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No, the film was an adaptation of a classified ad that was popularized by a YTMND page.

Oh really?! Wow, I had no idea.

You’ve got it backwards

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

The meme predates the film.

Nedm is another meme.

I officially am a boomer spotcorrecting ancient memes

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.

Are you saying that Lego Gandalf travelled back in time to retcon himself into popular fiction?

Thanks.

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

I just assumed it was about ytmnd.

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.