Chocolate Rain

Examples

A photograph of a chocolate knife is paired with MrDuncanBelfast’s comment rewriting the refrain as Chocolate blade and declaring even Willy Wonka afraid.

The most dangerous dessert solo

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The commenter turns a novelty dessert into an absurdly menacing song, matching the refrain and rhymes closely enough that the imaginary performance almost sings itself. No injury is pictured.

Visible comment credited to MrDuncanBelfast; Displayed reaction counts are not treated as verified or comparable metrics.

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A Wow Cool Robot-style diagram labels Chocolate Rain as a song about institutionalized racism while a listener only says ha ha he move away from mic to breathe.

Missing the message, admiring the mic

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The missed arrow is the point: the audience catches an easily imitated gesture and sails straight past the difficult subject. This is a joke about reception, not a claim that the song lacks a message.

Depicted performer is Tay Zonday

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A photograph of Jimi Hendrix performing is captioned ’Scuse me, while and I move away from the mic to breathe in Purple Haze.

Excuse me while I breathe

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Credit & details

A familiar lyric setup swerves into Zonday’s practical breathing note. The glamorous performance photograph and the matter-of-fact caption are operating on delightfully different levels.

independent authorship and underlying concert photographer not verified.

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About & sources

Tay Zonday sings over a repeating keyboard figure, with his low voice and distinctive microphone technique becoming online signatures.

Date

Tay Zonday’s original song performance; YouTube upload dated April 23, 2007.

History

Know Your Meme dates the upload to April 23, 2007 and describes a larger wave of attention that July. It also notes Zonday’s explanation that the song concerns institutional racism, a subject easily lost when a performance is reduced to a punchline.

Know Your Meme — Chocolate Rain
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