TikTokers have adapted the age-old internet trend of “RickRolling” to maximize the joke for the platform. Rickrolling began in the early 2000s on 4chan when a link that was supposed to send users to a ...

The official music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" has hit a billion views on YouTube thanks to the viral Internet phenomenon of rickrolling. Astley's 1987 song hit YouTube on ...

Rickrolling is Classic Internet, a universal method of dismantling an echo chamber, dispersing a too-serious debate, trolling, trolling trolls and smiting oft-repeated clickbait. But according to a ...

Rick Astley has said he never embraced the rickrolling phenomenon because he did not want to ruin the joke. Rickrolling is a popular internet meme which involves tricking someone into clicking a link ...

A man has taken the 'Rickrolling' prank to the next level - by getting a QR code for the music video tattooed on his leg. Massimo Mancin, 32, is a big fan of Rick Astley and his song 'Never Gonna Give ...

Rick Astley, the artist most famous for the 1987 hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" and infamous for its internet popularity in the form of Rickrolling, has a new album out today. He retired in 1993, but ...

In 1987, when Rick Astley filmed the video for his hit song Never Gonna Give You Up, he had no idea it would eventually become one of the most viewed videos of all time. By 2016, the video had been ...

To the list of inexplicable web phenomena that spring up—only to disappear just as quickly—that includes severely grammar-impaired felines and some truly awful doings involving two girls and one cup, ...

Are you sitting down? I have some horrible news for you. YouTube has removed the original “Rickrolling” video from its site due to a terms-of-use violation. Though there are other avenues in which to ...

iPhones that have been "jailbroken" are potentially vulnerable to a worm that replaces the device's default wallpaper with, yes, a photo of pop singer Rick Astley. Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff ...

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