Reddit Rickrolls the real Rick Astley

For Gen Zers who were too young to be trolling online in the 2000s, Rickrolling was a very, very popular (Editor’s note: and very, very annoying) bait-and-switch prank that involved tricking people to click on disguised hyperlinks that would lead them to the music video for Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up.” It was such a phenomenon that Astley himself even knew about it and mentioned in a 2016 Rolling Stone article that it didn’t bother him because it introduced his music to a whole new generation — which is a sweet thought but more likely probably has a Pavlovian effect on the majority of millennials who cannot listen to the song without getting instantly annoyed.

The ultimate rickroll? Rick Astley's friend got him — again and again

to not get rickrolled. Yes, I rickrolled Rick Astley himself. : r/therewasanattempt

Rick Astley got no chill lol : r/Funnymemes

The Astley Paradox : r/rickroll

Rick Astley getting rickrolled was Reddit's most upvoted post in 2020

You can now Rickroll people who ask for your phone number

THE RICKROLLED THEORY OR THE RICK ASTLEY THEORY : r/GameTheorists

I made Rick Astley's “Never gonna give you up” QR code to rickroll people : r/beadsprites

Someone actually rick-rolled the real Rick Astley! : r/memes

Am I the first person in history to get rickrolled by an AI? What a time to be alive. : r/OpenAI

Rick Astley got rickrolled : r/rickastley