A 5-minute music video in HD might be 100MB today. In 3GP format, that same video was compressed down to 5MB or 10MB.

Many early converters would only grab the first 30 seconds of a video or a low-quality preview. The "King" converters—like Vidmate , TubeMate (the original version), and KeepVid —were legendary because they successfully downloaded the YouTube clip, rendering the entire metadata, audio track, and video stream.

Devastated, Vikram deletes his channel. He goes to engineering college, gets a job in network security, and buries the "3GP King" deep in his past.