Where Did the Rick Roll Come From?

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Since 2007, millions of people around the world have been pranking each other with false links that redirect to a 1980s music video. The phenomenon has become known as the "Rick Roll," and has become an integral part of internet pop culture. The question is, where did it come from, and why did it become so popular?
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@nationsquid 29 дней назад

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@rbsaitama 28 дней назад

@Sarp1sthebest 28 дней назад

epic

@itisliamhfjone22 28 дней назад

i hate sleep though...

@saturnalis8813 28 дней назад

I thought I was gonna get rick rolled

@ExploringNew1 28 дней назад

You look like dream

@ZackarySmigel 28 дней назад

I always find it funny how Rick Astley wrote both "Never Gonna Give You Up" AND "Giving Up on Love."

@AzraelStoneMusic 28 дней назад

That’s called range

@Novabom_ 28 дней назад

He can't make up his mind i guess.

@user-id9ou2np8g 28 дней назад

Comparable to when Nestle owned Jenny Craig. Hit both sides of the market!

@jolo3118 28 дней назад

Something for everyone. Lol

@BleachDemon707 28 дней назад

I always find it funny when checkmarks think their opinions count 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙄

@Crocogator 28 дней назад

The tradition back in the day was that if you got rickrolled, especially by a friend who was there to see it happen, you had to listen to the entire song.

@Valsilene 28 дней назад

Me, pretending I’m a traditionalist, when I just wanna jam to Never Gonna Give You Up

@magnesiafrost1863 28 дней назад

Well, there're worse things, than having to listen to the entire song 🎶💃

@Crocogator 28 дней назад

@@magnesiafrost1863 never gonna give you **AAAAAHHH**

@Crocogator 28 дней назад

@@Valsilene Have you heard his more recent covers? Dude's still got it

@lainiwakura1776 28 дней назад

@@magnesiafrost1863 Than listening to a song I actually like.

@JamesR624 28 дней назад

Yes. I would love a whole decadeology deep-dive into 1980's culture. Maybe other decades as well like the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's 70's, 90's, 2000's, and 2010's. Make it a series. Maybe even just call it "Decade-ology".

@Azurethewolf168 28 дней назад

I don’t think we’re past the 2010s enough to recognize it as a separate thing from our current era. Since it’s just barely ended. Like the 2000s, we need another decade to really get how it’s so different and distinct as a lot of the stuff has carried over to today whereas very few of the stuff from the 2000s really does now. It would be like telling a person in 1990 to give an explanation of how the 80s were distinct.

@lainiwakura1776 28 дней назад

@@Azurethewolf168 >barely ended >it's the year 2024 okay

@Azurethewolf168 28 дней назад

@@lainiwakura1776 dude it’s only been like 5 years

@they_call_me_Koishi 26 дней назад

Reminded me that Russian RU-vidr sndk has its own series where he talks about culture of different years. He already made videos on years 2000-2009 and recently also made video on 1990.

@OmegaRejectz 23 дня назад

@@lainiwakura1776how is not even half a decade a long time?

@alarmingly_good 28 дней назад

I literally have a script to Rick roll me when I open my laptop bc I like the song

@itisliamhfjone22 28 дней назад

🔥

@onemintyrose 28 дней назад

yooo that's actually really cool!

@Novabom_ 28 дней назад

Yoo can I get that script.

@lemoneer7474 28 дней назад

And it also serves to Rick roll anyone who opens your laptop too :D

@polygonnnn 28 дней назад

stop the cap

@MegaCygnusX1 28 дней назад

Rick Astley credits this meme for reviving his career and still keeping him relevant all these years later. He's also one of the nicest and most down to earth (and well aging!) celebrities in the business.

@trxced 28 дней назад

i'm always sad that ads kinda took this away from us because part of the charm was that the song would start immediately after u click the link. now, if u click the link and u dont have adblock, u go through 30 seconds of ads first and it ruins the element of surprise.

@Brick_One_A_Lego_Story 26 дней назад

It's even worse. Messenger (I don't know about other apps) shows the title and picture of the video below the link so you can't make any pranks :(

@Sonic_The_Weredog 28 дней назад

*I love when NationSquid said "It's rickrollin' time!" and rickrolled all over the internet.*

@I-absolveyouofyoursins 28 дней назад

I love when Sonic The Weredog said "it's werehogin time" and werehoged all over the place

@ihaveagoddamnplanarthur 28 дней назад

i hate the internet

@mruczyslaw50 28 дней назад

"It is 80 degrees" Meanwhile I, an european: HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE

@Azurethewolf168 28 дней назад

Ah, Europeans!

