Thursday, July 23, 2009

Rick Roll and how it changed my life

Okay, so a little over a year ago there was an internet phenomena called the Rick Roll. It was super awesome. For those who have never heard of this, the basic idea was that you tried to trick other people into seeing Rick Astley's music video of "Never gonna give you up." It involved people making fake url's that would redirect to the youtube video and all sorts of goodness. After it got going pretty big people would even post videos of them Rick Rolling their friends. One of my personal favorites is at a work place where they have obviously been Rick Rolling alot, they actually hire a singing telegram to give one of their coworkers a live Rick Roll. This continued to the point where the video, which was a lesser known song from the 80's had over a million hits on youtube.(As of the time of my writing it has over 2 million hits.) As things got bigger and bigger they even had Rick Astley himself Rick Roll the people of New York in the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. And, of course, as with every internet phenomenon, it was also covered on one of my favorite comics: xkcd. So this all happened last year. Why am I writing about it now? Well, I recently discovered a mutation of this incredible internet meme. I don't know if this version of it will get around but you have to watch at least the first 30 seconds. It could change your life.
By the way, you just got Rick Rolled.

9 comments:

  1. Thank you my love for changing my life.

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  2. Ha! Impressive...especially Rick's dancing...very fitting. I think I definitely like both songs better as one.

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  3. This is amazing. Thank you for posting this gem of a post. I'd never heard of Rick Roll until now! Thanks for Rick Rolling me.

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  4. Nice!! That was a fun Rick Roll!!

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  5. I can't believe you just Rick Rolled me. I thought we were friends. Friends don't Rick Roll friends.

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  6. I'm not sure what to say about this post, so...

    Hi Jeff! :)

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  7. HAHAHAHA funny! I totally fell for that haha!! Ya we for sure need to get together when we get back!!!

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  8. Now I can mark that off my list of 100 things I wanted to do/be/happen before I die....99 left to go....

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  9. Dear Jeff,
    These songs were made for each other. But, being children of the 80's Chad and I dispute that "Never Gonna Give You Up" is a lesser known song -- since Chad knows all the words....and does a decent impression of Rick Astley.

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