Rickroll

released Dec 10, 2008 at 09:08PM UTC

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Rickrolling is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link that he or she claims is relevant to the topic at hand (like this one), but the link actually takes the user to the 1987 Rick Astley video Never Gonna Give You Up. The URL can be masked or obfuscated so a future victim cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking (like this). If a dumb cluck does click and is led to a web page with the song, he or she is said to have been Rickrolled (also spelled Rickroll’d).

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Andrew Baron
Dec 20, 2008 at 04:56PM UTC, Andrew Baron wrote:

Interesting that the prediction came true: Just when you thought it could never be funny again, the Rick Roll entered into the mainstream in 2008 culminating with a live lip-synched? appearance of Rick at the Macy’s Day Parade on a street float. Will this almost certain peak serve as a reminder to the young generations of children who saw or heard about the Thanksgiving 2008 parade of Rick Astley’s awesomeness? My guess is that the appearance will not have been impressionable enough to last beyond the revisiting of the years 2007/2008 only and only in context of the history of internet memes.

Max Dominik Weber
Mar 02, 2009 at 01:03AM UTC, Max Dominik Weber wrote:

Were no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do i
A full commitments what Im thinking of
You wouldnt get this from any other guy

I just wanna tell you how Im feeling
Gotta make you understand

  • never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Weve know each other for so long
Your hearts been aching
But youre too shy to say it
Inside we both know whats been going on
We know the game and were gonna play it

And if you ask me how Im feeling
Dont tell me youre too blind to see

(* repeat)

Give you up. give you up
Give you up, give you up
Never gonna give
Never gonna give, give you up
Never gonna give
Never gonna give, five you up

I just wanna tell you how Im feeling
Gotta make you understand

(* repeat 3 times)

Max Gladding
May 25, 2009 at 09:46PM UTC, Max Gladding wrote:

cool story, bro.

James Woods
Jun 13, 2009 at 02:25AM UTC, James Woods wrote:

I would have like the Macy’s Parade incident if he ha actually been singing.