Rain Rain Go Away
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About
Rain Rain Go Away is an English language nursery rhyme starting with the lines "rain, rain, go away, come again another day." In June 2019, memes imagining that the weather can effectively be controlled by singing the line gained major popularity on Reddit.
Origin
The exact origins of the nursery rhyme are unknown. The rhyme can be dated to at least 17th century when it was recorded by Anglo-Welsh historian and writer James Howell in his collection of proverbs.[1]
Rain rain go away
Come again another day.
On November 16th, 2018, an unknown Redditor posted an It's Simple Spell But Quite Unbreakable meme captioned "when 3rd graders sing rain rain go away." to /r/me_irl subreddit (original post no longer available; Me.me scraped post shown below).[2][3] The post gained over 5,200 upvotes in six months.
Spread
On November 18th, 2018, Redditor k_x- posted an Excuse Me What the Fuck version of the meme which gained over 36,800 upvotes in six months (shown below, left).[4] The format saw limited notable examples until June 2019 (examples shown below, center and right).[5][6]
On June 9th, 2019, Redditor NerdyNutcase posted a Racism Is No More version of the meme which gained over 12,500 upvotes (shown below, left),[7] with more notable examples posted in June by Redditors glassocket,[8] V1P3R_B3ST[9] and sandometh.[10] On July 2nd, 2019, Redditor ATurtle96 posted a version of the meme which gained over 72,000 upvotes in one week (shown below, right).[11]
In the following days, memes based on the rhyme gained a significant presence in /r/dankmemes and other Reddit meme communities.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Wikipedia β Rain Rain Go Away
[3] Me.me β Scraped Post
[4] Reddit β A simple spell but quite unbreakable
[5] Reddit β Come back another day!!
[6] Reddit β a simple spell but quite unbreakable
[7] Reddit β It's a simple spell, but quite unbreakable
[8] Reddit β 6 year olds be like
[9] Reddit β They played us like a Damm fiddle
[11] Reddit β Itβs a simple spell but quite unbreakable
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