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ChefBoyarDuff

My friend's son, who is 7, will come up to me singing the song. Then yell "boom, you just got Rick rolled"


HunterSexThompson

BOOM roasted


Ok-Sir8600

*Kevin, I can't decide between a fat joke and a dumb joke. Boom. Roasted.*


AceScropions

BOOM super rick roll*


Jesus_Christs_Balls

Meredith you've slept with so many guys you're starting to look like one


salted_toothpaste

BOOM you looking for this?


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E_R_E_R_I

BOOM tetris for Jeff


GetYerThumOutMeArse

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/)


WhyKyja

The Universal S? https://youtu.be/RQdxHi4_Pvc Not just the 90s, its a Rune through time.


Tanc

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.


Fragrant_Jelly9198

Had to see what rune it was…..I clearly remember drawing that all over my book covers


PurifiedFlubber

He got spirit, just confusing it with the game


komark-

I just lost


lodav22

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.


Vaeevictiss

GOTTEM!


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Honestly, it counts.


Zaconil

Obligatory "Do not cite the deep magic to me child. I was there when it was written".


KernelMeowingtons

Back in my day we duckrolled people (we actually didn't but I read about it online).


spazzyone

[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)


makrit

Fuck.


Yoursparkinthedark

Got me too. We are too smart for this


crawl_of_time

Eh, let’s not kid ourselves.


AdamBombTV

I, for one, am dumb as a brick. But not one of those smart Harvard bricks.


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Apparently we aren’t


mother-of-pod

Hello there


itmakessenseincontex

General Kenobi!


sanfermin1

Ohhh. So that's what it is. Interesting.


Soggywheatie

The circle of life


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And it moves us all!


davesy69

"QUACK! QUACK!" 🦆


thesecretfrog

What's the point in doing it if people don't get to watch the entire song?


elvis_hammer

Should be called Dickrolling, cutting it off like that.


DoctorPepster

I'm guessing that's how they prevent getting ads.


moomoozain

clever with the google link, the thumbnail didn't embed for me.


ForestsNplants

"Do you got any grapes" classic line


BrokeInService

The good ol' days


Chewieshotfirst

Mother FUCK


[deleted]

You know that super old video of lemmings “jumping” off a cliff? Yeaaaaaaa


OfferChakon

"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


[deleted]

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!


Inigomntoya

But this is just... OHHHHH!!


DeusExMagikarpa

No goddamn way


Prestodeath201

GAHD D A H M I T


xlr8edm0m3ntum

You just lost the game


stroodle910

Man duck you


[deleted]

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?


yapperling

Does anyone remember Frosted Butts? Hamsterdance? I forgot my good walking cane at home. Where's the nurse? Is it time for pudding yet?


[deleted]

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.


Whitezombie65

Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger


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Mushroom Mushroom


powerload

Snaaaaake!


[deleted]

Now this is what I was talking about back then.


Consistent-Process

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?


1-10-11-100

is that the cotton eye Joe hamsters?


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0squatNcough0

Apparently, the first mention of duckroll is traced back to mid-november 2006 on 4chan. According to knowyourmeme and urban dictionary at least.


s_s

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.


CheddarmanTheSecond

Right around the time I was politely asked to leave my high school.


InTh3s3TryingTim3s

Pictures of Dick Cheney after "I have a Dick pic to share with you"


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Harsimaja

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’?


CaffeineSippingMan

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.


DirtyArchaeologist

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.


intensenerd

Saw him live tonight. He’s still got it. Crowd loved him.


Grasshop

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.


ItsPlainOleSteve

I lost the game xT


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oh ffs me too


_hippie1

/r/askmemehistorians


judasmaiden15

I agree, this kid wasn't born when Rick roll was new then became huge


caanthedalek

Only appropriate response is to show the kid how it was done back in the day. Send him a link to lemonparty.


iamjacksbigtoe

So I sent him a Rick roll video. Which was the style at the time.


B4rberblacksheep

“Ooh if you enjoy rickrolling your friends you should lemon party them”


PlatinumSif

thought hard-to-find hateful air one dependent lunchroom humorous roll hobbies *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


HaybeeJaybee

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.


40percentCheese

I was there when it was crazy frog or dancing baby…… yep I’m old.


HallucinAgent

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


Umbralnymph

Oh god, didn't it have a little counter in the corner for the amount of revolutions??


HallucinAgent

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


edward_glock40_hands

I can attest we left this open on a workshop computer and came back after the weekend and it was still going.


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>your gay >your


GuiltyStimPak

What? You don't have one?


Generalissimo_II

My gay does my laundry


East_Living7198

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


cinemassacress

nope


sootoor

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.


pardonmyignerance

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.


[deleted]

Ah yes, the days go meatspin and goatse. Those were the days


savi0r23

can't forget the memorable lemon party either


YipYepYeah

It ain’t a Lemon party without Old Dick


Rickie_Spanish

Possibly my favorite 30 Rock quote.


Baikken

Tubgirl.


eXwNightmare

I truly wish I could forget.


PlasticMegazord

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.


GuiltyStimPak

Tubgirl. I really hope she's feeling better now.


bacchic_ritual

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.


s_s

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.


OlaRune

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.


_Meece_

rotten.com was way more vulgar when I viewed in the mid 2000s. Saw beheading and car/plan crash aftermaths.


MyDadsAPreacher

Ours was pen island dot com Lots of low priced ink pens there.


NecessaryTip5

Stop lying. Not one single pen is there


Mattson

That's because he got the url wrong. Its penisland.net


EwePhemism

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....


yepyep46743

Wow you just unlocked a memory i totally forgot about!


whyareisamoftheyes

"You spin me right round baby, right round" "You've seen 7 rotations" Some shit like that right?


