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In 2007, a YouTube user posted what appeared to be the link to a new video game trailer on an online forum, but it redirected to the charmingly cheesy music video to Astley’s hit song. The rest ...
The aforementioned video has over 1.5 billion views on YouTube. The meme is a type of bait and switch, usually using a disguised hyperlink that leads to the music video. When someone clicks on a seemingly unrelated link, the site with the music video loads instead of what was expected, and they have been "Rickrolled".
"Never Gonna Give You Up" is a pop song by English singer Rick Astley, released on 27 July 1987. The song is widely regarded as Astley's most popular, as well as his signature song, and it is often played at the end of his live concerts.
For instance, six years ago, a YouTube video of him playing the drums while singing AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” at Los Angeles’s Troubadour club made him a viral sensation all over again.
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 countr
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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