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Were no strangers to walls!
We stick real Close, WITH CEMENT!
Building some houses that are, Really tall!
You wouldnt get this from any other brick!
i, Just want to make you a giant house,
Gotta keep you, Under a roof!
Never gonna brick u up
never gonna let u down,
I cannot run around, im a brick O.o
site: yougotrickrolled.com
I checked jp.youtube.com (Japan) and tw.youtube.com (Taiwan), which do not redirect featured videos to Never Gonna Give You Up, so apparently the joke is limited to western countries. Will I require sources, as some Wikipedian purists are gonna nag about Original Research (Wikipedia, this is why I hate you), or is this considered obvious enough to just add this info? Vindictive Warrior ( talk) 19:00, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I removed the following line from the article with the reasoning "Is this section now an indiscriminate list of times the song is used on podcasts?".
On the April Fools' Day episode of the music review podcast Have You Heard ( episode 17), after discussing Rick Astley's reaction to rickrolling, the hosts rickroll their audience by repeatedly cutting to the song throughout the episode.
It appears to be a non-notable podcast with a relatively small number of episodes and doesn't have a wiki article. My edit has since been reverted, though I'd like to discuss. What makes this "active participation of the phenomenon" notable? AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 14:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Are we allowed to mention Carson Daly's Rickroll attempt on his show or is Anonymous still pissed at him for taking credit for the meme? -- 293.xx.xxx.xx ( talk) 08:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
www.gamefaqs.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.203.200.166 ( talk) 17:22, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
In response to the "Verification Needed" referring to XKCD comic #389, I plugged the music from the comic into Finale NotePad, and sure enough, it's the intro to the song, "Never Gonna Give You Up." I'm new to verifying anything on Wikipedia, so I don't know what should happen next... 72.71.241.7 ( talk) 14:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)Rob
We need more citations for the NYT hoax. I found this one, but I dont know how to add them to an article. 71.214.100.52 ( talk) 04:20, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
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help)This has made Reuters, nice. Cirt ( talk) 05:43, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
ALSO NOTE The article seems to claim the youtube prank was setup as a promotion of sort to increase songs being bought or what not? someone check that? And add it to this article? sorry, in a rush. cheers Nesnad ( talk) 16:45, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Considering the very point and purpose of Rickrolling it's possible that they're allowed because they are an effective parody and so fall under fair use. Garonyldas ( talk) 22:23, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Uploaded with permission? Are you kidding me? Hell no it was never uploaded with permission. The only recent approval of it being there is Rick Astley's rubberstamp of opinion, which doesnt mean anything btw 210.243.112.139 ( talk) 03:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
The page should redirect to Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up#.22Rickroll.22_Internet_meme, the portion of the article which actually explains the Rickroll. Zchris87v 23:45, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
No
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Actually this page should redirect to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.9.209.139 ( talk) 05:56, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
I removed the following from the article - this section was commented out. I've made note in the edit summary.
I'd like to add to this section a little bit before having it show up in the actual article, it's kinda short, even though I think it was a notable sighting, there's just not enough information available aside from the Youtube videos. does anyone have anything else or any more information to add?
On April 9, 2008, the torch of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was rickrolled as it passed through San Francisco on its way around the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTTK8YpTBFg
AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 04:54, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Follow the link to "photoshopped" and it specifically says it is slang. This leads me to believe that a term such as "digitally edited" would better. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.112.144.234 ( talk) 05:47, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
BBC News - April 1 2008. [1] SomeNonaSaint ( talk) 11:13, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
LA Times interview with Rick: [2] 75.57.190.1 ( talk) 18:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Fark comment thread with link to "Muppets Blooper Reel": [3] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.254.35.75 ( talk) 22:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
From BBC news - "Fans of pop star Rick Astley descended on London's Liverpool Street train station for a "flashmob" event."-- h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 08:15, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
also mentioned here, in a great article about rickrolling. See under reuters for two more sources that may have been overlooked. timesonline.co.uk2 DigitalC ( talk) 01:29, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I took this out when I converted the April Fool's day section to a list. The text is still there in comments if it is deemed notable enough to have it's own section.
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Widespread by May 2007? How widespread? I've only seen it outside 4chan in the last couple of weeks. 88.109.27.103 ( talk) 21:38, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I seem to recall a sentence or two talking about the family guy episode Meet the Quagmires which first aired May 20, 2007 but it's not there anymore. The episode finished with a "Never gonna give you up" montage and I think it was that episode that reminded people of the song and led to it being used as a rick roll. People who saw the episode recalled that scene when they were rickrolled and ensured the rickroll comments stayed alive.
Similarly, shouldn't the Meet the Quagmires article be changed to indicate it led to the rickroll phenomena rather than being an homage to it.
So is that part of the origin, or were rickrolls around before that episode? (keep in mind that the episode would have been produced several months before airing so I don't know about it being a homage to the rickroll phenomena).-- Will2k ( talk) 18:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
It came from 4chan's /v/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.217.122.158 ( talk) 23:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
You mean ebaumsworld, yeah? -- MAdaXe ( talk) 12:53, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Although it impossible to verify now it did indeed start on 4chan's /v/. Upon the release of the first GTA4 trailer the servers got so much traffic they crashed for a short time. During the down time someone asked if the video had been uploaded to youtube yet. One Anonymous posted the link to "Never gonna give you up" which went from a few hundred hits up to a few thousand later that day. Later on the video was deleted I believe because of copy right issues and if the original video wasn't deleted you could mark the swift change in comments from reminiscing Astley fans to "OH ONDORE" and "The niggers in GTA4 sure can jump high" and other 4chan style comments. It's sad to see family guy getting the credit for the phenomena but I guess that's just one more of wiki's short comings. TheRedCometMS06 ( talk) 18:30, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Well, apparently some Australian news report now incorrectly credits Family Guy with this meme. Apparently they're above researching on Wikipedia. 68.231.214.169 ( talk) 03:57, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2008/04/11/west.uk.rick.rolling.itn
Note: the video erroneously state the meme began with family guy. AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 03:32, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
I've put in a request to semi protect this page. AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 16:10, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Can people please stop adding this info in to this article without sources, or just adding a link to YouTube as a source? This is a violation of WP:OR. We need a mention in a WP:RS/ WP:V secondary source to add this to the article, and I'm sure there will be mention of it at some point soon. Cirt ( talk) 05:32, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
well, youtube has rickrolled the masses. If that isn't a good enough reason to keep this article, nothing is. 71.8.72.63 ( talk) 06:03, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Can someone verify if the World of Warcraft April fools joke uses the Chord progression of "never going to give you up" and is, infact, also a rick roll? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.170.54.70 ( talk) 19:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Can someone please remove this cite? YouTube is not an adequate cite for YouTube itself - Can we just write an entire article on YouTube and source it solely to YouTube links and YouTube videos? No, we can not. The same applies here, and this is why a cite to YouTube for something happening on YouTube isn't really the best cite. Cirt ( talk) 07:29, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Just now I've commented out the link on the page to the "Original Browser Crashing" Rickroll. I don't really consider it responsible to link that site, regardless of its potential encyclopedic value. Mendaliv ( talk) 12:57, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I think the best way to handle the cleanup is to give each April Fool's instance a single sentence in a bulleted list.
The April 11 flash mob should be moved into it's own sub-section as it isn't really an April Fool's Day rick-rolling. Wcudmore ( talk) 15:58, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
We are dealing with several small incidents here. I doubt that any single one is noteworthy on it's own (Leaving the noteworthiness of this entire article to another discussion altogether.) I do not think that this sub-section is worth expanding. For Example: "Social blog website LiveJournal announced on the same day that they would be adding a new member to their Advisory Board, linking members to the journal "rickastley", which contains a Rickroll." is a single, complete description of an instance of RickRolling that really shouldn't be expanded. The Scientology, and New York Mets RR are both significant in their importance (Scientology) and Scope (Mets) and warrant their own subsections. The AfD RR's are all small, and short lived incidents, that go to support the larger point of the sub-section which is simply "On AfD 2008, a bunch of stuff happened. Here are some examples: list here."
In order to prove this larger point, a list is the appropriate way of providing evidence. Expanding these small points is not worthwhile, nor would it improve the quality of the article. Take a look at the history (Go back to one of the reverted edits) and ask yourself the following questions:
Certainly the list could benefit from some re-writing after the fact, but it seems clear to me that listing examples of AfD RickRolularity is the best way to go. Wcudmore ( talk) 16:42, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Back to the original discussion: I'll point you at the
goatse page as an example of a bulleted list in a similar context.
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This still needs cleaning up. At the very least, the second paragraph should be split into 3 independent paras. Right now, it deals with 3 unrelated instances. The subsequent paras each deal with one instance each. I will not be doing this until some consensus is reached as to what to do with this section. Wcudmore ( talk) 15:36, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm having problems referencing this incident. There are many posted videos of the actual incident which would be excellent citations. However AtaruMoroboshi feels that these should not be used for copyright violation reasons. He may have a point, but this limits us severely. All other references I can find are blogs. Why are we forced to choose unreliable secondary sources when perfectly good primary sources exist. I also take issue with AturuMoroboshi's (Good Faith) assertion that a published citation is better than a link to the actual event.
If we cannot resolve this citation issue, this incident needs to be removed from the page, which is unfortunate as it goes to the ubiquity of the Rick Roll. Wcudmore ( talk) 16:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
A little known fact... TV shows can be used as a primary source. Simply make a cite that shows you saw the episode, thats good enough. Most people seem to assume you need a secondary source when dealing with events of television shows, but that is false. Read WP:PSTS:
Examples of primary sources include archeological artifacts; photographs; historical documents such as diaries, census results, video or transcripts of surveillance, public hearings, trials, or interviews; tabulated results of surveys or questionnaires; written or recorded notes of laboratory and field research, experiments or observations, published experimental results by the person(s) actually involved in the research; autobiographies, original philosophical works, religious scripture, administrative documents, and artistic and fictional works such as poems, scripts, screenplays, novels, motion pictures, videos, and television programs.
Therefore, this information need only be cited from the actual episode. -- ErgoSum88 ( talk) 17:09, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Wcudmore took my words a little too literally. What I meant was, create a cite showing that the information was taken directly from the episode... like the "cite episode" template above. Drawing on personal experience is not the same as citing something which in essence means "you" personally read the book, website, or watched a tv episode upon which you are drawing the information from. Its true, you can't "cite" personal experience, however, reading a book or watching an episode is a personal experience upon which you can draw from to cite sources... there is a difference. But I'm sure you all figured that out by now. -- ErgoSum88 ( talk) 23:55, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
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This page needs ALOT of cleaning up.... the london rick roll could be expanded upon... not to mention that last sentence in the mets section is a personal view not a fact —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pauleo1 ( talk • contribs) 03:44, 19 April 2008
The marching band addition is very light on details. How did they Rick Roll? Did they publish a fake URL and have everyone use their cellphone browser or did they play the song at half time? I'm deleting it for now. Wcudmore ( talk) 17:26, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
On April 19, 2008, the Stanford Marching Band rickrolled UC Davis's Picnic Day. citation needed
Whoever locked this page has now created a lag in information about what events are getting rick rolled. For example, On April 11th. (Yes thats 10 days ago) The Dallas Mavericks Organization Rick Rolled there fans. And still NOTHING was said about this on the page. Not to mention the london flash mob rick roll could have been written about further. This page has not been hijacked by vandals but by the wikipedia users themselves. The lag of information should be corrected
I've temporarily removed the following unsourced statement from the lead:
The prank originated when Rockstar Games first released the trailer to the game Grand Theft Auto IV on their website in March, 2007. Due to the game's anticipation, the site received very high traffic, including most of the users from 4chan's video game forum, /v/, and went down. Someone on /v/ posted a Youtube to the Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up," saying the trailer had been recorded and posted there. The joke quickly became a meme and was constrained to 4chan for a brief period.
Was this actually the case? If so, hopefully someone can produce some sources and then it can be reintroduced to the article. AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 17:50, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
[www.PrankDialer.com] lets you Rickroll a friend via a phone. I added this entry, but it was locked up. Please let me know if it's acceptable to add this entry.-- Thedisturbance ( talk) 18:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Prankdialer was up there, and it was removed around the time we redid the Sightings section. The primary reason was that it was include in the April Fools' day section, and it wasn't an April Fools event. As far as the citation goes, I think a link to Prankdialer.com is sufficient to prove the existence of the product. However, any mention of dates or use would need to be backed up by a third party source. I think this is a better example of a rr than some of the stuff up there. Wcudmore ( talk) 18:03, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I tucked it into Rickroll#Other, tweak as desired. xenocidic ( talk) 12:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
This section is growing out of control very quickly. Leaving aside the April Fools section which will be resolved separately, there are several changes that need to be made.
The following should remain unchanged (as far as being sections go)
Furthermore, We need to develop a guideline as to what a suitable RR for inclusion here is. The number of people rolled is a factor. Wcudmore ( talk) 17:48, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I made the changes as mentioned. (Exception -- moved Mets into Sporting Events) There were some edit conflicts. Check your recent changes. Wcudmore ( talk) 18:09, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Also left xkcd as is, but I think the lower-case title makes the page look bad. Any suggestions as to how to fix that? Wcudmore ( talk) 18:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Should we perhaps separate the True Rickrolls from other Astley inspired shenanigans? The loosest definition of a rr would be playing "Never Going to Give you up" when something else is announced. I'm not sure if all of the events listed have the required element of surprise. In particular, I think a marching band playing a song that has recently become popular due to an internet meme is not a good example. Even the NY Mets section is doubtful. If we keep on the current path of including every reference, are we going to have to publish the playlists of every 80's radio station in the world? Wcudmore ( talk) 18:00, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
On April 24, 2008 Sydney radio stations in Australia (which included Nova FM, 2Day FM, Mix and Triple M) began simulating the song at 1:15 am.
Is this significant enough to be included in the article? The only way of verifying the information is via their podcast (which currently has not been updated) - ( RovingOnline ( talk) 04:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC))
Tyson Chandler, the center for the New Orleans Hornets, appears to be the first professional athlete to have been rickrolled. A pirated version of a video from his web site, Posted on the Block, was posted on YouTube as Rick Roll Tyson Chandler with the original music replaced with Rick Astley's hit. The change was recognized on a post on Tyson Chandler's web site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Athleteinteractive ( talk • contribs) 08:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
This article, [ [8]], goes into far more detail about how rickrolling started than any other I've seen. -- Xyzzyplugh ( talk) 20:15, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
The quote acknowledges the height in which the phenomenon has reached, and considering the section heading name is "Astley's reaction" I consider Astley nolonger publically talking about it constitutes further reaction on his part. AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 12:17, 24 April 2008 (UTC)"In response to a request for comment, a spokesman for his record label wrote back a single line: "I'm sorry, but he's done talking about rickrolling."
Pickard, Anna (2008-04-27). "ROFLCon final session: Cult leaders: The man ultimately responsible for the rick roll meets his audience". Guardian Unlimited: Technology. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
This article doesn't provide any new information. It certainly doesn't finger "moot" as the poster of the original rick roll. At this stage we have established the 4chan, GTA Trailer link through verifiable sources. We can infer from that that some moderator at 4Chan is the originator of the Rick Roll, but until we have a verifiable source, it's best to leave the origins as is. Without "moot" standing up and saying "I'z de one what dunnit", we can't list him as the originator. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wcudmore ( talk • contribs) 17:10, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't this have something about the Looking For Group comic where Richard does it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.197.249.12 ( talk) 21:31, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Rickrolling was just mentioned on Have I Got News for You, with Brian Blessed. May be worth mentioning. J Milburn ( talk) 21:53, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
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On the June 21 2007 episode of Last Call with Carson Daly, the host said he had found a video on the internet of Paris Hilton and Busta Rhymes making out and asked his studio audience if they wanted to see it. He proceeded to show part of the Rickroll video and said "You just got rickrolled". [1]
It was also used here, richard sang it for sisters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.222.78.245 ( talk) 21:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Saw a site selling You've been Rickrolled t-shirts http://www.jinx.com/men/shirts/geek/you_just_got_rickrolld.html?catid=81 had to come here to find out what the hell this was all about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.17.139.78 ( talk) 21:55, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
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help)Is it too unencyclopedic to wish that every wikilink in the article just rickrolled the person? Ohh how devious. I won't but its hard not to. Hooper ( talk) 01:03, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I don't know much about rickrolling, but some of the information in the article is contradictory: "Lichtblau, by varying online accounts, treated his inner circle to surprise Rickrollings as early as September 2006, close to the inception of Youtube[11]". The citation given makes no mention of 2006; furthermore, the introductory paragraph of this article states that the concept of rickrolling was established May 2007. Also, YouTube was founded February 2005. -- 76.168.214.69 ( talk) 10:39, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
There's a hack for the Doom (video game) that Rickrolls the monster - should it be included in the article? -- 12.206.2.162 ( talk) 22:15, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
To anyone ... please do not add the incident on WWE Raw involving Vince McMahon and the phone call. It's not a rickroll. ¢rassic! ( talk) 01:41, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I think the article needs some sort of protection to keep the Vince McMahon/ WWE business out of it. Stan Simmons ( talk) 20:58, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
The rintone is actually a rickroll, it's supposed to not make the song obvious by prefacing it with "please enjoy the music". If it werent a rickroll, it'd just be the song playing instantaniously. [[[Dr. R.K.Z]]
agree with r.k.z., cannot see why there is so much debate over adding this as one of the most obvious instances rickrolls yet. everyone who is busy deleting everyone trying to delete this instance from the article, perhaps you should delete all the entries about what happened at ewu, the anons protests against the scis etc as they didnt involve someone inadvertently hearing rick astley when they clicked a link while surfing the internet. the rickroll phenomenon is way beyond internet and in real life right now. if ewu, ny mets, and scis vs. anon are considered rickrolling, why not a ringback when on monday night raw that clearly threw off the entire broadcast team if you watch the youtube vid? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.121.174.106 ( talk) 04:18, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
it is a rickroll because no one expected it, everyone expected a jubilant person to answer the phone HELLO! <give password> yes ive won 200k!! instead he rickroll'd the a man worth at least 1/2 a billion, 3-4 million people on tv, and greatly amused many. and it happened not once but twice. not mentioning this would be almost criminal negligence, as something that happened on e networks talk soup that maybe a few hundred thousand people viewed seems to merit attention, if just because it was the classic rickroll - i.e. here's a video preview of the season finale of l.a. ink - oops rick astley! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.121.174.106 ( talk) 04:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I say we put it to a vote. HOWEVER, we need to have a few round rules if we're gonna make it work:
e.g. (Don't copy verbatim, create your own using the same ideas!!)
