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About

Double Rainbow is a homemade video uploaded by YouTube user Hungrybear9562 in which he declares feelings of awe and wonder afterwards witnessing a rare "double rainbow" in Yosemite National Park. In the video, he tin exist heard crying in the background, which was evidently inspired by the radiance and vividness of the rainbow.

Origin

The video "Yosemitebear Mountain Giant Double Rainbow 1-8-10" was uploaded to YouTube on January eighth, 2010, by YouTuber Hungrybear9562, whose real name is Paul Vasquez. The video sat dormant in obscurity for months earlier it was discovered past the talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.

According to Urlesque^[1], Bear lives on the aforementioned land plot near Yosemite. He actively participates in the Indian formalism civilization with his kids, girlfriend, and ex-wife.

Paul Vasquez

Paul Vasquez, aka Hungrybear9562, aka Yosemitebear, aka Bear, was a firefighter in LA before moving to Yosemite National Park in 1985 when he was 22 years quondam, where he married and had two children. Although they got divorced about 15 years ago, he is able to encounter his kids oft because they even so alive well-nigh by with their mother. Bear worked in Yosemite from 1985 to 1994. He purchased land about Yosemite in 1988 and built a subcontract. Bear took up trucking from 1994 to 2004, only, because of his obesity, he was forced to cease trucking. To combat his health bug, he took up cagefighting.

Spread

On July tertiary, Jimmy Kimmel posted a tweet^[ii] that linked Twitter users to the video. A fiddling over an 60 minutes later, sports columnist Bill Simmons retweeted^[three] Kimmel's post. On July 4th, a brusque commodity was posted on The Huffington Post about the video.^[four] On July 5th, YouTuber RayWilliamJohnson posted a video highlighting the Double Rainbow video. On July 8th, Shira Lazar of CBS News^[v] posted her interview with Paul Vasquez (Hungrybear9562).

"That mean solar day I was finishing a annotation to a friend telling her I was like Noah considering I'm building what seems to be like an arc hither. I have greenhouses and gardens and fern trees and lots of animals here. Right after finishing that email, I look out there and the colors. I walked out with my photographic camera. What y'all come across in the video is what I experienced. That rainbow lasted over an hour. My camera merely captured nigh 40 percent of the colour. It was a lot brighter than yous see".

On July 7th, Know Your Meme'southward Internet Scientist Elspeth Jane interviewed HungryBear.

Elspeth: Double Rainbows don't happen every solar day- is this the beginning fourth dimension you've caught one on pic?
HungryBear: I accept lots of rainbow vid on my Y'all Tube page, they come to my
front door on a regular basis.

Elspeth: What type of camera are you using?
HungryBear: A Sony DSC f 828

Elspeth: When was the video taken?

HungryBear: Jan 8th, 2010

Elspeth: You are in incredibly loftier spirits during the video- are yous usually like that? If so, whatever communication for usa on how to always be that happy and in awe of nature?

HungryBear: The rainbow was the Universe or Spirit flowing through me, the
reaction you heard was how I reacted to seeing the Holy Ghost, kind
of similar Moses seeing the called-for bush in the 10 commandments.

Elspeth: There's a small noise in the background that sounds like a windchime. What is information technology?

HungryBear: I accept lots of current of air chimes in my front end grand, it'south windy and I accept
a corking view, they become together.

Elspeth: What does your Youtube proper name mean?

HungryBear: The Yosemite people are the Bear association, I married into them 25 years
ago and I look similar a comport, there is more to it of grade.

Elspeth: Tin can we find yous anywhere else online?

HungryBear: http://yosemitedigitalphoto.smugmug.com/
http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/yosemitebear/

Elspeth: What exercise you think of the attention your video is receiving? Do you similar it?

HungryBear: I'm non surprised by the attention, I always knew someday I was
going to go viral, I knew when I shot the vid that information technology was special, information technology
was a reaction to the Holy Spirit and people would react to my
reaction, information technology's every bit expected. Spirit is speaking through me, people are
connecting to Spirit through me, they have a sense of recognition of
the ability of the Universe. I honey it!

Elspeth: Thanks so much!!

On July 22nd, Jimmy Kimmel's official YouTube aqueduct posted a video of Comport in an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live. On July sixth, the user schmoyoho (popular for "Machine-Tune the News") created an Auto-Tuned version of this video. The song can be purchased on iTunes^[6], and proceeds are split up between Yosemitebear and Machine-Tune the News.

On September 1st, 2010, Microsoft Windows released a promotional video featuring Vasquez:

A mash-up video involving Kermit the Frog singing "Rainbow Connection" chosen "The Double Rainbow Connection" was made by voice actor James Urbaniak, who plays Dr. Venture on Adult Swim'due south The Venture Bros.

The Double Rainbow Connexion (Remix) past gdelahaye

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Decease

Paul L. Vasquez died on May ninth, 2020, at age 57. It'due south unknown what caused his expiry, merely according to a mail service on his Facebook days before, he was tested for the coronavirus and suffering from an unknown disquiet.