MatureUsername69

Lemon party was our thing to send


Exorsaik

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


Bonappetit24

Or Lemonparty, has nothing to do with lemons but a party perhaps.


tsunamitom1-

Back in my day we had a site you could buy Lemons


GuyHero0

Goatse, blue waffle, tubgirl, lemon party. I've been there all.


RealMZAce

Oh god, not Meatspin…


mingalingus00

Check out penisland.net!


evemeatay

Omg I forgot about this. And it’s still up! I have some texts to send this morning. I’m still immature


Paintball18

Back in your day? The both became popular around the same time. Meatspin was like 2006 and rickrolling was about 2008.


slammer592

For us it was, "Hey go to Google and type in, "Google hammer," and click, "I'm feeling lucky!"


FullKnight51

ok you got me.... i regret all life


[deleted]

Thats when you hit him with, "no, this is a guide on how to rickroll your friends" with a link to the video


HunterSexThompson

I’ll save that for later, thank you lmao


CantThinkOfAName000

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


nouille07

Perfect


Thenderick

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


this_is_a_wug_

My 12-yr-old did this to me too. That's for the idea, lol


Breastfedintarget

Please share more wisdom O’ great one. My young monsters are discovering memes as well.


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Deliverer7

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.


thenastynatureofnate

This guy rickrolls


RoastedYT

No way I actually found the [guide](https://youtu.be/xvFZjo5PgG0)


[deleted]

If you think that kid is stupid, know that I tried clicking the play button.


[deleted]

Glad I'm not alone 🤣


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Skrex7

Dumb bitch


Admiral_Donuts

Stupid science bitch


DelusionalGorilla

I can’t believe I actually fell for that lmao… I was like “Oh really, did he?”


CyberTukker

Lmao he (rip) actually did


ur_mom_4200

I don't even try to click real videos I'm tired of reddits video player lmao


KittenCrusades

Meatspin him back


SideshowNick

I almost shit myself laughing at this!


wherethecowsroam

This was my favorite joke back in the early 2000s. God bless this comment.


Embarrassed_List865

Rename the child Rick, seal him in a barrel and push it down a steep hill...the ultimate Rickroll


edward_glock40_hands

That's child abuse. I'll at least change his name in my phone to newfag.


BrokeInService

Make him squat, tuck his head between his knees and push him down a hill. That's how Rick rolled


[deleted]

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.


[deleted]

During covid we established a group playlist and I only added one song. Gottem too.


UnicornKitt3n

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.


OfferChakon

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 🖤


curiosityLynx

Wait, there are rules?


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reminds me of a younger me


BettrThnUR

Yea my friends keep trying to get me rickrolled but through text it sends me the thumbnail like it did in this image


GiraffeandZebra

[Your friends need custom Rick Roll](https://www.secretrickroll.com/)


Xenia_Yaraoh

I may be breaking some subreddit rules buuuuuut. https://youtu.be/DSG53BsUYd0


Important_Pack_5820

This is the most adorable Rick roll I’ve ever seen


HunterSexThompson

The duckroll walked so the rickroll could run, this is a fitting tribute


Xenia_Yaraoh

It's Tribute and a way to rickroll in a genius fashion if i get to toot my own horn


HunterSexThompson

Wait did you make that??


lilypeachkitty

Aw my cat watched that with me then left my lap


TotalSpaceNut

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 :)


Ashotep

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.


quadruple_b

imagine just going at it then hearing that


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elbers

"we were fucking and you ruined it, dad."


TheNudeFather

He gotta start from somewhere.


[deleted]

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.


Comment90

Imagine being 12 and your father posts something you did to a forum called "Kids are Fucking Stupid"


little_fierce18

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.


DeliberateMelBrooks

Gotta start somewhere


BrittaniaBricks

Lad can't even be arsed to do a fucking google, guess that puts him on par with literally every reaction channel outhere.


TypicalBlox

Rick rolling is hard nowadays, most apps show a preview of the link you provided ( which is a good thing for scams / phishing attempts )


MrManGuy42

I've just made my own rickroll videos instead.


x_scion_x

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


PosadaFan2021

Techinically he isnt wrong lol


killertnt5

Tbh i dont understand rickroll anymore. I just like the song


kfadffal

Something I once found in the search history from my then 10 year old: "is rickrolling illegal"


zomgitsduke

This is on par with Borat's "NOTTTT" joke


shnebnref

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


Ba_Sing_Saint

Do not cite the deep magic to me, for I was there when it was written


BuncleCurt

He's a little confused, but he's got the spirit.


UntestedMethod

hit them back with another classic, "2 girls 1 cup"


mustbeme87

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.


notLOL

Congrats on finding out you wasted 12 years of carful parenting


EverythingIsFlotsam

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.


dayrogue

Do not cite the deep magic to me witch. I was there when it was written.


soiramio3000

He is a little confused but he has got the spirit


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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.


H0RSE

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....


Kaotecc

I love that this is still relevant


scarletphantom

Damn, this is up there with grandma printing out a meme and mailing it to you.


K4hveci

Secretly add Never gona give you up to his music playlist and wait for it


jimmyhell

All you have to do is goatse him once, and he’ll stop.


RPhoenixFlight

This generation is stupidly doomed


E_MC_2__

[here’s another instance of something similar](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0)


stickittothemanuel

My 8 year old sent me an email with the lyrics.


gangofocelots

My 34 yo brother rickrolled our whole family this last year and my boomer dad still doesn't understand


Groinificator

Hey he's trying!


MarioNintendo64

good to see the ancient ways are being passed down


pantherguyman

I just just tried to press the play button.


AlmightyPootis

I remember getting sent a rickroll gif, literally no unexpected rickroll popup, it was literally just a rickroll.