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Le Fishe Au Chocolat refers to a viral video that simply shows a picture of a fish getting chocolate poured onto it while stereotypically "French" music plays in the background. The simple premise proved surprisingly humorous to many viewers in the early 2020s, inspiring many parodies and variations on YouTube.

Origin

On October 1st, 2020, YouTuber Arrows Level 13^[1] posted a video titled "Le Fishe Au Chocolat," showing a static image of a fish getting chocolate poured onto it while an accordion version of "La Vie en Rose" played. The video, which was a play on the Le Fishe meme, gained over 31,000 views in 18 months (shown below).

The video comes from a Spanish advertisement for dish soap. It was uploaded to YouTube on April 26th, 2011 by YouTuber herk (shown below).

Spread

On November 5th, 2020, Arrows Level 13^[2] posted an edit of the video utilizing the song "Happy Day In Paris," gaining over 644,000 views in 17 months (shown below).

The video proved to be the most popular iteration of the meme, and subsequent variations would build off the video. On January 22nd, 2021, YouTuber Lil Pasta posted a 10-hour version of the video, gaining over 131,000 views in a little over one year (shown below, left). On July 3rd, YouTuber Robin Stehr posted a variation showing the chocolate getting poured on the fish in motion, gaining over 60,000 views in roughly nine months (shown below).

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