Fighting Words PSA

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A YTMND fad created by MurdarMachene, on May 25, 2006, based on a scene from the "Fighting Words" PSA (Public Service Announcement) aired on and produced in association with MTV. It featured a montage of kids threateningly approaching and yelling homophobic remarks at the camera, then a few words from Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard, a boy who was brutally murdered by two young men solely for being homosexual.

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The audio soundtrack for the PSA includes frightening static and distortion type samples, as well as menacing "Terminator"-like synthesizers droning along. The majority of the actors overreact to the presence of a homosexual, outright shouting homophobic insults ("Homo!" "Fag!" "Queer!") despite the likely presence of a school employee within the general area that would punish them for doing so. The culmination of these gross exaggerations is a large, fat bully-like character outright screaming "FAGGOT!", in a manner so outrageous as to appear hilarious both within the context of the ad and even more so in the context of a derivative YTMND.

While it is true that homophobic insults and threats do happen in high school quite often, it is hard-pressed to assume any of the portrayals in the commercial are realistic.