@lvl90dru1d 28 дней назад

he's burning alive

@wandahoi_. 28 дней назад

just wait till you hear about Southeast Asians

@Kaytayye 28 дней назад

oh god yes. I had an American friend who told me the other day it was 68*C and i was like "uh.. wtf?"

@AvatarNeo 28 дней назад

Rick Rolling is a meme that will never give us up.

@imcringeanditstoolateforme4347 28 дней назад

Or let us down.

@x-rex7236 28 дней назад

It is culture, it is everything we pass threw. Expose someone to anger long enough, they learn how to hate

@BlahajOfficaI 28 дней назад

@@imcringeanditstoolateforme4347Or run around and desert us

@tommarnt 28 дней назад

Never gonna make us cry, never will gonna say goodbye

@EleanorQuestionMark 21 день назад

@@tommarnt orr tell a lie and hurt us

@-libertyprimev1-902 28 дней назад

Always remember back to that time RU-vid asked for Cute Puppy videos and got Rick Rolled by some legend...

@gabe_s_videos 28 дней назад

I just commented on something else about this, and you said my exact sentiments: the appeal of the Rick Roll is that it's completely innocent fun. Harmless mischief. Everyone involved gets to enjoy it.

@Maria_745 28 дней назад

Yeah it's great because it's not making fun of him or the song which most people seem to actually like lol

@KarlaO711 16 дней назад

@@Maria_745 The best part of it is, that Rick Astley liked it too, that his song went that way :D That makes this whole story the fun about it etc. even better!

@SnugWugs137 28 дней назад

Can’t believe he called the 80s “gay but not the right gay.”

@aelahn 24 дня назад

he was on spot though...I always noticed the same

@SnugWugs137 21 день назад

@@aelahn that's homophobic.

@Polie10 15 дней назад

@@SnugWugs137THATZ OFFENSIVE!1!!11!1!1

@oussamadaferio 28 дней назад

RU-vid on April 1st 2008 be like : "Hello ladies and gentlemen I am here to change the future"

@Kaytayye 28 дней назад

I still can't believe nearly all of Britain got rickrolled 2024 new years eve. It was such a shock when Rick Astley started singing the song live on tele almost immediately after the countdown was over :,)

@rosaline2581 28 дней назад

I saw it

@GirtheAlienGoldfish 28 дней назад

I've always said that at the very least, Never Gonna Give You Up is catchy enough to not be annoying.

@MrBelski 28 дней назад

When I make presentations for school, I always put a RickRoll at the last slide

@ImJCyo 28 дней назад

The way he says "AHH ghostface" is just... I dunno I find it really funny.

@harruri 28 дней назад

I get what u meannn

@aelahn 24 дня назад

it's pretty irritating to me

@SumdudeYT 28 дней назад

GIVE ME 1980S CULTURE

@FreakinSweet1987 28 дней назад

That Family Guy timeline being so close to the original RickRoll video really threw me for a loop. I could *swear* that they did it months or even a few years after RickRolling was already an established thing. I'd always assumed it was in response to the popularity, but given the timeframe it seems as though it just ended up being insanely coincidental in their favor. There's no way they would have managed to work it in so quickly no matter how simple and lazy the animation is.

@mattelelectronics 28 дней назад

rickrolling is so influential i even learned how to play the song on my clarinet. :)

@frtzkng 28 дней назад

Rickrolling actually didn't work in Germany for some time because a local music licensing company, GEMA, and RU-vid took until 2016 to settle their dispute over music licensing fees. This actually made Germany the country with the most blocked RU-vid videos on Earth for a while, with 61% of the top 1,000 most popular videos unavailable because they contained music which GEMA held licences for. It was, however, very easy to circumvent this restriction with browser extensions.

@Leofwine 28 дней назад

I remember that, and it still makes my blood boil.

@magnesiafrost1863 28 дней назад

I somehow forgot this :)

@MickeyMousePark 28 дней назад

very interesting...