Think this would fly?? Or will it descend into anarchy?-- 293.xx.xxx.xx ( talk) 08:18, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
a vote is a good idea, mine wont count cuz anonymous ip but i think most people find this to be a rickroll —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.121.174.106 ( talk) 11:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Yeah i'd agree, with a vote to see if there is any consensus
Yeah that poll is not reliable after all its a poll so i suggest we take that off ChesterTheWorm ( talk) 13:27, 14 June 2008 (UTC) ChesterTheWorm
What?-- 293.xx.xxx.xx ( talk) 01:37, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
this video (not a rickroll, an example to one, except to maybe a few 4chan leets dominating this dicussion, i would call a
reliable source not the text book definition of one not an article from the ny times but an uncut youtube video of the actual broadcast...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PdMj10s6nYw —Preceding
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someone typing in a foot note the The Soup {{whatever the hosts name was?)) and E! Entertainment Television June 9, 2008 is realiable sourcing? gimme a break... the guy above was right is that you all consider wrestling way too lowest common denominator and just not cool enough for this internet injoke thus everyone deleting it. Pvillemarc ( talk) 01:02, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Please read Wikipedia_Copyright#Linking_to_copyrighted_works and why we don't usually allow Youtube links (unless it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the upload was done by an agent for the copyright holders). Until then all copyright violations will be reverted back to proper citations.-- 293.xx.xxx.xx ( talk) 05:19, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I happen to know the guy that invented the script of internetisseriousbusiness. His name is Kenneth Gordon, IT worker and recreational server host. He is currently moving to in Myrtle Beach, SC from Winchester, VA. I remember when he tested the script on our forums. God I wish I could document it. Since I can't add "myself" as a source, I'll dig something up.-- Zblewski ( talk) 23:59, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Wiser Wikipedians than I will know what (if anything) to do with this, but in the 1997 movie "Contact" starring Jodie Foster (an adaptation of the Carl Sagan book), when the SETI signal is first detected, a harmonic is noticed on the prime number pulses and the researchers realize it's a video signal with audio. They decode it to a TV screen and there in rotated, garbled form, is none other than the "Never Gonna Give You Up" video. You might almost say that E.T. Rickrolls Earth :) GreatCaliban ( talk) 07:13, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
This was originally posted as a blank thread with just a picture of a duck with wheels. The person who created the thread would then link people to his post from other threads. That is a duckroll. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.236.142.235 ( talk) 06:38, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Its possible to pay to have messages broadcast into space for you. Though we would never see their reaction, it would be interesting to rick roll the universe in the hopes that an alien race receives the transmission. Or, possibly, if humans can invent faster than light travel, our descendants may one day receive ancient rick rolls that have travelled across light years to our colonies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.58.88 ( talk) 20:27, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Anyone know how and more importantly when this whole thing started? PyroGamer ( talk) 02:56, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
According to this [ [9]] Rick Astley is not amused with the RickRolling phenomenon. Quite the opposite what it say on the RickRolling Wiki -- DDDW ( talk) 14:44, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
I haven't got a reference or anything, though I did look for one. I would ask that anyone wanting to take it down go and check On Demand for themselves first though, because it really is a rickroll. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.223.100.216 ( talk) 12:13, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
This article's timeline needs improvement. "By May 2008,[4] the practice had spread beyond 4chan and become an Internet phenomenon, eventually amassing some coverage in the mainstream media.[5][6][1] An April 2008 poll by SurveyUSA estimated that at least 18 million American adults have been rickrolled.[7]"
The "by May, 2008" seems to contradict the fact that 18 millions Rick Rolls had occurred by April. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.182.9.1 ( talk) 20:04, 22 August 2008 (UTC) Shouldn't Rickrolling have been an internet phenomenon BEFORE it amassed 18 miillion views?
Could Rick Astley sue somebody? Don't ask me who...I know this isn't a forum but the suspense is killing me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.202.38.225 ( talk) 04:44, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Meh. I'm not logged in. Whatever. XD
"One Web site offers a Rickroll-by-phone service, allowing visitors to enter a phone number to be called and have the song played to the answering party" Can anyone link me to this site? I will have epic fun with it. <33 74.182.114.108 ( talk) 18:13, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
The art site "Furry Art Pile" closed down, and all links were/are redirected to a YouTube Rickroll. http://www.furryartpile.com/
Just2Draw ( talk) 15:50, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
If anyone here plays hobowars you'll find that he's the liquor sotre clerk in second city —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.131.131.168 ( talk) 22:19, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Rickrolling as written about in TIME Magazine (the specific issue escapes my mind, but I'm sure you could find it by googling "rickroll time magazine"), in the "Websession" category by regular intarwebs wiseguy Lev Grossman (who also wrote the Nerd World article regarding "moot". You. Reference it. Esper rant 04:24, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
{{ editsemiprotected}} Remove section about the retailer, ThinkGeek. The information there is not relavent to this topic and has been created by the ThinkGeek staff to add links to their website.
This article needs to mention anti-rickrolling software like RickRadar a Firefox add-on. Mieciu K ( talk) 20:59, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
How does this article not related back to THE orginal bait and switch meme, http://goatse.cx/ - important enough to even have a wiki page, goatse.cx? It seems obvious that bait and switch memes have been popular all along, and that was the original. Rickrolling is just the safe-for-work mainstream version updated for the 2000's with video. Even though goatse is terribly vulgar, it should be mentioned as the precursor meme, the original idea that made bait and switch linking popular. 71.139.40.173 ( talk) 21:14, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
reference 3 cites "in March 2007" as the first instance of rick rolling. this could be added to the body of the article. from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352010,00.html 71.139.40.173 ( talk) 21:27, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
The first instance is obviously the day the GTAIV trailer came out. And the song was NOT chosen due to popularity from Family Guy - that episode came out in MAY. 86.144.207.13 ( talk) 21:31, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
'Bait and switch' is so misused that people think it means that one thing is advertised and they're tricked into buying something else. See bait and switch for the true definition. It's about offering a substitute so people don't feel let down when they leave the store. Rick Roll is a complete let-down and it's not a true substitute. Anyway, I'm being very literal because I think the phrase is overused and ends up diluting the true meaning. Ryandsmith ( talk) 22:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
It really should be tagged as such. I wonder what this article would look like if it weren't for youtube "rickrolling" people on april fools day? I think it's digusting to see this treated as if it weren't an advertising scheme. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.185.105.253 ( talk) 01:53, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
I don't believe Carson Daly can be considered the first to rickroll on television. I know Family Guy, season 5 - episode 18, which aired on May 20th, 2007 came before the Carson Daly show of June 21, 2007. In this episode, they were spoofing Back to the Future. Brian switches the last song, at the high school dance, up, and instead sings Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." I'm not here to say this was the first occurence, just that the Carson Daly show sure wasn't the first. And thus should be removed. The claim that the Carson Daly show as first has no citations, and is also disproved by Family Guy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Meh00 ( talk • contribs) 04:41, 11 September 2008 (UTC) --Sorry. I forgot to give a citation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Quagmires —Preceding unsigned comment added by Meh00 ( talk • contribs) 04:45, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Not a rickroll; it's been added and then deleted because it doesn't fulfill the "definition" of a Rickroll as stated in the article.-- 293.xx.xxx.xx ( talk) 06:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Anyone else notice the June 9th, 2008 edition of WWE RAW? Vince McMahon was in the process of phoning someone to award them $US200,000 and instead got a reverse ringtone of the song. 122.57.80.150 ( talk) 09:32, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
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The link www.smouch.net/lol should be added as it is a very common way of Rick Rolling people. :) "Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you." —Preceding
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someone who can actually edit this should trash the youtube link/picture that goes to an awful video with 715 views, most of which appear to have come from this page... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.254.19.90 ( talk) 06:28, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
The most viewed Rick Roll video on Youtube - with over 20 million hits - was removed early October 2008. It's removal was around the time Rick Astley was nominated for 'Best Act Ever' at the MTV Europe awards. It's interesting to note this particular Youtube video was the main Rick Roll link - the one which gave Astley the most internet exposure - so its removal could have been instigated by record labels not wanting people to be 'Rick Rolled', and vote for him as Best Act Ever. It's possible the Best Act Ever MTV award will generate sales for the winner and Astley hasn't released an album since 2005 - 'Portrait'. From a record label point of view it might make greater financial sense for the winner to be someone like Britney Spears or U2. Astley has no plans to record new material, is not with a label, so his 'win' (if it happens) wouldn't generate future earnings for a record label. This could explain why the main Rick Roll Youtube video was removed.
The Wikipedia Rickrolling article doesn't mention the removal of the most popular Youtube Rick Roll video. It should be updated to mention this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.66.128.172 ( talk • contribs) 15:08, 3 October 2008
Is it worth mentioning that Jonathan Coulton managed to rick roll the audience of PAX 2008? He got a pretty good reaction. You can search youtube for a video called "PAX 2008 - Jonathan Coulton rickrolls the audience" to check. 92.8.104.39 ( talk) 23:53, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I've removed this section. As I noted in my edit summary, anything popular on the internet gets parodies/remakes. Rick rolling has many remakes and variations. Picking these few seems arbitrary, without any source to indicate why they're worth mentioning. My opinion is that the remakes should really only be individually covered if there's some sort of coverage of them, for example if Barrack Obama says he likes the Barrack-Roll or something like that. If there's a reliable source that talks about variations/parodies/remakes in general then a paragraph on the topic might be suitable for the article. Bill ( talk| contribs) 00:21, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Is it worth mentioning the night Vince McMahon got Rickrolled on live TV? Certainly that's one of the larger mass-Rickrollings. 65.189.210.173 ( talk) 04:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
The xkcd [13] section should be updated with the reference to Rick Astley in comic 485 [14] ( "A pixel on Rick Astley's shoulder" ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rjs valjean ( talk • contribs) 09:40, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Wasn't there a refrence to a pixel in Rick Astley's Shoulder in comic 485. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.237.111 ( talk) 16:01, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
The National Library of New Zealand decided not to honour the Robots Exclusion Protocol in the whole of domain harvest of the .nz domain. One serious suggestion for people who did not like their domain being indexed was to set a rewrite condition: [15]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*)NLNZHarvester2008(.*)$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
203.7.140.3 ( talk) 06:08, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
What about non-Rick Astley rickrolls? They're out there, but would they be considered Rickrolls? Or would they fall under a more general category? Thoughts welcome. Untii next edit, SonicBoom95 18:54, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Should we have an image of Duckroll, now that it's been established that it's certifiably the origin of the meme? It seems kinda useful that we've got something which can quite easily display the meme's origins, and I'm certain many users would find it illustrative of the history of rickroll. Methulah ( talk) 22:36, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Should this be mentioned in examples? i think it's worth mentioning since it shows him getting "Barack-rolled" in front of hundreds of people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiQCJXpbKg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.209.250.254 ( talk) 13:28, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure how to cite it, but we all just got Rickrolled by the parade. As the parade float for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends from Cartoon Network arrived to the front of Macy's, the music suddenly changed and Rick Astley himself came out to lipsync to Never Gonna Give You Up. As the edit of the song finished, one of the puppet characters says "I like rickrolling". I have no idea if there's a specific episode of the show that this might tie to or not. Acroyear ( talk) 16:43, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
This was HILARIOUS! I think many kudos should go to the organizers of the parade for being THAT current with the times, and kudos to US, the Wikipedians, for getting the event up inside the article so fast! Edit Centric ( talk) 19:22, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
A new campaign has been started to buy ad time in order to rickroll during the Super Bowl TV ads.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.188.213.150 ( talk • contribs) 13:56, December 1, 2008
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Shouldn't this article be moved to 'Rickroll' instead of 'Rickrolling'? I think the more common variant is the former; "rickrolling" is just a variant off of the original. Dr. Cash ( talk) 17:34, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Origin section currently shows the first use of Rickrolling to be in March of 2007. This is not accurate. I would estimate the first usage of rickrolling to actually have been sometime in 2005. This particular information needs to be revised. Rickrolling was on the World of Warcraft forums long before 2007. I cannot give a definitive timeline, but date of origin should be discussed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.207.120.233 ( talk) 18:53, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
I would like to point out that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia successfully Rickrolled its fans in the episode "Charlie Has Cancer," which aired August 23, 2005. Two years before this supposed 4chan duckrolling nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.123.65.136 ( talk) 17:56, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Not to fuel the flames of doubt, but I believe that the phenomenon didn't fully explode into popularity until after The Family Guy aired Meet the Quagmires on May 20th 2007. I don't know how long it takes to create an episode but a conservative estimate would at least place the creation of this episode near the stated 4chan origin date. I will be the first to admit that Family Guy borrows heavily from internet memes and pop-culture. Does anyone know if Family Guy has ever lifted a gag from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.127.128.2 ( talk • contribs) 23:20, November 30, 2008
Look. To settle this once and for all. It seems fairly obvious that the first time someone was intentionally misdirected to the video (not just listened to it in a cartoon or other TV show) was in the 4chan GTA IV trailer incident. Check Google Trends. Rickroll was first google'd for on May 13th 2007. I'm going to change the article, it says it started in March 2007 and references Google Trends, someone must've written March instead of May. TheKhakinator ( talk) 13:02, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
The simple reason that i have tagged this is that the examples section is biased towards american examples whereas people from many parts of the world were probably rickrolled. Simply south ( talk) 17:13, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
recently, some major smw hackers (people who hack or edit parts of the game "Super Mario World") made a "hack" that rick rolls the player. it features the music video and complete sound in the hack. it was first revealed to other hackers on "Super Mario World central", a hacking comunity, durring an event called "C3". It was first revealed by the user "smallhacker". the hack went by the name of "xka shack", for he claimed that it was just small level edits, not using any tools, or leveleditors, that make editing the game much easier. In other words, he claimed that he editted it with pure ASM, which stands for "assembaly code". When people played this hack, they would be surprised by getting a full length rick roll. when other users of smw central played it, they kept the surprise going by not comenting on how it was a rick roll, to keep it fresh.
LINKS:
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=showhack&id=2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seAwbPgfyuo&feature=related Doooomster ( talk) 20:47, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
I think that http://www.antispore.com warrants a mention in this, as it is one of the longest lasting rick rolls and people are still getting rick rolled without realizing it. Anonymous173173( talk) 05:07, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
There has been a lot of hoopla on music blogs/forums lately about the Rickrolling associated with the highly-publicized leaking of the Animal Collective album "Merriweather Post Pavillion," which has not yet seen its true release date. An estimated 11,000 people downloaded a supposed leak of the album, most prominently from this blog: http://roxymuzak.blogspot.com/ at this link: http://roxymuzak.blogspot.com/2008/12/animal-collective-merriweather-post.html. The link presented was an eleven-songs-in-length Rickroll. This incidence of Rickrolling was covered in Baltimore City Paper here: http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=17212 and originated on the popular music message board ILM ( http://www.ilxor.com). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Animalcollection ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
The page links to All Summer Long album by the Beach Boys, in the context of All_Summer_Long_(Kid_Rock_song). For some reason my account hasn't met the criteria to edit semi-protected pages I guess; if someone wouldn't mind fixing it for me :) -- Brandon12321 ( talk) 03:02, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
In an episode of Family Guy where Peter goes into the past, Bryan sings Never Gonna Give you up in its entirety at the end of the episode. I think this would definitely count as a Rick Roll. 75.53.42.191 ( talk) 05:02, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
There is a section detailing that Nancy Pelosi had uploaded a video that contained a rickroll. Forgive my skepticism, but just because the video was uploaded under her username does not necessarily convey intent. It is possible that anyone else could have put the video there, and since the only references there are the video itself and a site talking about the video itself and there are no sources about or from Pelosi herself, I am not sure if this information is notable enough to be on this page yet. Closetoeuphoria ( talk) 23:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Wasn't this one of the many YouTube phenomenons parodied in Weezer's Pork and Beans (song) video? -- Crackthewhip775 ( talk) 02:08, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Check this article.
Pork and Beans It should have a list of all parodied videos.
