Chocolate Rain

Bottom Line: One of the godfather’s of Internet memes, Chocolate Rain combines our love of musical comedy with our unceasing desire to share awkward human tricks.

“Chocolate Rain” is a song and music video written and performed by Tay Zonday, a singer and songwriter.

After being posted on YouTube on April 22, 2007, the song quickly became popular. By 2009 the video had over 40 million views. The music video portrays a bespectacled Zonday in a recording studio wearing a white T-shirt and singing into a condenser microphone. Occasional cutbacks to Zonday playing a digital piano are also shown. The video is also famous for a caption displayed early in the video “**I move away from the mic to breathe in,” which has been parodied many times. The song, and its writer/performer, attracted major media attention.

“Chocolate Rain” is ranked as the hottest viral video of Summer 2007 by CTV.ca and as the number 2 viral video in the world by utalkmarketing.com. It was the winner in the Music category in the 2007 YouTube Awards.

Meme Anatomy: Musical, Iconic Catchphrase, Embarrassment

Urban Dictionary

“Chocolate Rain” is a euphemism for racism created by Tay Zonday in his hit YouTube song “Chocolate Rain”.

Chocolate Rain

The school books say it can’t be here again

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The prisons make you wonder where it went

Other Sources

Videos: Chocolate Rain

Pictures: Chocolate Rain

Meme Strength

Video Search Results: 73,800 – 4.5
Photo Search Results: 22,200 – 4
Search Volume: 946,000 – 4
Blog Search Results: 37,812 – 3
News Search Results: 545 – 3.5

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