Sunday, May 11, 2008

Rick Rolled

There is an interesting and annoying trend sweeping Youtube. You click on a video link on a blog, article or random web, and prepare your smile/frown/tears for the video you think you see. But something is off, slowly your eyes adjust to strange sounds and sights, you recognise them from decades past.

Some asshole has linked to a long forgotten music video from the 1980s.

You have been Rick-Rolled. The term describes the original incarnation of this retarded prank, a video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".

Since then, there is only one reason people have diversified into other 80s songs: Rick Astley is actually very good. Millions of people, self included, have fallen in love with that song. One day when someone asks me where I got my wedding song from, I'll blush and say "errr...there was this internet prank".

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