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{{quote|''"Listen, I just think it’s bizarre and funny. My main consideration is that my daughter doesn’t get embarrassed about it."''|'''[[Rick Astley]]'''}}
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The meme started at the 4chan [[Image Board]] with the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT-t6lAbHgY duckroll]: the action of linking to a post in another thread only to annoy people. Posts in the same thread just get highlighted, but to view a post in another thread you need to load the entire
Rickrolling has become one of the few Internet memes to [[Ascended Meme|break into larger popular culture]] in some
▲The meme started at the 4chan [[Image Board]] with the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT-t6lAbHgY duckroll]: the action of linking to a post in another thread only to annoy people. Posts in the same thread just get highlighted, but to view a post in another thread you need to load the entire thread--there is no way to tell if the link is from this or another thread without scripts or manually checking each post number. It used [[media:Duckroll.jpg|a picture of a duck on wheels]] as an image attached to the target post.
▲Rickrolling has become one of the few Internet memes to [[Ascended Meme|break into larger popular culture]] in some fashion -- there have been [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYrQFyL8zFQ newspaper] [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/us_sport/article3716602.ece articles] on the subject, and even real-world Rickrolls where spectators at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65I0HNvTDH4 some public event] end up [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_l1jeyzq_g watching the Astley video]. Astley himself, apparently, is also amused by the meme.
The all-time champion of the sport is [[Cartoon Network]], which successfully conspired with [[Ascended Meme|Rick Astley himself]] to prank the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-hNMJvcyI Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade] in 2008. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] indeed. Rickrolling was also used in ''[[Scribblenauts]]'', and was even invoked by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi when the House of Representatives launched its [[YouTube]] channel. And then the Oregon State Legislature managed to do a Rickroll [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZi4JxbTwPo&feature=player_embedded without anybody noticing]. Perhaps crowning the entire phenomenon was the White House Communications Department, which, in response to complaints on Twitter that a fiscal policy press conference was too boring, Tweeted a link to something it promised would be much more interesting. It turned out to be a Rickroll.
Variations include the [[Barack Obama|Barack]][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVwsygqozYc Roll] and [[Godwin's Law|ReichRoll]]. Users of [http://www.theminiaturespage.com The Miniatures Page] have a variation in which you instead link to a picture of Sean Connery as [[Zardoz|Zed]]. [[Brain Bleach]] ensues. In [[YouTube]] nowadays, it's somewhat easier to know if a video is a disguised
Popularity of the Rickroll phenomenon has led to fans remixing Astley's song with other pop culture artifacts, including [[Nirvana]]'s "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (it seems both [[Ear Worm
The original Rickroll video was deleted from [[YouTube]] on 24 February 2010 but restored soon afterward.
The [[Nightmare Fuel]] alternative is to have a screaming face and/or a
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