About

GTA Guitar Bro refers to a viral video in which a person leaves an angry voice message over Xbox Live and concludes it by playing the opening riff of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" on his guitar. The video became an exploitable in which people would play different music at the end of the video.

Origin

On May 14th, 2014, YouTuber] Themanwhosoldtheworld12 posted a video in which the user receives a voice message from a user named xDeAdxFaCtOrx who says "You're just mad cuz I'll be able to do something with my fucking guitar hands that you'll never be able to achieve in your entire life. So yeah, you're gay." He then plays the opening riff to Metallica's "Enter Sandman." The video gained over 677,000 views (shown below).

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Three days later, YouTuber^[2] OMGTSN uploaded a remixed version of the video in which the music played at the end is an arrangement of a section of the Power Plant theme from Mega Man X, receiving over 243,000 views (shown below, left) in about 3 years. Two years later, a video parodying the clip by replacing the music with version of the Flinstones theme was uploaded to the SiivaGunner^[3] channel, gaining over 20,000 views in about a year (shown below, right).

On December 14th, 2017, Twitter user @SEMITOXIC posted a variation on the video which features several poorly played instruments, gaining over 400 retweets and 1,000 likes (shown below). This led to the meme being inquired about on /r/OutOfTheLoop].

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