Adam Bahner, who was studying at the University of Minnesota at the time, chose a stage name from a Google search — one with zero hits that was also easy to spell. The newly minted Tay Zonday was ...

And that’s where people like Tay Zonday, whose real name is Adam Nyerere Bahner, came in. While at the time of his rise to stardom there had already been song-based memes like Rickrolling, there ...

*Know Your Meme caught up with Tay Zonday to look back at his viral sensation, “Chocolate Rain,” and what he’s been up to since. The video, with 130 million views and counting, was written and ...

Maybe it’s just the nostalgia talking, but there’s something so soothingly innocent about the viral videos from the first decade of this millennium, back when the internet was a place of refuge. Go ...

And the award for the best YouTube music video goes to Tay Zonday and “Chocolate Rain.” Never heard of Zonday? Then you’ve either been living under a rock – or you don’t own a computer. Thanks to the ...

Remember Tay Zonday? Remember “Chocolate Rain”? He who moves away from the mic to breathe in and his deep-voiced viral hit first took YouTube by storm 10 years ago yesterday, and Zonday caught up with ...

Tay Zonday, Under the Covers In less time than it used to take to download the Hampster Dance on a dial-up modem, Tay Zonday’s musical epic “Chocolate Rain” has spawned thousands of cover versions, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maybe it’s just the nostalgia talking, but there’s something so soothingly innocent about the viral videos from the first decade ...