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bowsershark604 is a YouTube channel with 6 subscribers created in 2017, that uploaded a 2000s Windows Movie Maker-style lyric video on July 16 2020 of the song "Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M, that was posted to the r/DeepIntoYouTube subreddit a few years later. As of writing this post, the video currently has 1.4k views.

However, what made that lyric video stand out was the surprisingly incredible effects starting from 2:17.

Despite all of this, the user hasn't uploaded anything since, and has never responded to any comments left on their only video, and has never explained how they made those effects on Movie Maker, or what secondary software they used for the effects.

I have a theory that bowsershark604 was supposed to be an ARG that never had anything else come out of it. Because, in the past few years, there has been a relative abundance of ARGs that imitate the earlier days of YouTube, primarily games like Minecraft, Gmod and Team Fortress 2. Even the username itself is reminiscent of something you would have seen on YT back in the day.