All about...#3 - Rickrolling

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First published: Thursday February 25th, 2021
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Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around

And desert you...

These are the most famous words to Rick Astley's 1987 hit song Never Gonna give you up. You may wonder, what's so special about this song?

This blog will exactly tell you that. And it will be divided into 4 parts

Introduction
History
How to Rickroll
Perspectives and trend

Basicly, rickrolling is the art of tricking someone to clicking the hit song "Never gonna give you up" (which has over 870 million views on Youtube). Rickrolling isnt just the Original Video the art can also happen on Zoom meetings files, audios, etc.

The trend started in around 2008 when Rick himself appeared in the 2008 Macy's day Parade in the middle of the song! The trend rose up and is currently still popular, with youtubers and discord users doing it.

There are lots of ways to rickroll someone. There are websites like Cutt.ly and bit.ly. Of course you can send the Original Video but you can put alternative links, disguised links, the list goes on.

Although may be sneaky and against the guidlines, note that with the link HTML, its very easy to rickroll people but dont do it :)

Since the COVID-19 virus, rickrolls have become more popular and are progressing. Have you ever been rickrolled? How was it? Let me know in the comments!

Best,

Mr.Blogger

What should be next?

Btw, more then half the comments on the Iberian Union blog were about the Life question.

Level 51

Feb 25, 2021

I am a big fan of your blogs! I made you some fan art, you can see it here.

Level 47

Feb 25, 2021

I didn't click the link, but i'm 100% sure that is a rickroll.

Level 51

Feb 25, 2021

Nope, it is an actual fan art of Mr Blogger that probably does not look at all like he does in real life.

Level 56

Feb 25, 2021

Is that a reference to the guy who holds the world record to Rick roll the most celebrities in 24 hours?

Level 34

Feb 25, 2021

Rick Rolling makes me laugh

Level 55

Feb 25, 2021

I like Rickrolling other people

Level 43

Feb 25, 2021

I be always rockrolled LOL! Here, is an example.

Level 51

Feb 25, 2021

Everything is putting rickroll links everywhere lol

~~Including me~~

Level 32

Feb 25, 2021

The amount of times I have been rickrolled is actually insane

Level 56

Feb 25, 2021

The YouTuber Timeworks has been rickrolled more than 2,200 times!

Level 56

Feb 25, 2021

The history of rickrolling is a lot more interesting. In 2006, duck rolling was a meme/trend on the website 4chan, until in 2007 a Youtuber called cotter548 made up the meme himself and uploaded the music video onto Youtube before Rick Astley did. The first person he rickrolled was a stranger in the videogame GTA4. This is the reason why there are two rickroll links, one that starts with dQ and the other one by cotter548. Technically speaking, cotter548's link is the official rickroll link, not Rick Astley's.

Level 43

Feb 25, 2021

You deserve an Oscar by the explanation! LOL! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Level 65

Feb 26, 2021

This is correct. The "rickrolling" by 4chan on the internet happened when he made a word filter where it would swap the word "egg" with "duck". Somebody put in "eggroll" and it swapped into "duckroll". Somebody made a picture of a duck on wheels. People started to make hidden hyperlinks which sends you the image to the duckroll. This was known as "duckrolling". Meanwhile, Never Gonna Give You Up was rocketing in popularity. 3 reasons why is because in a popular show in 2005 launching an episode with the song in it. Another in 2006 when a sportscaster played the music instead of talking about sports. And then when the new GTA4 game was released it sent so much traffic that the game crashed. cotter548 made a hyperlink for the new "Grand Theft Auto 4" trailer and instead was a rickroll.

Level 65

Feb 26, 2021

Here is the (non-rickroll) link.

Level 66

Feb 25, 2021

Pandora49 rickrolled our class by giving everyone a link and saying that's why our teacher was absent.

Level 43

Feb 25, 2021

OMG LOL

Level 14

Feb 27, 2021

Pandora's in the same class as you? ngl I never knew that... but lol, that was funny

Level 51

Feb 25, 2021

In class! 😄

Level 55

Feb 26, 2021

somoene rickrolled our teacher by saying Dwyane the Rock Johnson died, while the teacher was screen sharing

Level 43

Feb 26, 2021

Now, QM updated many Charts!

Level 52

Jun 3, 2021

I love rickrolling people when it makes no sense to do it. For example, I rickrolled MG when I was in a group with him, telling him that I found "another good resource." Good times.

Level 55

Aug 8, 2021

1 billion views! pog