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Rickrolling or a Rickroll is an Internet meme involving the unexpected appearance of the music video to the 1987 hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up", performed by English singer Rick Astley.
"Never Gonna Give You Up" is the subject of an Internet meme known as "rickrolling" involving misleading links (commonly shortened URLs) redirecting to the song's music video. [35] Started by users on 4chan, the practice had by May 2007 achieved notoriety on the Internet.
Rick Astley may be cemented in music history for the viral “Rickrolling ... In 2007, a YouTube user posted what appeared to be the link to a new video game trailer on an online forum, ...
Rickrolling was a very, very popular bait-and-switch prank that involved tricking people to click on disguised hyperlinks . that would lead them to the music video for Rick Astley’s 1987 song ...
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But most notably, it was around the time of his first Foo Fighters collab that Astley’s seventh studio album, 50, which was recorded independently in his garage, became his first U.K. No. 1 ...
NURV's first viral video to gain media attention was an unofficial mashup trailer featuring Dumb & Dumber footage set to the music from the Inception trailer. [10] In 2011, NURV made a viral video that was a concept trailer for an internet meme filled movie that NURV was producing called The Chronicles of Rick Roll. [1]
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