Where Did the Rick Roll Come From?
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Since 2007, millions of people around the world have been pranking each other with false links that redirect to a 1980s music video. The phenomenon has become known as the "Rick Roll," and has become an integral part of internet pop culture. The question is, where did it come from, and why did it become so popular?
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I thought I was gonna get rick rolled
You look like dream
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.
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".
I don’t think we’re past the 2010s enough to recognize it as a separate thing from our current era. Since it’s just barely ended. Like the 2000s, we need another decade to really get how it’s so different and distinct as a lot of the stuff has carried over to today whereas very few of the stuff from the 2000s really does now. It would be like telling a person in 1990 to give an explanation of how the 80s were distinct.
@@Azurethewolf168
>barely ended
>it's the year 2024
okay
@@lainiwakura1776 dude it’s only been like 5 years
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 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
"It is 80 degrees"
Meanwhile I, an european:
HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE
Ah, Europeans!
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?"
*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
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
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'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 :(
Always remember back to that time TH-cam asked for Cute Puppy videos and got Rick Rolled by some legend...
TH-cam on April 1st 2008 be like :
"Hello ladies and gentlemen I am here to change the future"
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.
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
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!
I've always said that at the very least, Never Gonna Give You Up is catchy enough to not be annoying.
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
When I make presentations for school, I always put a RickRoll at the last slide
GIVE ME 1980S CULTURE
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.
rickrolling is so influential i even learned how to play the song on my clarinet. :)
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.
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...
The fact that people have been Rick Rolled over 1.5 billion times gives me hope
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
"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 😂
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.
In my school, I like to slide my phone under the toilet stall to show the person next to me and just rickroll them
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.
It think what makes *Rick Rolling* so beloved it’s that is a seriously good prank, imagine discovering this amazing song thanks to a joke. Many people discovered *Rick Astley* this way.
this dude's personality is so fun if he Rick Rolled me id just laugh with him
I got here in under an hour. That’s how much I like this guy’s work.
I remember the first time I got rick rolled, I completely did not understand it
I can't believe he made a whole video just to Rick roll us
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
The turtleneck and hair is giving Get Back. Love it 👌🏻 nationsquid in his McBeardy era
NS, please do the 80s culture video you mentioned. Thank you for the great video.
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)
"I'm gonna meet Naomi Watts"
>Restraining order from Naomi Watts
Gold
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 hadn't done this earlier, damn.
great video as always.
To me at least, the funny part is that it's THE rickroll. Not the fact that there's a silly song, but THE song. I wonder how it felt for people to get a rickroll for the first ever time
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...
0:38
No, you haven't gotten me, I found exactly what I was searching for
Also, great video
My husband and I rick-rolled everyone at our wedding right after our ceremony. 🎉
i would watch a 1980s video 👍
Getting Rick Rolled in the real world is like getting shittymorph’d on Reddit.
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!!
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.
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.
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
This is the most Rick rolled i have gotten this reminds me of 2019 😢
Now I wanna see a video on the lost SM64 screamer 👀
"how many times did you get rickrolled today?"
me: yes.
Cotter548 basically got rick astley out of retirement
It started with the 'duck roll' word substitution gag on /b/...
...
P.S., 9gag stole our memes.
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
Yes to deep dive into 80s culture!
Like to vote for a nation squid deep dive into 1980’s culture!
Okay the last one actually got me, well played
I knew it was coming but the screaming jumpscare just made me flinch
At where?
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
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.
@@rcoder-dev 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
13:35 he actually got me here
My guy saying "rick ROLL" like a high school student trying to understand iambic pentameter. 😂
“you violated your restraining order” 0:57
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 was definately Rick-Rolled before I knew what TH-cam was.
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.
Never forget when the LEGO Batman Movie Rickrolled us all in the good year of our Lord 2017
On FOX's 9-1-1: Lonestar in 2022 or 2023, the 911 dispatcher got rickrolled when she made a call
My high school sold singing telegrams for valentines day and someone put this song on the list of songs one could buy (which I hope someone got fired over) and someone bought a singing telegram of this song for every teacher in the school. Effectively rick rolling the entire school. We never found out who did it and they better hope I never do
I was very surprised with your restraint from showing footage of the Beatles when talking about the 60s lol
Lol
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.
3:38 THE SPONSOR!!! IT'S OVER
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.
3:17 it's upside down lol
Edit: yes please 1980s video
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.
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.
It works because the song is a certified banger, and Rick Astley has a voice that's as smooth as Jello.
7:27 the third half?
2:16 Yes, I do because I am sick rn and I can't stand up 😭
Should have opened with the rickroll, and called the video "A history of trolling"
Absolutely we want a video on 1980s culture!
i wanna know teh culture of 1980s
Okay, you got me good with that last rickroll 😂
We all voluntarily Rick rolled ourselves watching this 😂 we knew what we were doing
I was born in the 80s and I think it's still the most interesting decade for entertainment. To me the 60s are ancient history, the 70s feel really weird and confusing, the 90s are nihilistic (not in a bad way though), and the 2000s are depressing. It would be interesting if others my age feel the same, I have no idea.
Mandela Effect: For me it always was Rick Ashley, not Rick Astley
tbh I could probably whip up an anti-Rick Chrome extension pretty quickly, but the hacking frenzy that would ensue in response might put me at risk professionally.
Hear me out, what if instead, you made an only Rick chrome extension? Perfect for catching yourself off guard whenever you try to watch a TH-cam video lol. Or maybe it just has a random chance on changing any link you click into a Rick roll without warning. Installing that on someone’s computer would make for a pretty effective prank lol
@@Dman25 I like the way you think. Watch out, office on Monday.
0:35 I unplugged my monitor
Just saying, this should have been uploaded on April fools
May fools
"It is just a prank, brother."
"You violated your restraining order?"
Memes aside, IMO "Never gonna give you up" is one of the greatest pop songs ever created.
I remember downloading an NSFW video waaaay back in 2009 and get Rick roll'd on the good part.
5:03 I better not leave a comment then...
Too late!
That was plain good fun! 😁🌎❤️🕺🏻🐶
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.