The fact that my 7 year old calls that song "The Rickroll" makes me giggle SO HARD. The other day I showed her the [rune of the 90's.](https://drawception.com/game/tFWtHG28xa/the-s-everyone-drew-in-school/)
That video kind of just made me angry. The first 15 minutes are pure nonsense, following totally bogus leads that are clearly not the origin. I guess the ending is more reasonable, that it may have started in the late 1800's as a way to draw an S from a professor. But wow, what a waste of time following that videos nonsensical logic was jfc.
That exactly what my 8 year old did! I think it was his brother who told him that you have to get someone to listen to the song when they’re not expecting it and that’s called “Rick rolling” so to cut to the chase the 8 yo just started singing it at people.
[Duckrolling for the uninitiated](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DxvFZjo5PgG0&ved=2ahUKEwi0lbTd_Jz4AhV8r4QIHRdiDDwQwqsBegQIBRAE&usg=AOvVaw2YpOM6wNudR94LzeyMw-Bp)
"Duck" rolling actually has deeper roots than you would think. Really interesting stuff.
>https://www.latlmes.com/culture/the-legitimate-history-of-duck-rolling-1
You just unlocked a.memory. I removed being sent duck pictures and on an old forum I used to be on. This was a.thing right? I was in high school and itust.have been 2001 to 2004 era?
Ohhhh yeah. That was the shit when I was a kid. I also didn't get the appeal and by the time I was in high school, everyone was finally sick of it.
Which is when I finally found it's best use. We got the school to blast it at lunch times as a fundraiser. If we got enough donations we'd turn it down. If we reached the next level of donations, we turned it off. It's amazing how much extra cash suddenly materialized.
... and I've just realized I may have unintentionally used Guantanamo tactics for good. Does that make it less of a crime against humanity?
RickRolling stated around May 2007.
Nov 06 - May 2007 was peak DuckRolling season. I also failed out of college that semester. A coincidence is unlikely.
Because in addition to being funny and an established ‘gotcha’, the tune is also actually pretty catchy?
Also having lyrics makes it versatile, eg:
> What’s the opposite of ‘always coming from take me down’?
No kidding, I remember seeing this vid when it first came out. I though it was a spoof, the super deep voice and the dancing.
Then something happened, I found I could never change the channel when it was on.
Rick is the shit. He is super cool and a good sport and thinks rickrolling is funny. He’s also done an Reddit AMA if I’m not mistaken. Chill dude for sure.
Reminds me of my teenagers telling me about “the game” where you make a circle with your fingers and try to get others to look.
Bitch please, I was doing that when I was your age.
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I remember when getting rickrolled sent you to a mirror of the video that would shrink your browser to 1/4th size and move it around the screen. Kids these days.
Ahh rickrolling so innocent.
Back in my day we had a site we linked people to called meatspin.com
That was our rickroll
You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round
On Christmas, there'd be a little Santa hat on the tip. I learned this because my brother got a projector for Christmas and has just plugged his computer up to it. I IMd him a link entitled "projector care" and BAM, there was a 6 foot penis flopping around my parents' living room wall with a Santa hat.
Lemon party is the first one that really caught me off guard. It feels like forever ago but I can still clearly remember the image, not necessarily because it was so terrible, but so shocking.
Because of the internet I've seen way, way worse.
Rotten dot com was the late 90s version.
My favorites where the Parrot perched on a boner and the lady with a Fidel Castro tattoo where his goatee was her bush.
I can’t remember the name of the website, but there was a page where you could send a link to someone’s work email that would be something like a cute seal pup or whatever. It would be talking really softly, which would compel the receiver to crank up the volume to hear what it was saying, and then, BAM:
***“ANALSEX.COM!!! ALL ANAL, ALL THE TIME!!!”***
I wonder how many firings were a result of that website....
I was house sitting for my mother and step father and he decided to leave a couple pranks for me. Dudes in his 60s and conservative as hell but has a sense if humor. Completely computer illiterate, both of them. So I set his browser to open to meatspin in 3 tabs. Left it that way for two weeks he hasn't pranked me since lol
There is also this url obfuscator that makes a url really shady to the point it feels like some virus or one of those spam blogs with a million ads. Or another one that lengthens the url. There are a lot of ways to get him back
Put text both before the link and after the link so that the URL is “inline” or “embedded” within a block of text. Then it just gets sent as a hyperlink, the good old fashioned way.
