Reddit Rickrolls the real Rick Astley

For Gen Zers who were too young to be trolling online in the 2000s, Rickrolling was a very, very popular (Editor’s note: and very, very annoying) bait-and-switch prank that involved tricking people to click on disguised hyperlinks that would lead them to the music video for Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up.” It was such a phenomenon that Astley himself even knew about it and mentioned in a 2016 Rolling Stone article that it didn’t bother him because it introduced his music to a whole new generation — which is a sweet thought but more likely probably has a Pavlovian effect on the majority of millennials who cannot listen to the song without getting instantly annoyed.

madlad rickrolls rick astley : r/madlads

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Someone actually rick-rolled the real Rick Astley! : r/memes

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Rick Astley Getting Rickrolled Was Reddit's Most Upvoted Post In 2020 : r/ThatsInsane

rick roll: i am inevitable : r/dankmemes

Reddit's top post of 2020 was a Rick Astley photo, posted by Rick Astley - The Verge

Am I the first person in history to get rickrolled by an AI? What a time to be alive. : r/OpenAI

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He rick rolled the man who invented a rick roll : r/memes