In the early 2000s, “videoteenage” could be a collective or a one-person project making lo-fi music videos. Fabienne, aka Decibelle, might have been a young singer-songwriter. “Decibelle 2” would be the second video in a series. The file “i videoteenage fabienne alias decibelle 2.mpg” might have been uploaded to:

In the early 2000s, platforms like Google Video (pre-YouTube) hosted episodic content. Someone might have created a series called “Videoteenage” starring Fabienne/Decibelle. Episode 2 (hence “2.mpg”) is what remains.

Given “Fabienne” and “Decibelle,” the most plausible explanation is that Fabienne (a teenage girl) created or appeared in a video under the alias Decibelle. The “i videoteenage” might be a creator’s signature — for instance, a channel name like “iVideoTeenage.” The file could have been a homemade music video, a vlog, or a short film titled “Decibelle Part 2.”

“2” could mean “part 2,” “version 2,” or “to.”
“Mpg” is the file extension for MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video, common in the late ’90s and early 2000s for compressed video files. Thus, this is almost certainly a video file from that era.

The phrase “i videoteenage fabienne alias decibelle 2 mpg” is not just a random collection of words. It represents an entire class of forgotten digital artifacts:

Even if the file never resurfaces, the desire to find it reflects a broader longing to recover the texture of that era—grainy MPG compression, quirky pseudonyms, and the thrill of stumbling upon someone’s creative universe via a download queue.

Before YouTube standardized naming, users often kept original filenames when uploading. “i videoteenage fabienne alias decibelle 2.mpg” could be a direct file upload to MySpace video, Putfile, or DropShots. When those platforms purged old content, the metadata survived in search engine caches and broken links.

“Alias” means “also known as.”
“Decibelle” could be a portmanteau of décibel (unit of sound intensity) and belle (beautiful in French) — suggesting a musical or sonic persona. Decibelle might have been a nickname, a band name, or a character.

User-generated titles in online spaces often blend the autobiographical, the technological, and the fictive. The string “I videoteenage Fabienne alias Decibelle 2 mpg” resists easy categorization: it is not a standard song title, video filename, or social media handle, but a hybrid statement. This paper treats it as a case study in performative metadata — how young creators encode identity into the very labels of their media files.