The tradition back in the day was that if you got rickrolled, especially by a friend who was there to see it happen, you had to listen to the entire song.
Rick Astley credits this meme for reviving his career and still keeping him relevant all these years later. He's also one of the nicest and most down to earth (and well aging!) celebrities in the business.
Yes. I would love a whole decadeology deep-dive into 1980's culture. Maybe other decades as well like the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's 70's, 90's, 2000's, and 2010's. Make it a series. Maybe even just call it "Decade-ology".
Reminded me that Russian TH-camr sndk has its own series where he talks about culture of different years. He already made videos on years 2000-2009 and recently also made video on 1990.
I'd watch that. I'd also love a series that's like that, but for just the internet on individual years, or a series about the history of the internet in general.
i'm always sad that ads kinda took this away from us because part of the charm was that the song would start immediately after u click the link. now, if u click the link and u dont have adblock, u go through 30 seconds of ads first and it ruins the element of surprise.
I just commented on something else about this, and you said my exact sentiments: the appeal of the Rick Roll is that it's completely innocent fun. Harmless mischief. Everyone involved gets to enjoy it.
@@Maria_745 The best part of it is, that Rick Astley liked it too, that his song went that way :D That makes this whole story the fun about it etc. even better!
I still can't believe nearly all of Britain got rickrolled 2024 new years eve. It was such a shock when Rick Astley started singing the song live on tele almost immediately after the countdown was over :,)
i think he meant it more as "gay but there were a lot more bigots about it back then than there are now" although idk how true that would be either because homophobia and ESPECIALLY transphobia has gotten REALLY bad in the last couple years. made even worse with all the anti-trans legislation going on in both the US AND Canada now too. transgender teens in my province can't even use their preferred name at school anymore unless they have written consent from their parent or guardian which is ABSURD because some parents just AREN'T SAFE to come out to and the kids of those parents have good reasons to hide their true identities from those bigoted, unsafe parents. and now they HAVE to be outed to their parents to be able to be called their preferred name at school? that's absolutely fucking disgusting and 100% a violation of LGBTQ rights. so not only are trans teens with bigoted parents now being forced to hide EVERYWHERE, not JUST at home, but the way it's HANDLED is even WORSE. THE FUCKING TEACHERS HAVE TO BE THE ONES TO BREAK THE NEWS TO THE PARENTS AND THEN SEND A PERMISSION SLIP. so the KID doesn't eve get to come out THEMSELF, they don't even GET to have that empowering moment. no, they gotta rely on their teacher or principal to fucking do it for them. and it's just..... UGHHHHHH my heart hurts SO bad for the trans kids in my community.
I love the rickroll. I'm a mischievous person, but I hate upsetting people, and so many pranks seem cruel and mean. This one is just harmless, but slightly annoying.
Surprised you didn't mention when talking abou it leaking into real world culture how, the post-credits scene of Disney's Wreck it Ralph 2; there's supposedly a preview scene for Frozen 2.... It's actually Ralph taking Rick's place in the music video of Never Gonna Give You Up. Or how about when Apple's subtly Rick Roll'd people with the release of the 1st Gen Apple Watch? There was a screenshot of the circular "contacts page" button you'd get to pressing the side button. The initials of the contacts were "NE", "VE", "RG", "ON", "NA", "GI", "VE", "YU", and "UP",
That Family Guy timeline being so close to the original RickRoll video really threw me for a loop. I could *swear* that they did it months or even a few years after RickRolling was already an established thing. I'd always assumed it was in response to the popularity, but given the timeframe it seems as though it just ended up being insanely coincidental in their favor. There's no way they would have managed to work it in so quickly no matter how simple and lazy the animation is.
The fact that we're as far away from the RickRoll than people were to the actual release of the song back then hits so hard and makes me realize how weird it must've been for people who grew up in the 80's to see Rickroll become a thing.
