Why rick roll

Since then, the Rick Roll has been made countless times, not only on 4chan but on the whole of the Internet. Matt: You gotta check out this new band, it's awesome! Look, here's the video. Rick Astley: Never gonna give you up , never gonna let you down Jake: Arrrgh man, you just Rick Rolled me again!

When what you think is a link to something you want to see actually directs you to a video of Rick Astley singing " Never Gonna Give You Up. Rick rolled again, thought this was the new movie trailer. The problem with this theory is that the song never featured in that game, although a host of classics did. This would have left the song fresh in the memories of would-be trolls. Whatever the source of origin for rick-rolling, the bait-and-switch approach trolling spread like wildfire.

People developed clever ways of hiding YouTube links to the song behind images or by using URL-shorteners, meaning was the year of being rick-rolled. People still get caught. And people are still coming up with new ways to prank people.

This is perhaps the only slightly sad part of the rick-roll story. Thanks to the internet, Astley was catapulted back onto the scene and was suddenly performing more than ever. This is where I start to get some Black Mirror vibes off the whole tale of the rick-roll. Flash forward ten years to and a very happy Rick Astley is sitting on the famous couch with Graham Norton and his guests, including Emma Stone.

We prefer the Astley version. Students have handed in exam papers rick rolling their teachers , protestors have rick rolled Scientologists with crowds of boomboxes, and banner containing the video link in binary code, and hundreds of people once got down at a rickroll flash mob in London's Liverpool Street train station.

Even Rick Astley has been personally involved in the phenomenon, unexpectedly performing on a children's float in a New York's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A number of big names have both participated in, and been subject to their own Rickrolls ranging from.

Last year, rock royalty the Foo Fighters Rickrolled through crowds of Westboro Baptist Church members known for their hate speech , and even characters like The Muppet 's Beaker have had the Rickroll treatment. The most famous celebrity rick roll however, has to that of Barack Obama, star of the parody "Barack Roll" video. Other political rick rolls include a faked "Barack Roll" of Republican John McCain , a Tweet from the White House Twitter feed, and a video of members of the Oregon Houses of Parliament who deliberately dropped the lyrics into their parliamentary discourse.

Security expert Dan Kaminsky used the medium to expose vulnerabilities on the Facebook and PayPal websites.