-zxcvbnmalex —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zxcvbnmalex ( talk • contribs) 01:08, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Really? Should this be mentioned? No significant third-party sources, and it says it was removed ... but who knows if it's really the video. I'd really like someone's opinion on this. I don't think it should, but maybe somebody else knows something I don't. – LATICS talk 00:35, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
the wiki page should forward to the video or embed it in the page so they would be rickrolled.-- Conor Fallon ( talk) 17:08, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
I agree. I know wikipedia is not supposed to be funny, but honestly, I think we could all agree that throwing a rick roll into the process would be the most "educational". Really people, make it happen.--
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Shouldn't this page be protected? lots of people are vandalizing......................... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilbunnifufu101 ( talk • contribs) 00:39, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
The Rickrolling has died down lately. Instead, people are starting to "Chacaroon" people. Should it be mentioned in this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.131.3 ( talk) 02:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
I just stumbled across this 2002 reference in an article about a busted child pornography ring: There was Richard Roll, a male nurse and former scoutmaster from Jamestown, N.Y., who called his pornographic films "Rick Roll Videos." [16] Don't know what to make of that. Could there possibly be a relation?-- 87.162.48.147 ( talk) 10:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Why is this page protected? I want to add a segment called "Barrack Roll'd", which highlights the new video on youtube that has Barrack Obama (from various speeches) appearing to sing the song Never Gonna Give You Up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Epithanyseeker ( talk • contribs) 00:22, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Has over a million views now. Please Include it. [17] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.213.120.190 ( talk) 08:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Vince McMahon with his McMahon million dollar thingy??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.229.206 ( talk) 22:00, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
The title "Teen Dating Violence" redirects to this page. Unless this is some form of sick joke, the redirection needs to be removed. I'm still new enough to wikipedia that I don't know how to do this. O76923 ( talk) 23:18, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone find a source for this? I do not suppose that the youtube links will do? (i.e. [18]) 212.10.51.200 ( talk) 09:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
the wiki page should forward to the video or embed it in the page so they would be rickrolled.
I don't get wikipedia sometimes.. a video of a guying blowing his wad on the "cum" page is A-OK!, but putting the RickRolled video on the rickrolling page is a no-no! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.28.105.1 ( talk) 23:50, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Some of the April Fools' Day 2008's data has lost somewhere, such as information about Kongregate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Rickrolling&oldid=202976134#April_Fool.27s_Day.2C_2008
See, it's over there in an old edit. Kongregate uploaded a game called "Kongai Launch" which they said to be their new card game, "Kongai", but it was actually a Rick Roll. I am a long time member over there, and now I saw that it has been deleted.
So, could somebody please add it back?
-- Juze ( talk) 15:12, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
EDIT: Oh yeah! Found it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Rickrolling&diff=204659986&oldid=204659246
That's where it was deleted.
-- Juze ( talk) 15:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Somebody add this:
The online gaming community [[Kongregate]] launched a new "game" called Kongai Launch, which featured a special card to be won, once the link was clicked, the link led to being rickrolled.{{Fact|date=April 2008}}
I can't change it my self, I am logged in, but the semiprotection won't let me edit. :(
-- Juze ( talk) 15:27, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I was finally able to edit it. :) April Fools' Day is coming tomorrow again!
-- Juze ( talk) 09:03, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
This is the most absurd wikipedia listing to date, and that is saying something. Someone attempt to explain to me why this "Rickrolled" bullshit is remotely notable or I will delete the entry and continue to do so every day until I die. This has no place on any information source that doesn't want to be lumped into the same quality category as the "urban dictionary" or some such. Explain why the term "Rickrolled" deserves to known by anyone other than lobotomized junior high school students, otherwise I'm killing it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.93.79.233 ( talk) 07:07, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
The photo screenshot of Rickrolling from YouTube is from the actual music video, if you look on the title in the screenshot. The real music video is NOT an example of rickrolling--or the rickrolling that I have come to know. I think the best screenshot would have the title of something that should be a legitimate video but show the rickroll. Discuss ~ 71.109.169.112 ( talk) 04:12, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
That screenshot located in the top of the article is weird because the caption says "Screenshot of a Rickroll video window on YouTube" but the video title (visible on the screenshot) says it's the music video itself, so it's not actually a Rickroll.-- ATDC Raigeki ( talk) 16:22, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/95781-EA-Rickrolls-Yahtzee
Making a list of web comic mentions and using as references the comic itself is a perfect example. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 52.129.8.50 ( talk • contribs) 20:51, July 20, 2009
I've removed the text that Uneffect ( talk · contribs) added in this edit per WP:TRIVIA. We're not here to mention every single time someone was Rickrolled or every time it's been mentioned on XKCD. This article was GA'd without the text in, and adding it in just brings down the quality. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 18:56, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Actually if you mean the xkcd stuff, yeah thats not even an example of rickrolling so i put the trivia template over it, get rid of it if you want. The rest isnt trivia Uneffect ( talk) 19:49, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
It makes the entire article suffer from the kind of quasi intellectual drivel and misuse/0veruse of certain words/teminology, that for some reason is so accepted when it comes to internet phenomenas. Why not just call it an "internet trend". (Excuse the english, not my first language) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.217.25.28 ( talk) 10:05, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
I think rickrolling and other things you're calling "internet trends" have already been called "
internet memes" by people who are actual intellectuals. When you consider the kind of things that happen in communication because of some of the more prevalent internet memes, it becomes apparent that they sometimes really are cultural units, containing much more meaning than just that of a practical joke. --
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In the history section, I think it would be right to recognize Family Guy's role in the rickrolling phenomenon. I'm sure most 4chan posters had no idea who Rick Astley was before the "Meet the Quagmires" episode aired in May 2007, featuring Brian singing the song in a parody of Back to the Future. Prior to that episode airing, I don't think anyone considered the song to be the "worst pop song ever," as the wikipedia article currently suggests. I don't think anyone even remembered it. Family Guy refreshed it in everyone's memory right before rickrolling started. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steronz ( talk • contribs) 13:03, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Regarding the following line in the introduction: The song may have been favored for this use by those regarding it as the "worst"[3]
Reference [3] ( http://www.citypaper.com/printStory.asp?id=15543) is not a legitimate source for this information. To quote the article: "tricking someone into watching the video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," quite possibly the worst song ever recorded".
No poll was conducted. No analysis of the song's purchase history was made. No "Worst 100 songs of [insert era here]" was referenced. This is a single author's line, and does not represent more than that person's opinion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mowerm ( talk • contribs) 05:38, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
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jailbroken iphone smartphone needs to be edited as follows:
(Capitalise) Jailbroken iPhone (remove smartphone)
Roby718 ( talk) 19:14, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Done Half of it, anyway. I can't see a valid reason to capitalize 'jailbroken'. I agree that iPhone smartphone is somewhat redundant, like Kleenex tissue or Band-Aid bandages.
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A New Hit sensation has hit. It is called Communist roll. you may find it will come up with a guy from the 80's singing lolololol. it has been viral and been the new rick roll. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mastchio ( talk • contribs) 16:30, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
The repeated line "We know the game and we're gonna play it " in the lyrics to the song "Never gonna give you up" are often associated with the meme "You just lost the game" as in the wikipedia article titled "The game (Mind Game)". If somebody's speculation in the introduction about how this song is considered the worst popular song ever is notable, then so is the link to the game. I can't put it in because I have no edits, though. The two memes are probably about as familiar to anonymous as each other, and often work in concert. None of that needs to be put in though. Just a mention of the game with the quoted lyrics and a link to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Humanaethema ( talk • contribs) 10:40, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Just answer me this? why not end it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Krashlia ( talk • contribs) 06:11, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Popular website YouMail.com had about 10,000 of its users 'rick roll' phone calls they received from telemarketers on April 1, 2010. [19]
Rick rolling apperears to have been inspired buy the 2007 Season Finale of Family Guy in which they spoofed Back to The Future. A small portion of the song was played and it was called "That new mediocre sound you've been looking for." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Quagmires#Cultural_references. The RickRolling fad croped up shortly after this date. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.120.192 ( talk) 01:11, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
It strikes me as a severely deficient explanation to say that this Bait&Switch internet meme that became known as RickRolling features Rick Astley because, as the article currently states, because it is:
Those who lived through the 80s know exactly why the Bait&Switch meme posterboy is Rick Astley, because we experienced it while watching MTV. Here is the edit I made a few minutes ago:
This change only lasted on the page a few minutes before it got clobbered out. I expect that the person who removed it is from a younger generation who never lived that original experience.-- ChrisfromHouston ( talk) 19:34, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Oh my god,the music is in the Gloria drama.WTF?Why did the cast of the Gloria drama put that music in the background?If you hear the Rick Roll music while watching this drama,you know why.The 8th episode of the Gloria drama should have negative reception.-- 99.130.169.30 ( talk) 13:17, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
"Despite the video getting milllions of hits on YouTube, Astley has barely earned any money out of the meme, receiving only US$12 for his performance share."
I can't help feeling this is misleading, as although Astley may not have earned money directly from the meme, he will have had more people buying his music, going to his shows etc. because of it.
But I can't think of how to phrase that properly without just saying "he probably profited I suppose". -- Love, Smurfy 16:37, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to put before everyone if this would be something that could be added to the article. I was just re watching a movie called Cube Zero which is part of a movie trilogy. Its a pretty gruesome sci fi movie. The gist of the movies is that people are trapped in a high tech cube and have to find their way out by moving into a different part of the cube that doesnt a have a lethal trap. If you get trapped in one that does, your dead. In Cube Zero an unfortunate person gets trapped in a cube room where the deadly trap is several ultra sonic speakers blaring,you guessed it, Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". It blares into the room where the guys dies a very gruesome screaming death, although I wonder if it was because of having to hear the song or the decibels. I know this is'nt technically a "rickroll" as defined by the article but I feel it should be included somehow. I hope I get some feed back soon. If nobody responds after a few weeks Ill add it with some qualifications and others can edit it or take it down. Here's the scene. WARNING: GRAPHIC SCENE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWI42icJzJc&feature=related —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.31.242.174 ( talk) 21:58, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
No it is not actually obvious but I do see that he did make the comment to the effect that it was not in the movie after I had seen the video.-- 76.31.242.174 ( talk) 23:42, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
The comedy site ZUG.com sent a weather balloon into space with a device playing the Rickroll theme, capturing it on video. Can we add this to the page? Dprice99 ( talk) 02:21, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
I was a fervent listener of Live105 <1> radio broadcasts out of San Francisco, when I went to school at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley, from 1990-1994. Every Memorial Day weekend, the station would count down the top 300 modern rack classics "of all time". I decided to tape-record as much of the 1991 countdown as I could. I still have the 10 or so tapes I made then. When the D.J. was about to reveal the #1 song on the countdown, replete with drum roll, he played a Rick Astley song instead of the actual #1 song, Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order < 2>. It was horrifying for a moment, since we modern rock enthusiasts were loathe to appreciate a pop song by Rick Astley. Then the joke was apparent as the song faded out and the D.J. came back on to play the real #1. I believe that future internet gurus may have been listening to that broadcast as well in 1991, in the Silicon Valley, and they may have gone on to develop Rickrolling in later years. Does anyone have evidence of this? -- Johnstonjenny ( talk) 18:33, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
<1> http://live105.radio.com Official website of Live105, retrieved 10/09/10. <2> Live105 Flashback 300 (1991), http://www.rocklists.com/alltime71, retrieved 10/09/10.
It's not like you are forced to look at the whole video. Beancrisp ( talk) 05:43, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Why is the word typically in the first line of the article? .
Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up".
It's not "typically involving" it always involves the music video, it can't be a rick roll without a link to the video. I can't edit this article, but it would be appreciated if someone who can would make this change.
173.76.109.232 ( talk) 20:59, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
I think it was meant to mean that the meme typically used Rick Astley, but that any music video can be used. It seems right, since the term rickrolling has become generic. -- Allvanishing ( talk) 00:17, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
The section Saint Seiya: The Hades has horrendous grammar. Can someone fix it? Words such as "thoses" don't exist and official has two f's. 72.152.136.241 ( talk) 02:12, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
ThinkGeek.com Rick Rolled site visitors who clicked on the video for the Beta to HD DVD recorder.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/betamaxhd.html
It linked to a YouTube video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dY3IHhIRlo&feature=autoplay&list=FLOVFuVkd_Lwk&index=2&playnext=1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.71.97.192 ( talk) 17:31, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
A Linux kernel module has been written that, when loaded, intercepts open() system calls and replaces file names ending in ".mp3" with a path to a predefined MP3 file instead. The idea being that the kernel will Rickroll any users' attempt to play an MP3 audio file.
https://github.com/fpletz/kernelroll
213.100.159.170 ( talk) 14:14, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
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Please change under the headline "Examples" and the sub headline "Others" to include a note stating: "On 11 January 2012, the Occupy Pittsburgh movement decided they will play "Never Gonna Give You Up" if confronted by authorities."
Citation: Balingit,Moriah (2012-01-11). "Occupy Pittsburgh to cops: prepare to be rickrolled". Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
Fort2m ( talk) 06:57, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Can we ad the Ferris Bueller teaser and subsequent revelation to the list?
Millions of internet watchers were excited to the possibility of a new Ferris Bueller movie after a 10 second clip. We Googled the possibility and even found a 5 year old script. Less than a week later we were Rickrolled or "Bueller Bombed" because it turns out it was not a movie but an ad for a Honda, which isn't even choice enough the like of Ferris Bueller.
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In the Effects on Astley and reaction section, it says: "According to The Register, however, Astley has only directly made $12, in [...]" To know what that word "however" implies, we need to look at the sentence before it. That one states that Astley "thanked moot for the rickrolling phenomenon". The word "however" wrongly implies that Astley thanked moot for revenue Astley earned or expected to earn, thus the word "however" should be removed. -- 82.171.13.139 ( talk) 13:31, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
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Please change the word "persons" to "people" on line 5, it should be changed because the sentence is not referring to individuals but anyone.
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Another form of Rickrolling has circulated in social media images that trick the user into thinking the words Never Going To Give You Up, thus causing the viewer to "get the song stuck in their head". This is done by claiming that a percentage of the viewers of the image do not know the antonyms for the words "1) Always 2) Coming 3) From 4) Take 5) Me 6) Down".
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reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Facebook is not a reliable source.
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What would be considered a reliable source for a phenomenon that occurs exclusively in social media? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DianaOBrien ( talk • contribs) 12:50, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Why hasn't this been addressed? People seem to accept that this guy started it, and he has the login on youtube for the original youtube video. See this, for example: http://www.reddit.com/comments/mx53y/i_am_youtube_user_cotter548_aka_the_inventor_of/?sort=confidence as well as http://betabeat.com/2012/09/meet-shawn-cotter-the-man-behind-the-rickroll/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:A:2B00:48:E2F8:47FF:FE1F:47C6 ( talk) 21:56, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
In October 2012 Google did an extremely covert rick-roll by putting out a Google Maps tour video with Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" playing on not one, but two screens. That attempt comes up when you search for 'worlds largest rickroll' and Beanstalk's blog can be "cited" as reporting the video to be, "... the world's largest ever single Rick Roll attempt" [2], when they did a story on the same Google Maps video. If you dig further into the statistics close to 2 million viewers had watched the Google Maps rickroll/server building tour by the 3rd day, and most of those were all in the same day. So with this in hand Google needs an honorable mention if not the current title of 'worlds largest rickroll', at least in the context of forcing someone to watch the YouTube video.WRX-Nut 03:16, 29 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by WRXNUT ( talk • contribs)
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During a live edition of WWE Monday Night Raw on June 9, 2008, WWE chairman Vince McMahon was "rickrolled" as part of an on-air contest. Throughout the broadcast McMahon made several phone calls to WWE viewers who had entered the contest and if they knew the correct current prize code, they would win money. On the first attempt to call a viewer, that person had set their ringback tone to "Never Gonna Give You Up" which played live over the WWE broadcast for several seconds. Stuttsy ( talk) 10:20, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
On IsoHunt's shutdown page as of 2013/10/21, the site used the video unironically. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.167.113.209 ( talk) 09:01, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm sure I remember a version of Rickrolling where the unsuspecting Rickrollee was taken to a page on which the video played as wallpaper (in a manner reminiscent of YTMND) along with the music, while lyrics flashed up in sequential prompt windows, making it impossible to stop the webpage without closing the webpage by command prompt or similar. I have a feeling that this may even have been before YouTube. — Sasuke Sarutobi ( talk) 10:53, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
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Please change this section:
Effects on Astley and reaction
In a March 2008 interview, Astley said that he found the Rickrolling of Scientology to be "hilarious"; he also said that he will not try to capitalize on the rickroll phenomenon with a new recording or remix of his own, but that he would be happy to have other artists remix it. Overall, Astley is not troubled by the phenomenon, stating that he finds it "bizarre and funny" and that his only concern is that his "daughter doesn't get embarrassed about it".[13] A spokesperson for Astley's record label released a comment which showed that Astley's interest with the phenomenon had faded, as they stated "I'm sorry, but he's done talking about Rickrolling".[5]
To read like this:
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In a March 2008 interview, Astley said that he found the Rickrolling of Scientology to be "hilarious"; he also said that he will not try to capitalize on the rickroll phenomenon with a new recording or remix of his own, but that he would be happy to have other artists remix it. Overall, Astley is not troubled by the phenomenon, stating that he finds it "bizarre and funny" and that his only concern is that his "daughter doesn't get embarrassed about it." [13] A spokesperson for Astley's record label released a comment which showed that Astley's interest with the phenomenon had faded, as they stated, "I'm sorry, but he's done talking about Rickrolling." [5]
Dj1964 ( talk) 02:40, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
I restored the Examples section from the history, undoing the split done last November. My intent is to discourage anyone from copying back from List of successful rickrolls unnecessarily. WP:Articles for deletion/List of successful rickrolls had consensus for reducing the list and strong support for cutting it substantially. I have no objection to anyone engaging in normal content editing immediately. Flatscan ( talk) 05:06, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
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Insert link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=kp into the link of "bait and switch", if you have a sense of humor. Do it. Do it. Open the trunk. Do it. Jaswon ( talk) 03:01, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
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Rickrolling was around long before 2008. Probably even dates back to the late nineties. By 2008, it had been a tiresome, old joke for years with internet geeks and old-timers. I don't know where it began, but if I had to guess, I'd say slashdot.org or /. 2602:30A:C071:98D0:89F8:FFD2:4266:F28A ( talk) 00:48, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
I would like to suggest another variation of a "Rick Roll". During gameplay this evening we "Rick Rolled" one of the opposition via in game comms. With 12 people in a coordinated fashion saying lines of the song at one of the opposition team players. Causing the player in question to receive ~50 comms notifications over a few minutes. I guess I would call this the "sing-along-remote" rick roll, as each person was singing their line before posting it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanBUK ( talk • contribs) 23:49, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
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The Rickroll video is active as of August 28, 2015 through this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ as a source for this Yahoo Answers page: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081208133841AAUxOoY Nightshade6977 ( talk) 03:12, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Change link in reference 40 from http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/11/macys-thanksgiv.html to http://www.ew.com/article/2008/11/27/macys-thanksgiv — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dumenar ( talk • contribs) 21:17, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
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To whomsoever is unfortunate enough to have this knowledge dropped upon them,
Hello, my name is James Ballard. I would like to start by saying that I use Wikipedia with frequency and have rarely, if ever, been disappointed by the service provided by your wonderfully accessible website. However, this is a forlorn edit request form. This evening, a good friend of mine informed me that "Rickrolling" was more of a thing than I was aware of. I thought that it was something reserved for youtubers and honestly enjoyed the occaissional influx of Rick Astley. Once informed of this "new" development, I quickly went to Wikipedia to do some research on "Rickrolling." The first two sentences in the article are as follows:
"Rickrolling is an Internet meme[1] 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 hyperlink which is seemingly relevant to the topic at hand, but actually leads to Astley's video."
