It's Wednesday — oh-so-oh-so far from our weekly YouTube roundup — but there have just been too many 'Double Rainbow Guy' remixes to pass up. Therefore, oh ladies and gentleman of the daily grind, I present you with this humble (yet rad) offering of YouTube gold... from the end of the rainbow.
Double Rainbow Gets Its Own Auto-Tune Song In the world of viral video, no honor is so esteemed as earning the Auto-Tune treatment by The Gregory Brothers. In case you’ve never heard of “auto-tune”, it’s an application that will turn a speaking voice into an electronic melody (also popular with hip-hop radio hits and singers who can’t seem to carry a tune). In July 2010, the Gregory Brothers released an auto-tuned version of the Double Rainbow viral video. The original video featured the overawed reaction of Paul 'Hungry Bear' Vasquez to a double rainbow at Yosemite National Park. The Gregory Brothers turned Vasquez's astounded speech into a song and pledged all of the song's earnings to Vasquez.
Last week we met Paul Vasquez, a.k.a. YouTube user Hungrybear9562, and our hearts stirred, roused from the dark doldrums that only a long stretch of viral video-less weeks can inspire (Seriously, what was the last awesome meme? I can't even remember...) Vasquez posted a video to YouTube back in January in which he freaked out over a couple of rainbows, and after Jimmy Kimmel tweeted the vid over the holiday weekend, the melodious meme was born.
And with it came remixes, mashups and more. Seriously, I haven't seen people this videographically inspired since that whole Chatroulette thing. Here's a few of our favorites. Now, if you would excuse me, the rain is just dissipating here in NYC, and I'm hoping to see some 'bows of my own.