A Dramatic Reading
| A Dramatic Reading |
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| Original YTMND: |
| The Bauman E-mails: A Dramatic Reading |
| by boomaga |
| January 11, 2006 |
Dramatic Reading sites are YTMNDs in which a user reads aloud from a passage in a way which makes the text in question appear out-of-context. A good example of this is The Bauman E-mails: A Dramatic Reading a site created by boomaga after the eBaum's World controversy in which he read the Cease and Desist emails sent by the the Baumans in the voice of a mock Shakespearean actor. The sheer ridiculousness of the hammy, faux-English accent coupled with the use of internet slang (the term "lol" is used in one email, Boomaga decided to pronouce it literally) gained it mass popularity and caused it to stay at the Top-rated YTMND spot for several weeks. While The Bauman Emails is not the first "reading" site to be made (sites such as Peta People Smart! predate it by at least a month), it is undoubtably the most famous and was added to the Hall of Fame, later starting the Dramatic Reading fad ([1]).
Other Notable Readings
Notable dramatic readings include Boomaga's own PTKFGS: The Bauman E-mails: A Dramatic Reading and subsequent parody YESYES: The Skeeter E-mails: Read it out loud. Other noteworthy sites in the genre are The Paquette E-mail: A Dramatic Reading (performed by the girlfriend of popular YTMND user Syncan) and DOOM: Repercussions of Evil.
