2010·The social era·amazing
Double Rainbow
A man alone on a hillside having a genuine experience, which the internet treated first as a joke and then as the point.
You might remember it as What does it mean, Double Rainbow All The Way
The line people quote“What does it mean”
- SourceLikely original upload
- MediaPlayable from the source
What this was
Paul Vasquez films a double rainbow over the Yosemite Valley from his front yard in Mariposa County, California, and is overwhelmed by it — weeping, laughing, and asking what it means.
It first appeared in 2010, during the social era. The copy this index knows about is on YouTube.
He posted it the day he shot it and almost nobody watched. It went viral six months later, on 3 July 2010, when Jimmy Kimmel tweeted it as the funniest video in the world — which is a fair description of how it was received and not of what it is.
The Gregory Brothers made an auto-tuned version; it appeared in adverts and films. Vasquez appeared on Kimmel’s show and remained a public figure until his death in May 2020.
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Behind the recordWhere it came from
High-confidence original source.
Earliest known source: YouTube
Created by Paul Vasquez. Originally uploaded by Hungrybear9562. Established by research, not by who posted the copy shown here.
- What happens
- Paul Vasquez films a double rainbow over the Yosemite Valley from his front yard in Mariposa County, California, and is overwhelmed by it — weeping, laughing, and asking what it means.
- When
- Originally published 2010.
- Where
- Known on YouTube.