Where Did the Rick Roll Come From?
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Since 2007, millions of people around the world have been pranking each other with false links that redirect to a 1980s music video. The phenomenon has become known as the "Rick Roll," and has become an integral part of internet pop culture. The question is, where did it come from, and why did it become so popular?
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I thought I was gonna get rick rolled
You look like dream
I always find it funny how Rick Astley wrote both "Never Gonna Give You Up" AND "Giving Up on Love."
That’s called range
He can't make up his mind i guess.
Comparable to when Nestle owned Jenny Craig. Hit both sides of the market!
Something for everyone. Lol
I always find it funny when checkmarks think their opinions count 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙄
The tradition back in the day was that if you got rickrolled, especially by a friend who was there to see it happen, you had to listen to the entire song.
Me, pretending I’m a traditionalist, when I just wanna jam to Never Gonna Give You Up
Well, there're worse things, than having to listen to the entire song 🎶💃
@@magnesiafrost1863 never gonna give you **AAAAAHHH**
@@Valsilene Have you heard his more recent covers? Dude's still got it
@@magnesiafrost1863 Than listening to a song I actually like.
Yes. I would love a whole decadeology deep-dive into 1980's culture.
Maybe other decades as well like the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's 70's, 90's, 2000's, and 2010's.
Make it a series.
Maybe even just call it "Decade-ology".
I don’t think we’re past the 2010s enough to recognize it as a separate thing from our current era. Since it’s just barely ended. Like the 2000s, we need another decade to really get how it’s so different and distinct as a lot of the stuff has carried over to today whereas very few of the stuff from the 2000s really does now. It would be like telling a person in 1990 to give an explanation of how the 80s were distinct.
@@Azurethewolf168
>barely ended
>it's the year 2024
okay
@@lainiwakura1776 dude it’s only been like 5 years
Reminded me that Russian CZcamsr sndk has its own series where he talks about culture of different years. He already made videos on years 2000-2009 and recently also made video on 1990.
@@lainiwakura1776how is not even half a decade a long time?
Can’t believe he called the 80s “gay but not the right gay.”
he was on spot though...I always noticed the same
@@aelahn that's homophobic.
@@SnugWugs137THATZ OFFENSIVE!1!!11!1!1
I literally have a script to Rick roll me when I open my laptop bc I like the song
🔥
yooo that's actually really cool!
Yoo can I get that script.
And it also serves to Rick roll anyone who opens your laptop too :D
stop the cap
i'm always sad that ads kinda took this away from us because part of the charm was that the song would start immediately after u click the link. now, if u click the link and u dont have adblock, u go through 30 seconds of ads first and it ruins the element of surprise.
It's even worse. Messenger (I don't know about other apps) shows the title and picture of the video below the link so you can't make any pranks :(
Always remember back to that time CZcams asked for Cute Puppy videos and got Rick Rolled by some legend...
I just commented on something else about this, and you said my exact sentiments: the appeal of the Rick Roll is that it's completely innocent fun. Harmless mischief. Everyone involved gets to enjoy it.
Yeah it's great because it's not making fun of him or the song which most people seem to actually like lol
@@Maria_745 The best part of it is, that Rick Astley liked it too, that his song went that way :D
That makes this whole story the fun about it etc. even better!
Rick Astley credits this meme for reviving his career and still keeping him relevant all these years later. He's also one of the nicest and most down to earth (and well aging!) celebrities in the business.
CZcams on April 1st 2008 be like :
"Hello ladies and gentlemen I am here to change the future"
I still can't believe nearly all of Britain got rickrolled 2024 new years eve. It was such a shock when Rick Astley started singing the song live on tele almost immediately after the countdown was over :,)
Fr
I saw it
Rickrolling actually didn't work in Germany for some time because a local music licensing company, GEMA, and CZcams took until 2016 to settle their dispute over music licensing fees. This actually made Germany the country with the most blocked CZcams videos on Earth for a while, with 61% of the top 1,000 most popular videos unavailable because they contained music which GEMA held licences for. It was, however, very easy to circumvent this restriction with browser extensions.
I remember that, and it still makes my blood boil.
I somehow forgot this :)
very interesting...
*I love when NationSquid said "It's rickrollin' time!" and rickrolled all over the internet.*
I love when Sonic The Weredog said "it's werehogin time" and werehoged all over the place
i hate the internet
I've always said that at the very least, Never Gonna Give You Up is catchy enough to not be annoying.
Rick Rolling is a meme that will never give us up.
Or let us down.
It is culture, it is everything we pass threw. Expose someone to anger long enough, they learn how to hate
@@imcringeanditstoolateforme4347Or run around and desert us
Never gonna make us cry, never will gonna say goodbye
@@tommarnt orr tell a lie and hurt us
That Family Guy timeline being so close to the original RickRoll video really threw me for a loop. I could *swear* that they did it months or even a few years after RickRolling was already an established thing. I'd always assumed it was in response to the popularity, but given the timeframe it seems as though it just ended up being insanely coincidental in their favor. There's no way they would have managed to work it in so quickly no matter how simple and lazy the animation is.
