Rickrolling or a Rickroll is an Internet meme involving the unexpected appearance of the music video to the 1987 hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up", performed by English singer Rick Astley. The aforementioned video has over 1.5 billion views on YouTube.

Music video by Rick Astley performing Never Gonna Give You Up. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 2,573,462 (C) 1987 PWL. I do not take any credit for this music video .

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Rickrolling is when you troll someone on the internet by linking to the music video for Rick Astley’s 1987 hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up.” It is, by far, the most popular example of bait-and-switch linking.

Rickrolling is an internet meme that involves playing a trick on someone by tricking them into listening to Rick Astley singing his 1987 song, "Never Gonna Give You Up". It was first seen on 4chan and is called a "bait and switch".

2024年8月11日 · A "rickroll" is an internet prank in which Rick Astley's music video for "Never Gonna Give You Up" unexpectedly appears. It is a bait-and-switch technique where a hyperlink misleads the viewer to Astley's video instead of the intended content.

2025年1月30日 · Rickrolling is a bait-and-switch prank that involves posting a hyperlink that is supposedly relevant to the topic at hand in an online discussion, but re-directs the viewer to the music video of "Never Gonna Give You Up," a 1987 dance pop single by English singer-songwriter Rick Astley.

2020年9月28日 · RickRolling is an online prank and an Internet meme, which features an unexpected appearance of the music video for Rick Astley's song 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. The meme is known as a form of 'bait and switch', using a disguised hyperlink that leads to …

2020年9月25日 · In a rickroll, a person posts a link that is either clickbait or ostensibly related to the discussion at hand but that actually links to a video of Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Rickroll is obviously a compound of Rick (as in Astley) + roll. The origin of the rick half is clear enough, but the roll needs some explaining.

2022年4月5日 · Rickrolling is a bait-and-switch internet meme characterized by a seemingly innocuous or unrelated link that actually leads to a video of the 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up," performed by Rick Astley.