Some videos on YouTube are so famous that they created their own Generation YouTube
across generations in the early 2000s. We present to you 6 of these videos that can still be remembered today in this list.
Anyone who was active on the internet in the early 2000s to the 2010s will have witnessed the launch of YouTube, as well as the first works created for the platform.
Alongside well-known moments like “Charlie Bit My Finger” or the famous “Double Rainbow”, early YouTubers developed other projects that countless people still have stored or locked away in their memories today.
With this list, we want to showcase these videos to bring you back to this early YouTube time (more or less) willingly. Whether nostalgic, strange, or a bit uncomfortable.
In this list, we will not rank the videos but present them in order of their release date. The oldest was released in 2008, while the newest was uploaded in 2014 – so 11 years ago. (The author officially apologizes for this realization.)
Charlie the Unicorn by FilmCow
- Upload Date: January 11, 2008
- 45 million views (original)
The list starts with the grumpy unicorn Charlie, who is persuaded by his unicorn friends to go on adventures with them. The goal in the first part of the series is Candy Mountain, the “land of sweets, joy, and… joy.”
After encountering a magical Liopleurodon, which more or less shows them the way, and at least equally magical hanging bridge, they finally reach the enchanted place, where they are greeted by singing letters. After Charlie is knocked out in the cave of Candy Mountain, he wakes up without his kidney.
However, the most famous moment of the series remains the song of a strange, green creature wearing a Christmas hat in front of the Banana King’s temple:
Charlie, you look sad,
your googly eyes are staring straight ahead,
the world is so much more beautiful than you think!
[…]
You stick a banana in your ear,
ripe, fine, little into your favorite ear…
– famous German dubbing of the banana song by TheTrueBlacky on YouTube
The most famous German version of the song, which was also the most well-known in Germany, comes from TheTrueBlacky on YouTube, who has since deleted his account. However, other users (@audi1993) were able to save the original.
Here you can see all parts of “Charlie the Unicorn” from creator Filmcow:
On the next page, it continues.