GIVE ME 1980S CULTURE
The way he says "AHH ghostface" is just... I dunno I find it really funny.
I get what u meannn
it's pretty irritating to me
"It is 80 degrees"
Meanwhile I, an european:
HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE
Ah, Europeans!
he's burning alive
just wait till you hear about Southeast Asians
oh god yes. I had an American friend who told me the other day it was 68*C and i was like "uh.. wtf?"
When I make presentations for school, I always put a RickRoll at the last slide
Surprised you didn't mention when talking abou it leaking into real world culture how, the post-credits scene of Disney's Wreck it Ralph 2; there's supposedly a preview scene for Frozen 2....
It's actually Ralph taking Rick's place in the music video of Never Gonna Give You Up.
Or how about when Apple's subtly Rick Roll'd people with the release of the 1st Gen Apple Watch?
There was a screenshot of the circular "contacts page" button you'd get to pressing the side button. The initials of the contacts were "NE", "VE", "RG", "ON", "NA", "GI", "VE", "YU", and "UP",
And how apple Rick Roll'd people in that one episode of Ted Lasso
Saying that we're as far away from the invention of rickrolling as rickrolling itself is from Never Gonna Give You Up made me age like 100 years in a second
Yeah, that really hurts.
rickrolling is so influential i even learned how to play the song on my clarinet. :)
The fact that people have been Rick Rolled over 1.5 billion times gives me hope
I think the most important thing people tend to forget is that it was easy to Rickroll people as back then posting a link wouldn't give a preview or thumbnail or anything, so unless you memorized the exact url for the video you wouldn't know what it was besides being a youtube video. It also being harmless also likely served as a sort of anti-screamer/shock content.
The fact that we're as far away from the RickRoll than people were to the actual release of the song back then hits so hard and makes me realize how weird it must've been for people who grew up in the 80's to see Rickroll become a thing.
"F-15 location in GTA IV" was the only time it got me. And it was a feeling of "MOTHER FU- yeah well played..."
I remember this website where you can fake a News article and it just leads you to Never gonna give you up 😂
I love the rickroll. I'm a mischievous person, but I hate upsetting people, and so many pranks seem cruel and mean. This one is just harmless, but slightly annoying.
I got here in under an hour. That’s how much I like this guy’s work.
NS, please do the 80s culture video you mentioned. Thank you for the great video.
In my school, I like to slide my phone under the toilet stall to show the person next to me and just rickroll them
Well, once in school a teacher wanted to play a song and he assured us it wasn't a rickroll in advance, and it started with that exact same drum intro as Never Gonna Give YouUp, but after that was completely different. But everyone laughed and it felt like being rickrolled. And I just immediately do a palmface when I hear the first sounds of the rickroll XD
0:56
so i keep on waiting,
waiting,
waiting for half-life 3,
so i keep on waiting,
waiting,
waiting for half-life 3
(something like waiting for a world to change, but i wait for half-life 3)
To me at least, the funny part is that it's THE rickroll. Not the fact that there's a silly song, but THE song. I wonder how it felt for people to get a rickroll for the first ever time
The turtleneck and hair is giving Get Back. Love it 👌🏻 nationsquid in his McBeardy era
I remember the first time I got rick rolled, I completely did not understand it
"I'm gonna meet Naomi Watts"
>Restraining order from Naomi Watts
Gold
this dude's personality is so fun if he Rick Rolled me id just laugh with him
I can't believe he made a whole video just to Rick roll us
surprised you hadn't done this earlier, damn.
great video as always.
0:38
No, you haven't gotten me, I found exactly what I was searching for
Also, great video
i would watch a 1980s video 👍
I was talking with this guy I liked on MSN Messenger back in 2007-2008 and he sent me some link which turned out to be my first Rickroll.
I thought he was confessing his love to me.
This song will forever be a banger though, I’m still not tired of it.
Being born in the 1980s and listening to this song frequently throughout my childhood in the early 90's, I genuinely enjoy it.
Together Forever is better though.
Blink 182 is my favorite band of all time, and when they first reunited back in like 2011, fans of the band were trying to find a leak of the first new song...I found what I thought was a link to the unreleased song, but alas, that was the one and only time I ever got Rick Rolled. Even though it only happened to me once, it's still an anecdote worth telling lol
My high school sold singing telegrams for valentines day and someone put this song on the list of songs one could buy (which I hope someone got fired over) and someone bought a singing telegram of this song for every teacher in the school. Effectively rick rolling the entire school. We never found out who did it and they better hope I never do
It started with the 'duck roll' word substitution gag on /b/...
...
P.S., 9gag stole our memes.
As someone who was a kid back when the song first came out and then remember when CZcams pulled their April Fool's prank to make a bunch of their videos into Rickrolls, this was such an interesting video!!! Love the nostalgia!!
Fun fact: Rick Astley was 21 years old when the song was first released!
Yet he looked around sixteen?
I hope Joseph Kucan has his eyes on Rick...