One thing it taught us is to be super careful about clicking on links :D also rickrolling is still alive and well on tumblr (although it's much more meta, as are most tumblr jokes)
Rickrolling actually didn't work in Germany for some time because a local music licensing company, GEMA, and TH-cam took until 2016 to settle their dispute over music licensing fees. This actually made Germany the country with the most blocked TH-cam videos on Earth for a while, with 61% of the top 1,000 most popular videos unavailable because they contained music which GEMA held licences for. It was, however, very easy to circumvent this restriction with browser extensions.
I think the most important thing people tend to forget is that it was easy to Rickroll people as back then posting a link wouldn't give a preview or thumbnail or anything, so unless you memorized the exact url for the video you wouldn't know what it was besides being a youtube video. It also being harmless also likely served as a sort of anti-screamer/shock content.
> so unless you memorized the exact url for the video you wouldn't know what it was besides being a youtube video. On that note, the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" sometimes gets used as a kind of "example TH-cam URL" -- partly as a subtle Rickroll, and partly to avoid overwhelming some random video (or _future_ random video, if the URL isn't used yet) with unwanted traffic. Rick Astley's video _already_ gets tons of random traffic, so no harm done. e.g. -- When Tom Scott did a video on "Will TH-cam Ever Run Out Of Video IDs?", there's a moment near the beginning where the top of a browser tab drops into the frame to show the video's (supposed) URL. Tom had no way of knowing the video's _actual_ video ID in advance (since they're randomly assigned on upload), so he used _v=dQw4w9WgXcQ_ instead. 😎
It’s funny to imagine Rick Astley’s experience being rickrolled. You recieve random email, click on the link, and it’s a younger version of yourself with no explanation as to why this happened. Unrelated, I saw someone posted they were scrolling through their old texts, found a youtube link and clicked on it. It was a rickroll. So past them rickrolled present day them.
I was talking with this guy I liked on MSN Messenger back in 2007-2008 and he sent me some link which turned out to be my first Rickroll. I thought he was confessing his love to me. This song will forever be a banger though, I’m still not tired of it.
Well, once in school a teacher wanted to play a song and he assured us it wasn't a rickroll in advance, and it started with that exact same drum intro as Never Gonna Give YouUp, but after that was completely different. But everyone laughed and it felt like being rickrolled. And I just immediately do a palmface when I hear the first sounds of the rickroll XD
I quite like rick astley's never gonna give you up, and I've always wanted to know how this song/music video in particular got to be 'the one' to prank people with.
As someone who was a kid back when the song first came out and then remember when TH-cam pulled their April Fool's prank to make a bunch of their videos into Rickrolls, this was such an interesting video!!! Love the nostalgia!!
0:56 so i keep on waiting, waiting, waiting for half-life 3, so i keep on waiting, waiting, waiting for half-life 3 (something like waiting for a world to change, but i wait for half-life 3)
Saying that we're as far away from the invention of rickrolling as rickrolling itself is from Never Gonna Give You Up made me age like 100 years in a second
I wonder if the fact that the song is very PG has anything to do with the success of RickRoll. Maybe it had an effect on more people because parents had no reason to protect their kids from it.
Being born in the 1980s and listening to this song frequently throughout my childhood in the early 90's, I genuinely enjoy it. Together Forever is better though.
7:28 "... the first half of the third half..." I presume he meant first and last *third*. I had to double back and check if I heard that right. Also, damn you for using the ol' Scary Maze Game girl, that still just gets me a decade passed lol
i love how the meme has evolved over time from "general prank" to now there being actual UNDISGUISED memes made about the song and its content and lyrics. like..... it started out as just "haha i sent you to the wrong video" and now it's "*considers giving you up* *he gave you up*" and i just think the evolution of Never Gonna Give You Up as a meme itself (not just the Rick Rolling aspect of it) is fascinating to think about.
When posting a YT link to Facebook, you used to be able to edit/control the thumbnail shown and the caption. I did this once: posted a rickrool and was able to trick everybody into thinking it was something else. But, alas, you can no longer do this.
When the TV boy band Big Time Rush had a reunion tour a year or so ago, they actually Rick Rolled everyone in two cities (that I know of). And they didn't just sing the song, they actually had Rick Astley come out on stage to sing it. I'm glad it's still a thing all these years later.
