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I've got a few ideas here and there for low-effort stupid sites, but it's just not the same without the wide audience, from the silly incoherent comments to the angry people who think I'm seriously "anti-fad" or whatever.

I've said before that I can't "think" the way I used to in 2005-2009 when I was at my most inspired, but that's not entirely (if at all) true because houseofcards and I still joke about stuff on this site all the time and still have plenty of ideas. It's hard to find motivation nowadays though, and that's the main problem.

I still love this site though. YTMND was a weird way for me to "lash out" at my crippling online anxiety and seeming inability to learn any fancy image/sound editing techniques/software when the site started to get more popular in late 2004 or so. I wasn't really angry or "anti-fad" or whatever. I was just a bored young adult; an awkward (though admittedly charismatic) kid with no education, no job, and no prospects for the future save for video games, so making sites was a good way to relieve that.

And I guess we kept going from there. Purposely bad fad compilations mutated into noise sites, which mutated into me trying to make sites based off of incoherent stream-of-consciousness ramblings about current YTMND fads interspersed with random messing around in Goldwave. When I say its hard to "think like that" anymore, that's what I'm getting at: I can do the rambling text okay for a bit before I think "Yeah, I'm not really feeling this anymore", and I can't do the Goldwave thing without it feeling too forced.

But like I said, I still love this place. I love the little history we left behind on it, where we just did "parodies" of what's popular and continually tried to out-absurd or out-loud each other, both through sites and through comments.

Sorry for the long, stupid comment.