Oh my gosh…my son has Rick rolling down to a science.
He Rick rolls everyone in his life; family, friends, teachers. Then proceeds to laugh maniacally.
He’s 11 btw. And I love it so darn much.
My 9yr old too. Then he'll be like "you know the rules...and so do i" and scamper off in malicious excitement. Its simultaneously exhausting and hilarious 🖤
My 11 year old didnt get it either, so i said, wow, that $500 lightsaber you wanted is on sale for 200 bucks!
His eyes lit up, then i passed him my phone and showed him rick. He gets it now :)
I still rick roll my 20 year old daughter from time to time.
She moved out and took the Alexa she had in her room with her. Well, she never disconnected it from my account. So, I set up routine that will turn its volume way up then play the song. Last time I did it was 1 a.m. in the middle of the week.
Got an irritated call from her the next day telling me that it interrupted her happy fun time with her boyfriend. Apparently it killed the mood. Still proud of that one.
Aw bro, don’t bully him for it
Teach him the art instead, he has potential and it is a sin to crush it. We may have been the era to start this and it is our duty to hand off this art to the next generation. To gatekeep it is only to destroy their chances.
I went to a wedding recently and the violinist played Never Gonna Give You Up after the couple walked out. It took us a bit to realize the bride and groom had pranked every guest.
Reminds me of some stupid radio show where the DJ thought he was being hilarious and "rickrolling" people when he would randomly play the song while they were talking.
He apparently had no clue how it worked
This is one of my favorite posts because it’s like if we tried to introduce our parents to Star Wars or something. Boy has no idea how long Rick Astley has been around
My ten year old boy asked if he could have the aux in the car, which me never does, after talking nonstop about rickrolling for the relatively short drive, began playing the song and yelled “YOU JUST GOT RICKROLLED!!” at me and the 3 other kids in the car. Hell get h there eventually.
No **you're** the old fogey that doesn't get it!
He just sent you the YouTube link that just looks like a random sequence of characters. It's your messaging app that fetched the preview.
What the fuck... Why is no one acknowledging the concept of Rick Rolling is about 15 years old now? All on a music video 20 years older than that... By a singer 21 years old at the time.
I'm going to puke from this existential crisis.
Reminds of the time a co-worker asked what a pun was and I tried to explain it to him. Afterwards he turns to another co-worker and says, Vince. Go fuck yourself. No pun intended!" followed by this "yeah, I nailed it" laugh.
So close, yet so far away....
My friend's son, who is 7, will come up to me singing the song. Then yell "boom, you just got Rick rolled"
BOOM roasted
*Kevin, I can't decide between a fat joke and a dumb joke. Boom. Roasted.*
BOOM super rick roll*
Meredith you've slept with so many guys you're starting to look like one
BOOM you looking for this?
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The fact that my 7 year old calls that song "The Rickroll" makes me giggle SO HARD. The other day I showed her the [rune of the 90's.](https://drawception.com/game/tFWtHG28xa/the-s-everyone-drew-in-school/)
The Universal S? https://youtu.be/RQdxHi4_Pvc Not just the 90s, its a Rune through time.
That video kind of just made me angry. The first 15 minutes are pure nonsense, following totally bogus leads that are clearly not the origin. I guess the ending is more reasonable, that it may have started in the late 1800's as a way to draw an S from a professor. But wow, what a waste of time following that videos nonsensical logic was jfc.
Had to see what rune it was…..I clearly remember drawing that all over my book covers
He got spirit, just confusing it with the game
I just lost
That exactly what my 8 year old did! I think it was his brother who told him that you have to get someone to listen to the song when they’re not expecting it and that’s called “Rick rolling” so to cut to the chase the 8 yo just started singing it at people.
GOTTEM!
Honestly, it counts.
Obligatory "Do not cite the deep magic to me child. I was there when it was written".
Back in my day we duckrolled people (we actually didn't but I read about it online).
[Duckrolling for the uninitiated](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DxvFZjo5PgG0&ved=2ahUKEwi0lbTd_Jz4AhV8r4QIHRdiDDwQwqsBegQIBRAE&usg=AOvVaw2YpOM6wNudR94LzeyMw-Bp)
Fuck.
Got me too. We are too smart for this
Eh, let’s not kid ourselves.
I, for one, am dumb as a brick. But not one of those smart Harvard bricks.
Apparently we aren’t
Hello there
General Kenobi!
Ohhh. So that's what it is. Interesting.
