Thread: What is "Rick Rolled" ??

I was asked if I was ever "Rick Rolled" .... I have no idea what that is ... Am I hopeless un-cool ?

If you ever clicked on a link to go to something and it didn't take you to what you wanted, but to the video of Rick Astley's song, "Never gonna give you up".

I guess then I am terminally un-cool ... I don't even know who that is TY

Rickrolling is an Internet meme[1][2] typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link that they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true destination of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been "Rickrolled". The song may have been favored for this use by those regarding it as the "worst"[3] popular song of all time. Rickrolling has extended beyond Web links to playing the video or song disruptively in other situations, including public places;[2] this culminated when Astley and the song made a surprise appearance in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade,[1] a televised event with tens of millions of viewers.

Astley recorded "Never Gonna Give You Up" on his 1987 album Whenever You Need Somebody.[4] The song, his solo debut single, was a number one hit on several international charts, including the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and UK Singles Chart. As a means of promoting the song, it was also made into Astley's first music video, which features him performing the song while dancing.[5]

The practice itself is said to have begun as a variant of an earlier prank from the imageboard 4chan known as duckrolling,[6] in which a link to somewhere (such as a specific picture or news item) would instead lead to a thread or site containing an edited picture of a duck with wheels. The user at that point is said to have been "duckrolled".

The first known instance of Rickroll occurred in May 2007 on /v/, 4chan's video game board, where a link to the Rick Astley video was claimed to be a mirror of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV (which was unavailable due to heavy traffic). The joke was confined to 4chan for a very brief period.[6]

By May 2008,[7] the practice had spread beyond 4chan and become an Internet phenomenon, eventually amassing some coverage in the mainstream media.[2][8][9] An April 2008 poll by SurveyUSA estimated that at least 18 million American adults had been Rickrolled.[10] In September 2009, Wired magazine published a guide to modern hoaxes which listed rickrolling as one of the better known beginner-level hoaxes, alongside the fake email chain letter.[11]

The original video on YouTube used for rickrolling was removed for terms of use violations in February 2010[12] but was put back up within a day.[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

Rickrolled : When what you think is a link to something you want to see actually directs you to a video of Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up."

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I know nothing of Rick, his song or getting 'rick-rolled.' At least I'm in good company.

It's been around a long time. Always been lame tho.

It is lame, but that's what is so funny. It's a lame gotcha moment....

Well...then it is actually cool if you haven't been 'rickrolled'. It means you escaped the lunacy.

Originally Posted by pepperpot

It is lame, but that's what is so funny. It's a lame gotcha moment....

Yes but after the 1st couple of people that got RR'ed, it wasn't even funny to me anymore.