Now I wanna see a video on the lost SM64 screamer 👀
Like to vote for a nation squid deep dive into 1980’s culture!
Yes to deep dive into 80s culture!
This is the most Rick rolled i have gotten this reminds me of 2019 😢
My husband and I rick-rolled everyone at our wedding right after our ceremony. 🎉
Okay the last one actually got me, well played
Getting Rick Rolled in the real world is like getting shittymorph’d on Reddit.
I wonder if the fact that the song is very PG has anything to do with the success of RickRoll. Maybe it had an effect on more people because parents had no reason to protect their kids from it.
Years ago, I had a CD of Rick Astley's greatest hits. "Never Gonna Give You Up" was, of course, in the tracklist, along with other boppin' tracks, like "It Would Take a Strong Strong Man", "Giving Up on Love", and "Hopelessly".
7:28 "... the first half of the third half..." I presume he meant first and last *third*. I had to double back and check if I heard that right.
Also, damn you for using the ol' Scary Maze Game girl, that still just gets me a decade passed lol
Rickroll is such a random joke that gives complete randomness, but it's still funny for a reason haha. Great video tho, damn you got me rickroll'd ;D
Cotter548 basically got rick astley out of retirement
A lot of people born after the song came out, like myself, likely only know the song from rickroll which is wild. I mean unless they were fans of Rick Astley
I was born in 98. Surprisingly I only got Rickrolled once, then ending up liking the song during the early days of the pandemic, including other Rick Astley songs (old and new).
I still check Rick's channel from time to time if there's new songs.
@@rcoderdev I was born a year before the song came out so technically I was around but I was a baby lol. I dont think it counts haha. I think I heard the song on Family Guy before rickroll but I could be wrong. I def remember when the prank started getting popular. I remember the scream ones more so. people would send email chains
There def was a punishment aspect to some versions of it. While it started off as a harmless video link. People started making rickroll links that as well as playing the song hijacked your browser and made popups open that flashed around the screen. Often needing you to go to task manager and end task the browser. This was back in the internet explorer days afterall. I was a firefox user at the time and can remember actually having a plugin called "rick alert" or something that detected the links and would block them from opening.
I imagine it must be pretty humbling as an artist to see one of your creations (a debut song, no less) be a LOT bigger than what you initially thought. Rick Astley is such a good sport for embracing the internet culture and just laughing along with us.
I was very surprised with your restraint from showing footage of the Beatles when talking about the 60s lol
Lol
I quite like rick astley's never gonna give you up, and I've always wanted to know how this song/music video in particular got to be 'the one' to prank people with.
“you violated your restraining order” 0:57
13:35 he actually got me here
wake up babe, new NationSquid just dropped
Please let this meme comment die. You are not clever or original, you are cringey and attention seeking.
Stop. You are not clever, just cringey.
Never forget when the LEGO Batman Movie Rickrolled us all in the good year of our Lord 2017
3:38 THE SPONSOR!!! IT'S OVER
Absolutely we want a video on 1980s culture!
This vid was worth my time to watch.
On FOX's 9-1-1: Lonestar in 2022 or 2023, the 911 dispatcher got rickrolled when she made a call
I was born in the 80s and I think it's still the most interesting decade for entertainment. To me the 60s are ancient history, the 70s feel really weird and confusing, the 90s are nihilistic (not in a bad way though), and the 2000s are depressing. It would be interesting if others my age feel the same, I have no idea.
0:35 I unplugged my monitor
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I knew it was coming but the screaming jumpscare just made me flinch
At where?
When posting a YT link to Facebook, you used to be able to edit/control the thumbnail shown and the caption. I did this once: posted a rickrool and was able to trick everybody into thinking it was something else. But, alas, you can no longer do this.
Do a video on the weirdest music videos of the 80s/90s/2000s/2010s
Okay, you got me good with that last rickroll 😂
Ah, it has been a long time since NationSquid grace us with a good ol' screamer. Now **that** is what I call a blast from internet history.
One thing it taught us is to be super careful about clicking on links :D also rickrolling is still alive and well on tumblr (although it's much more meta, as are most tumblr jokes)
7:27 the third half?
"how many times did you get rickrolled today?"
me: yes.
I was definately Rick-Rolled before I knew what CZcams was.
I was watching ytp of thus song and you delivered my expectations
Memes aside, IMO "Never gonna give you up" is one of the greatest pop songs ever created.
It works because the song is a certified banger, and Rick Astley has a voice that's as smooth as Jello.
No joke, X's Grok Rick Rolled me when I asked it to give me a link to a video.
Just saying, this should have been uploaded on April fools
May fools
ofc you drop a new video during the one time I'm busy lol. Looking forward to the video tho!
My guy saying "rick ROLL" like a high school student trying to understand iambic pentameter. 😂
When we will get a video about the troll meme and the rage comics?
3:17 it's upside down lol
Edit: yes please 1980s video
It's a pure slap of a song, meme or otherwise!
Should have opened with the rickroll, and called the video "A history of trolling"