I miss the days of the youtube star rating system. It actually made more sense. Its stupid that YT now asks you to randomly rate videos out of 5 stars, so it can their algorithm out. I dismiss those and dont provide a response. If they wanted a rating out of 5 stars, they should just bring back the star system. On the note of Rick Astley.. I remember reading that he's fine with his song becoming the meme... Given the numbers on YT, its probably paying for his retirement; I'm sure anyone would be happy with that.
Blink 182 is my favorite band of all time, and when they first reunited back in like 2011, fans of the band were trying to find a leak of the first new song...I found what I thought was a link to the unreleased song, but alas, that was the one and only time I ever got Rick Rolled. Even though it only happened to me once, it's still an anecdote worth telling lol
A lot of people born after the song came out, like myself, likely only know the song from rickroll which is wild. I mean unless they were fans of Rick Astley
I was born in 98. Surprisingly I only got Rickrolled once, then ending up liking the song during the early days of the pandemic, including other Rick Astley songs (old and new). I still check Rick's channel from time to time if there's new songs.
@@rcoderdev I was born a year before the song came out so technically I was around but I was a baby lol. I dont think it counts haha. I think I heard the song on Family Guy before rickroll but I could be wrong. I def remember when the prank started getting popular. I remember the scream ones more so. people would send email chains
I imagine it must be pretty humbling as an artist to see one of your creations (a debut song, no less) be a LOT bigger than what you initially thought. Rick Astley is such a good sport for embracing the internet culture and just laughing along with us.
There def was a punishment aspect to some versions of it. While it started off as a harmless video link. People started making rickroll links that as well as playing the song hijacked your browser and made popups open that flashed around the screen. Often needing you to go to task manager and end task the browser. This was back in the internet explorer days afterall. I was a firefox user at the time and can remember actually having a plugin called "rick alert" or something that detected the links and would block them from opening.
Years ago, I had a CD of Rick Astley's greatest hits. "Never Gonna Give You Up" was, of course, in the tracklist, along with other boppin' tracks, like "It Would Take a Strong Strong Man", "Giving Up on Love", and "Hopelessly".
12:44 - Impressive, but incorrect. 3 Years short of a 40-year span, so the original rickroll is not a halfway point from release to now. Release: 1987 OG Roll: 2007 (+20yrs) Now: 2024 (Not 2027)
You didn’t explain what duckrolling is. It is the same concept except the false hyperlink would direct to a 4chan thread with the OP being a picture of the duckroll. So few people know about this and you came so close but seems you missed it while researching for this video
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I always find it funny how Rick Astley wrote both "Never Gonna Give You Up" AND "Giving Up on Love."
That’s called range
He can't make up his mind i guess.
Comparable to when Nestle owned Jenny Craig. Hit both sides of the market!
Something for everyone. Lol
I always find it funny when checkmarks think their opinions count 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙄
The tradition back in the day was that if you got rickrolled, especially by a friend who was there to see it happen, you had to listen to the entire song.
Me, pretending I’m a traditionalist, when I just wanna jam to Never Gonna Give You Up
Well, there're worse things, than having to listen to the entire song 🎶💃
@@magnesiafrost1863 never gonna give you **AAAAAHHH**
@@Valsilene Have you heard his more recent covers? Dude's still got it
@@magnesiafrost1863 Than listening to a song I actually like.
Rick Astley credits this meme for reviving his career and still keeping him relevant all these years later. He's also one of the nicest and most down to earth (and well aging!) celebrities in the business.
Yes. I would love a whole decadeology deep-dive into 1980's culture.
Maybe other decades as well like the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's 70's, 90's, 2000's, and 2010's.
Make it a series.
Maybe even just call it "Decade-ology".
@Azurethewolf168
>barely ended
>it's the year 2024
okay
Reminded me that Russian TH-camr sndk has its own series where he talks about culture of different years. He already made videos on years 2000-2009 and recently also made video on 1990.
@@lainiwakura1776how is not even half a decade a long time?
I'd watch that. I'd also love a series that's like that, but for just the internet on individual years, or a series about the history of the internet in general.
