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Rick Astley has been omnomnominated for, and won MTV Europe's BEST ACT EVER award!

For all mankind.

Never gonna give you up.

Never gonna let you down DO IT FAGGOT

When you're on CNN, NBC and Carson Daly, you are officially old meme.

You got Rickroll'd.

This guy's doing it, why don't you?

NOT Rick Astley.

First off, know that he's never gonna give you up, and never gonna let you down. That said, to Rickroll someone is to intentionally misdirect them to a video of "Never Gonna Give You Up" from ~~one~~ ~~two-hit-wonder~~ 80's pop icon Rick Astley. For Example "Information On how to Rick Roll Somebody". Basically, it's one of the lamest and most insincere songs ever, and we can tell the difference. So can Rick, because he has recently called the song "naff" (Britslang for 'lame, insincere, and cheesy') in several interviews about the meme.

This concept of the Rickroll originated from the Duckroll troll and has the same intent of pissing off the sucker who falls for it after he or she is pwnt - for the 25th time. Linking to a video of "Never gonna give you up" or some variant thereupon has become the new Goatse, though after the The Power 5 being linked to a mildly popular song from the 80s really isn't that bad. Not to be confused with a Barrel Roll

1 Origin
2 [1]
3 MTV Rickroll'd
4 Lolicatgirls.swf
5 Barack Roll
6 Sony/BMG Attempts to stop the Rickroll
7 YouTube's EPIC Rickroll
8 The Great Michigan Marching Band Rickroll of 2008
9 Fail
10 Rickrolling the Nation
11 Miscellaneous Trivia About Rick
12 Rickroll: Variations etc.
13 WTF Rick Remix???
14 Rick loved since the 80's
15 ScaryRoll
16 See Also
17 While You're Here...
18 External Links

Origin

Rick Astley is probably the greatest person. He's from England... most likely the (only) greatest thing out of that shitter.

Read below for moar informationz.

[1]

Belive it or not, the first people to be "rickrolled" were Scientologists. Says a lot, huh?

The roll part of the name has been apocryphally said to come from a 4chan favorite, the "Duckroll". This was used the same way as the Rickroll, claiming a link was actually interesting and actually linking to a page with an animated GIF of a toy duck rolling across the screen. "Roll" became a universal suffix for similar fake links like Leekspin, and with the advent of the Rickroll found its greatest success.

Rickrolling began on 4chan's /v/ image board on the day of Grand Theft Auto IV's official website premier. However, due to heavy traffic on the website, it was impossible to watch the trailer for quite some time, so Anonymous took it upon himself to link everyone to a supposedly leaked trailer hosted on YouTube:

YouTube Link

Rickrolling has become popular outside of 4chan. Many different website communities have claimed they invented Rickrolling, such as GameFAQs, who claim that the Rickroll started on their Halo 3 board. World of Warcraft gamers, (WoWfags), have also laid claim to inventing the Rickroll, and have beaten it to old meme death on their game forums twice as fast as 4chan ever could have done. The Washington hometown forum on AK47.net, filled with a bunch of old guys with guns, is also known for having links off to the Rickroll all over the place.

The motivation behind using this particular song as a troll is obscure. However, during a Rickroll phase on the World of Warcraft forums, it became clear that (as well as simply being lame) the song was believed to have homoerotic associations of some kind, and was thus used in order to try and induce disgust or revulsion in heterosexual viewers.

MTV Rickroll'd

See main article here: The Rolling : MTV Gets Rickroll'd.

Lolicatgirls.swf

It's like this (Picture of inu shoujo Hinata-chan from an Eroge game).

The file Lolicatgirls.swf is a fan favorite of 4chan's flash board. The flash file contained is a hentai dojinshi clip of an underage catgirl. It's delicious cake, you must eat it. lolicatgirls.swf is a meme on 4chan's /f/ that pre-dates Rickroll, but is the same concept. It's a loop of some guys dancing in a busy street to rave music, instead of loli catgirls, as the title would suggest.

As you can see this flash always promises less than it delivers and it comes in many variations: http://eye.swfchan.com/search.asp?q=lolicatgirls.swf

Barack Roll

On October 2007, some fucktard with a little too much spare time on hand make a new version of the Rickroll featuring Senator Barack Hussein Obama speaking out the song's words, but only the first half because the fucker was too lazy to finish it. Americans flock to Obama soley because of his skin color(OMG! He's a nigger! He'd make a great president!) so the video has recieved Over 100,000 views. After Obama became president this version also lost its humor factor and now joins all the other versions to do nothing but piss YouTube users off.

Sony/BMG Attempts to stop the Rickroll

No one is safe from the Rickroll, not even in your schools.

Rickrolling on eBay produces epic lulz.

On Saturday, March 29 2008, SONY/BMG started sending out copyright notices to all YouTube videos that RickRoll people. Videos with obscure titles such as Ex Girlfriend Stripping have been flagged by Sony/BMG and YouTube in the hopes to collect data about RickRoll, as well as remove certain videos containing RickRolls. Source

YouTube's EPIC Rickroll

YouTube RickRolled its users on April 1st 2008 by pointing all the featured videos here. As such, rolling is now officially old meme. Goodnight Sweet Prince. However, The Lonely Island's music video Jizz In My Pants has recently surfaced via the World of Warcraft forums, as a possible successor to the Rick Roll. The term "Jizz Roll", certainly has vastly more potential for creating revulsion in people, and thus lulz, than the Rick Roll ever did.

Since Rickroll's death, Rick Astley, in order to keep himself entertained, has taken to deriving lulz from the handicapped:

The Great Michigan Marching Band Rickroll of 2008

On October 11, 2008, the 350 member Michigan Marching Band rickrolled over 110,000 fans in the Big House at the Michigan vs. Toledo football game. Instead of playing Paralyzer, the ingenuitive band played a well written version of the popular meme. This proves that The University of Michigan is a great place to go to school.

Fail

All the cool kids are wearing it.

~~facepalm~~harpoons

In addition to being old meme, Rick Roll is now officially "cool", mostly thanks to Nancy Pelosi. If you see any one wearing one of these shirts, please kill them with fire.

Rickrolling the Nation

During the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Rick Astley himself Rickrolled 50 million people. He appeared on during a song on the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends float. Thank God it was interrupted, amirite? It ended with a diseased, bi-polar Azn stating that he loves Rickrolling which fucking ruined it and officially made it an old meme. It was also obviously lip synced.

“	The Macy Parade rickrolled all you faggots, and now you're bitching about it. Which is what rickrolling is all about.	„
—[Anonymous]

Epic Rickroll is epic

Miscellaneous Trivia About Rick

Doing it wrong.

Rick is a ginger but dyes his hair a darker color to cover up that fact
When Never Gonna Give You Up was first broadcast on radios across the world in 1987, many people assumed he was a nigger.
In the Whenever You Need Somebody music video, he does a Nazi salute.
Rick is married and has one daughter, but he only married his wife to cover up the fact that he is a raging homosexual.
In the Take Me To Your Heart music video, Rick's hitting on the saxophone player.
Rick only weighs 120 pounds.
Rick is related to Conan O'Brien.
Rick's first job was a teaboy for music producers.
If you raise the pitch of Rick's voice, it will sound like Kylie Minogue's voice. If you lower the pitch of Kylie's voice, she will sound like Rick.
Rick used to get repeatedly raped by his dad. It's okay, he enjoyed it.