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 ...

Many of the most explosive and virulent online videos -- think: “Star Wars Kid,” “Numa Numa” and the recent interpretation of “Thriller” by Filipino prisoners -- manage to be at once bizarre, hypnotic ...

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 ...

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 this past weekend, and Zonday caught ...

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 ...

How much do you remember about the internet in 2007? Charlie bit my finger, the photo of the little girl standing in front of a burning house looking back like she did it, and the birth of Rickrolling ...

Today is the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans — the city Mayor Ray Nagin wants rebuilt on chocolate. This day is also the four-month and one-week anniversary of “ ...

Like most people who were forwarded a link for Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain" video in April, I was completely entranced. Mystified, even. I was dying to know: who was this baby-faced baritone? Was he ...

An awards show for best user-created online videos bestows honors on pop hits. March 22, 2008— -- In the wake of the Emmys and the Oscars, perhaps it was inevitable they would be followed by 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 ...