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Re:YTMND is down for temporary maintenance by wyldfire on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:02AM (#19919448)
This thread contains references to a film called "Safety Not Guaranteed" [1]. ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_Not_Guaranteed

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Re:YTMND is down for temporary maintenance by philwelch on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:35AM (#19919784)
No, the film was an adaptation of a classified ad that was popularized by a YTMND page.
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Re:YTMND is down for temporary maintenance by wyldfire on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:57AM (#19920015)
Oh really?! Wow, I had no idea.
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Re:YTMND is down for temporary maintenance by Lewton on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:37AM (#19919801)
You’ve got it backwards

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/safety-not-guaranteed?full=1

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Re:YTMND is down for temporary maintenance by drharby on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:35AM (#19919787)
The meme predates the film.

Nedm is another meme.

I officially am a boomer spotcorrecting ancient memes

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Re:YTMND is down for temporary maintenance by hodr on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @12:40PM (#19921168)
Sorry, that meme started on YTMND in 2005 based on a post in a newspaper from the 90s. Saying the references in this thread are of the movie is like saying any mention online of "Gandalf" is a reference to the Lego Lord of the Rings game.
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Re:YTMND is down for temporary maintenance by Y_Y on Thursday May 16, 2019 @02:19AM (#19926618)
Are you saying that Lego Gandalf travelled back in time to retcon himself into popular fiction?
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Re:YTMND is down for temporary maintenance by mediocrejoker on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:29AM (#19919727)
Thanks.

I wonder whether the original comment about "doom music" is also a reference to the film? I had never heard of it.

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Re:YTMND is down for temporary maintenance by PickledJesus on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:38AM (#19919820)
It's the other way around, the film is based on a classified ad, which many years earlier was a YTMND meme/fad. NEDM is also a classic YTMND meme. https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/NEDM

It has a complicated origin, but a lot of YTMND was organic and weird like that.

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Re:YTMND is down for temporary maintenance by wyldfire on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:31AM (#19919750)
I just assumed it was about ytmnd.
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