In the second sentence, the word "hyperlink" is a hyperlink to an article on Wikipedia entitled "Hyperlink" which describes what a hyperlink is. This is a travesty. On the page for "Rickrolling" is an opportunity to express a definition or idea with such nuance as to be criminal to pass up. The word "hyperlink" should be a hyperlink to the music video by Astley. It is a rare occurance indeed to be able to explain to someone, in a way that they will totally understand the concept, without explaining anything. This is quite possibly the greatest tragedy the internet has ever seen. If internet giants turn their backs on little details such as this, the internet will turn into a festering pool of monotony and blandness. I for one, stand for the flair and entertaining nature of the internet. I cannot stand idly by while this crime against human hilarity and experimental education is allowed to go on. Please, for the love of every joke ever made, fix this wildly offensive error.
Thank you for your time, James Ballard 73.177.60.246 ( talk) 02:15, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
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One of the sections says that the current video has over 80 million views. It has more than doubled since then, as it now has over 195 million. 184.53.32.101 ( talk) 20:39, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
this was a treadon 4chan mainly derrived from Hidden links veiw 4chan.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ this is a link to a video about the history of rick rolling. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.189.162.111 ( talk) 17:22, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
The reaction from Astley mentions this incident but the incident itself isn't mentioned in the article which could lead to confusion for anyone unfamiliar with the event. Should the event be listed under its history or perhaps that mentions of the event be excluded? --Steven Williamson ( HiB2Bornot2B) - talk ▓▒░ Go Big Blue! ░▒▓ 04:53, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
There needs to be an external links section, and it should have a disguised link to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. Dubinia ( talk) 21:26, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Shouldn’t “Rickroll” and “rick-roll” be capitalized, since they contain “Rick,” the name of a person? For instance, the “Morse” in “
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The claim that Rick Rolling began on 4Chan is wrong. Rick Rolling goes back to the 90's, when people would just post a mp3 of the song, and long before 4Chan had debut. It was popular on message boards long before 4Chan or 2007. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:f9d0:a610:4998:7555:c112:a9ad ( talk • contribs) 01:09, August 7, 2019 (UTC)
I think the date in the article (2007) is inaccurate. I vaguely remmeber a website back in 2005-ish with a URL something along the lines of 1337.(something) which spawned the annoying pop-ups quickly which you had to close to exit the page. ZdrytchX ( talk) 15:18, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
The fifth link in the sources (supposed to link to a Fox News page) results in a 404 error. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FooNation ( talk • contribs) 04:36, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
Both the Italian and English are referring this video for the date of the rickroll starting, other than the fact that this didn't start the rickroll, both miss the right date by 1 month. it's May, not August, eiher April. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FallBackITA27 ( talk • contribs) 16:57, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Radiohead? (I was there.) --~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:43B1:1870:FD3D:F5EE:2913:7732 ( talk) 04:11, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
It's finally happened. Reddit link
Here's the text I propose to insert under "Effects on Astley and reaction":
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In June 2020, Rick Astley posted a picture of himself taken in 1989 on tour in Las Vegas on Reddit. A user responded with a possible fabricated story about meeting Rick Astley back-stage during their childhood with a link to the song. Rick responded with the 'applause' emoji presumably having clicked on the link and being Rickrolled.
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If links are to be added, I'd need to be told, as I do not contribute regularly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atreya The Brain ( talk • contribs) 20:42, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
I edited the "Ongoing Usage" section to mention briefly the event of Astley being rickrolled on 17 June. Please let me know if I cited an improper source before removing my edit, so that I can change the source or remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biasbalancer1 ( talk • contribs) 00:43, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
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I would like to add a link to Rick Astley's never gonna give you up to attempt to rick roll readers of the page CanadianRussianVodka ( talk) 10:21, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Not done There is already a still image and a link to a video.
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Put under either ongoing usage section, or effects on Astley and his reaction. Not sure where this should go but I think it should go under one of these.
On 18 June 2020, approximately around 12AM (GMT+8), Rick Astley posted a photo of himself at his very first concert in 1989 on social media platform Reddit, following which a commenter known as u/theMalleableDuck commented on the post, saying that he had met him backstage when he was 12 years old, and attaching what was supposedly a link to a photo taken with him. The photo, however was actually a link to a copy of the Rickroll video. Rick Astley supposedly fell prey to it, and clicked on the link rickrolling himself in the process. He reacted with a clapping hands emoji after being rickrolled, while the Reddit user, whose identity is not yet known, became famous in the process, earning himself just under 40,000 Reddit coins and access to Reddit premium until 2029, along with respect from Rick Astley.
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This article states Rick Astley mad 12 dollars from this video, however, in a reddit AMA, he claims otherwise. https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/56cdgm/ama_im_really_rick_astley_i_swear_and_to/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:344:C300:4DC0:B035:8CC:6841:B4BF ( talk) 22:27, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
In the category of "cover version references", an episode of the sitcom Better Off Ted titled "Beating a Dead Workforce" that first aired in January 2010 featured the audio of a lead character singing the song in the background of a motivational video. This was very likely a reference to the meme, not only due to the timing (the episode was filmed in 2009 at the height of it) but because the character stops singing the actual lyrics after the third line of the chorus and just boops along to the melody thereafter, reflecting the fact that most people turn off the meme after "Never gonna run around and desert you". 70.73.90.119 ( talk) 19:20, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
Should this article be added to this category? Rickrolling has made a return this year. -- HaruhiSuzumiyaIsAGod ( talk) 12:13, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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This website proves it actually didnt come from duckroll RubyPiec ( talk) 11:32, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Rickrolling hit new heights in 2020 with both Rick Astley https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_few_funny_memories_during_lockdown/fv505w1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3 and youtube https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/k98r41/i_rickrolled_youtube/ being rickrolled.
User:Devonian Wombat if it's ok, can you add this [20] [21]? on 'ongoing usage section, where youtube got rickrolled. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.151.185.63 ( talk) 02:29, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Recently I've been on facebook and I found a popular new trend, there is a facebook group called "... See More" and when you make a really long comment or post, it says at the bottom "... See More" if you want to read the rest of the post or comment, and people have instead made comments and post where they write a sentence usually containing important information and cutting it of by tagging the "... See More" group instead. When you click on the link for the group the cover photo is a picture of Rick Ashley from the video. There are also different variations such as groups called "... See Less", "... Read More", "... See Translation" and "view post" . There is also a different type where they have taken advantage of the fact that when you tag groups the text is blue and links to websites are also blue and they named groups after website links and tagging it trying to fool people, these groups also has Rick Ashley from the "Never Gonna Give You Up" video as a cover photo. I thought this should be added to this article. Anzio Langeveldt ( talk) 16:44, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
It turns out Facebook is deleting these groups since it is tagged everywhere and is against their community policies of spam Anzio Langeveldt ( talk) 18:08, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
What does Darude Sandstorm have to do with Rickrolling -- HighlyLogicalVulcan ( talk) 10:54, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
In this part:
> When victims click on a seemingly unrelated link, the site with the music video loads instead of what was expected, and in doing so they are said to have been "Rickrolled".
I think it would be beneficial for the page if a link to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” was added in a hyperlink where it says “seemingly unrelated link”. I think this would give readers a good firsthand knowledge of what the Rickrolling meme really is. FourInchKnife ( talk) 13:45, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
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i ask to be able to rickroll some people searching about rickrolls by writing ``check out this link for more informtion about rick astley`` AMAZOOKservices2 ( talk) 16:45, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
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MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:52, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Prague City Hall’s QR code cobblestone in Prague, Czech Republic originally lead to a website, but as of February 2020, it now leads to a Rickroll.
Notable QR code rickrolls:
-- MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)Prague City Hall's QR code cobblestone originally lead to a website. As of February 2020, it now leads to a rickroll. -- MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)In January 2016, a person managed to rickroll motorists in Asheville, North Carolina via fake parking tickets that have a QR code, which is a rickroll. -- MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)A historical sign in South Nyack, New York has a the video's QR code on the bottom right. -- MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)In February 2021, the Los Angeles Unified School District made a video about their Daily Pass. The QR code in the Daily Pass from the video is a rickroll. -- MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)The video's QR code was used as easter eggs in video games such as Snow and World War Z.
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Changing the view rate for Rick Ashtley's youtube video from 900 million to a billion as of today. The wikiyeet ( talk) 04:38, 26 August 2021 (UTC) The wikiyeet ( talk) 04:38, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
The MTV Europe Music Awards have been rickrolled when 4chan, as well as several other forums (I believe ultimate guitar forum actually started it), voted to have Rick Astley nominated. He accepted the nomination and may quite possibly win, which would be probably the largest rickroll ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.106.103.47 ( talk • contribs) 01:53, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
In the television show Ted Lasso, season 2 episode 12, “No Weddings and a Funeral” released September 24, 2021, Hannah Waddingham (as Rebecca Welton) is about to speak at her father’s funeral and instead begins singing “Never Gonna Give You Up” to a church full of mourners, who eventually join in. It is both a "rickrolling" of the mourners and the TV audience, though without breaking the mood of the piece.
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Apparently the original Youtube link has been deleted. Per this vlog post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWog3NkPdPs it's shown the original vidlink is now broken. -- 64.229.90.53 ( talk) 08:59, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ please go here — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.166.100.170 ( talk) 16:04, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
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You are not considered to be Rick rolled if and advertisement comes before the actual video. 2402:3A80:1E73:EA78:FF9E:E83B:1070:1DE5 ( talk) 07:31, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
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AssumeGoodWraith has added the When template to the lede section of this article. The When template documentation suggests adding a When section to the talk page to discuss the issue. Personally I can't see what the problem is. However your mileage may vary. So here is a section to discuss the issue. Tango Mike Bravo ( talk) 13:05, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
How is this article related to Daniel Yona, the Israeli skiller? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Napoleon 33eerrt 5567 ( talk • contribs) 19:27, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Wouldn't Rick's appearance at the Foo Fighters concert also be an example of Rickrolling? Jalwikip ( talk) 19:25, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
you would not get this from any other guy but I say this artical is a bit blatant, the song never gonna give you up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ has a deeper story, and rick rolling does too, this needs more info, Your's truly< Qtcquestionbloc ( talk) 23:40, 16 February 2022 (UTC) </ref https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ>
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People have token rock rolling so far that in 2021 TheTekkitRealm Rickrolled the superbowl by using word clouds Teanuarai ( talk) 01:17, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
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there is a mistake in the rickroll and it is a bit outdated at some parts Acrobatsmek ( talk) 08:13, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
then Darth Vader got rick rolled. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.184.82.3 ( talk) 18:56, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
The article mentions a claim that Rick only received $12 from Youtube for his video, despite it's popularity, but then references a Reddit comment he made to say he denies this. However, if you go and read the Reddit comment, he's actually replying to a comment that only made $12 full stop from the video, not just from Youtube. He points out he's made lots of money from the video otherwise, and says he doesn't actually know how much he's gotten from Youtube as he doesn't care. Can someone with edit access please change the page to update this please? Link to Reddit comment: [22] 2A00:23C4:6B13:D801:3416:F8C2:986:50CE ( talk) 18:25, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! I would like some changes to make the page more readable. First of all, the first image says “A still frame from the music video of the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley on YouTube, taken in 2008.” Most of that doesn’t matter. It could just be “A screenshot from 2008 of Never Gonna Give You Up”. Next the 4Chan, you could call m00t, well m00t and not Christopher “m00t” Poole.
Okay, speed round incoming. At the start you could just make “internet memes” to “memes”. The hyperlink to the page of wikipedias hyper-link page could just be a hyperlink to never gonna give you up. Finally, you didn’t need the paragraph about the video “RickRoll’d”
Finally, there’s a conspiracy theory about Conner, the uploader of RickRoll’d setting it all up. Some even believe he’s m00t and the person who made the duck rolling thread. The reason why was because the video was called RickRoll’d before rickrolling even became a thing!
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Hi, I want to add below contents in History#Origin :
In 2022, Shawn Cotter was interviewed by Vice Media. He said the reason of using "Never Gonna Give You Up" was because he found a list about songs that were popluar when you are born in Internet, and this song is on the top of 1987, which was his borned year.
Source: [23]or [24] 巴波 ( talk) 12:19, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
I got rickrolled today and recalled the wave of rickrolling in my office in 1999. I believe the practice of 'rickrolling' precedes the use of the term 'rickrolling', using the same method and the same video. I don't doubt the reference to the term but it would enhance the article to date the practice much earlier. 108.51.234.209 ( talk) 20:54, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
When you get rickrolled, you typically hear the first few seconds of the song, and then close off the video before you hear the rest, so I think the song sample should be at the beginning of the song. Would this be an NFCC minimal use issue because of a different sound sample at Never Gonna Give You Up? Snowmanonahoe ( talk · contribs · typos) 21:23, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Good description of a rickroll (ooh, by the way I got rickrolled two days ago) . But I do not see any lyrics! Please add them Learning With Ameer ( talk) 09:07, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
https://twitter.com/FrankRose1856/status/1670925354024804353?s=20 Twitter user, @FrankRose1856 has created a scannable, pictorial QR code which rickrolls. So rickrolling continues into the artificial intelligence age. 2A02:C7C:D112:C00:CD69:65B5:FF74:8AE5 ( talk) 14:34, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Rick Astley published a song, "Never gonna stop" as part of his 2023 album 'Are We There Yet?'. The song structure heavily references Never gonna give you up, this is why some people consider this song to be Rick Astley's very own Rickroll.
Link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWNQUvIk954 2A01:CB19:8F8A:9B00:25E3:E986:D584:74D9 ( talk) 18:04, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
a variant form of rickrolling using the Nickroll link that opens like a typical rickroll before the audio is replaced with Nickleback's "How You Remind Me". Entageweorc ( talk) 15:59, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm 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 We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it (say it) Inside, we both know what's been going on (going on) We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see 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 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 We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it (to say it) Inside, we both know what's been going on (going on) We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm 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 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 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 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myname-issaysay12 ( talk • contribs) 00:33, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
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Change to the Simultaneous references of the appearance in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode. You cited the wrong episode
The song "Never Going to Give You Up" appeared twice in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 1 episode 4 "Charlie Has Cancer" whiched aired on on Aug 23, 2005.
https://itsalwayssunny.fandom.com/wiki/Charlie_Has_Cancer scroll down to trivia. Or watch the episode on Disney+/Star (Canada) or Hulu (USA) to confirm. Fast forward to 10:54. Dennis even mentions Rick Astley when asked what he listening to.
In the podcast you referenced as a citation, they only mention the song when Rob goes a little off topic and starts discussing music they have used through out the series, but it does not appear in episode 15 of Season 3 "The Gang Dances Their Asses Off".
In fact, the song is only used one other time on Oct 3, 2018 in Season 13 Episode 5 "The Gang Gets New Wheels" at the end of the episode as a call back to the Season 1 episode. 199.7.158.57 ( talk) 10:17, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
according to the never gonna give you up article, when USA invaded panama they played this song as Psychological warfare. Does that count as rickrolling Thehistorianisaac ( talk) 00:54, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
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The origin of Rickrolling started sometime around the year 1999 or 2002 as an Internet Email Prank where you would be treated to an email from a friend or a random message sent to you by an unknown sender. When you clicked on the link inside you would be sent to a new window where the video of Never gonna give you up would open and play the video. At the same time the lyrics of the video would appear and any attempt to click off the video would skip to the next sentence in the song until you got through the lyrics of the song before you were allowed to shut the video off, or just allowed for the whole song to play. Vasarto ( talk) 16:00, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
The song was in iasip (Charlie has cancer) in 2005 which was before the first uses of the rick roll. The current article says it was in iasip in 2007. 98.14.97.228 ( talk) 15:41, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
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Were no strangers to walls!
