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WRONG!/ Lex Luthor YTMNDs

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Published October 8, 2026

WRONG!/ Lex Luthor YTMNDs is a 2006 YTMND fad spun from a Superman Returns trailer clip where Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor cuts into frame and screams 'WRONG!' at whatever is on screen. User stratos-the-bratos kicked it off on May 23, 2006 by welding Lex onto the Kaz Hirai 'Ridge Racer' moment from E3 2006, and more than 300 remix sites followed.

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Overview

The fad lives in two main shapes. The first keeps Luthor's audio and face but swaps the Kaz Hirai target, pasting another figure's head and voice into the Sony E3 clip while leaving the 'WRONG!' interruption untouched1. The second variant drops Luthor into an unrelated scene from nowhere, lets him scream 'WRONG!', and ends with massive on-screen destruction set to loud audio and the usual YTMND looped GIF background2.

What locks the joke together is Kevin Spacey's delivery, the hard cut, and the single-word scream, which turned a trailer clip into a reusable interrupt button3. YTMND users ran it against E3 announcements, Scientology, pop stars, and other memes of the era, with each site keeping the three beats intact so viewers knew exactly when the payoff was coming.

Origin & Background

Platform
YTMND
Creator
stratos-the-bratos
Date
2006

The format started on May 23, 2006 when YTMND user stratos-the-bratos uploaded 'Lex Luthor owns Kaz Hirai,' which pulled a scene from the Superman Returns theatrical trailer and spliced it against the E3 2006 Sony press conference moment where Kaz Hirai said 'Ridge Racer!'1. The site landed inside the larger E3 2006 YTMND meme wave and racked up roughly 329,000 views3.

Kevin Spacey played Lex Luthor in the 2006 Superman Returns film, which is where the sampled 'WRONG!' delivery originated3. A second structural branch of the fad kicked off with YTMND user RedBaron's 'Lex Luthor owns Scientology' (around 448,000 views), establishing the pattern where Luthor appears unannounced, screams, and triggers chaos in whatever scene he was dropped into2.

How It Spread

Through late May and summer 2006, YTMND users piled onto both variants, with more than 300 Lex Luthor sites made overall3. The Scientology edit by RedBaron pulled the biggest numbers documented in the KYM entry at about 448,000 views, pulling ahead of the original Kaz Hirai site2. The two leading sites set the templates everyone else copied, swap-the-head versus interrupt-and-destroy.

The fad fit the YTMND house style of short looped audio, a background GIF, and a punchline that only works once per site. That let creators drop the Luthor shout onto any topic in minutes, which is how the volume climbed so quickly inside a single platform3. The E3 2006 pairing in the first site also tied the fad into another running YTMND wave, giving it an existing audience before it spread to unrelated subjects1.

Timeline

2006-05-23

YTMND user stratos-the-bratos posts 'Lex Luthor owns Kaz Hirai,' starting the fad by splicing the Superman Returns 'WRONG!' clip against Kaz Hirai's E3 2006 'Ridge Racer' moment.

2006

YTMND user RedBaron posts 'Lex Luthor owns Scientology,' popularizing the second structural variant where Luthor appears from nowhere, screams, and causes on-screen damage.

2006

More than 300 Lex Luthor sites are made on YTMND across both the Kaz Hirai swap format and the interrupt-and-destroy format.

How to Use This Meme

Users typically pick a target clip or scene, insert the Luthor cut-in at a hype beat, let him deliver the 'WRONG!' shout, and finish with destruction set to loud audio over a looped background GIF, the three-part YTMND structure that defined the format2.

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