I would really like to see 2010s video
i'm always sad that ads kinda took this away from us because part of the charm was that the song would start immediately after u click the link. now, if u click the link and u dont have adblock, u go through 30 seconds of ads first and it ruins the element of surprise.
It's even worse. Messenger (I don't know about other apps) shows the title and picture of the video below the link so you can't make any pranks :(
I just commented on something else about this, and you said my exact sentiments: the appeal of the Rick Roll is that it's completely innocent fun. Harmless mischief. Everyone involved gets to enjoy it.
Yeah it's great because it's not making fun of him or the song which most people seem to actually like lol
@@Maria_745 The best part of it is, that Rick Astley liked it too, that his song went that way :D
That makes this whole story the fun about it etc. even better!
You're only saying that because no-one has ever rickrolled you _hard._
@@Thiesi How would one even do that?
@@gabe_s_videos You _will_ know when it happens.
Always remember back to that time TH-cam asked for Cute Puppy videos and got Rick Rolled by some legend...
*I love when NationSquid said "It's rickrollin' time!" and rickrolled all over the internet.*
I love when Sonic The Weredog said "it's werehogin time" and werehoged all over the place
i hate the internet
"It is 80 degrees"
Meanwhile I, an european:
HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE
he's burning alive
just wait till you hear about Southeast Asians
oh god yes. I had an American friend who told me the other day it was 68*C and i was like "uh.. wtf?"
Meanwhile I, a Jamaican
OMG LUCKYY,, IT DOESNT GET THAT COOL TIL EVENING HERE
@@wandahoi_.Burnin’ Alive🔥
I literally have a script to Rick roll me when I open my laptop bc I like the song
🔥
yooo that's actually really cool!
Yoo can I get that script.
And it also serves to Rick roll anyone who opens your laptop too :D
stop the cap
7:44 the other fake video titles you put there are absolute gold LMAOOOOO
I still can't believe nearly all of Britain got rickrolled 2024 new years eve. It was such a shock when Rick Astley started singing the song live on tele almost immediately after the countdown was over :,)
Fr
I saw it
TH-cam on April 1st 2008 be like :
"Hello ladies and gentlemen I am here to change the future"
Can’t believe he called the 80s “gay but not the right gay.”
he was on spot though...I always noticed the same
@@aelahn that's homophobic.
@@SnugWugs137THATZ OFFENSIVE!1!!11!1!1
i think he meant it more as "gay but there were a lot more bigots about it back then than there are now"
although idk how true that would be either because homophobia and ESPECIALLY transphobia has gotten REALLY bad in the last couple years. made even worse with all the anti-trans legislation going on in both the US AND Canada now too.
transgender teens in my province can't even use their preferred name at school anymore unless they have written consent from their parent or guardian which is ABSURD because some parents just AREN'T SAFE to come out to and the kids of those parents have good reasons to hide their true identities from those bigoted, unsafe parents. and now they HAVE to be outed to their parents to be able to be called their preferred name at school? that's absolutely fucking disgusting and 100% a violation of LGBTQ rights. so not only are trans teens with bigoted parents now being forced to hide EVERYWHERE, not JUST at home, but the way it's HANDLED is even WORSE. THE FUCKING TEACHERS HAVE TO BE THE ONES TO BREAK THE NEWS TO THE PARENTS AND THEN SEND A PERMISSION SLIP. so the KID doesn't eve get to come out THEMSELF, they don't even GET to have that empowering moment. no, they gotta rely on their teacher or principal to fucking do it for them. and it's just..... UGHHHHHH my heart hurts SO bad for the trans kids in my community.
Rick Rolling is a meme that will never give us up.
Or let us down.
It is culture, it is everything we pass threw. Expose someone to anger long enough, they learn how to hate
@@imcringeanditstoolateforme4347Or run around and desert us
Never gonna make us cry, never will gonna say goodbye
@@tommarnt orr tell a lie and hurt us
rickrolling is so influential i even learned how to play the song on my clarinet. :)
When I make presentations for school, I always put a RickRoll at the last slide
I love the rickroll. I'm a mischievous person, but I hate upsetting people, and so many pranks seem cruel and mean. This one is just harmless, but slightly annoying.