We stick real Close, WITH CEMENT!
Building some houses that are, Really tall!
You wouldnt get this from any other brick!
i, Just want to make you a giant house,
Gotta keep you, Under a roof!
Never gonna brick u up
never gonna let u down,
I cannot run around, im a brick O.o
site: yougotrickrolled.com
I checked jp.youtube.com (Japan) and tw.youtube.com (Taiwan), which do not redirect featured videos to Never Gonna Give You Up, so apparently the joke is limited to western countries. Will I require sources, as some Wikipedian purists are gonna nag about Original Research (Wikipedia, this is why I hate you), or is this considered obvious enough to just add this info? Vindictive Warrior ( talk) 19:00, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I removed the following line from the article with the reasoning "Is this section now an indiscriminate list of times the song is used on podcasts?".
On the April Fools' Day episode of the music review podcast Have You Heard ( episode 17), after discussing Rick Astley's reaction to rickrolling, the hosts rickroll their audience by repeatedly cutting to the song throughout the episode.
It appears to be a non-notable podcast with a relatively small number of episodes and doesn't have a wiki article. My edit has since been reverted, though I'd like to discuss. What makes this "active participation of the phenomenon" notable? AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 14:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Are we allowed to mention Carson Daly's Rickroll attempt on his show or is Anonymous still pissed at him for taking credit for the meme? -- 293.xx.xxx.xx ( talk) 08:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
www.gamefaqs.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.203.200.166 ( talk) 17:22, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
In response to the "Verification Needed" referring to XKCD comic #389, I plugged the music from the comic into Finale NotePad, and sure enough, it's the intro to the song, "Never Gonna Give You Up." I'm new to verifying anything on Wikipedia, so I don't know what should happen next... 72.71.241.7 ( talk) 14:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)Rob
We need more citations for the NYT hoax. I found this one, but I dont know how to add them to an article. 71.214.100.52 ( talk) 04:20, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
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help)This has made Reuters, nice. Cirt ( talk) 05:43, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
ALSO NOTE The article seems to claim the youtube prank was setup as a promotion of sort to increase songs being bought or what not? someone check that? And add it to this article? sorry, in a rush. cheers Nesnad ( talk) 16:45, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Considering the very point and purpose of Rickrolling it's possible that they're allowed because they are an effective parody and so fall under fair use. Garonyldas ( talk) 22:23, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Uploaded with permission? Are you kidding me? Hell no it was never uploaded with permission. The only recent approval of it being there is Rick Astley's rubberstamp of opinion, which doesnt mean anything btw 210.243.112.139 ( talk) 03:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
The page should redirect to Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up#.22Rickroll.22_Internet_meme, the portion of the article which actually explains the Rickroll. Zchris87v 23:45, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
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Actually this page should redirect to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.9.209.139 ( talk) 05:56, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
I removed the following from the article - this section was commented out. I've made note in the edit summary.
I'd like to add to this section a little bit before having it show up in the actual article, it's kinda short, even though I think it was a notable sighting, there's just not enough information available aside from the Youtube videos. does anyone have anything else or any more information to add?
On April 9, 2008, the torch of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was rickrolled as it passed through San Francisco on its way around the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTTK8YpTBFg
AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 04:54, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Follow the link to "photoshopped" and it specifically says it is slang. This leads me to believe that a term such as "digitally edited" would better. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.112.144.234 ( talk) 05:47, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
BBC News - April 1 2008. [1] SomeNonaSaint ( talk) 11:13, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
LA Times interview with Rick: [2] 75.57.190.1 ( talk) 18:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Fark comment thread with link to "Muppets Blooper Reel": [3] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.254.35.75 ( talk) 22:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
From BBC news - "Fans of pop star Rick Astley descended on London's Liverpool Street train station for a "flashmob" event."-- h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 08:15, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
also mentioned here, in a great article about rickrolling. See under reuters for two more sources that may have been overlooked. timesonline.co.uk2 DigitalC ( talk) 01:29, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I took this out when I converted the April Fool's day section to a list. The text is still there in comments if it is deemed notable enough to have it's own section.
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Widespread by May 2007? How widespread? I've only seen it outside 4chan in the last couple of weeks. 88.109.27.103 ( talk) 21:38, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I seem to recall a sentence or two talking about the family guy episode Meet the Quagmires which first aired May 20, 2007 but it's not there anymore. The episode finished with a "Never gonna give you up" montage and I think it was that episode that reminded people of the song and led to it being used as a rick roll. People who saw the episode recalled that scene when they were rickrolled and ensured the rickroll comments stayed alive.
Similarly, shouldn't the Meet the Quagmires article be changed to indicate it led to the rickroll phenomena rather than being an homage to it.
So is that part of the origin, or were rickrolls around before that episode? (keep in mind that the episode would have been produced several months before airing so I don't know about it being a homage to the rickroll phenomena).-- Will2k ( talk) 18:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
It came from 4chan's /v/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.217.122.158 ( talk) 23:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
You mean ebaumsworld, yeah? -- MAdaXe ( talk) 12:53, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Although it impossible to verify now it did indeed start on 4chan's /v/. Upon the release of the first GTA4 trailer the servers got so much traffic they crashed for a short time. During the down time someone asked if the video had been uploaded to youtube yet. One Anonymous posted the link to "Never gonna give you up" which went from a few hundred hits up to a few thousand later that day. Later on the video was deleted I believe because of copy right issues and if the original video wasn't deleted you could mark the swift change in comments from reminiscing Astley fans to "OH ONDORE" and "The niggers in GTA4 sure can jump high" and other 4chan style comments. It's sad to see family guy getting the credit for the phenomena but I guess that's just one more of wiki's short comings. TheRedCometMS06 ( talk) 18:30, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Well, apparently some Australian news report now incorrectly credits Family Guy with this meme. Apparently they're above researching on Wikipedia. 68.231.214.169 ( talk) 03:57, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2008/04/11/west.uk.rick.rolling.itn
Note: the video erroneously state the meme began with family guy. AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 03:32, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
I've put in a request to semi protect this page. AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 16:10, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Can people please stop adding this info in to this article without sources, or just adding a link to YouTube as a source? This is a violation of WP:OR. We need a mention in a WP:RS/ WP:V secondary source to add this to the article, and I'm sure there will be mention of it at some point soon. Cirt ( talk) 05:32, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
well, youtube has rickrolled the masses. If that isn't a good enough reason to keep this article, nothing is. 71.8.72.63 ( talk) 06:03, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Can someone verify if the World of Warcraft April fools joke uses the Chord progression of "never going to give you up" and is, infact, also a rick roll? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.170.54.70 ( talk) 19:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Can someone please remove this cite? YouTube is not an adequate cite for YouTube itself - Can we just write an entire article on YouTube and source it solely to YouTube links and YouTube videos? No, we can not. The same applies here, and this is why a cite to YouTube for something happening on YouTube isn't really the best cite. Cirt ( talk) 07:29, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Just now I've commented out the link on the page to the "Original Browser Crashing" Rickroll. I don't really consider it responsible to link that site, regardless of its potential encyclopedic value. Mendaliv ( talk) 12:57, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I think the best way to handle the cleanup is to give each April Fool's instance a single sentence in a bulleted list.
The April 11 flash mob should be moved into it's own sub-section as it isn't really an April Fool's Day rick-rolling. Wcudmore ( talk) 15:58, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
We are dealing with several small incidents here. I doubt that any single one is noteworthy on it's own (Leaving the noteworthiness of this entire article to another discussion altogether.) I do not think that this sub-section is worth expanding. For Example: "Social blog website LiveJournal announced on the same day that they would be adding a new member to their Advisory Board, linking members to the journal "rickastley", which contains a Rickroll." is a single, complete description of an instance of RickRolling that really shouldn't be expanded. The Scientology, and New York Mets RR are both significant in their importance (Scientology) and Scope (Mets) and warrant their own subsections. The AfD RR's are all small, and short lived incidents, that go to support the larger point of the sub-section which is simply "On AfD 2008, a bunch of stuff happened. Here are some examples: list here."
In order to prove this larger point, a list is the appropriate way of providing evidence. Expanding these small points is not worthwhile, nor would it improve the quality of the article. Take a look at the history (Go back to one of the reverted edits) and ask yourself the following questions:
Certainly the list could benefit from some re-writing after the fact, but it seems clear to me that listing examples of AfD RickRolularity is the best way to go. Wcudmore ( talk) 16:42, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Back to the original discussion: I'll point you at the
goatse page as an example of a bulleted list in a similar context.
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This still needs cleaning up. At the very least, the second paragraph should be split into 3 independent paras. Right now, it deals with 3 unrelated instances. The subsequent paras each deal with one instance each. I will not be doing this until some consensus is reached as to what to do with this section. Wcudmore ( talk) 15:36, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm having problems referencing this incident. There are many posted videos of the actual incident which would be excellent citations. However AtaruMoroboshi feels that these should not be used for copyright violation reasons. He may have a point, but this limits us severely. All other references I can find are blogs. Why are we forced to choose unreliable secondary sources when perfectly good primary sources exist. I also take issue with AturuMoroboshi's (Good Faith) assertion that a published citation is better than a link to the actual event.
If we cannot resolve this citation issue, this incident needs to be removed from the page, which is unfortunate as it goes to the ubiquity of the Rick Roll. Wcudmore ( talk) 16:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
A little known fact... TV shows can be used as a primary source. Simply make a cite that shows you saw the episode, thats good enough. Most people seem to assume you need a secondary source when dealing with events of television shows, but that is false. Read WP:PSTS:
Examples of primary sources include archeological artifacts; photographs; historical documents such as diaries, census results, video or transcripts of surveillance, public hearings, trials, or interviews; tabulated results of surveys or questionnaires; written or recorded notes of laboratory and field research, experiments or observations, published experimental results by the person(s) actually involved in the research; autobiographies, original philosophical works, religious scripture, administrative documents, and artistic and fictional works such as poems, scripts, screenplays, novels, motion pictures, videos, and television programs.
Therefore, this information need only be cited from the actual episode. -- ErgoSum88 ( talk) 17:09, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Wcudmore took my words a little too literally. What I meant was, create a cite showing that the information was taken directly from the episode... like the "cite episode" template above. Drawing on personal experience is not the same as citing something which in essence means "you" personally read the book, website, or watched a tv episode upon which you are drawing the information from. Its true, you can't "cite" personal experience, however, reading a book or watching an episode is a personal experience upon which you can draw from to cite sources... there is a difference. But I'm sure you all figured that out by now. -- ErgoSum88 ( talk) 23:55, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
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This page needs ALOT of cleaning up.... the london rick roll could be expanded upon... not to mention that last sentence in the mets section is a personal view not a fact —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pauleo1 ( talk • contribs) 03:44, 19 April 2008
The marching band addition is very light on details. How did they Rick Roll? Did they publish a fake URL and have everyone use their cellphone browser or did they play the song at half time? I'm deleting it for now. Wcudmore ( talk) 17:26, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
On April 19, 2008, the Stanford Marching Band rickrolled UC Davis's Picnic Day. citation needed
Whoever locked this page has now created a lag in information about what events are getting rick rolled. For example, On April 11th. (Yes thats 10 days ago) The Dallas Mavericks Organization Rick Rolled there fans. And still NOTHING was said about this on the page. Not to mention the london flash mob rick roll could have been written about further. This page has not been hijacked by vandals but by the wikipedia users themselves. The lag of information should be corrected
I've temporarily removed the following unsourced statement from the lead:
The prank originated when Rockstar Games first released the trailer to the game Grand Theft Auto IV on their website in March, 2007. Due to the game's anticipation, the site received very high traffic, including most of the users from 4chan's video game forum, /v/, and went down. Someone on /v/ posted a Youtube to the Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up," saying the trailer had been recorded and posted there. The joke quickly became a meme and was constrained to 4chan for a brief period.
Was this actually the case? If so, hopefully someone can produce some sources and then it can be reintroduced to the article. AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 17:50, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
[www.PrankDialer.com] lets you Rickroll a friend via a phone. I added this entry, but it was locked up. Please let me know if it's acceptable to add this entry.-- Thedisturbance ( talk) 18:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Prankdialer was up there, and it was removed around the time we redid the Sightings section. The primary reason was that it was include in the April Fools' day section, and it wasn't an April Fools event. As far as the citation goes, I think a link to Prankdialer.com is sufficient to prove the existence of the product. However, any mention of dates or use would need to be backed up by a third party source. I think this is a better example of a rr than some of the stuff up there. Wcudmore ( talk) 18:03, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I tucked it into Rickroll#Other, tweak as desired. xenocidic ( talk) 12:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
This section is growing out of control very quickly. Leaving aside the April Fools section which will be resolved separately, there are several changes that need to be made.
The following should remain unchanged (as far as being sections go)
Furthermore, We need to develop a guideline as to what a suitable RR for inclusion here is. The number of people rolled is a factor. Wcudmore ( talk) 17:48, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I made the changes as mentioned. (Exception -- moved Mets into Sporting Events) There were some edit conflicts. Check your recent changes. Wcudmore ( talk) 18:09, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Also left xkcd as is, but I think the lower-case title makes the page look bad. Any suggestions as to how to fix that? Wcudmore ( talk) 18:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Should we perhaps separate the True Rickrolls from other Astley inspired shenanigans? The loosest definition of a rr would be playing "Never Going to Give you up" when something else is announced. I'm not sure if all of the events listed have the required element of surprise. In particular, I think a marching band playing a song that has recently become popular due to an internet meme is not a good example. Even the NY Mets section is doubtful. If we keep on the current path of including every reference, are we going to have to publish the playlists of every 80's radio station in the world? Wcudmore ( talk) 18:00, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
On April 24, 2008 Sydney radio stations in Australia (which included Nova FM, 2Day FM, Mix and Triple M) began simulating the song at 1:15 am.
Is this significant enough to be included in the article? The only way of verifying the information is via their podcast (which currently has not been updated) - ( RovingOnline ( talk) 04:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC))
Tyson Chandler, the center for the New Orleans Hornets, appears to be the first professional athlete to have been rickrolled. A pirated version of a video from his web site, Posted on the Block, was posted on YouTube as Rick Roll Tyson Chandler with the original music replaced with Rick Astley's hit. The change was recognized on a post on Tyson Chandler's web site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Athleteinteractive ( talk • contribs) 08:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
This article, [ [8]], goes into far more detail about how rickrolling started than any other I've seen. -- Xyzzyplugh ( talk) 20:15, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
The quote acknowledges the height in which the phenomenon has reached, and considering the section heading name is "Astley's reaction" I consider Astley nolonger publically talking about it constitutes further reaction on his part. AtaruMoroboshi ( talk) 12:17, 24 April 2008 (UTC)"In response to a request for comment, a spokesman for his record label wrote back a single line: "I'm sorry, but he's done talking about rickrolling."
Pickard, Anna (2008-04-27). "ROFLCon final session: Cult leaders: The man ultimately responsible for the rick roll meets his audience". Guardian Unlimited: Technology. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
This article doesn't provide any new information. It certainly doesn't finger "moot" as the poster of the original rick roll. At this stage we have established the 4chan, GTA Trailer link through verifiable sources. We can infer from that that some moderator at 4Chan is the originator of the Rick Roll, but until we have a verifiable source, it's best to leave the origins as is. Without "moot" standing up and saying "I'z de one what dunnit", we can't list him as the originator. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wcudmore ( talk • contribs) 17:10, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't this have something about the Looking For Group comic where Richard does it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.197.249.12 ( talk) 21:31, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Rickrolling was just mentioned on Have I Got News for You, with Brian Blessed. May be worth mentioning. J Milburn ( talk) 21:53, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
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On the June 21 2007 episode of Last Call with Carson Daly, the host said he had found a video on the internet of Paris Hilton and Busta Rhymes making out and asked his studio audience if they wanted to see it. He proceeded to show part of the Rickroll video and said "You just got rickrolled". [1]
It was also used here, richard sang it for sisters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.222.78.245 ( talk) 21:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Saw a site selling You've been Rickrolled t-shirts http://www.jinx.com/men/shirts/geek/you_just_got_rickrolld.html?catid=81 had to come here to find out what the hell this was all about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.17.139.78 ( talk) 21:55, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
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help)Is it too unencyclopedic to wish that every wikilink in the article just rickrolled the person? Ohh how devious. I won't but its hard not to. Hooper ( talk) 01:03, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I don't know much about rickrolling, but some of the information in the article is contradictory: "Lichtblau, by varying online accounts, treated his inner circle to surprise Rickrollings as early as September 2006, close to the inception of Youtube[11]". The citation given makes no mention of 2006; furthermore, the introductory paragraph of this article states that the concept of rickrolling was established May 2007. Also, YouTube was founded February 2005. -- 76.168.214.69 ( talk) 10:39, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
There's a hack for the Doom (video game) that Rickrolls the monster - should it be included in the article? -- 12.206.2.162 ( talk) 22:15, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
To anyone ... please do not add the incident on WWE Raw involving Vince McMahon and the phone call. It's not a rickroll. ¢rassic! ( talk) 01:41, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I think the article needs some sort of protection to keep the Vince McMahon/ WWE business out of it. Stan Simmons ( talk) 20:58, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
The rintone is actually a rickroll, it's supposed to not make the song obvious by prefacing it with "please enjoy the music". If it werent a rickroll, it'd just be the song playing instantaniously. [[[Dr. R.K.Z]]
agree with r.k.z., cannot see why there is so much debate over adding this as one of the most obvious instances rickrolls yet. everyone who is busy deleting everyone trying to delete this instance from the article, perhaps you should delete all the entries about what happened at ewu, the anons protests against the scis etc as they didnt involve someone inadvertently hearing rick astley when they clicked a link while surfing the internet. the rickroll phenomenon is way beyond internet and in real life right now. if ewu, ny mets, and scis vs. anon are considered rickrolling, why not a ringback when on monday night raw that clearly threw off the entire broadcast team if you watch the youtube vid? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.121.174.106 ( talk) 04:18, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
it is a rickroll because no one expected it, everyone expected a jubilant person to answer the phone HELLO! <give password> yes ive won 200k!! instead he rickroll'd the a man worth at least 1/2 a billion, 3-4 million people on tv, and greatly amused many. and it happened not once but twice. not mentioning this would be almost criminal negligence, as something that happened on e networks talk soup that maybe a few hundred thousand people viewed seems to merit attention, if just because it was the classic rickroll - i.e. here's a video preview of the season finale of l.a. ink - oops rick astley! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.121.174.106 ( talk) 04:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I say we put it to a vote. HOWEVER, we need to have a few round rules if we're gonna make it work:
e.g. (Don't copy verbatim, create your own using the same ideas!!)