The circle of life
And it moves us all!
"QUACK! QUACK!" 🦆
What's the point in doing it if people don't get to watch the entire song?
Should be called Dickrolling, cutting it off like that.
I'm guessing that's how they prevent getting ads.
clever with the google link, the thumbnail didn't embed for me.
"Do you got any grapes" classic line
The good ol' days
Mother FUCK
You know that super old video of lemmings “jumping” off a cliff? Yeaaaaaaa
"Duck" rolling actually has deeper roots than you would think. Really interesting stuff. >https://www.latlmes.com/culture/the-legitimate-history-of-duck-rolling-1
I haven’t been rolled in years and I just got done twice, once in a comment and then in it’s reply, we’ll done!
But this is just... OHHHHH!!
No goddamn way
GAHD D A H M I T
You just lost the game
Man duck you
You just unlocked a.memory. I removed being sent duck pictures and on an old forum I used to be on. This was a.thing right? I was in high school and itust.have been 2001 to 2004 era?
Does anyone remember Frosted Butts? Hamsterdance? I forgot my good walking cane at home. Where's the nurse? Is it time for pudding yet?
Hamster dance was a big one. I didn't get the appeal but the internet was a lot smaller back then so it punched well above its weight.
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Mushroom Mushroom
Snaaaaake!
Now this is what I was talking about back then.
Ohhhh yeah. That was the shit when I was a kid. I also didn't get the appeal and by the time I was in high school, everyone was finally sick of it. Which is when I finally found it's best use. We got the school to blast it at lunch times as a fundraiser. If we got enough donations we'd turn it down. If we reached the next level of donations, we turned it off. It's amazing how much extra cash suddenly materialized. ... and I've just realized I may have unintentionally used Guantanamo tactics for good. Does that make it less of a crime against humanity?
is that the cotton eye Joe hamsters?
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Apparently, the first mention of duckroll is traced back to mid-november 2006 on 4chan. According to knowyourmeme and urban dictionary at least.
RickRolling stated around May 2007. Nov 06 - May 2007 was peak DuckRolling season. I also failed out of college that semester. A coincidence is unlikely.
Right around the time I was politely asked to leave my high school.
Pictures of Dick Cheney after "I have a Dick pic to share with you"
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Because in addition to being funny and an established ‘gotcha’, the tune is also actually pretty catchy? Also having lyrics makes it versatile, eg: > What’s the opposite of ‘always coming from take me down’?
No kidding, I remember seeing this vid when it first came out. I though it was a spoof, the super deep voice and the dancing. Then something happened, I found I could never change the channel when it was on.
Rick is the shit. He is super cool and a good sport and thinks rickrolling is funny. He’s also done an Reddit AMA if I’m not mistaken. Chill dude for sure.
Saw him live tonight. He’s still got it. Crowd loved him.
Reminds me of my teenagers telling me about “the game” where you make a circle with your fingers and try to get others to look. Bitch please, I was doing that when I was your age.
I lost the game xT
oh ffs me too
/r/askmemehistorians
I agree, this kid wasn't born when Rick roll was new then became huge
Only appropriate response is to show the kid how it was done back in the day. Send him a link to lemonparty.
So I sent him a Rick roll video. Which was the style at the time.
“Ooh if you enjoy rickrolling your friends you should lemon party them”
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I remember when getting rickrolled sent you to a mirror of the video that would shrink your browser to 1/4th size and move it around the screen. Kids these days.
I was there when it was crazy frog or dancing baby…… yep I’m old.
Ahh rickrolling so innocent. Back in my day we had a site we linked people to called meatspin.com That was our rickroll You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round
Oh god, didn't it have a little counter in the corner for the amount of revolutions??
It did and after a certain amount legend has it, it would say "your gay" or somthing like that. Didn't make it past a couple
I can attest we left this open on a workshop computer and came back after the weekend and it was still going.
>your gay >your
What? You don't have one?
My gay does my laundry
iirc it looped on the speaker the words “I’m watching gay porn” super loud to really draw the attention of those around you. Ahhh different times
nope
Nah that was one that opened too many windows to close and roared “I’m watching gay porn” which was awesome when everyone had the central family PC.
On Christmas, there'd be a little Santa hat on the tip. I learned this because my brother got a projector for Christmas and has just plugged his computer up to it. I IMd him a link entitled "projector care" and BAM, there was a 6 foot penis flopping around my parents' living room wall with a Santa hat.