My husband and I rick-rolled everyone at our wedding right after our ceremony. 🎉
"I'm gonna meet Naomi Watts"
>Restraining order from Naomi Watts
Gold
I've always said that at the very least, Never Gonna Give You Up is catchy enough to not be annoying.
GIVE ME 1980S CULTURE
I got here in under an hour. That’s how much I like this guy’s work.
The turtleneck and hair is giving Get Back. Love it 👌🏻 nationsquid in his McBeardy era
The way he says "AHH ghostface" is just... I dunno I find it really funny.
I get what u meannn
it's pretty irritating to me
A professor once made students think he accidentally linked to his answer sheet for an exam......but he Rick rolled them lol
In my school, I like to slide my phone under the toilet stall to show the person next to me and just rickroll them
Surprised you didn't mention when talking abou it leaking into real world culture how, the post-credits scene of Disney's Wreck it Ralph 2; there's supposedly a preview scene for Frozen 2....
It's actually Ralph taking Rick's place in the music video of Never Gonna Give You Up.
Or how about when Apple's subtly Rick Roll'd people with the release of the 1st Gen Apple Watch?
There was a screenshot of the circular "contacts page" button you'd get to pressing the side button. The initials of the contacts were "NE", "VE", "RG", "ON", "NA", "GI", "VE", "YU", and "UP",
And how apple Rick Roll'd people in that one episode of Ted Lasso
NS, please do the 80s culture video you mentioned. Thank you for the great video.
That Family Guy timeline being so close to the original RickRoll video really threw me for a loop. I could *swear* that they did it months or even a few years after RickRolling was already an established thing. I'd always assumed it was in response to the popularity, but given the timeframe it seems as though it just ended up being insanely coincidental in their favor. There's no way they would have managed to work it in so quickly no matter how simple and lazy the animation is.
The fact that we're as far away from the RickRoll than people were to the actual release of the song back then hits so hard and makes me realize how weird it must've been for people who grew up in the 80's to see Rickroll become a thing.
"F-15 location in GTA IV" was the only time it got me. And it was a feeling of "MOTHER FU- yeah well played..."
I remember this website where you can fake a News article and it just leads you to Never gonna give you up 😂
0:38
No, you haven't gotten me, I found exactly what I was searching for
Also, great video
One thing it taught us is to be super careful about clicking on links :D also rickrolling is still alive and well on tumblr (although it's much more meta, as are most tumblr jokes)
Rickrolling actually didn't work in Germany for some time because a local music licensing company, GEMA, and TH-cam took until 2016 to settle their dispute over music licensing fees. This actually made Germany the country with the most blocked TH-cam videos on Earth for a while, with 61% of the top 1,000 most popular videos unavailable because they contained music which GEMA held licences for. It was, however, very easy to circumvent this restriction with browser extensions.
I remember that, and it still makes my blood boil.
I somehow forgot this :)
very interesting...
surprised you hadn't done this earlier, damn.
great video as always.
I remember the first time I got rick rolled, I completely did not understand it
Okay the last one actually got me, well played
Cotter548 basically got rick astley out of retirement
I think the most important thing people tend to forget is that it was easy to Rickroll people as back then posting a link wouldn't give a preview or thumbnail or anything, so unless you memorized the exact url for the video you wouldn't know what it was besides being a youtube video. It also being harmless also likely served as a sort of anti-screamer/shock content.
> so unless you memorized the exact url for the video you wouldn't know what it was besides being a youtube video.
On that note, the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" sometimes gets used as a kind of "example TH-cam URL" -- partly as a subtle Rickroll, and partly to avoid overwhelming some random video (or _future_ random video, if the URL isn't used yet) with unwanted traffic. Rick Astley's video _already_ gets tons of random traffic, so no harm done.
e.g. -- When Tom Scott did a video on "Will TH-cam Ever Run Out Of Video IDs?", there's a moment near the beginning where the top of a browser tab drops into the frame to show the video's (supposed) URL. Tom had no way of knowing the video's _actual_ video ID in advance (since they're randomly assigned on upload), so he used _v=dQw4w9WgXcQ_ instead. 😎
It’s funny to imagine Rick Astley’s experience being rickrolled. You recieve random email, click on the link, and it’s a younger version of yourself with no explanation as to why this happened.
