Chocolate Rain

Chocolate Rain by Riccesha Hattin

Albert Nyerere Bahner, known as Tay Zonday, a graduate student from Minneapolis uploaded a video on YouTube called Chocolate Rain written and produced by Tay on April 22nd, 2007. His video received 65 million views ranking him as #96 video of all time, which explains his popularity and the different parodies in the internet as well as on the television series South Park. Anonymous grows attention to Chocolate Rain in July 2007, which in response Tay uploads another video called “Never Gonna Give You Up,” by Rick Astley’s. His video Chocolate Rain was then featured on the front page of YouTube. From then on he started making commercials, apprearances on T.V. shows, and other world wide exposure. Tay’s YouTube fans is what made his career today. The memes are all video formatted and have the same tune as in the original song “Chocolate Rain.” Most memes have a two-word phrase that is repeated in the beginning of each line, for example the meme Vanilla Snow he says “ Vanilla Snow, open doors etc… Vanilla Snow, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.” The voices of the actors are deep and the body expressions is stiff with wide eyes and a wide mouth, similar to Tay’s voice and facial expressions.



In 2007 Chocolate Rain is at its all time high in popularity. Near 2008 Chocolate rain claims a YouTube award and toward 2009 Chocolate Rain begins to downfall in popularity interest. The web popularity of Tay Zonday is roughly 90% popular in 2007 and continues with a rocky decline from mid-2007 towards beginning 2008 to about 20-30% popular. South Park Chocolate Rain Parody:


McDonalds Chocolate Rain parody Google Insight Chart Embed for Chocolate Rain: Goggle Insight Chart for Tay Zonday:

by Riccesha Hattin