARVs often employ the most frequently-used YTMND music. Prominent examples include:

• "Untitled" by Simple Plan
• "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer
• The Price is Right failure sound (or "Nooooo!")
• Video game music, most notably Super Mario World sped-up ending song
• "Ghost Love Score" by Nightwish
• "Requiem for a Tower" from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trailer.
• "Running in the Nineties" by Max Coveri
• "The Lonely Man Theme" from The Hulk
• "Fury of the Storm" by Dragonforce
• "Yakety Sax (the Benny Hill Theme)" by Boots Randolph

Criticisms of NARV as a concept

The concept of NARV-like behavior is in no way new to YTMND. Some have accused those employing the term of elitism, charging that theft of content, unoriginality, and rote reprocessing of existing content is responsible for much of the popularity of many classic YTMNDs and YTMND itself. Some have voiced the opinion that such behaviors were simply more widely tolerated in the past when the site was smaller. This argument follows that nearly all YTMNDs borrow content from other sources, and that many respected YTMNDers meet the criteria put forth in this article, and as such, the criteria simply discriminates against new users. Creative interpretation of old fads remains a respected form of creating new YTMNDs, and some feel that classifying some adherents to this technique NARVs while letting others pass based on subjective criteria unfair. Another argument put forth is that NARVs are a construction of YTMND's current "front page" voting culture, and as such, the lack of a more constructive and creativity-oriented method of evaluating YTMNDs is as equally to blame as the so-called NARVs themselves.

Counter-argument

Although NARV-like behavior has been apparent on YTMND, first openly manifesting around such fads as ualualualue and ridin' spinnaz, NARVs have constituted an increasingly larger proportion of the YTMND user base. NARVs have justified each others crass stealing of well known humorous images from a small number of websites, be it YTMND (see Parasite), 4chan, b3ta, or SomethingAwful. Due to a proportionally smaller number of users willing to openly downvote or point out site theft for fear of being "e-venged", NARVism has flourished and constitutes a threat to the viability of YTMND. Indeed, the NARV effect is not unique to YTMND. It been observed in other voting-based websites, such as YouTube.

Care in use of the term

Recently, some users have begun describing any user they dislike, downvoters, eBaum's World sympathizers, or those who are generally disliked as NARVs. Many use the term simply to describe any user who they feel is ruining the website. Some who originated and helped popularize the term have urged the community to utilize the term only with the utmost discretion, verifying carefully that potential NARVs are evaluated against the criteria listed on this wiki entry. In fact the terms' originators have come to de-emphasize the fad elements and concentrate more on criticisms against split voters.

Anti-NARV sites

• Don't Let NARV Happen to You
• Dennis Nedry steals & submits crap
• NARV anti-virus

Offenders/Prominent NARVs

#	User	NARV level	Crimes Against YTMND
01	vex5	Critical	AOTS contest runnerup with stolen material; posts stolen material; resubmits to make top 15, then downvotes all other sites on the up-and-coming list so he can make the top 15.
02	FanaticallyInsane666	Stable	Posts stolen material.
03	deepbluevibes	Stable	Votes either 1 or 5, almost all his sites are NSFW.
04	Keyblademaster99	Critical	Downvotes all Classic style YTMNDs, but has yet to make a YTMND.
05	BananaClock	Critical	Fond of the "Van Damme dancing" GIF, which has been posted over 100 times before.
06	BubbytheTourG	Hopeless	Update - split voter, uses NARV term improperly to accuse others despite being one, tried to remove himself from this wiki in anger, troll
07	likeakiller	Critical	True NARV, by title definition.
08	Tal27	Critical	Split voter, even upvotes sites without sound; e-venges.
09	scorpkris	Caution	Puts other GIFs to the new NARV fad music; makes screenshot YTMNDs.
10	sboss	Critical	NARV voter; NARV site maker; revenge voter.
11	Acidrainman	Hopeless	100% NARV.
12	zalbane	Critical	Entirely split voter, WoW YTMNDs.
13	WTL	Stable	Split voter.
14	SenatorZuul	Stable	Loves all crappy fads; a "bad" upvoter; admits to e-venging.
15	Dallin	Critical	It's amazingly obvious.
16	nathanfat37	Critical	E-venger; relentless nag; dead fad whore.
17	NARV	??????	is this a parody gimmick account or a celebration of NARVdom? stay tuned.
18	redhex	Critical	Split voter; relentless nag.
19	Lambon	Critical	Split voter; genuine dumbass; loves "fuck you" posts.
20	Ziggah	Critical	Picking up on a theme here?
21	chimp-toaster	Critical	...because you should.
22	rawr	Caution	Homophobic, jingoistic, evenging junior high reject. Can't spell the word "hamster," but loves to insult people anyway.
23	yourpenis	Hopeless	A NARV that calls other users NARVs.
24	EmoFTW	Critical	Split voter; has never even 3'd or 4'd.
25	JazRad	Caution	Split voter; CRAPTMND enjoyer.
26	blizzard	Hopeless	Lacks sense of humor; mass downvotes non-WoW sites; posts links to viruses in comment pages.
27	st00pid-n00b	Hopeless	Only votes and ; downvotes sites that clearly don't deserve it.
28	jimtownresident	Hopeless	Massive split voter; votes on whether or not he likes the movie the GIF is recorded from.
29	galaxhood	Hopeless	Big time split voter; upvotes crap and downvotes good sites.
30	dunesw64	Caution	General troll; e-venger; split voter.
31	SIZK	Stable	Big split voter, but somewhat new user; wait and see.
32	spatan117	Caution	Not entirely split voter, but downvotes often (and has the nerve to whine about downvoting).
33	falco1234	Critical	Split voter; repetitive "gay" styled comments.
34	Kratos222	Caution	Split voter; obsessed with penis pumps and advertising IRC channels that no-one could possibly care less about.
35	K7	Hopeless	Split voter; one of the original NARVs; makes alternate accounts (now known as downvoter/attention whore ZEROEVILDARKCOOL).
36	koning	Hopeless	Makes screenshot YTMNDs and NARV YTMNDs; split voter.
37	lambon	Stable	Split voter; mildly annoying commenter (usually either a "lol" or "fuck you").
38	KingD	Hopeless	Split voter, e-venges everyone who gives him a 1 and 5s everything else. Posts stolen and very old material.
39	eric5150	Critical	split voter and aware of it, anti-proper citing of image and sound
40	heybombguy	Critical	Uses YTMND as an image-hosting site, makes tons of personal YTMNDs, revenge downvoter, has multiple alts for downvoting. All sites are total crap.
42	Lillian	Critical	split voter, fave sites are eon8, nip slips, also leaves repetitive attention whore comments
43	fetusdoctor	Critical	thousands of votes and still almost completely split voter
44	Torchy	Critical	thousands of votes and still almost completely split voter
45	Valawrath	Critical	Split voter
46	Stu22	Caution	Split Voter
47	explosivofueled	Caution	Split Voter
48	whitepower89	Hopeless	Ytmnd abuser, sends angry pm's, split voter, the worst you name it
49	TRQ	Hopeless	Almost 100% split voter,e-venger, all sites consist of images stolen from mass media sites
50	Patriotic	Critical	Completely split voter
51	leetsauce	Critical	Almost completely split voter
52	wok7	Hopeless	Split voter.
53	MuffinBear	Critical	E-venger.