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Generated interpretation, not documentary evidence. AI-generated landscape of shared wonder; not Vasquez’s recording, his property or a photograph of the 2010 event.
Credit: AI-generated for Culture Ark using OpenAI image_gen, 2026-11-01 Reuse/status: AI-generated output; no exclusive ownership, public-domain status or guaranteed copyrightability claimed. Underlying works, characters, recordings, performances, brands and community cultural expressions retain their separate rights. Terrain, light and sky are invented artistic elements. Rainbow geometry and illumination are not presented as a calibrated meteorological illustration.
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The following original text is preserved, including its selection/vote claims. Preservation is not independent verification of every assertion.
Why: "What does it mean?"
What to preserve: The video
Year and origin: 2010 · United States
Vote: 5/9 (historian 1 · future kid 2 · curator 2)
Learn more: Double Rainbow (viral video) on Wikipedia
Supplemental context
Double Rainbow refers to Paul Vasquez’s recording and audible response to an outdoor sight, not simply to any photograph of two rainbows. YouTube’s own December 2010 retrospective identifies his footage among the year’s widely circulated videos, while local broadcaster ABC30 places the recording near his home in the Yosemite area. The distinction between scene and response is important: an attractive landscape alone cannot preserve the timing, voice and emotional experience that viewers encountered in the original.
Creator/community: Paul “Yosemitebear” Vasquez, original videomaker; later remix creators require separate attribution Place/era: California, United States, near Yosemite; original online video circulated in 2010
Context and limits
No viewing total or greatest-meme ranking is certified here. The original upload, any musical remix and later reposts are different objects with different contributors. Creator-page metadata was discoverable, but the opened watch page exposed only a shell; no original video was played. The generated sky is not a reconstruction or scientific weather record.
Where to learn more
- https://apiarybee.com/community/reading/biggie-nu-series-008-noahs-ark-set-d-culture-2000
- https://blog.youtube/culture-and-trends/double-rainbows-annoying-oranges-and/
- https://abc30.com/post/paul-vasquez-who-became-famous-for-double-rainbow-video-passes-away-at-57/6172939/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Rainbow_%28viral_video%29
Apiary library | Original Culture Ark article
Public ID and individual routes: pending publisher allocation. Internal source ID: D-0365
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