@wallyhackenslacker 28 дней назад

Saying that we're as far away from the invention of rickrolling as rickrolling itself is from Never Gonna Give You Up made me age like 100 years in a second

@elanv 20 дней назад

Yeah, that really hurts.

@JamesR624 28 дней назад

Surprised you didn't mention when talking abou it leaking into real world culture how, the post-credits scene of Disney's Wreck it Ralph 2; there's supposedly a preview scene for Frozen 2.... It's actually Ralph taking Rick's place in the music video of Never Gonna Give You Up. Or how about when Apple's subtly Rick Roll'd people with the release of the 1st Gen Apple Watch? There was a screenshot of the circular "contacts page" button you'd get to pressing the side button. The initials of the contacts were "NE", "VE", "RG", "ON", "NA", "GI", "VE", "YU", and "UP",

@nousername8818 28 дней назад

And how apple Rick Roll'd people in that one episode of Ted Lasso

@zaneheaston8254 28 дней назад

The fact that people have been Rick Rolled over 1.5 billion times gives me hope

@balisongman07 28 дней назад

"F-15 location in GTA IV" was the only time it got me. And it was a feeling of "MOTHER FU- yeah well played..."

@UnknownFlyingPancake 28 дней назад

I think the most important thing people tend to forget is that it was easy to Rickroll people as back then posting a link wouldn't give a preview or thumbnail or anything, so unless you memorized the exact url for the video you wouldn't know what it was besides being a youtube video. It also being harmless also likely served as a sort of anti-screamer/shock content.

@aktenkoffer 28 дней назад

I remember this website where you can fake a News article and it just leads you to Never gonna give you up 😂

@SkylightCiel 26 дней назад

The fact that we're as far away from the RickRoll than people were to the actual release of the song back then hits so hard and makes me realize how weird it must've been for people who grew up in the 80's to see Rickroll become a thing.

@basil1964 28 дней назад

In my school, I like to slide my phone under the toilet stall to show the person next to me and just rickroll them

@ACatCalledSnow 28 дней назад

NS, please do the 80s culture video you mentioned. Thank you for the great video.

@Lampe2020 27 дней назад

Well, once in school a teacher wanted to play a song and he assured us it wasn't a rickroll in advance, and it started with that exact same drum intro as Never Gonna Give YouUp, but after that was completely different. But everyone laughed and it felt like being rickrolled. And I just immediately do a palmface when I hear the first sounds of the rickroll XD

@alexanderveritas 27 дней назад

It think what makes *Rick Rolling* so beloved it’s that is a seriously good prank, imagine discovering this amazing song thanks to a joke. Many people discovered *Rick Astley* this way.

@SendFoodz 28 дней назад

this dude's personality is so fun if he Rick Rolled me id just laugh with him

@Test_Tangent 28 дней назад

I got here in under an hour. That’s how much I like this guy’s work.

@k1773ns 28 дней назад

The turtleneck and hair is giving Get Back. Love it 👌🏻 nationsquid in his McBeardy era

@fishingfan1500 28 дней назад

I remember the first time I got rick rolled, I completely did not understand it

@TheAtomikku 28 дней назад

I can't believe he made a whole video just to Rick roll us

@GenericYannick 27 дней назад

0:56 so i keep on waiting, waiting, waiting for half-life 3, so i keep on waiting, waiting, waiting for half-life 3 (something like waiting for a world to change, but i wait for half-life 3)

@vizthex 28 дней назад

surprised you hadn't done this earlier, damn. great video as always.

@ciach0_ 28 дней назад

0:38 No, you haven't gotten me, I found exactly what I was searching for Also, great video

@klocugh12 28 дней назад

Yes to deep dive into 80s culture!

@isirlasplace91 28 дней назад

As someone who was a kid back when the song first came out and then remember when RU-vid pulled their April Fool's prank to make a bunch of their videos into Rickrolls, this was such an interesting video!!! Love the nostalgia!!

@chelseahindle3645 28 дней назад

I love the rickroll. I'm a mischievous person, but I hate upsetting people, and so many pranks seem cruel and mean. This one is just harmless, but slightly annoying.

