There's this site on the internet called YTMND (named after "You're the man now, dog!", a line Sean Connery shouts in one of his films that suddenly became an overnight internet sensation, looping continuously over a picture of Sean Connery, which you can view here) on which people can make simple sites in the vein of the original YTMND---you loop an animated gif, put some audio to it, and BAM! you have a YTMND. Even I made one back in 2007 (set to The Pirate Ship Quintet, who I've unfortunately not covered here).

Years ago on YTMND some asshole posted images taken from a video of a cat being set on fire and set it to a song from the videogame Doom. Users who rated this YTMND five stars found their own YTMND pages under attack (being "down-voted") because people who were outraged over the animal cruelty saw fit to punish such assholes. One of these assholes suggested that he only five-rated the cat-burning YTMND because of the 'ironic' usage of Doom music. In response one of the users said something to the effect of: "Not even DOOM music justifies burning a cat."

Shortly thereafter several people created YTMND pages with the abbreviation "NEDM" on it and one used a loop from Coburn's We Interrupt This Program (JCA Remix) (which isn't the version I'm playing here, nor is it on the two-track EP I link to above) as a good example of "not doom music", I suppose. (You can read a more detailed account of the NEDM origins on the YTMND wiki, and see a YTMND explaining how this song came to be involved in the NEDM fad right here.)

I, myself, have enjoyed the NEDM fad---it manifested itself in funny ways across YTMND, with seemingly completely unrelated YTMNDs suddenly ending with a giant cat head and the recognizable loop from this song blasting at you (very Rick Roll indeed). On the upside, I've always thought the loop kicked ass and only now, years later, have I added it to my regular collection. I think this is one of the coolest dance/rave riffs I've ever heard, so I'm sharing it with you.

There's your internet history lesson for the day.