Paul L. Vasquez, who in the summer of 2010 became an Internet sensation when late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel tweeted about the Mariposa resident’s “Double Rainbow” YouTube video, died Saturday. He was 57.
The celebrated video was shot by Mr. Vasquez from his mountainside home in January 2010 and shows a set of rainbows. He notes in the caption that the camera could not capture the rainbows’ intensity and brightness, but that’s not what’s had 46 million people watch it. It’s his reaction.
He was a guest on a number of talk shows, including “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and Comedy Central’s “Tosh.0. An Auto-Tuned remix version of the video by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based band The Gregory Brothers became a hit. Mr. Vasquez was a nominee when the People’s Choice Awards introduced the category Viral Video Star.
Mr. Vasquez had been in ill health recently and posted about it on his Facebook page. On May 5, he was tested for COVID-19 and posted a picture, captioned in part, “I’ll get my results in two days, however at this point I’m fairly certain that I don’t have it. I didn’t have a fever. Something else is going on with me.”
Mr. Vasquez was born in East Los Angeles, according to CNN, which caught up to him for the November 2015 report “‘Double Rainbow Guy’ of YouTube fame: Where is he now, man?”
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