Think this would fly?? Or will it descend into anarchy?-- 293.xx.xxx.xx ( talk) 08:18, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
a vote is a good idea, mine wont count cuz anonymous ip but i think most people find this to be a rickroll —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.121.174.106 ( talk) 11:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Yeah i'd agree, with a vote to see if there is any consensus
Yeah that poll is not reliable after all its a poll so i suggest we take that off ChesterTheWorm ( talk) 13:27, 14 June 2008 (UTC) ChesterTheWorm
What?-- 293.xx.xxx.xx ( talk) 01:37, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
this video (not a rickroll, an example to one, except to maybe a few 4chan leets dominating this dicussion, i would call a
reliable source not the text book definition of one not an article from the ny times but an uncut youtube video of the actual broadcast...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PdMj10s6nYw —Preceding
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someone typing in a foot note the The Soup {{whatever the hosts name was?)) and E! Entertainment Television June 9, 2008 is realiable sourcing? gimme a break... the guy above was right is that you all consider wrestling way too lowest common denominator and just not cool enough for this internet injoke thus everyone deleting it. Pvillemarc ( talk) 01:02, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Please read Wikipedia_Copyright#Linking_to_copyrighted_works and why we don't usually allow Youtube links (unless it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the upload was done by an agent for the copyright holders). Until then all copyright violations will be reverted back to proper citations.-- 293.xx.xxx.xx ( talk) 05:19, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I happen to know the guy that invented the script of internetisseriousbusiness. His name is Kenneth Gordon, IT worker and recreational server host. He is currently moving to in Myrtle Beach, SC from Winchester, VA. I remember when he tested the script on our forums. God I wish I could document it. Since I can't add "myself" as a source, I'll dig something up.-- Zblewski ( talk) 23:59, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Wiser Wikipedians than I will know what (if anything) to do with this, but in the 1997 movie "Contact" starring Jodie Foster (an adaptation of the Carl Sagan book), when the SETI signal is first detected, a harmonic is noticed on the prime number pulses and the researchers realize it's a video signal with audio. They decode it to a TV screen and there in rotated, garbled form, is none other than the "Never Gonna Give You Up" video. You might almost say that E.T. Rickrolls Earth :) GreatCaliban ( talk) 07:13, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
This was originally posted as a blank thread with just a picture of a duck with wheels. The person who created the thread would then link people to his post from other threads. That is a duckroll. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.236.142.235 ( talk) 06:38, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Its possible to pay to have messages broadcast into space for you. Though we would never see their reaction, it would be interesting to rick roll the universe in the hopes that an alien race receives the transmission. Or, possibly, if humans can invent faster than light travel, our descendants may one day receive ancient rick rolls that have travelled across light years to our colonies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.58.88 ( talk) 20:27, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Anyone know how and more importantly when this whole thing started? PyroGamer ( talk) 02:56, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
According to this [ [9]] Rick Astley is not amused with the RickRolling phenomenon. Quite the opposite what it say on the RickRolling Wiki -- DDDW ( talk) 14:44, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
I haven't got a reference or anything, though I did look for one. I would ask that anyone wanting to take it down go and check On Demand for themselves first though, because it really is a rickroll. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.223.100.216 ( talk) 12:13, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
This article's timeline needs improvement. "By May 2008,[4] the practice had spread beyond 4chan and become an Internet phenomenon, eventually amassing some coverage in the mainstream media.[5][6][1] An April 2008 poll by SurveyUSA estimated that at least 18 million American adults have been rickrolled.[7]"
The "by May, 2008" seems to contradict the fact that 18 millions Rick Rolls had occurred by April. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.182.9.1 ( talk) 20:04, 22 August 2008 (UTC) Shouldn't Rickrolling have been an internet phenomenon BEFORE it amassed 18 miillion views?
Could Rick Astley sue somebody? Don't ask me who...I know this isn't a forum but the suspense is killing me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.202.38.225 ( talk) 04:44, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Meh. I'm not logged in. Whatever. XD
"One Web site offers a Rickroll-by-phone service, allowing visitors to enter a phone number to be called and have the song played to the answering party" Can anyone link me to this site? I will have epic fun with it. <33 74.182.114.108 ( talk) 18:13, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
The art site "Furry Art Pile" closed down, and all links were/are redirected to a YouTube Rickroll. http://www.furryartpile.com/
Just2Draw ( talk) 15:50, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
If anyone here plays hobowars you'll find that he's the liquor sotre clerk in second city —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.131.131.168 ( talk) 22:19, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Rickrolling as written about in TIME Magazine (the specific issue escapes my mind, but I'm sure you could find it by googling "rickroll time magazine"), in the "Websession" category by regular intarwebs wiseguy Lev Grossman (who also wrote the Nerd World article regarding "moot". You. Reference it. Esper rant 04:24, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
{{ editsemiprotected}} Remove section about the retailer, ThinkGeek. The information there is not relavent to this topic and has been created by the ThinkGeek staff to add links to their website.
This article needs to mention anti-rickrolling software like RickRadar a Firefox add-on. Mieciu K ( talk) 20:59, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
How does this article not related back to THE orginal bait and switch meme, http://goatse.cx/ - important enough to even have a wiki page, goatse.cx? It seems obvious that bait and switch memes have been popular all along, and that was the original. Rickrolling is just the safe-for-work mainstream version updated for the 2000's with video. Even though goatse is terribly vulgar, it should be mentioned as the precursor meme, the original idea that made bait and switch linking popular. 71.139.40.173 ( talk) 21:14, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
reference 3 cites "in March 2007" as the first instance of rick rolling. this could be added to the body of the article. from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352010,00.html 71.139.40.173 ( talk) 21:27, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
The first instance is obviously the day the GTAIV trailer came out. And the song was NOT chosen due to popularity from Family Guy - that episode came out in MAY. 86.144.207.13 ( talk) 21:31, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
'Bait and switch' is so misused that people think it means that one thing is advertised and they're tricked into buying something else. See bait and switch for the true definition. It's about offering a substitute so people don't feel let down when they leave the store. Rick Roll is a complete let-down and it's not a true substitute. Anyway, I'm being very literal because I think the phrase is overused and ends up diluting the true meaning. Ryandsmith ( talk) 22:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
It really should be tagged as such. I wonder what this article would look like if it weren't for youtube "rickrolling" people on april fools day? I think it's digusting to see this treated as if it weren't an advertising scheme. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.185.105.253 ( talk) 01:53, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
I don't believe Carson Daly can be considered the first to rickroll on television. I know Family Guy, season 5 - episode 18, which aired on May 20th, 2007 came before the Carson Daly show of June 21, 2007. In this episode, they were spoofing Back to the Future. Brian switches the last song, at the high school dance, up, and instead sings Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." I'm not here to say this was the first occurence, just that the Carson Daly show sure wasn't the first. And thus should be removed. The claim that the Carson Daly show as first has no citations, and is also disproved by Family Guy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Meh00 ( talk • contribs) 04:41, 11 September 2008 (UTC) --Sorry. I forgot to give a citation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Quagmires —Preceding unsigned comment added by Meh00 ( talk • contribs) 04:45, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Not a rickroll; it's been added and then deleted because it doesn't fulfill the "definition" of a Rickroll as stated in the article.-- 293.xx.xxx.xx ( talk) 06:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Anyone else notice the June 9th, 2008 edition of WWE RAW? Vince McMahon was in the process of phoning someone to award them $US200,000 and instead got a reverse ringtone of the song. 122.57.80.150 ( talk) 09:32, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
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The link www.smouch.net/lol should be added as it is a very common way of Rick Rolling people. :) "Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you." —Preceding
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someone who can actually edit this should trash the youtube link/picture that goes to an awful video with 715 views, most of which appear to have come from this page... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.254.19.90 ( talk) 06:28, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
The most viewed Rick Roll video on Youtube - with over 20 million hits - was removed early October 2008. It's removal was around the time Rick Astley was nominated for 'Best Act Ever' at the MTV Europe awards. It's interesting to note this particular Youtube video was the main Rick Roll link - the one which gave Astley the most internet exposure - so its removal could have been instigated by record labels not wanting people to be 'Rick Rolled', and vote for him as Best Act Ever. It's possible the Best Act Ever MTV award will generate sales for the winner and Astley hasn't released an album since 2005 - 'Portrait'. From a record label point of view it might make greater financial sense for the winner to be someone like Britney Spears or U2. Astley has no plans to record new material, is not with a label, so his 'win' (if it happens) wouldn't generate future earnings for a record label. This could explain why the main Rick Roll Youtube video was removed.
The Wikipedia Rickrolling article doesn't mention the removal of the most popular Youtube Rick Roll video. It should be updated to mention this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.66.128.172 ( talk • contribs) 15:08, 3 October 2008
Is it worth mentioning that Jonathan Coulton managed to rick roll the audience of PAX 2008? He got a pretty good reaction. You can search youtube for a video called "PAX 2008 - Jonathan Coulton rickrolls the audience" to check. 92.8.104.39 ( talk) 23:53, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I've removed this section. As I noted in my edit summary, anything popular on the internet gets parodies/remakes. Rick rolling has many remakes and variations. Picking these few seems arbitrary, without any source to indicate why they're worth mentioning. My opinion is that the remakes should really only be individually covered if there's some sort of coverage of them, for example if Barrack Obama says he likes the Barrack-Roll or something like that. If there's a reliable source that talks about variations/parodies/remakes in general then a paragraph on the topic might be suitable for the article. Bill ( talk| contribs) 00:21, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Is it worth mentioning the night Vince McMahon got Rickrolled on live TV? Certainly that's one of the larger mass-Rickrollings. 65.189.210.173 ( talk) 04:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
The xkcd [13] section should be updated with the reference to Rick Astley in comic 485 [14] ( "A pixel on Rick Astley's shoulder" ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rjs valjean ( talk • contribs) 09:40, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Wasn't there a refrence to a pixel in Rick Astley's Shoulder in comic 485. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.237.111 ( talk) 16:01, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
The National Library of New Zealand decided not to honour the Robots Exclusion Protocol in the whole of domain harvest of the .nz domain. One serious suggestion for people who did not like their domain being indexed was to set a rewrite condition: [15]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*)NLNZHarvester2008(.*)$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
203.7.140.3 ( talk) 06:08, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
What about non-Rick Astley rickrolls? They're out there, but would they be considered Rickrolls? Or would they fall under a more general category? Thoughts welcome. Untii next edit, SonicBoom95 18:54, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Should we have an image of Duckroll, now that it's been established that it's certifiably the origin of the meme? It seems kinda useful that we've got something which can quite easily display the meme's origins, and I'm certain many users would find it illustrative of the history of rickroll. Methulah ( talk) 22:36, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Should this be mentioned in examples? i think it's worth mentioning since it shows him getting "Barack-rolled" in front of hundreds of people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiQCJXpbKg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.209.250.254 ( talk) 13:28, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure how to cite it, but we all just got Rickrolled by the parade. As the parade float for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends from Cartoon Network arrived to the front of Macy's, the music suddenly changed and Rick Astley himself came out to lipsync to Never Gonna Give You Up. As the edit of the song finished, one of the puppet characters says "I like rickrolling". I have no idea if there's a specific episode of the show that this might tie to or not. Acroyear ( talk) 16:43, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
This was HILARIOUS! I think many kudos should go to the organizers of the parade for being THAT current with the times, and kudos to US, the Wikipedians, for getting the event up inside the article so fast! Edit Centric ( talk) 19:22, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
A new campaign has been started to buy ad time in order to rickroll during the Super Bowl TV ads.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.188.213.150 ( talk • contribs) 13:56, December 1, 2008
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Shouldn't this article be moved to 'Rickroll' instead of 'Rickrolling'? I think the more common variant is the former; "rickrolling" is just a variant off of the original. Dr. Cash ( talk) 17:34, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Origin section currently shows the first use of Rickrolling to be in March of 2007. This is not accurate. I would estimate the first usage of rickrolling to actually have been sometime in 2005. This particular information needs to be revised. Rickrolling was on the World of Warcraft forums long before 2007. I cannot give a definitive timeline, but date of origin should be discussed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.207.120.233 ( talk) 18:53, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
I would like to point out that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia successfully Rickrolled its fans in the episode "Charlie Has Cancer," which aired August 23, 2005. Two years before this supposed 4chan duckrolling nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.123.65.136 ( talk) 17:56, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Not to fuel the flames of doubt, but I believe that the phenomenon didn't fully explode into popularity until after The Family Guy aired Meet the Quagmires on May 20th 2007. I don't know how long it takes to create an episode but a conservative estimate would at least place the creation of this episode near the stated 4chan origin date. I will be the first to admit that Family Guy borrows heavily from internet memes and pop-culture. Does anyone know if Family Guy has ever lifted a gag from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.127.128.2 ( talk • contribs) 23:20, November 30, 2008
Look. To settle this once and for all. It seems fairly obvious that the first time someone was intentionally misdirected to the video (not just listened to it in a cartoon or other TV show) was in the 4chan GTA IV trailer incident. Check Google Trends. Rickroll was first google'd for on May 13th 2007. I'm going to change the article, it says it started in March 2007 and references Google Trends, someone must've written March instead of May. TheKhakinator ( talk) 13:02, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
The simple reason that i have tagged this is that the examples section is biased towards american examples whereas people from many parts of the world were probably rickrolled. Simply south ( talk) 17:13, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
recently, some major smw hackers (people who hack or edit parts of the game "Super Mario World") made a "hack" that rick rolls the player. it features the music video and complete sound in the hack. it was first revealed to other hackers on "Super Mario World central", a hacking comunity, durring an event called "C3". It was first revealed by the user "smallhacker". the hack went by the name of "xka shack", for he claimed that it was just small level edits, not using any tools, or leveleditors, that make editing the game much easier. In other words, he claimed that he editted it with pure ASM, which stands for "assembaly code". When people played this hack, they would be surprised by getting a full length rick roll. when other users of smw central played it, they kept the surprise going by not comenting on how it was a rick roll, to keep it fresh.
LINKS:
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=showhack&id=2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seAwbPgfyuo&feature=related Doooomster ( talk) 20:47, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
I think that http://www.antispore.com warrants a mention in this, as it is one of the longest lasting rick rolls and people are still getting rick rolled without realizing it. Anonymous173173( talk) 05:07, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
There has been a lot of hoopla on music blogs/forums lately about the Rickrolling associated with the highly-publicized leaking of the Animal Collective album "Merriweather Post Pavillion," which has not yet seen its true release date. An estimated 11,000 people downloaded a supposed leak of the album, most prominently from this blog: http://roxymuzak.blogspot.com/ at this link: http://roxymuzak.blogspot.com/2008/12/animal-collective-merriweather-post.html. The link presented was an eleven-songs-in-length Rickroll. This incidence of Rickrolling was covered in Baltimore City Paper here: http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=17212 and originated on the popular music message board ILM ( http://www.ilxor.com). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Animalcollection ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
The page links to All Summer Long album by the Beach Boys, in the context of All_Summer_Long_(Kid_Rock_song). For some reason my account hasn't met the criteria to edit semi-protected pages I guess; if someone wouldn't mind fixing it for me :) -- Brandon12321 ( talk) 03:02, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
In an episode of Family Guy where Peter goes into the past, Bryan sings Never Gonna Give you up in its entirety at the end of the episode. I think this would definitely count as a Rick Roll. 75.53.42.191 ( talk) 05:02, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
There is a section detailing that Nancy Pelosi had uploaded a video that contained a rickroll. Forgive my skepticism, but just because the video was uploaded under her username does not necessarily convey intent. It is possible that anyone else could have put the video there, and since the only references there are the video itself and a site talking about the video itself and there are no sources about or from Pelosi herself, I am not sure if this information is notable enough to be on this page yet. Closetoeuphoria ( talk) 23:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Wasn't this one of the many YouTube phenomenons parodied in Weezer's Pork and Beans (song) video? -- Crackthewhip775 ( talk) 02:08, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Check this article.
Pork and Beans It should have a list of all parodied videos.
