NEDMFrom WhatPort80    NEDM, an acronym for Not Even Doom Music. It is a meme, born from the darkest bowels in YTMND as reaction to the death wish of a certain Belgian individual that wished to risk the rest of his life trying to get 15 minutes of fame on the internet doing something stupid. In a video made in July 2005, the then 26 year old put his pet cat Mottles in a small cage and decided to douse it with flammable liquids and set it on fire to the amusement of his teenage male partner holding a video camera. Another teenage friend of his posted the video on the internet for the sick response of thousands of adult children over the internet. In a rare fit of compassion, a large group of forum members rose up and declared it unfunny, and moved forward to ban whoever made it from life. The idiot had neglected to use a proxy when posting his ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES and his IP address was traced. The teenager who had originally posted it was immediately arrested and the Belgian fellow who originally tried to entertain the Internets turned himself in for fear that vigilantes may find out who he is before the police did. After his arrest all videos were deleted by the Internet police. Creation of the NEDM MemeA year after the video’s creation and posting on the now defunct shocksite “ogrish”, a member of the website YTMND that went by the name “Baron” decided to post the video himself on YTMND but had personally edited the video to include music from the classic computer game named DOOM. The subsite was deleted within hours of creation, but not before many YTMND users had voted on it. However, the comments on the original cat-burning YTMND disappeared with its deletion. Outraged that anyone would give to a site glorifying cat immolation, another user on the YTMND website named “jerk” began to downvote all sites created by users who had five-starred the burning kitten YTMND as a protest. In a counter action, the subsite was then upvoted by a number of people. Among them was YTMND user “Spotz”. After noticing that all of his sites had been downvoted by Titanium-Gecko, he explained that he only upvoted the burning kitten YTMND for the "irony of using the Doom bunny music", not because he condoned or approved of the actual burning of the cat as seen in the image. Even though Spotz explained this on one of Titanium-Gecko's sites, on April 12, 2006 Titanium-Gecko left the now “legendary” comment on Spotz's test site:
Inspired by this altercation, YTMND user moheevi began posting "NEDM" as a comment on many YTMND subsites. Others would follow suit, some so stupid without even knowing what he meant by it. Later he would create the original NEDM site using Jean Claude Ades's remix of We Interrupt this Program, followed by several others. At first, NEDM sites simply featured the cryptic letters "NEDM", with no explanation given as to what they meant, such as AwesomeBob's "NEDM is coming." Eventually, moheevi created a site using the happy cat image, which Stratos-the-Bratos saw and used for the third NEDM site. After seeing one of StarOnion's sites, Moheevi updated the original site to include this picture, with the infamous 'chapstick' quote. Few people understood the joke behind the NEDM sites until Spotz explained it on the YTMND forums, and revealed the story of the now-deleted burning kitten YTMND, and Titanium-Gecko's one-man crusade against it. Since then, the NEDM fad still remains somewhat misunderstood according to its supporters and content creators. The creators of the fad state that it in no way supports animal cruelty. NEDM simply means "Not Even Doom Music can get you a rating of five stars" (because the site is usually bad or random). NEDM can be applied to anything, not only animal cruelty. Because of this, the fad is one of the most varied on YTMND.
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