Puking Rainbows (2006)

About

Artworks of puking rainbows – either rainbow coloured puke, or in the original form, a rainbow vomiting another rainbow – have been appearing on blogs and photoboards for the past several years. The pictures are often poorly executed, low-fi, faux 8-bit or otherwise childish in their appearance, but despite the fairly disgusting subject matter they are often strangely cute and endearing.

Origin

Originally a spinoff from I-mockery. The actual concept originated from an off the cuff image challenge in the i-mockery blog , by – RoG -, the site owner, in August 2006.

Hmm, a rainbow throwing up a rainbow of colors. I don’t know why, but I like that idea. Tell ya what. To any of you who draw me picture of a rainbow throwing up a rainbow of colors: I will post your pictures here in the blog. Do we have a deal? Alright then, get to work on those nauseated rainbows and email your pics to me!

The semi-official home of rainbow vomit is at RainbowPuke.Com, which was defunct for a while but came back in July ’09.

A popular motif on deviantART, and has also appeared on Cute Overload. Several firms have expanded the popularity of multicolored puke by making puking rainbow T-shirts available.

Enthusiasm was strong enough for an art teacher at Virginia Commonwealth University to set an assignment for his foundation art class based on the theme.

The concept to have originated with rainbows puking rainbows, a la
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but rapidly extended to feature unicorns, pandas and kittens puking rainbows.

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At least one brave soul has enjoyed the interaction of rainbows, puke and unicorns so much that he decided to tell the world.

and so on ad nauseam, so to speak.