-zxcvbnmalex —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zxcvbnmalex ( talk • contribs) 01:08, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Really? Should this be mentioned? No significant third-party sources, and it says it was removed ... but who knows if it's really the video. I'd really like someone's opinion on this. I don't think it should, but maybe somebody else knows something I don't. – LATICS talk 00:35, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
the wiki page should forward to the video or embed it in the page so they would be rickrolled.-- Conor Fallon ( talk) 17:08, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
I agree. I know wikipedia is not supposed to be funny, but honestly, I think we could all agree that throwing a rick roll into the process would be the most "educational". Really people, make it happen.--
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Shouldn't this page be protected? lots of people are vandalizing......................... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilbunnifufu101 ( talk • contribs) 00:39, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
The Rickrolling has died down lately. Instead, people are starting to "Chacaroon" people. Should it be mentioned in this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.131.3 ( talk) 02:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
I just stumbled across this 2002 reference in an article about a busted child pornography ring: There was Richard Roll, a male nurse and former scoutmaster from Jamestown, N.Y., who called his pornographic films "Rick Roll Videos." [16] Don't know what to make of that. Could there possibly be a relation?-- 87.162.48.147 ( talk) 10:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Why is this page protected? I want to add a segment called "Barrack Roll'd", which highlights the new video on youtube that has Barrack Obama (from various speeches) appearing to sing the song Never Gonna Give You Up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Epithanyseeker ( talk • contribs) 00:22, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Has over a million views now. Please Include it. [17] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.213.120.190 ( talk) 08:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Vince McMahon with his McMahon million dollar thingy??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.229.206 ( talk) 22:00, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
The title "Teen Dating Violence" redirects to this page. Unless this is some form of sick joke, the redirection needs to be removed. I'm still new enough to wikipedia that I don't know how to do this. O76923 ( talk) 23:18, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone find a source for this? I do not suppose that the youtube links will do? (i.e. [18]) 212.10.51.200 ( talk) 09:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
the wiki page should forward to the video or embed it in the page so they would be rickrolled.
I don't get wikipedia sometimes.. a video of a guying blowing his wad on the "cum" page is A-OK!, but putting the RickRolled video on the rickrolling page is a no-no! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.28.105.1 ( talk) 23:50, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Some of the April Fools' Day 2008's data has lost somewhere, such as information about Kongregate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Rickrolling&oldid=202976134#April_Fool.27s_Day.2C_2008
See, it's over there in an old edit. Kongregate uploaded a game called "Kongai Launch" which they said to be their new card game, "Kongai", but it was actually a Rick Roll. I am a long time member over there, and now I saw that it has been deleted.
So, could somebody please add it back?
-- Juze ( talk) 15:12, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
EDIT: Oh yeah! Found it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Rickrolling&diff=204659986&oldid=204659246
That's where it was deleted.
-- Juze ( talk) 15:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Somebody add this:
The online gaming community [[Kongregate]] launched a new "game" called Kongai Launch, which featured a special card to be won, once the link was clicked, the link led to being rickrolled.{{Fact|date=April 2008}}
I can't change it my self, I am logged in, but the semiprotection won't let me edit. :(
-- Juze ( talk) 15:27, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I was finally able to edit it. :) April Fools' Day is coming tomorrow again!
-- Juze ( talk) 09:03, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
This is the most absurd wikipedia listing to date, and that is saying something. Someone attempt to explain to me why this "Rickrolled" bullshit is remotely notable or I will delete the entry and continue to do so every day until I die. This has no place on any information source that doesn't want to be lumped into the same quality category as the "urban dictionary" or some such. Explain why the term "Rickrolled" deserves to known by anyone other than lobotomized junior high school students, otherwise I'm killing it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.93.79.233 ( talk) 07:07, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
The photo screenshot of Rickrolling from YouTube is from the actual music video, if you look on the title in the screenshot. The real music video is NOT an example of rickrolling--or the rickrolling that I have come to know. I think the best screenshot would have the title of something that should be a legitimate video but show the rickroll. Discuss ~ 71.109.169.112 ( talk) 04:12, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
That screenshot located in the top of the article is weird because the caption says "Screenshot of a Rickroll video window on YouTube" but the video title (visible on the screenshot) says it's the music video itself, so it's not actually a Rickroll.-- ATDC Raigeki ( talk) 16:22, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/95781-EA-Rickrolls-Yahtzee
Making a list of web comic mentions and using as references the comic itself is a perfect example. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 52.129.8.50 ( talk • contribs) 20:51, July 20, 2009
I've removed the text that Uneffect ( talk · contribs) added in this edit per WP:TRIVIA. We're not here to mention every single time someone was Rickrolled or every time it's been mentioned on XKCD. This article was GA'd without the text in, and adding it in just brings down the quality. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 18:56, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Actually if you mean the xkcd stuff, yeah thats not even an example of rickrolling so i put the trivia template over it, get rid of it if you want. The rest isnt trivia Uneffect ( talk) 19:49, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
It makes the entire article suffer from the kind of quasi intellectual drivel and misuse/0veruse of certain words/teminology, that for some reason is so accepted when it comes to internet phenomenas. Why not just call it an "internet trend". (Excuse the english, not my first language) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.217.25.28 ( talk) 10:05, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
I think rickrolling and other things you're calling "internet trends" have already been called "
internet memes" by people who are actual intellectuals. When you consider the kind of things that happen in communication because of some of the more prevalent internet memes, it becomes apparent that they sometimes really are cultural units, containing much more meaning than just that of a practical joke. --
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In the history section, I think it would be right to recognize Family Guy's role in the rickrolling phenomenon. I'm sure most 4chan posters had no idea who Rick Astley was before the "Meet the Quagmires" episode aired in May 2007, featuring Brian singing the song in a parody of Back to the Future. Prior to that episode airing, I don't think anyone considered the song to be the "worst pop song ever," as the wikipedia article currently suggests. I don't think anyone even remembered it. Family Guy refreshed it in everyone's memory right before rickrolling started. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steronz ( talk • contribs) 13:03, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Regarding the following line in the introduction: The song may have been favored for this use by those regarding it as the "worst"[3]
Reference [3] ( http://www.citypaper.com/printStory.asp?id=15543) is not a legitimate source for this information. To quote the article: "tricking someone into watching the video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," quite possibly the worst song ever recorded".
No poll was conducted. No analysis of the song's purchase history was made. No "Worst 100 songs of [insert era here]" was referenced. This is a single author's line, and does not represent more than that person's opinion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mowerm ( talk • contribs) 05:38, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
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Done Half of it, anyway. I can't see a valid reason to capitalize 'jailbroken'. I agree that iPhone smartphone is somewhat redundant, like Kleenex tissue or Band-Aid bandages.
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A New Hit sensation has hit. It is called Communist roll. you may find it will come up with a guy from the 80's singing lolololol. it has been viral and been the new rick roll. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mastchio ( talk • contribs) 16:30, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
The repeated line "We know the game and we're gonna play it " in the lyrics to the song "Never gonna give you up" are often associated with the meme "You just lost the game" as in the wikipedia article titled "The game (Mind Game)". If somebody's speculation in the introduction about how this song is considered the worst popular song ever is notable, then so is the link to the game. I can't put it in because I have no edits, though. The two memes are probably about as familiar to anonymous as each other, and often work in concert. None of that needs to be put in though. Just a mention of the game with the quoted lyrics and a link to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Humanaethema ( talk • contribs) 10:40, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Just answer me this? why not end it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Krashlia ( talk • contribs) 06:11, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Popular website YouMail.com had about 10,000 of its users 'rick roll' phone calls they received from telemarketers on April 1, 2010. [19]
Rick rolling apperears to have been inspired buy the 2007 Season Finale of Family Guy in which they spoofed Back to The Future. A small portion of the song was played and it was called "That new mediocre sound you've been looking for." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Quagmires#Cultural_references. The RickRolling fad croped up shortly after this date. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.120.192 ( talk) 01:11, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
It strikes me as a severely deficient explanation to say that this Bait&Switch internet meme that became known as RickRolling features Rick Astley because, as the article currently states, because it is:
Those who lived through the 80s know exactly why the Bait&Switch meme posterboy is Rick Astley, because we experienced it while watching MTV. Here is the edit I made a few minutes ago:
This change only lasted on the page a few minutes before it got clobbered out. I expect that the person who removed it is from a younger generation who never lived that original experience.-- ChrisfromHouston ( talk) 19:34, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Oh my god,the music is in the Gloria drama.WTF?Why did the cast of the Gloria drama put that music in the background?If you hear the Rick Roll music while watching this drama,you know why.The 8th episode of the Gloria drama should have negative reception.-- 99.130.169.30 ( talk) 13:17, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
"Despite the video getting milllions of hits on YouTube, Astley has barely earned any money out of the meme, receiving only US$12 for his performance share."
I can't help feeling this is misleading, as although Astley may not have earned money directly from the meme, he will have had more people buying his music, going to his shows etc. because of it.
But I can't think of how to phrase that properly without just saying "he probably profited I suppose". -- Love, Smurfy 16:37, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to put before everyone if this would be something that could be added to the article. I was just re watching a movie called Cube Zero which is part of a movie trilogy. Its a pretty gruesome sci fi movie. The gist of the movies is that people are trapped in a high tech cube and have to find their way out by moving into a different part of the cube that doesnt a have a lethal trap. If you get trapped in one that does, your dead. In Cube Zero an unfortunate person gets trapped in a cube room where the deadly trap is several ultra sonic speakers blaring,you guessed it, Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". It blares into the room where the guys dies a very gruesome screaming death, although I wonder if it was because of having to hear the song or the decibels. I know this is'nt technically a "rickroll" as defined by the article but I feel it should be included somehow. I hope I get some feed back soon. If nobody responds after a few weeks Ill add it with some qualifications and others can edit it or take it down. Here's the scene. WARNING: GRAPHIC SCENE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWI42icJzJc&feature=related —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.31.242.174 ( talk) 21:58, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
No it is not actually obvious but I do see that he did make the comment to the effect that it was not in the movie after I had seen the video.-- 76.31.242.174 ( talk) 23:42, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
The comedy site ZUG.com sent a weather balloon into space with a device playing the Rickroll theme, capturing it on video. Can we add this to the page? Dprice99 ( talk) 02:21, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
I was a fervent listener of Live105 <1> radio broadcasts out of San Francisco, when I went to school at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley, from 1990-1994. Every Memorial Day weekend, the station would count down the top 300 modern rack classics "of all time". I decided to tape-record as much of the 1991 countdown as I could. I still have the 10 or so tapes I made then. When the D.J. was about to reveal the #1 song on the countdown, replete with drum roll, he played a Rick Astley song instead of the actual #1 song, Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order < 2>. It was horrifying for a moment, since we modern rock enthusiasts were loathe to appreciate a pop song by Rick Astley. Then the joke was apparent as the song faded out and the D.J. came back on to play the real #1. I believe that future internet gurus may have been listening to that broadcast as well in 1991, in the Silicon Valley, and they may have gone on to develop Rickrolling in later years. Does anyone have evidence of this? -- Johnstonjenny ( talk) 18:33, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
<1> http://live105.radio.com Official website of Live105, retrieved 10/09/10. <2> Live105 Flashback 300 (1991), http://www.rocklists.com/alltime71, retrieved 10/09/10.
It's not like you are forced to look at the whole video. Beancrisp ( talk) 05:43, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Why is the word typically in the first line of the article? .
Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up".
It's not "typically involving" it always involves the music video, it can't be a rick roll without a link to the video. I can't edit this article, but it would be appreciated if someone who can would make this change.
173.76.109.232 ( talk) 20:59, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
I think it was meant to mean that the meme typically used Rick Astley, but that any music video can be used. It seems right, since the term rickrolling has become generic. -- Allvanishing ( talk) 00:17, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
The section Saint Seiya: The Hades has horrendous grammar. Can someone fix it? Words such as "thoses" don't exist and official has two f's. 72.152.136.241 ( talk) 02:12, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
ThinkGeek.com Rick Rolled site visitors who clicked on the video for the Beta to HD DVD recorder.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/betamaxhd.html
It linked to a YouTube video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dY3IHhIRlo&feature=autoplay&list=FLOVFuVkd_Lwk&index=2&playnext=1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.71.97.192 ( talk) 17:31, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
A Linux kernel module has been written that, when loaded, intercepts open() system calls and replaces file names ending in ".mp3" with a path to a predefined MP3 file instead. The idea being that the kernel will Rickroll any users' attempt to play an MP3 audio file.
https://github.com/fpletz/kernelroll
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Please change under the headline "Examples" and the sub headline "Others" to include a note stating: "On 11 January 2012, the Occupy Pittsburgh movement decided they will play "Never Gonna Give You Up" if confronted by authorities."
Citation: Balingit,Moriah (2012-01-11). "Occupy Pittsburgh to cops: prepare to be rickrolled". Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
Fort2m ( talk) 06:57, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Can we ad the Ferris Bueller teaser and subsequent revelation to the list?
Millions of internet watchers were excited to the possibility of a new Ferris Bueller movie after a 10 second clip. We Googled the possibility and even found a 5 year old script. Less than a week later we were Rickrolled or "Bueller Bombed" because it turns out it was not a movie but an ad for a Honda, which isn't even choice enough the like of Ferris Bueller.
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In the Effects on Astley and reaction section, it says: "According to The Register, however, Astley has only directly made $12, in [...]" To know what that word "however" implies, we need to look at the sentence before it. That one states that Astley "thanked moot for the rickrolling phenomenon". The word "however" wrongly implies that Astley thanked moot for revenue Astley earned or expected to earn, thus the word "however" should be removed. -- 82.171.13.139 ( talk) 13:31, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
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Please change the word "persons" to "people" on line 5, it should be changed because the sentence is not referring to individuals but anyone.
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Another form of Rickrolling has circulated in social media images that trick the user into thinking the words Never Going To Give You Up, thus causing the viewer to "get the song stuck in their head". This is done by claiming that a percentage of the viewers of the image do not know the antonyms for the words "1) Always 2) Coming 3) From 4) Take 5) Me 6) Down".
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reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Facebook is not a reliable source.
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What would be considered a reliable source for a phenomenon that occurs exclusively in social media? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DianaOBrien ( talk • contribs) 12:50, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Why hasn't this been addressed? People seem to accept that this guy started it, and he has the login on youtube for the original youtube video. See this, for example: http://www.reddit.com/comments/mx53y/i_am_youtube_user_cotter548_aka_the_inventor_of/?sort=confidence as well as http://betabeat.com/2012/09/meet-shawn-cotter-the-man-behind-the-rickroll/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:A:2B00:48:E2F8:47FF:FE1F:47C6 ( talk) 21:56, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
In October 2012 Google did an extremely covert rick-roll by putting out a Google Maps tour video with Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" playing on not one, but two screens. That attempt comes up when you search for 'worlds largest rickroll' and Beanstalk's blog can be "cited" as reporting the video to be, "... the world's largest ever single Rick Roll attempt" [2], when they did a story on the same Google Maps video. If you dig further into the statistics close to 2 million viewers had watched the Google Maps rickroll/server building tour by the 3rd day, and most of those were all in the same day. So with this in hand Google needs an honorable mention if not the current title of 'worlds largest rickroll', at least in the context of forcing someone to watch the YouTube video.WRX-Nut 03:16, 29 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by WRXNUT ( talk • contribs)
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During a live edition of WWE Monday Night Raw on June 9, 2008, WWE chairman Vince McMahon was "rickrolled" as part of an on-air contest. Throughout the broadcast McMahon made several phone calls to WWE viewers who had entered the contest and if they knew the correct current prize code, they would win money. On the first attempt to call a viewer, that person had set their ringback tone to "Never Gonna Give You Up" which played live over the WWE broadcast for several seconds. Stuttsy ( talk) 10:20, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
On IsoHunt's shutdown page as of 2013/10/21, the site used the video unironically. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.167.113.209 ( talk) 09:01, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm sure I remember a version of Rickrolling where the unsuspecting Rickrollee was taken to a page on which the video played as wallpaper (in a manner reminiscent of YTMND) along with the music, while lyrics flashed up in sequential prompt windows, making it impossible to stop the webpage without closing the webpage by command prompt or similar. I have a feeling that this may even have been before YouTube. — Sasuke Sarutobi ( talk) 10:53, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
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Please change this section:
Effects on Astley and reaction
In a March 2008 interview, Astley said that he found the Rickrolling of Scientology to be "hilarious"; he also said that he will not try to capitalize on the rickroll phenomenon with a new recording or remix of his own, but that he would be happy to have other artists remix it. Overall, Astley is not troubled by the phenomenon, stating that he finds it "bizarre and funny" and that his only concern is that his "daughter doesn't get embarrassed about it".[13] A spokesperson for Astley's record label released a comment which showed that Astley's interest with the phenomenon had faded, as they stated "I'm sorry, but he's done talking about Rickrolling".[5]
To read like this:
Effects on Astley and reaction
In a March 2008 interview, Astley said that he found the Rickrolling of Scientology to be "hilarious"; he also said that he will not try to capitalize on the rickroll phenomenon with a new recording or remix of his own, but that he would be happy to have other artists remix it. Overall, Astley is not troubled by the phenomenon, stating that he finds it "bizarre and funny" and that his only concern is that his "daughter doesn't get embarrassed about it." [13] A spokesperson for Astley's record label released a comment which showed that Astley's interest with the phenomenon had faded, as they stated, "I'm sorry, but he's done talking about Rickrolling." [5]
Dj1964 ( talk) 02:40, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
I restored the Examples section from the history, undoing the split done last November. My intent is to discourage anyone from copying back from List of successful rickrolls unnecessarily. WP:Articles for deletion/List of successful rickrolls had consensus for reducing the list and strong support for cutting it substantially. I have no objection to anyone engaging in normal content editing immediately. Flatscan ( talk) 05:06, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
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Insert link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=kp into the link of "bait and switch", if you have a sense of humor. Do it. Do it. Open the trunk. Do it. Jaswon ( talk) 03:01, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
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Rickrolling was around long before 2008. Probably even dates back to the late nineties. By 2008, it had been a tiresome, old joke for years with internet geeks and old-timers. I don't know where it began, but if I had to guess, I'd say slashdot.org or /. 2602:30A:C071:98D0:89F8:FFD2:4266:F28A ( talk) 00:48, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
I would like to suggest another variation of a "Rick Roll". During gameplay this evening we "Rick Rolled" one of the opposition via in game comms. With 12 people in a coordinated fashion saying lines of the song at one of the opposition team players. Causing the player in question to receive ~50 comms notifications over a few minutes. I guess I would call this the "sing-along-remote" rick roll, as each person was singing their line before posting it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanBUK ( talk • contribs) 23:49, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
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The Rickroll video is active as of August 28, 2015 through this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ as a source for this Yahoo Answers page: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081208133841AAUxOoY Nightshade6977 ( talk) 03:12, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Change link in reference 40 from http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/11/macys-thanksgiv.html to http://www.ew.com/article/2008/11/27/macys-thanksgiv — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dumenar ( talk • contribs) 21:17, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
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To whomsoever is unfortunate enough to have this knowledge dropped upon them,
Hello, my name is James Ballard. I would like to start by saying that I use Wikipedia with frequency and have rarely, if ever, been disappointed by the service provided by your wonderfully accessible website. However, this is a forlorn edit request form. This evening, a good friend of mine informed me that "Rickrolling" was more of a thing than I was aware of. I thought that it was something reserved for youtubers and honestly enjoyed the occaissional influx of Rick Astley. Once informed of this "new" development, I quickly went to Wikipedia to do some research on "Rickrolling." The first two sentences in the article are as follows:
"Rickrolling is an Internet meme[1] 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 hyperlink which is seemingly relevant to the topic at hand, but actually leads to Astley's video."
