Rickroll

Examples

Never gonna let you down — lyric reply. Caption: So basically, Jesus is never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna let you down — lyric reply

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So basically, Jesus is never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you

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Because he never did. Caption: Why don’t you ever give up? Because he never did

Because he never did

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Why don’t you ever give up? Because he never did

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A small original screenshot uses Rick Astley’s black shoe and white trouser cuff as the punchline. Visible text: friend: you can’t just post a picture of a foot and expect people to get it. Me:

Rickroll by shoe

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friend: you can’t just post a picture of a foot and expect people to get it. Me:

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A screenshot credited visibly to scienceandfandoms combines a Rick Astley player header, text and a Cardcaptor Sakura image. Visible text: My friend was messing with Never Gonna Give You Up on her record player and she sped it up. It beCAME A FREAKING MAGICAL GIRL THEME.

Magical girl Rickroll

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My friend was messing with Never Gonna Give You Up on her record player and she sped it up. It beCAME A FREAKING MAGICAL GIRL THEME.

Visible screenshot account: scienceandfandoms

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About & sources

A link promises something relevant or exciting, then delivers Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

Date

4chan /v/ bait-and-switch links, circa May 2007; music video from Rick Astley’s 1987 song.

History

Know Your Meme attributes the circa-May-2007 /v/ account to 4chan’s founder. The selected year marks the online link-prank phenomenon, not the 1987 single or a separately reported 2006 phone prank.

Know Your Meme — Rickroll
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