Rickroll
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| Rickroll |
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| Original YTMND: |
| Emma Wattson Boobage |
| by L33tmaster5000 |
| May 5, 2007 |
| Worthy Spinoffs: |
The Rickroll fad involves posting sites that claim to contain things such as porn for example, but when the site is actually opened - it instead plays Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up" and sometimes shows pictures of Rick Astley. Hence the name "Rickroll".
Due to their nature, Rickroll sites are hard to find without using the Advanced Search function on YTMND
Types of Rickroll Sites
Most Rickroll sites can be classified into 2 categories, trick type sites claim to contain something different (like porn for example), but then when loaded, play the "Never Gonna Give You Up" song and sometimes contain pictures of Rick Astley himself, these sites are usually low-rated due to their lower quality. These sites maintain the integrity of the original idea of Rickroll - tricking people into viewing it by claiming it's something else.
The 2nd type mainly involves photoshops, remixes, or other sites involving the Rickroll music, or Rick Astley himself, or mixing it with other fads, such as Rubb Roll'd, which mixes parts of the infamous Bubb Rubb "WOO WOOO" sound clip into an intstrumental portion of the song. Sites in particular based on this format have been making resurgances in June 2007.
Origins of Rickroll
Rickrolling was originally spawned as a spinoff of a practise on 4chan's /b/ known as "duckrolling", where people posted threads starting with a picture of a duck on wheels, and people posted links to that post in different threads. When people were redirected to the Duckroll thread, they were supposed to post a link to it themself in another thread.
During a thread about Grand Theft Auto IV on 4chan's Video Gaming board, someone posted a link to a YouTube video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", claiming it was the tralier for GTA IV. Then, it started spreading. It eventually made it's way to YTMND
