Difference between revisions of "Night of the Unicorns"

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The Incident

The so-called "Night of the Unicorns" (coined by ubermann) occurred on, depending on time zone, the night of Sunday, April 22, or the morning of Monday, April 23, 2007. This was the same night and some time after the creator of YTMND, Max Goldberg, introduced the "YFLY" top-right corner ads for a week. For a short time, max even applied a large bottom-right corner ad and a bottom-left corner ad.

This strange night was so named for the short-lived unicorns from 'My Little Pony' in the background of the actual YTMND website, along with the song "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne in the background, essentially briefly making YTMND.COM an actual YTMND. Early in the morning max decided to have some fun with the front page and YTMNDongs ventrilo users suggested using the Avril Lavigne song Girlfriend in the background of every site. BTape quickly made and hosted a loop at the following site: heyheyyouyou.ytmnd.com and max soon after made the image tile and the sound play on every page, including the news posts, site profiles, front page, etc. This change lasted nearly two hours.

During the madness of the Night of the Unicorns, Max also made the profile page for shadydragon's site popupsplz.ytmnd.com produce five pop-ups for anyone who clicks it!

In addition, "YFLY" is automatically wordfiltered to "BILBO BAGGINS" in links other than the official YFly reference. It was also filtered to numerous words such as:

• BASKET WEAVING
• LOLICON
• HAM SANDWICH
• ASSORTMENT OF LOTIONS

Theorists suggest that this was the night the max broke, some even going so far as saying that it was the night YTMND started to fall. Some say it kicked ass and people really need to stop whining about everything new. The PTKFGS community was hit particularly hard by the emergence of the YFly ads.

UPDATE: The next night, April 23-24, 2007, the song "The Mollusk" by the rock group Ween came to be in the background of YTMND.COM much like Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" on the previous night. You can experience the thrill of "round two" of the Night of the Unicorns at maxwhatthef*ck.ytmnd.com.

UPDATE: on may 24th max added he own opinions to the front page which cause ubermann to update this page to call it the night of the bold text but at lease there is no music. later in the night he changed the every page (except for a few) to banned.ytmnd.com, causing more confusion among the ytmnd'ers. as well as theories that at site set this 3rd wave in motion

Related Sites

heyheyyouyou.ytmnd.com
maxwhatthef*ck.ytmnd.com
popupsplz.ytmnd.com
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