Rickroll

rickroll rick-roll English Verb en rickroll, particularly: en rickroll hyperlink en w:Jenna Wortham YouTube ‘Rickrolls’ Everyone Wired https://web.archive.org/web/20200807051326/https://www.wired.com/2008/04/youtube-rickrol/ 7 August 2020 San Francisco, Calif. Condé Nast Publications 1 April 2008 1059-1028 24479723 YouTube ‘Rickrolls’ Everyone [title] Let the Internet pranking begin! YouTube, capitalizing on the resurgence of a popular meme, has booby-trapped each of the “featured videos” on its homepage. Click on any of the showcased clips and you’ll be taken instead to a cheesy video of pop singer Rick Astley singing his late-’80s hit song, “Never Gonna Give You Up.” en w:David Pogue The Internet Celebrity Culture [Internet Memes 101: A Guide to Online Wackiness] Social Media Influencers: Apps, Algorithms and Celebrities In the Headlines New York, N.Y. New York Times Educational Publishing in association with The Rosen Publishing Group 2020 14 https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=j7DXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 978-1-64282-357-8 You send a Web link to someone, promising something exciting or compelling ("Is this you!?")—but the link actually takes your victim to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's 1987 music video, "Never Gonna Give You Up." That's it. That's the joke. Ha! You've been Rickrolled! en rickroll surprise en Tim Donnelly 10 historic moments from Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade w:New York Post https://web.archive.org/web/20220519085525/https://nypost.com/2014/11/26/10-historic-moments-from-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/ 19 May 2022 New York, N.Y. News Corp 26 November 2014 1090-3321 1097129885 In 2008, Astley proved he was a good sport about the joke, interrupting a song on the float for "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" to Rickroll the parade. en Amy Woodyatt Greta Thunberg ‘Rickrolls’ climate concert with crazy dance moves w:CNN https://web.archive.org/web/20221017212747/https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/18/europe/greta-thunberg-rick-astley-intl-scli-climate 17 October 2022 18 October 2021 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has "Rickrolled" an audience, all in the name of climate activism. Thunberg danced to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" on Saturday, in front of a crowd at Climate Live, a youth-led concert for climate action. en rickroll indirect en Eyder Peralta Rickrolled: Or How One Politician Overcame Partisan Divide to Pull a Prank All Things Considered, NPR https://web.archive.org/web/20221127190453/https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/04/13/135385998/rickrolled-or-how-one-politician-overcame-partisan-divide-to-pull-a-prank 13 April 2011 Yesterday, Korva pointed to an amusing video of lawmakers Rickrolling the Oregon State House. So what Oregon lawmakers did was include snippets of the song's lyrics into their speeches on the House floor and then stich it together to make the tune. Noun en rickroll, particularly: en rickroll act en w:Rick Astley moot Time https://web.archive.org/web/20220525171730/http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/printout/0,29239,1894410_1893837_1894180,00.html 25 May 2022 New York, N.Y. Time Warner Publishing 30 April 2009 0928-8430 749127914 I find some Rickrolls really funny. Have you seen the one with President Barack Obama? Someone has cut up his speeches and put them together so that he sings "Never Gonna Give You Up." It's totally amazing. I find it bonkers, by the way! en Austen Kay Teenage Kicks Simon Pont Digital State: How the Internet is Changing Everything London; Philadelphia, Pa. w:Kogan Page 2013 74 https://books.google.com/books?id=tAR5xUW06C0C&pg=PA74 978-0-7494-6885-9 Now 4chan is the largest active forum in the United States. It's the originator of countless memes, including Lolcats and my personal favourite, Rickrolls. en Sean Au; Thomas Power A Bit of Coin Theory Tokenomics: The Crypto Shift of Blockchains, ICOs, and Tokens Expert Insight Birmingham, West Midlands Packt Publishing October 2018 47 https://books.google.com/books?id=hCdyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 978-1-78913-632-6 An image of [Nelson] Mandela, the bitcoin logo, Rickrolls, emails from [Satoshi] Nakamoto, and even Valentine's Day messages have all been found on the blockchain.