@Novabom_ 28 дней назад

This is the most Rick rolled i have gotten this reminds me of 2019 😢

@jonbourgoin182 28 дней назад

Blink 182 is my favorite band of all time, and when they first reunited back in like 2011, fans of the band were trying to find a leak of the first new song...I found what I thought was a link to the unreleased song, but alas, that was the one and only time I ever got Rick Rolled. Even though it only happened to me once, it's still an anecdote worth telling lol

@KaneLivesInDeath 28 дней назад

Fun fact: Rick Astley was 21 years old when the song was first released! Yet he looked around sixteen? I hope Joseph Kucan has his eyes on Rick...

@OiledLabia 28 дней назад

"I'm gonna meet Naomi Watts" >Restraining order from Naomi Watts Gold

@mon5tre 26 дней назад

I was talking with this guy I liked on MSN Messenger back in 2007-2008 and he sent me some link which turned out to be my first Rickroll. I thought he was confessing his love to me. This song will forever be a banger though, I’m still not tired of it.

@freddievanfleet1706 28 дней назад

My high school sold singing telegrams for valentines day and someone put this song on the list of songs one could buy (which I hope someone got fired over) and someone bought a singing telegram of this song for every teacher in the school. Effectively rick rolling the entire school. We never found out who did it and they better hope I never do

@ib-dw5gy 28 дней назад

i would watch a 1980s video 👍

@OtakuUnitedStudio 28 дней назад

Being born in the 1980s and listening to this song frequently throughout my childhood in the early 90's, I genuinely enjoy it. Together Forever is better though.

@Stixil 27 дней назад

Now I wanna see a video on the lost SM64 screamer 👀

@angleofsweetrevenge 28 дней назад

To me at least, the funny part is that it's THE rickroll. Not the fact that there's a silly song, but THE song. I wonder how it felt for people to get a rickroll for the first ever time

@calebmezenberg137 28 дней назад

Okay the last one actually got me, well played

@cheyannekillin196 27 дней назад

My husband and I rick-rolled everyone at our wedding right after our ceremony. 🎉

@cameronbigley7483 22 дня назад

7:28 "... the first half of the third half..." I presume he meant first and last *third*. I had to double back and check if I heard that right. Also, damn you for using the ol' Scary Maze Game girl, that still just gets me a decade passed lol

@ericcarabetta1161 28 дней назад

Getting Rick Rolled in the real world is like getting shittymorph’d on Reddit.

@finalbossoftheinternet6360 28 дней назад

It started with the 'duck roll' word substitution gag on /b/... ... P.S., 9gag stole our memes.

@RideOnTimePH 27 дней назад

Cotter548 basically got rick astley out of retirement

@xaiderg 28 дней назад

wake up babe, new NationSquid just dropped

@jonbourgoin182 28 дней назад

Please let this meme comment die. You are not clever or original, you are cringey and attention seeking.

@jonbourgoin182 28 дней назад

Stop. You are not clever, just cringey.

@AidenRKrone 28 дней назад

Years ago, I had a CD of Rick Astley's greatest hits. "Never Gonna Give You Up" was, of course, in the tracklist, along with other boppin' tracks, like "It Would Take a Strong Strong Man", "Giving Up on Love", and "Hopelessly".

@Everything.Windows 28 дней назад

Rickroll is such a random joke that gives complete randomness, but it's still funny for a reason haha. Great video tho, damn you got me rickroll'd ;D

@blakedellinger5300 28 дней назад

Like to vote for a nation squid deep dive into 1980’s culture!

@TheColinputer 28 дней назад

There def was a punishment aspect to some versions of it. While it started off as a harmless video link. People started making rickroll links that as well as playing the song hijacked your browser and made popups open that flashed around the screen. Often needing you to go to task manager and end task the browser. This was back in the internet explorer days afterall. I was a firefox user at the time and can remember actually having a plugin called "rick alert" or something that detected the links and would block them from opening.

@ChinchillaJimmy 28 дней назад

13:35 he actually got me here

@batznBlxxd 11 дней назад

"how many times did you get rickrolled today?" me: yes.

@MrVIPGuest 28 дней назад

I was very surprised with your restraint from showing footage of the Beatles when talking about the 60s lol

@Neutral_Mario 27 дней назад

Lol

@AB-Prince 28 дней назад

I quite like rick astley's never gonna give you up, and I've always wanted to know how this song/music video in particular got to be 'the one' to prank people with.

