You're the Man Now Dog: Laughing at Tragedy

YTMND.com's users made a few ytmnd's responding to the attacks.

"sad... very sad." Going along with a picture of a student standing at what appears to be a memorial, the page plays the Enya song "Only Time." I kept wating for Yakkity Sax to kick in with the cell phone video comically sped up.

"Virginia Police Surround the Shooter" takes a dig at the shooter being Asian.

"VT was the best day ever" Faces of terrorists hovering over a student's body while a song from Spongebob Squarepants plays.


"Finding Humor in Tragedy" How long until videogames get blamed by anti-game nut Jack Thompson? Uh... 3 p.m. yesterday. "I think this qualifies as a new record..."


"Post Game Carnage Report" Speaking of videogames.

"World of Warcraft Players Have No Compassion" More videogames.

"We should have seen it sooner."

Vtech Dies. Too Soon?

While every talking head is assuring everyone reading the news that they feel sorry and will be praying for the families of the victims, we can count on the Internet to give us stuff like this Web site.

I already pointed it out, but I didn't want it to get glossed over. I don't browse /b/ or anything, but from the comments on the parody site, it's obvious that this came from 4chan. I don't have a link to the exact picture, but within hours of the 9-11 attacks, some SomethingAwful forum members had gag photoshop pictures of the attack, showing the explosions with the Counter Strike catchphrase "Terrorists Win."

Certain to cause some guilty laughs and even more certain to show up on a news broadcast sometime down the road. Keep an eye out for another ashen-faced talking head telling people that this isn't funny.

The Internet is Black Humor's big break.