Two teenagers lip-syncing the English Pokémon theme in a bedroom. It became the most viewed video on YouTube at the time before being removed, and the pair's success put them in Time's Person of the Year: You issue, published 13 December 2006.
Died in 2008 when it was removed, not because anyone tired of it. The most watched thing on the site was deleted over the music, and the copies circulating are copies of copies.
The founding shape of the YouTube channel: two friends, one camera, no permission, a song they did not own. Everything the site became for a decade is visible in it already.
Reported that Time's Person of the Year: You issue, published 13 December 2006, featured the pair. A magazine cover about ordinary people, illustrated with two of them.
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