@leet7489 28 дней назад

A lot of people born after the song came out, like myself, likely only know the song from rickroll which is wild. I mean unless they were fans of Rick Astley

@rcoder-dev 28 дней назад

I was born in 98. Surprisingly I only got Rickrolled once, then ending up liking the song during the early days of the pandemic, including other Rick Astley songs (old and new). I still check Rick's channel from time to time if there's new songs.

@leet7489 28 дней назад

@@rcoder-dev I was born a year before the song came out so technically I was around but I was a baby lol. I dont think it counts haha. I think I heard the song on Family Guy before rickroll but I could be wrong. I def remember when the prank started getting popular. I remember the scream ones more so. people would send email chains

@loggaming7505 28 дней назад

“you violated your restraining order” 0:57

@Micah_YT 14 дней назад

3:38 THE SPONSOR!!! IT'S OVER

@EGSBiographies-om1wb 25 дней назад

This vid was worth my time to watch.

@Zk8er35 27 дней назад

I imagine it must be pretty humbling as an artist to see one of your creations (a debut song, no less) be a LOT bigger than what you initially thought. Rick Astley is such a good sport for embracing the internet culture and just laughing along with us.

@davinp 28 дней назад

On FOX's 9-1-1: Lonestar in 2022 or 2023, the 911 dispatcher got rickrolled when she made a call

@glubtier 19 дней назад

My guy saying "rick ROLL" like a high school student trying to understand iambic pentameter. 😂

@ofcrgry 26 дней назад

Ah, it has been a long time since NationSquid grace us with a good ol' screamer. Now **that** is what I call a blast from internet history.

@cucumbercaviar6261 28 дней назад

I knew it was coming but the screaming jumpscare just made me flinch

@Neutral_Mario 27 дней назад

At where?

@itsaderm 28 дней назад

Absolutely we want a video on 1980s culture!

@aktenkoffer 28 дней назад

2:16 Yes, I do because I am sick rn and I can't stand up 😭

@onemintyrose 28 дней назад

3:17 it's upside down lol Edit: yes please 1980s video

@ABwebGamesFan 28 дней назад

ofc you drop a new video during the one time I'm busy lol. Looking forward to the video tho!

@maxevocal 28 дней назад

Okay, you got me good with that last rickroll 😂

@thaddcorbett2148 28 дней назад

I was definately Rick-Rolled before I knew what RU-vid was.

@fandomcentralstation 26 дней назад

Never forget when the LEGO Batman Movie Rickrolled us all in the good year of our Lord 2017

@NotSulter 28 дней назад

I was watching ytp of thus song and you delivered my expectations

@SmallLegacy 28 дней назад

Do a video on the weirdest music videos of the 80s/90s/2000s/2010s

@RayvenLunaNite 27 дней назад

We all voluntarily Rick rolled ourselves watching this 😂 we knew what we were doing

@speedwagoncito 28 дней назад

The moment you mentioned the whole thing about the 80s being camp and ambivalent, I KNEW there would be some Dead Or Alive in there in some way, and mannn I was not disappointed! I would definitely love to see a deep dive video on the 80s.

@VoxAsteri 25 дней назад

One thing it taught us is to be super careful about clicking on links :D also rickrolling is still alive and well on tumblr (although it's much more meta, as are most tumblr jokes)

@a-person100 28 дней назад

7:27 the third half?

@Sarp1sthebest 28 дней назад

i wanna know teh culture of 1980s

@ExploringNew1 28 дней назад

0:35 I unplugged my monitor

@artman2oo3 27 дней назад

When posting a YT link to Facebook, you used to be able to edit/control the thumbnail shown and the caption. I did this once: posted a rickrool and was able to trick everybody into thinking it was something else. But, alas, you can no longer do this.

@user-zs6df9sb4i 28 дней назад

Should have opened with the rickroll, and called the video "A history of trolling"

@Kyoobur9000 28 дней назад

I wonder if the fact that the song is very PG has anything to do with the success of RickRoll. Maybe it had an effect on more people because parents had no reason to protect their kids from it.

@dancingwiththedogsdj 28 дней назад

That was plain good fun! 😁🌎❤️🕺🏻🐶

@adrian_veidt 28 дней назад

I remember downloading an NSFW video waaaay back in 2009 and get Rick roll'd on the good part.

@f1ref1 28 дней назад

Hi nationsquid, i love your vids. i have one question: how do you get online with old windows versions? in virtualbox it is impossible to connect with versions older than 2006...