funtwo - Canon
This is one of the most iconic videos of the early YouTube days. Couple that with the typical emotional-sounding Korean/Japanese sentences when translated to English, you get a caption that evokes a lot of nostalgic memories for me. Watching this video reminds me of coming home from school, loading up the internet via 56k dial-up, later on DSL, and waiting minutes before I could watch a single video end-to-end.
The golden guitar with the brilliance coming from behind the invisible dragon’s eye, as if the god of music had come down and said, “I’ll show you what canon the god is playing.”
The top comment by funtwo also highlights early internet culture:
Wearing a hat to hide hair that sticks out. It was posted on a Korean site called Mule, but a few months later the video spread all over the world. In December 2005, an anonymous YouTube account called guitar90 uploaded the video under the title guitar. (We still don’t know who the uploader is) (Fun2 does not believe that this person stole the video. The early Internet video culture was an atmosphere where anyone could spread the video with a vague concept of copyright.)