http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/7/square/rickroll-head.jpg?1229148137 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT--CsBh5TM 42 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling 2008-12-10T21:08:04Z 12 active bait, rick roll, rickrolling, rick astley, music video, 80s, pop icon <p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh">Rickrolling</a> is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link that he or she claims is relevant to the topic at hand (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0">like this one</a>), but the link actually takes the user to the 1987 Rick Astley video <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BK9SMY?ie=UTF8&tag=rocketboom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001BK9SMY">Never Gonna Give You Up</a></i>. The <span class="caps">URL</span> can be masked or obfuscated so a future victim cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh">like this</a>). If a dumb cluck does click and is led to a web page with the song, he or she is said to have been <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh">Rickrolled</a> (also spelled <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh">Rickroll&#8217;d</a>).</p> 12 7 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/7/original/rickroll-head.jpg?1229148137 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/7/thumb/rickroll-head.jpg?1229148137 2009-11-05T23:53:30Z KT--CsBh5TM