Your resource for rickrolling and getting rickrolled... Twitter Style! Learn more about the internet phenomena known as rickrolling, and amazing ways you can rickroll your friends.
A list of resources prepared for you to rickroll someone is prepared below. All you have to do is post these links and get people rickrolled! They have already been disguised for your rickrolling pleasure. Have fun! =)
The main rickroll video is one with Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up", but various different rickroll video variation are available on the net. You may or may not have been rickrolled by one or more of these variations in the past. The rickroll video variations that are available involve the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" bring used in different scenarios and sung by different people.
The original "Never Gonna Give You Up" is the one shown below:
One of the popular variations of the rickroll video is the Barack-roll, and if you get hit by this, it is said that you have been Barack-rolled! The video is shown below:
Rickrolling is an internet phenomena that has spread through the internet like a plague and has begun to rank up there as one of the most popular pranks ever imagined on the net. In the words of Wikipedia, the definition of a rickroll is given as follow:
Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link that he or she claims is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true destination of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been "Rickrolled" (also spelled Rickroll'd).
In case you didn't understand that "rickrolled" definition since it might have been filled with a lot of jargon and such, let's say this in simpler terms. A rickroll is when you trick someone into clicking a link,which leads them to a playing video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". This is not a concrete definition, as there are several ways of rickrolling someone apart from using a video, and these are briefly talked about in the section "Rickroll Someone in Different Ways".
By the way, in case you you've never watched Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", it's the video above. I guess I can say, you just got rickrolled! Well, maybe not really... Until you the video plays anyway... You can thank me for not setting it to autoplay. =P
The main rickroll video is one with Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up", but various different rickroll video variation are available on the net. You may or may not have been rickrolled by one or more of these variations in the past. The rickroll video variations that are available involve the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" bring used in different scenarios and sung by different people.