Unrelated, I saw someone posted they were scrolling through their old texts, found a youtube link and clicked on it. It was a rickroll. So past them rickrolled present day them.
The Rickroll came from Rick Astley
I was talking with this guy I liked on MSN Messenger back in 2007-2008 and he sent me some link which turned out to be my first Rickroll.
I thought he was confessing his love to me.
This song will forever be a banger though, I’m still not tired of it.
3:38 THE SPONSOR!!! IT'S OVER
Well, once in school a teacher wanted to play a song and he assured us it wasn't a rickroll in advance, and it started with that exact same drum intro as Never Gonna Give YouUp, but after that was completely different. But everyone laughed and it felt like being rickrolled. And I just immediately do a palmface when I hear the first sounds of the rickroll XD
My guy saying "rick ROLL" like a high school student trying to understand iambic pentameter. 😂
We all voluntarily Rick rolled ourselves watching this 😂 we knew what we were doing
I quite like rick astley's never gonna give you up, and I've always wanted to know how this song/music video in particular got to be 'the one' to prank people with.
The fact that people have been Rick Rolled over 1.5 billion times gives me hope
As someone who was a kid back when the song first came out and then remember when TH-cam pulled their April Fool's prank to make a bunch of their videos into Rickrolls, this was such an interesting video!!! Love the nostalgia!!
for our English final, our teacher put this as the final video link we had to watch 😭😭
0:56
so i keep on waiting,
waiting,
waiting for half-life 3,
so i keep on waiting,
waiting,
waiting for half-life 3
(something like waiting for a world to change, but i wait for half-life 3)
Fun fact: Rick Astley was 21 years old when the song was first released!
Yet he looked around sixteen?
I hope Joseph Kucan has his eyes on Rick...
Like to vote for a nation squid deep dive into 1980’s culture!
Saying that we're as far away from the invention of rickrolling as rickrolling itself is from Never Gonna Give You Up made me age like 100 years in a second
Yeah, that really hurts.
Rickroll is such a random joke that gives complete randomness, but it's still funny for a reason haha. Great video tho, damn you got me rickroll'd ;D
Okay, you got me good with that last rickroll 😂
I wonder if the fact that the song is very PG has anything to do with the success of RickRoll. Maybe it had an effect on more people because parents had no reason to protect their kids from it.
“you violated your restraining order” 0:57
Being born in the 1980s and listening to this song frequently throughout my childhood in the early 90's, I genuinely enjoy it.
Together Forever is better though.
Agreed
The prank that fools you but doesn't punish you.
13:35 he actually got me here
Never forget when the LEGO Batman Movie Rickrolled us all in the good year of our Lord 2017
7:28 "... the first half of the third half..." I presume he meant first and last *third*. I had to double back and check if I heard that right.
Also, damn you for using the ol' Scary Maze Game girl, that still just gets me a decade passed lol
Getting Rick Rolled in the real world is like getting shittymorph’d on Reddit.
i love how the meme has evolved over time from "general prank" to now there being actual UNDISGUISED memes made about the song and its content and lyrics. like..... it started out as just "haha i sent you to the wrong video" and now it's "*considers giving you up* *he gave you up*" and i just think the evolution of Never Gonna Give You Up as a meme itself (not just the Rick Rolling aspect of it) is fascinating to think about.
I can't believe he made a whole video just to Rick roll us
It started with the 'duck roll' word substitution gag on /b/...
...
P.S., 9gag stole our memes.
that jumpscare fixed my posture correctly in thirds of a second. Thank you.
Absolutely we want a video on 1980s culture!
