Where Did the Rick Roll Come From?
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Published 2024-05-02
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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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All Comments (21)
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I always find it funny how Rick Astley wrote both "Never Gonna Give You Up" AND "Giving Up on Love."
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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.
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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".
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I literally have a script to Rick roll me when I open my laptop bc I like the song
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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.
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Can’t believe he called the 80s “gay but not the right gay.”
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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.
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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.
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Always remember back to that time YouTube asked for Cute Puppy videos and got Rick Rolled by some legend...
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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 :,)
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Youtube on April 1st 2008 be like : "Hello ladies and gentlemen I am here to change the future"
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Rick Rolling is a meme that will never give us up.
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I've always said that at the very least, Never Gonna Give You Up is catchy enough to not be annoying.
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Rickrolling actually didn't work in Germany for some time because a local music licensing company, GEMA, and YouTube took until 2016 to settle their dispute over music licensing fees. This actually made Germany the country with the most blocked YouTube 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.
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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.
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GIVE ME 1980S CULTURE
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I love when NationSquid said "It's rickrollin' time!" and rickrolled all over the internet.
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When I make presentations for school, I always put a RickRoll at the last slide
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The way he says "AHH ghostface" is just... I dunno I find it really funny.
