What is Rickroll?
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To post a misleading link with a subject that promises to be exciting or interesting, e.g. "World of Starcraft in-game footage!" or "Paris Hilton blows Busta Rhymes' dick" but actually turns out to be the video for Rick Astley's debut single, "Never Gonna Give You Up". A variant on the
...so instead of getting to beat off to footage of Ann Coulter getting raped by hyenas, I got rickrolled. What a day!
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2.
When you're looking for something interesting on youtube, and someone sends you a link, it's usually the video to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"
You just got Rickrolled
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3.
To disguise a link to a video of Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up." Popularized from excessive use on 4chan and certain Internet gaming forums.
After being rickrolled for the third time that day, Dave was dismayed to find that he had actually learned the words to the song.
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Tricking someone on the internet into watching "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up" via links through the internet. Usually masked as a youtube link, noting something completely unrelated to the video.
Awwww damn it, this is the third time i've been rickroll'd today!
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Never gonna give you up,
never gonna let you down,
never gonna run around and
desert you...
Never gonna make you cry,
never gonna sa-ay goodbye,
never gonna tell a lie
and hurt you.
You just got Rickrolled. As a result, you want to kill yourself.
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to be shown a video of
Haha! Great job disguising that rickroll!
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7.
The act of tricking someone into clicking a YouTube or other video link to the music video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".
Man, I clicked on the link thinking it'd be a movie about the new Starcraft, but I got rickrolled.
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