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When you click a link anticipating certain content, but instead find a video of Rick Astley's one hit wonder "Never gonna give you up"
I clicked on a link to the trailer for GTA4.. but instead got rickrolled!
Popular forum prank started in 2007. Someone will post a link to a Rick Astley video from the 1980s (Astley is a gay-looking pop singer from the 80s), but disguise it as a link to something else. Victims of the prank are then said to have been "rickrolled".
prankster:
sup all, there's a new Harry Potter trailer! Check it out!
<insert disguised link to Rick Astley video here>
response:
wtf? where's the harry potter trailer?
prankster:
you just got rickrolled!!!11! lol
Being tricked to watch "Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up" through a post on forums, the video usually leads to a youtube video
OMFG CHECK OUT THIS SKILL - (link video)
My new pvp video is really good, check it out (link video)
Rickrolled.
Internet prank that goes a little something like this:
darky091: holy fuk, MILEY CYRUS SEX TAPES!
MileysBoy4evur: WUT TEH JESUS>??
MileysBoy4evur: links or it didnt happen!1
darky091:k hold on
darky091:http://www.thekickback.com/rickroll/rickroll.php
MileysBoy4evur:...
MileysBoy4evur: fucking cunt.
-MileysBoy4evur has left this conversation*
You are given a link to something (say a video) but when you follow the link, you get something like a Rick Astley music video on Youtube - you've been rickrolled!
I finally found that Britney Spears water tub incident video but when I cliked for it I got 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. What a rickroll...
Opening a youtube link that is supposed to be something of great interest to a forum community,only to end up to the 80s Rick Astley hit "Never gonna give you up".
Forum thread title"starcraft universe mmo video leak"
Post 1 from the OP"OMG a video leaked from blizz hq,youtube link here"
Hiting the link gets you Rickrolled.
To be tricked into a Rick Astley song as an internet prank
Mostly Never gonna give you up his most famous song