{"id":3019,"date":"2008-04-02T22:54:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T17:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2020-04-06T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T04:22:29","slug":"got-rickrolled-whats-funny-about-rickrolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/got-rickrolled-whats-funny-about-rickrolling\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Rickrolled: What&#8217;s Funny About Rickrolling? [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most sites I visited yesterday were busy <strong>Rickrolling<\/strong> their visitors in some form. The first time I got <strong>Rickrolled,<\/strong> I could not figure out what was so amusing about clicking a link and redirecting your reader to a music video and shouting out loud &#8211; hey! you got rickrolled! Apparently <a title=\"Rick Astley\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rick_Astley\" rel=\"noopener\">Rick Astley<\/a> is more famous than I thought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For newbies (like me) to this new internet hobby &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rickrolling\" rel=\"noopener\">Rickrolling<\/a> is an Internet meme involving <strong>Rick Astley<\/strong> music video for his song &#8220;<strong>Never Gonna Give You Up<\/strong>&#8220;. In a Rickroll, a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand which actually takes the user to the Astley video. <strong>Never Gonna Give You Up<\/strong> is a song originally performed by Rick Astley, released as a single from Astley&#8217;s multi-million selling debut album <em>Whenever You Need Somebody<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Though the incidence of Rickrolling is usually limited, April Fools day pranks led to an uncontrollable level of rickrolling in the blogosphere. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/03\/31\/youtube-rickrolls-users\/\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube RickRolled<\/a> its own users on April 1 where all of the featured videos for YouTube UK and YouTube Australia actually linked to the Rick Astley videos!<\/p>\n<p>In fact I got stuck on a never ending Rickroll on John Chows April Fools prank, which was mixed with a jumping window with the video, and any attempt to closure was met with a continuous stream of pop up alerts which would not let you close the window. Eventually CTRL+ALT+DEL was needed to turn off firefox from the Task Manager (Here is the url <em>freeppcsecrets.com<\/em> &#8211; I warned you).<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"How To Get Out of a Rick Roll\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ApAY_i62jD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Apparently getting Rickrolled and sending someone <strong>Rickrolling is very cool<\/strong>, and everyone ends up chuckling and enjoying the fun (Hey! I rickrolled you, Oh! I got rickrolled). I am somehow still not amused. Have you sent someone Rickrolling? Did you enjoy getting Rickrolled?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most sites I visited yesterday were busy Rickrolling their visitors in some form. The first time I got Rickrolled, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}