In the second sentence, the word "hyperlink" is a hyperlink to an article on Wikipedia entitled "Hyperlink" which describes what a hyperlink is. This is a travesty. On the page for "Rickrolling" is an opportunity to express a definition or idea with such nuance as to be criminal to pass up. The word "hyperlink" should be a hyperlink to the music video by Astley. It is a rare occurance indeed to be able to explain to someone, in a way that they will totally understand the concept, without explaining anything. This is quite possibly the greatest tragedy the internet has ever seen. If internet giants turn their backs on little details such as this, the internet will turn into a festering pool of monotony and blandness. I for one, stand for the flair and entertaining nature of the internet. I cannot stand idly by while this crime against human hilarity and experimental education is allowed to go on. Please, for the love of every joke ever made, fix this wildly offensive error.
Thank you for your time, James Ballard 73.177.60.246 ( talk) 02:15, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
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One of the sections says that the current video has over 80 million views. It has more than doubled since then, as it now has over 195 million. 184.53.32.101 ( talk) 20:39, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
this was a treadon 4chan mainly derrived from Hidden links veiw 4chan.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ this is a link to a video about the history of rick rolling. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.189.162.111 ( talk) 17:22, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
The reaction from Astley mentions this incident but the incident itself isn't mentioned in the article which could lead to confusion for anyone unfamiliar with the event. Should the event be listed under its history or perhaps that mentions of the event be excluded? --Steven Williamson ( HiB2Bornot2B) - talk ▓▒░ Go Big Blue! ░▒▓ 04:53, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
There needs to be an external links section, and it should have a disguised link to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. Dubinia ( talk) 21:26, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
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The claim that Rick Rolling began on 4Chan is wrong. Rick Rolling goes back to the 90's, when people would just post a mp3 of the song, and long before 4Chan had debut. It was popular on message boards long before 4Chan or 2007. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:f9d0:a610:4998:7555:c112:a9ad ( talk • contribs) 01:09, August 7, 2019 (UTC)
I think the date in the article (2007) is inaccurate. I vaguely remmeber a website back in 2005-ish with a URL something along the lines of 1337.(something) which spawned the annoying pop-ups quickly which you had to close to exit the page. ZdrytchX ( talk) 15:18, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
The fifth link in the sources (supposed to link to a Fox News page) results in a 404 error. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FooNation ( talk • contribs) 04:36, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
Both the Italian and English are referring this video for the date of the rickroll starting, other than the fact that this didn't start the rickroll, both miss the right date by 1 month. it's May, not August, eiher April. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FallBackITA27 ( talk • contribs) 16:57, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Radiohead? (I was there.) --~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:43B1:1870:FD3D:F5EE:2913:7732 ( talk) 04:11, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
It's finally happened. Reddit link
Here's the text I propose to insert under "Effects on Astley and reaction":
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In June 2020, Rick Astley posted a picture of himself taken in 1989 on tour in Las Vegas on Reddit. A user responded with a possible fabricated story about meeting Rick Astley back-stage during their childhood with a link to the song. Rick responded with the 'applause' emoji presumably having clicked on the link and being Rickrolled.
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If links are to be added, I'd need to be told, as I do not contribute regularly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atreya The Brain ( talk • contribs) 20:42, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
I edited the "Ongoing Usage" section to mention briefly the event of Astley being rickrolled on 17 June. Please let me know if I cited an improper source before removing my edit, so that I can change the source or remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biasbalancer1 ( talk • contribs) 00:43, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
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I would like to add a link to Rick Astley's never gonna give you up to attempt to rick roll readers of the page CanadianRussianVodka ( talk) 10:21, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Not done There is already a still image and a link to a video.
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Put under either ongoing usage section, or effects on Astley and his reaction. Not sure where this should go but I think it should go under one of these.
On 18 June 2020, approximately around 12AM (GMT+8), Rick Astley posted a photo of himself at his very first concert in 1989 on social media platform Reddit, following which a commenter known as u/theMalleableDuck commented on the post, saying that he had met him backstage when he was 12 years old, and attaching what was supposedly a link to a photo taken with him. The photo, however was actually a link to a copy of the Rickroll video. Rick Astley supposedly fell prey to it, and clicked on the link rickrolling himself in the process. He reacted with a clapping hands emoji after being rickrolled, while the Reddit user, whose identity is not yet known, became famous in the process, earning himself just under 40,000 Reddit coins and access to Reddit premium until 2029, along with respect from Rick Astley.
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This article states Rick Astley mad 12 dollars from this video, however, in a reddit AMA, he claims otherwise. https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/56cdgm/ama_im_really_rick_astley_i_swear_and_to/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:344:C300:4DC0:B035:8CC:6841:B4BF ( talk) 22:27, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
In the category of "cover version references", an episode of the sitcom Better Off Ted titled "Beating a Dead Workforce" that first aired in January 2010 featured the audio of a lead character singing the song in the background of a motivational video. This was very likely a reference to the meme, not only due to the timing (the episode was filmed in 2009 at the height of it) but because the character stops singing the actual lyrics after the third line of the chorus and just boops along to the melody thereafter, reflecting the fact that most people turn off the meme after "Never gonna run around and desert you". 70.73.90.119 ( talk) 19:20, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
Should this article be added to this category? Rickrolling has made a return this year. -- HaruhiSuzumiyaIsAGod ( talk) 12:13, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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This website proves it actually didnt come from duckroll RubyPiec ( talk) 11:32, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Rickrolling hit new heights in 2020 with both Rick Astley https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_few_funny_memories_during_lockdown/fv505w1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3 and youtube https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/k98r41/i_rickrolled_youtube/ being rickrolled.
User:Devonian Wombat if it's ok, can you add this [20] [21]? on 'ongoing usage section, where youtube got rickrolled. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.151.185.63 ( talk) 02:29, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Recently I've been on facebook and I found a popular new trend, there is a facebook group called "... See More" and when you make a really long comment or post, it says at the bottom "... See More" if you want to read the rest of the post or comment, and people have instead made comments and post where they write a sentence usually containing important information and cutting it of by tagging the "... See More" group instead. When you click on the link for the group the cover photo is a picture of Rick Ashley from the video. There are also different variations such as groups called "... See Less", "... Read More", "... See Translation" and "view post" . There is also a different type where they have taken advantage of the fact that when you tag groups the text is blue and links to websites are also blue and they named groups after website links and tagging it trying to fool people, these groups also has Rick Ashley from the "Never Gonna Give You Up" video as a cover photo. I thought this should be added to this article. Anzio Langeveldt ( talk) 16:44, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
It turns out Facebook is deleting these groups since it is tagged everywhere and is against their community policies of spam Anzio Langeveldt ( talk) 18:08, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
What does Darude Sandstorm have to do with Rickrolling -- HighlyLogicalVulcan ( talk) 10:54, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
In this part:
> When victims click on a seemingly unrelated link, the site with the music video loads instead of what was expected, and in doing so they are said to have been "Rickrolled".
I think it would be beneficial for the page if a link to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” was added in a hyperlink where it says “seemingly unrelated link”. I think this would give readers a good firsthand knowledge of what the Rickrolling meme really is. FourInchKnife ( talk) 13:45, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
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i ask to be able to rickroll some people searching about rickrolls by writing ``check out this link for more informtion about rick astley`` AMAZOOKservices2 ( talk) 16:45, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
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MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:52, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Prague City Hall’s QR code cobblestone in Prague, Czech Republic originally lead to a website, but as of February 2020, it now leads to a Rickroll.
Notable QR code rickrolls:
-- MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)Prague City Hall's QR code cobblestone originally lead to a website. As of February 2020, it now leads to a rickroll. -- MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)In January 2016, a person managed to rickroll motorists in Asheville, North Carolina via fake parking tickets that have a QR code, which is a rickroll. -- MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)A historical sign in South Nyack, New York has a the video's QR code on the bottom right. -- MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)In February 2021, the Los Angeles Unified School District made a video about their Daily Pass. The QR code in the Daily Pass from the video is a rickroll. -- MatthewTheRickrollEnthusiast ( talk) 02:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)The video's QR code was used as easter eggs in video games such as Snow and World War Z.
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Changing the view rate for Rick Ashtley's youtube video from 900 million to a billion as of today. The wikiyeet ( talk) 04:38, 26 August 2021 (UTC) The wikiyeet ( talk) 04:38, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
The MTV Europe Music Awards have been rickrolled when 4chan, as well as several other forums (I believe ultimate guitar forum actually started it), voted to have Rick Astley nominated. He accepted the nomination and may quite possibly win, which would be probably the largest rickroll ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.106.103.47 ( talk • contribs) 01:53, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
In the television show Ted Lasso, season 2 episode 12, “No Weddings and a Funeral” released September 24, 2021, Hannah Waddingham (as Rebecca Welton) is about to speak at her father’s funeral and instead begins singing “Never Gonna Give You Up” to a church full of mourners, who eventually join in. It is both a "rickrolling" of the mourners and the TV audience, though without breaking the mood of the piece.
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Apparently the original Youtube link has been deleted. Per this vlog post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWog3NkPdPs it's shown the original vidlink is now broken. -- 64.229.90.53 ( talk) 08:59, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ please go here — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.166.100.170 ( talk) 16:04, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
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You are not considered to be Rick rolled if and advertisement comes before the actual video. 2402:3A80:1E73:EA78:FF9E:E83B:1070:1DE5 ( talk) 07:31, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
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AssumeGoodWraith has added the When template to the lede section of this article. The When template documentation suggests adding a When section to the talk page to discuss the issue. Personally I can't see what the problem is. However your mileage may vary. So here is a section to discuss the issue. Tango Mike Bravo ( talk) 13:05, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
How is this article related to Daniel Yona, the Israeli skiller? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Napoleon 33eerrt 5567 ( talk • contribs) 19:27, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Wouldn't Rick's appearance at the Foo Fighters concert also be an example of Rickrolling? Jalwikip ( talk) 19:25, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
you would not get this from any other guy but I say this artical is a bit blatant, the song never gonna give you up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ has a deeper story, and rick rolling does too, this needs more info, Your's truly< Qtcquestionbloc ( talk) 23:40, 16 February 2022 (UTC) </ref https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ>
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People have token rock rolling so far that in 2021 TheTekkitRealm Rickrolled the superbowl by using word clouds Teanuarai ( talk) 01:17, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
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there is a mistake in the rickroll and it is a bit outdated at some parts Acrobatsmek ( talk) 08:13, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
then Darth Vader got rick rolled. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.184.82.3 ( talk) 18:56, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
The article mentions a claim that Rick only received $12 from Youtube for his video, despite it's popularity, but then references a Reddit comment he made to say he denies this. However, if you go and read the Reddit comment, he's actually replying to a comment that only made $12 full stop from the video, not just from Youtube. He points out he's made lots of money from the video otherwise, and says he doesn't actually know how much he's gotten from Youtube as he doesn't care. Can someone with edit access please change the page to update this please? Link to Reddit comment: [22] 2A00:23C4:6B13:D801:3416:F8C2:986:50CE ( talk) 18:25, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! I would like some changes to make the page more readable. First of all, the first image says “A still frame from the music video of the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley on YouTube, taken in 2008.” Most of that doesn’t matter. It could just be “A screenshot from 2008 of Never Gonna Give You Up”. Next the 4Chan, you could call m00t, well m00t and not Christopher “m00t” Poole.
Okay, speed round incoming. At the start you could just make “internet memes” to “memes”. The hyperlink to the page of wikipedias hyper-link page could just be a hyperlink to never gonna give you up. Finally, you didn’t need the paragraph about the video “RickRoll’d”
Finally, there’s a conspiracy theory about Conner, the uploader of RickRoll’d setting it all up. Some even believe he’s m00t and the person who made the duck rolling thread. The reason why was because the video was called RickRoll’d before rickrolling even became a thing!
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Hi, I want to add below contents in History#Origin :
In 2022, Shawn Cotter was interviewed by Vice Media. He said the reason of using "Never Gonna Give You Up" was because he found a list about songs that were popluar when you are born in Internet, and this song is on the top of 1987, which was his borned year.
Source: [23]or [24] 巴波 ( talk) 12:19, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
I got rickrolled today and recalled the wave of rickrolling in my office in 1999. I believe the practice of 'rickrolling' precedes the use of the term 'rickrolling', using the same method and the same video. I don't doubt the reference to the term but it would enhance the article to date the practice much earlier. 108.51.234.209 ( talk) 20:54, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
When you get rickrolled, you typically hear the first few seconds of the song, and then close off the video before you hear the rest, so I think the song sample should be at the beginning of the song. Would this be an NFCC minimal use issue because of a different sound sample at Never Gonna Give You Up? Snowmanonahoe ( talk · contribs · typos) 21:23, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Good description of a rickroll (ooh, by the way I got rickrolled two days ago) . But I do not see any lyrics! Please add them Learning With Ameer ( talk) 09:07, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
https://twitter.com/FrankRose1856/status/1670925354024804353?s=20 Twitter user, @FrankRose1856 has created a scannable, pictorial QR code which rickrolls. So rickrolling continues into the artificial intelligence age. 2A02:C7C:D112:C00:CD69:65B5:FF74:8AE5 ( talk) 14:34, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Rick Astley published a song, "Never gonna stop" as part of his 2023 album 'Are We There Yet?'. The song structure heavily references Never gonna give you up, this is why some people consider this song to be Rick Astley's very own Rickroll.
Link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWNQUvIk954 2A01:CB19:8F8A:9B00:25E3:E986:D584:74D9 ( talk) 18:04, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
a variant form of rickrolling using the Nickroll link that opens like a typical rickroll before the audio is replaced with Nickleback's "How You Remind Me". Entageweorc ( talk) 15:59, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm 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 We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it (say it) Inside, we both know what's been going on (going on) We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see 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 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 We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it (to say it) Inside, we both know what's been going on (going on) We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm 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 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 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 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myname-issaysay12 ( talk • contribs) 00:33, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
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Change to the Simultaneous references of the appearance in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode. You cited the wrong episode
The song "Never Going to Give You Up" appeared twice in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 1 episode 4 "Charlie Has Cancer" whiched aired on on Aug 23, 2005.
https://itsalwayssunny.fandom.com/wiki/Charlie_Has_Cancer scroll down to trivia. Or watch the episode on Disney+/Star (Canada) or Hulu (USA) to confirm. Fast forward to 10:54. Dennis even mentions Rick Astley when asked what he listening to.
In the podcast you referenced as a citation, they only mention the song when Rob goes a little off topic and starts discussing music they have used through out the series, but it does not appear in episode 15 of Season 3 "The Gang Dances Their Asses Off".
In fact, the song is only used one other time on Oct 3, 2018 in Season 13 Episode 5 "The Gang Gets New Wheels" at the end of the episode as a call back to the Season 1 episode. 199.7.158.57 ( talk) 10:17, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
according to the never gonna give you up article, when USA invaded panama they played this song as Psychological warfare. Does that count as rickrolling Thehistorianisaac ( talk) 00:54, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
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The origin of Rickrolling started sometime around the year 1999 or 2002 as an Internet Email Prank where you would be treated to an email from a friend or a random message sent to you by an unknown sender. When you clicked on the link inside you would be sent to a new window where the video of Never gonna give you up would open and play the video. At the same time the lyrics of the video would appear and any attempt to click off the video would skip to the next sentence in the song until you got through the lyrics of the song before you were allowed to shut the video off, or just allowed for the whole song to play. Vasarto ( talk) 16:00, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
The song was in iasip (Charlie has cancer) in 2005 which was before the first uses of the rick roll. The current article says it was in iasip in 2007. 98.14.97.228 ( talk) 15:41, 2 February 2024 (UTC)