2010·The social era·amazing
Double Rainbow
You might remember it as What does it mean, Double Rainbow All The Way
- SourceLikely original upload
- MediaPlayable from the source
A man alone on a hillside having a genuine experience, which the internet treated first as a joke and then as the point.
The line people quote“What does it mean”
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. A surviving copy 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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Grouped by explicit relationships where evidence exists, and by shared theme otherwise.
What we knowWhere 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.