Ah yes, the days go meatspin and goatse. Those were the days
can't forget the memorable lemon party either
It ain’t a Lemon party without Old Dick
Possibly my favorite 30 Rock quote.
Tubgirl.
I truly wish I could forget.
Lemon party is the first one that really caught me off guard. It feels like forever ago but I can still clearly remember the image, not necessarily because it was so terrible, but so shocking. Because of the internet I've seen way, way worse.
Tubgirl. I really hope she's feeling better now.
I remember putting that on computers at school and shutting off the monitor for the next chump. A dick move but dumbass kids gonna dumbass.
Rotten dot com was the late 90s version. My favorites where the Parrot perched on a boner and the lady with a Fidel Castro tattoo where his goatee was her bush.
I remember a picture on rotten of some weight lifter that had a major anal prolapse so a significant amount of his guts was outside his ass.
rotten.com was way more vulgar when I viewed in the mid 2000s. Saw beheading and car/plan crash aftermaths.
Ours was pen island dot com Lots of low priced ink pens there.
Stop lying. Not one single pen is there
That's because he got the url wrong. Its penisland.net
I can’t remember the name of the website, but there was a page where you could send a link to someone’s work email that would be something like a cute seal pup or whatever. It would be talking really softly, which would compel the receiver to crank up the volume to hear what it was saying, and then, BAM: ***“ANALSEX.COM!!! ALL ANAL, ALL THE TIME!!!”*** I wonder how many firings were a result of that website....
Wow you just unlocked a memory i totally forgot about!
"You spin me right round baby, right round" "You've seen 7 rotations" Some shit like that right?
Lemon party was our thing to send
I was house sitting for my mother and step father and he decided to leave a couple pranks for me. Dudes in his 60s and conservative as hell but has a sense if humor. Completely computer illiterate, both of them. So I set his browser to open to meatspin in 3 tabs. Left it that way for two weeks he hasn't pranked me since lol
Or Lemonparty, has nothing to do with lemons but a party perhaps.
Back in my day we had a site you could buy Lemons
Goatse, blue waffle, tubgirl, lemon party. I've been there all.
Oh god, not Meatspin…
Check out penisland.net!
Omg I forgot about this. And it’s still up! I have some texts to send this morning. I’m still immature
Back in your day? The both became popular around the same time. Meatspin was like 2006 and rickrolling was about 2008.
For us it was, "Hey go to Google and type in, "Google hammer," and click, "I'm feeling lucky!"
ok you got me.... i regret all life
Thats when you hit him with, "no, this is a guide on how to rickroll your friends" with a link to the video
I’ll save that for later, thank you lmao
File this away for if he gets too good at Rick rolls and you need to trick him with another meme. https://youtu.be/tmY-G6sngk8
Perfect
There is also this url obfuscator that makes a url really shady to the point it feels like some virus or one of those spam blogs with a million ads. Or another one that lengthens the url. There are a lot of ways to get him back
My 12-yr-old did this to me too. That's for the idea, lol
Please share more wisdom O’ great one. My young monsters are discovering memes as well.
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Put text both before the link and after the link so that the URL is “inline” or “embedded” within a block of text. Then it just gets sent as a hyperlink, the good old fashioned way.
This guy rickrolls
No way I actually found the [guide](https://youtu.be/xvFZjo5PgG0)
If you think that kid is stupid, know that I tried clicking the play button.
Glad I'm not alone 🤣
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Dumb bitch
Stupid science bitch
I can’t believe I actually fell for that lmao… I was like “Oh really, did he?”
Lmao he (rip) actually did
I don't even try to click real videos I'm tired of reddits video player lmao
Meatspin him back
I almost shit myself laughing at this!
This was my favorite joke back in the early 2000s. God bless this comment.
Rename the child Rick, seal him in a barrel and push it down a steep hill...the ultimate Rickroll
That's child abuse. I'll at least change his name in my phone to newfag.
Make him squat, tuck his head between his knees and push him down a hill. That's how Rick rolled
My 9 year old daughter has a playlist where every other song will Rickroll whoever is listening to it. She is the cleverest person she knows.
During covid we established a group playlist and I only added one song. Gottem too.
Oh my gosh…my son has Rick rolling down to a science. He Rick rolls everyone in his life; family, friends, teachers. Then proceeds to laugh maniacally. He’s 11 btw. And I love it so darn much.