When posting a YT link to Facebook, you used to be able to edit/control the thumbnail shown and the caption. I did this once: posted a rickrool and was able to trick everybody into thinking it was something else. But, alas, you can no longer do this.
i sacrificed my seven-month no rickroll streak for this one
worth it
When the TV boy band Big Time Rush had a reunion tour a year or so ago, they actually Rick Rolled everyone in two cities (that I know of). And they didn't just sing the song, they actually had Rick Astley come out on stage to sing it. I'm glad it's still a thing all these years later.
This is the most Rick rolled i have gotten this reminds me of 2019 😢
I was very surprised with your restraint from showing footage of the Beatles when talking about the 60s lol
Lol
Now I wanna see a video on the lost SM64 screamer 👀
I miss the days of the youtube star rating system. It actually made more sense. Its stupid that YT now asks you to randomly rate videos out of 5 stars, so it can their algorithm out. I dismiss those and dont provide a response. If they wanted a rating out of 5 stars, they should just bring back the star system. On the note of Rick Astley.. I remember reading that he's fine with his song becoming the meme... Given the numbers on YT, its probably paying for his retirement; I'm sure anyone would be happy with that.
7:27 the third half?
Blink 182 is my favorite band of all time, and when they first reunited back in like 2011, fans of the band were trying to find a leak of the first new song...I found what I thought was a link to the unreleased song, but alas, that was the one and only time I ever got Rick Rolled. Even though it only happened to me once, it's still an anecdote worth telling lol
A lot of people born after the song came out, like myself, likely only know the song from rickroll which is wild. I mean unless they were fans of Rick Astley
I was born in 98. Surprisingly I only got Rickrolled once, then ending up liking the song during the early days of the pandemic, including other Rick Astley songs (old and new).
I still check Rick's channel from time to time if there's new songs.
@@rcoderdev I was born a year before the song came out so technically I was around but I was a baby lol. I dont think it counts haha. I think I heard the song on Family Guy before rickroll but I could be wrong. I def remember when the prank started getting popular. I remember the scream ones more so. people would send email chains
I knew it was coming but the screaming jumpscare just made me flinch
At where?
Nationsquid rickrolling us is an honor~
TLDR: GTAV broke TH-cam, everyone was looking for links, some were Rick astley.
0:57 me clicking click to load preview: YOU HAVE FAILED
I imagine it must be pretty humbling as an artist to see one of your creations (a debut song, no less) be a LOT bigger than what you initially thought. Rick Astley is such a good sport for embracing the internet culture and just laughing along with us.
There def was a punishment aspect to some versions of it. While it started off as a harmless video link. People started making rickroll links that as well as playing the song hijacked your browser and made popups open that flashed around the screen. Often needing you to go to task manager and end task the browser. This was back in the internet explorer days afterall. I was a firefox user at the time and can remember actually having a plugin called "rick alert" or something that detected the links and would block them from opening.
Years ago, I had a CD of Rick Astley's greatest hits. "Never Gonna Give You Up" was, of course, in the tracklist, along with other boppin' tracks, like "It Would Take a Strong Strong Man", "Giving Up on Love", and "Hopelessly".
I remember I had to learn how to Rickroll someone for a history of the internet class once
fun fact, an japanese program from the 90s used the song in the satellaview (rare nintendo console with internet) broadcast
Lmao 7:50
INVEST IN BERNIE MADOFF!
Collecting my ex's hair
Im gonna meet Naomi Watts!
Restraining order from Naomi Watts
12:44 - Impressive, but incorrect. 3 Years short of a 40-year span, so the original rickroll is not a halfway point from release to now.
Release: 1987
OG Roll: 2007 (+20yrs)
Now: 2024 (Not 2027)
"how many times did you get rickrolled today?"
me: yes.
Ah, it has been a long time since NationSquid grace us with a good ol' screamer. Now **that** is what I call a blast from internet history.
You didn’t explain what duckrolling is. It is the same concept except the false hyperlink would direct to a 4chan thread with the OP being a picture of the duckroll. So few people know about this and you came so close but seems you missed it while researching for this video
I spent the whole video wondering when the rickroll was going to come. Then I didn't expect it when it did.
And now it's weezer.
This vid was worth my time to watch.
When we will get a video about the troll meme and the rage comics?