If you aren’t familiar with RickRolling - it’s when someone puts a link on website to something, but it actually takes you to a music video of Rick Astley’s “hit” song Never Gonna Give You Up.
YouTube is RickRolling its own users on April 1. All of the featured videos for YouTube UK and YouTube Australia actually link to the Rick Astley video. We’ll see if YouTube.com does the same at midnight EST tonight, too.
This is ok, but not nearly as funny as it would be if the YouTube team broke into the Google search servers and simply redirected Google.com to the video. Now that would be funny.
More coverage of this here.
Ha ha. Very funny..
Still not as cool as the Obama remix he does with Rick: http://tinyurl.com/yw9ufb
“YouTube is apparently RickRolling it’s own users…”
There’s no apostrophe in the possessive its, you April Fool.
Awesome, a lot of stupid users won’t get it, though.
YouTube, have fun deleting all of the questions as to why “videos aren’t working”.
I like how they don’t link to the original RickRoll video, but to a newly created one with the username ‘YTRickRollsYou’. Looks like they created this user about a week ago, with appropriate header image: http://uk.youtube.com/user/YTRickRollsYou
Looks like they’re going to do it worldwide — they also did it for the de site ( http://de.youtube.com )
you can thank offtopic for the rickroll trend
YDriven crazy yet???
why do i have the sneaking suspicion this is not the last time i’ll see rick roll in the next 24 hours!?
damn you digg!
Ah, nerdy pranks. Gotta love ‘em.
Is TechCrunch going to participate?
Epic.
Rick Astley is iconic 80s. good songs!
but surely there are more common, cheezier 80s music videos to use - instead of Rick’s
another really stupid trick!
This would mean that they got the rights to have the video on YouTube.
It would be crazy silly with all the lawsuits going on for YouTube to be uploading things they don’t have the rights to!
FR locale of Youtube has it too.
a record label is somewhere being real pissed right now.
can you imagine if rick got royalties on this? if it played on the radio he would, right?
I’m checking this out to see if they actually do it at 12pm EST. That’s in one hour. yea!
Here’s a link to video press release:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
Rickrolling got its highs almost one year ago at dvxuser.com.
And I followed the link for more coverage and got rickrolled. :S
April Fool
I just got rick rolled by Cat.
this is just stupid. at least choose a better song.
good
Lol, I wonder how many views this video will get.
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That sucks cos youtube is blatantly deceiving viewers. Apart from boosting the views of one video, you’d wonder what they get out of this.
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Isin’t it copyright infringement when you KNOWINGLY upload a copyrighted work?
It’s up on youtube.com now too.
If you want the actual videos instead of Rick Astley, this can help - http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~naveed/metubearrrgg
63,291 RickRoll’d and counting…
LOL!
http://www.viddler.com/explore/RickRoll/videos/2/
I know you laugh now, but that song was HUGE back in the day. Even Live105 played it. Ask Steve Masters :p
yup, youtube.com rickrolls as well…
I have seen this on M a r r y M i l l i o n a i r e .C o m. It just a celeb dating site.
very funny man. really. ciao from romania.
Yeah…Good one
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it’s funny! Keep It Turned On..
Hey its happening in India also
Yeah, cool!
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Doh, I just got Rick Rolled by MA… “More coverage of this here”.. haha.
/b/… That is all.
thanks. you
thanks.
good.
no problem. no wall
youtube thanks.
Haha I hate those things so much
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I Love rick-rolling, its so funny, I’ve done it many times on many forums It’s a great april fools day joke, I’m surprised how much its taken off