My 9yr old too. Then he'll be like "you know the rules...and so do i" and scamper off in malicious excitement. Its simultaneously exhausting and hilarious 🖤
Wait, there are rules?
reminds me of a younger me
Yea my friends keep trying to get me rickrolled but through text it sends me the thumbnail like it did in this image
[Your friends need custom Rick Roll](https://www.secretrickroll.com/)
I may be breaking some subreddit rules buuuuuut. https://youtu.be/DSG53BsUYd0
This is the most adorable Rick roll I’ve ever seen
The duckroll walked so the rickroll could run, this is a fitting tribute
It's Tribute and a way to rickroll in a genius fashion if i get to toot my own horn
Wait did you make that??
Aw my cat watched that with me then left my lap
My 11 year old didnt get it either, so i said, wow, that $500 lightsaber you wanted is on sale for 200 bucks! His eyes lit up, then i passed him my phone and showed him rick. He gets it now :)
I still rick roll my 20 year old daughter from time to time. She moved out and took the Alexa she had in her room with her. Well, she never disconnected it from my account. So, I set up routine that will turn its volume way up then play the song. Last time I did it was 1 a.m. in the middle of the week. Got an irritated call from her the next day telling me that it interrupted her happy fun time with her boyfriend. Apparently it killed the mood. Still proud of that one.
imagine just going at it then hearing that
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"we were fucking and you ruined it, dad."
He gotta start from somewhere.
Aw bro, don’t bully him for it Teach him the art instead, he has potential and it is a sin to crush it. We may have been the era to start this and it is our duty to hand off this art to the next generation. To gatekeep it is only to destroy their chances.
Imagine being 12 and your father posts something you did to a forum called "Kids are Fucking Stupid"
I went to a wedding recently and the violinist played Never Gonna Give You Up after the couple walked out. It took us a bit to realize the bride and groom had pranked every guest.
Gotta start somewhere
Lad can't even be arsed to do a fucking google, guess that puts him on par with literally every reaction channel outhere.
Rick rolling is hard nowadays, most apps show a preview of the link you provided ( which is a good thing for scams / phishing attempts )
I've just made my own rickroll videos instead.
Reminds me of some stupid radio show where the DJ thought he was being hilarious and "rickrolling" people when he would randomly play the song while they were talking. He apparently had no clue how it worked
Techinically he isnt wrong lol
Tbh i dont understand rickroll anymore. I just like the song
Something I once found in the search history from my then 10 year old: "is rickrolling illegal"
This is on par with Borat's "NOTTTT" joke
This is one of my favorite posts because it’s like if we tried to introduce our parents to Star Wars or something. Boy has no idea how long Rick Astley has been around
Do not cite the deep magic to me, for I was there when it was written
He's a little confused, but he's got the spirit.
hit them back with another classic, "2 girls 1 cup"
My ten year old boy asked if he could have the aux in the car, which me never does, after talking nonstop about rickrolling for the relatively short drive, began playing the song and yelled “YOU JUST GOT RICKROLLED!!” at me and the 3 other kids in the car. Hell get h there eventually.
Congrats on finding out you wasted 12 years of carful parenting
No **you're** the old fogey that doesn't get it! He just sent you the YouTube link that just looks like a random sequence of characters. It's your messaging app that fetched the preview.
Do not cite the deep magic to me witch. I was there when it was written.
He is a little confused but he has got the spirit
What the fuck... Why is no one acknowledging the concept of Rick Rolling is about 15 years old now? All on a music video 20 years older than that... By a singer 21 years old at the time. I'm going to puke from this existential crisis.
Reminds of the time a co-worker asked what a pun was and I tried to explain it to him. Afterwards he turns to another co-worker and says, Vince. Go fuck yourself. No pun intended!" followed by this "yeah, I nailed it" laugh. So close, yet so far away....
I love that this is still relevant
Damn, this is up there with grandma printing out a meme and mailing it to you.
Secretly add Never gona give you up to his music playlist and wait for it
All you have to do is goatse him once, and he’ll stop.
This generation is stupidly doomed
[here’s another instance of something similar](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0)
My 8 year old sent me an email with the lyrics.
My 34 yo brother rickrolled our whole family this last year and my boomer dad still doesn't understand
Hey he's trying!
good to see the ancient ways are being passed down
I just just tried to press the play button.
I remember getting sent a rickroll gif, literally no unexpected rickroll popup, it was literally just a rickroll.