What is RickRolling?

16 Jun, 2011Blog, Featured, humor

Have you ever heard the term “rickrolling” and wondered to yourself, “What is Rickrolling?” Well, as a music blogger and trolling fanatic, I feel it’s my place to help you understand this important cultural concept.

History

Rickrolling is a variation of “duckrolling”, which got its start from the imageboard 4chan. They would make the reader believe that a link was to something of important, like an article or image, when in actuality, it would link to a thread or site containing an edited picture of a duck with wheels. The person ,was then, considered “duckrolled.”

From there, it eventually adapted to “rick rolling”, where the link would take a user to a page containing Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” in either song or video format.

Example:

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No, really…click here.