Where Did the Rick Roll Come From?

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Since 2007, millions of people around the world have been pranking each other with false links that redirect to a 1980s music video. The phenomenon has become known as the "Rick Roll," and has become an integral part of internet pop culture. The question is, where did it come from, and why did it become so popular?
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@nationsquid 29 күн бұрын

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@rbsaitama 29 күн бұрын

@Sarp1sthebest 29 күн бұрын

epic

@itisliamhfjone22 29 күн бұрын

i hate sleep though...

@saturnalis8813 29 күн бұрын

I thought I was gonna get rick rolled

@ExploringNew1 28 күн бұрын

You look like dream

@ZackarySmigel 29 күн бұрын

I always find it funny how Rick Astley wrote both "Never Gonna Give You Up" AND "Giving Up on Love."

@AzraelStoneMusic 29 күн бұрын

That’s called range

@Novabom_ 29 күн бұрын

He can't make up his mind i guess.

@user-id9ou2np8g 29 күн бұрын

Comparable to when Nestle owned Jenny Craig. Hit both sides of the market!

@jolo3118 29 күн бұрын

Something for everyone. Lol

@BleachDemon707 29 күн бұрын

I always find it funny when checkmarks think their opinions count 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙄

@Crocogator 29 күн бұрын

The tradition back in the day was that if you got rickrolled, especially by a friend who was there to see it happen, you had to listen to the entire song.

@Valsilene 29 күн бұрын

Me, pretending I’m a traditionalist, when I just wanna jam to Never Gonna Give You Up

@magnesiafrost1863 28 күн бұрын

Well, there're worse things, than having to listen to the entire song 🎶💃

@Crocogator 28 күн бұрын

@@magnesiafrost1863 never gonna give you **AAAAAHHH**

@Crocogator 28 күн бұрын

@@Valsilene Have you heard his more recent covers? Dude's still got it

@lainiwakura1776 28 күн бұрын

@@magnesiafrost1863 Than listening to a song I actually like.

@JamesR624 29 күн бұрын

Yes. I would love a whole decadeology deep-dive into 1980's culture. Maybe other decades as well like the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's 70's, 90's, 2000's, and 2010's. Make it a series. Maybe even just call it "Decade-ology".

@Azurethewolf168 29 күн бұрын

I don’t think we’re past the 2010s enough to recognize it as a separate thing from our current era. Since it’s just barely ended. Like the 2000s, we need another decade to really get how it’s so different and distinct as a lot of the stuff has carried over to today whereas very few of the stuff from the 2000s really does now. It would be like telling a person in 1990 to give an explanation of how the 80s were distinct.

@lainiwakura1776 28 күн бұрын

@@Azurethewolf168 >barely ended >it's the year 2024 okay

@Azurethewolf168 28 күн бұрын

@@lainiwakura1776 dude it’s only been like 5 years

@they_call_me_Koishi 26 күн бұрын

Reminded me that Russian KZfaqr sndk has its own series where he talks about culture of different years. He already made videos on years 2000-2009 and recently also made video on 1990.

@OmegaRejectz 23 күн бұрын

@@lainiwakura1776how is not even half a decade a long time?

@alarmingly_good 29 күн бұрын

I literally have a script to Rick roll me when I open my laptop bc I like the song

@itisliamhfjone22 29 күн бұрын

🔥

@onemintyrose 29 күн бұрын

yooo that's actually really cool!

@Novabom_ 29 күн бұрын

Yoo can I get that script.

@lemoneer7474 29 күн бұрын

And it also serves to Rick roll anyone who opens your laptop too :D

@polygonnnn 29 күн бұрын

stop the cap

@trxced 28 күн бұрын

i'm always sad that ads kinda took this away from us because part of the charm was that the song would start immediately after u click the link. now, if u click the link and u dont have adblock, u go through 30 seconds of ads first and it ruins the element of surprise.

@Brick_One_A_Lego_Story 27 күн бұрын

It's even worse. Messenger (I don't know about other apps) shows the title and picture of the video below the link so you can't make any pranks :(

@SnugWugs137 29 күн бұрын

Can’t believe he called the 80s “gay but not the right gay.”

@aelahn 24 күн бұрын

he was on spot though...I always noticed the same

@SnugWugs137 21 күн бұрын

@@aelahn that's homophobic.

@Polie10 16 күн бұрын

@@SnugWugs137THATZ OFFENSIVE!1!!11!1!1

@-libertyprimev1-902 29 күн бұрын

Always remember back to that time KZfaq asked for Cute Puppy videos and got Rick Rolled by some legend...

@Sonic_The_Weredog 29 күн бұрын

*I love when NationSquid said "It's rickrollin' time!" and rickrolled all over the internet.*

@I-absolveyouofyoursins 28 күн бұрын

I love when Sonic The Weredog said "it's werehogin time" and werehoged all over the place

@ihaveagoddamnplanarthur 28 күн бұрын

i hate the internet

@MegaCygnusX1 28 күн бұрын

Rick Astley credits this meme for reviving his career and still keeping him relevant all these years later. He's also one of the nicest and most down to earth (and well aging!) celebrities in the business.

@oussamadaferio 29 күн бұрын

KZfaq on April 1st 2008 be like : "Hello ladies and gentlemen I am here to change the future"

@Kaytayye 29 күн бұрын

I still can't believe nearly all of Britain got rickrolled 2024 new years eve. It was such a shock when Rick Astley started singing the song live on tele almost immediately after the countdown was over :,)

@rosaline2581 29 күн бұрын

I saw it

@gabe_s_videos 29 күн бұрын

I just commented on something else about this, and you said my exact sentiments: the appeal of the Rick Roll is that it's completely innocent fun. Harmless mischief. Everyone involved gets to enjoy it.

@Maria_745 29 күн бұрын

Yeah it's great because it's not making fun of him or the song which most people seem to actually like lol

@KarlaO711 16 күн бұрын

@@Maria_745 The best part of it is, that Rick Astley liked it too, that his song went that way :D That makes this whole story the fun about it etc. even better!

@mruczyslaw50 29 күн бұрын

"It is 80 degrees" Meanwhile I, an european: HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE

@Azurethewolf168 29 күн бұрын

Ah, Europeans!

@lvl90dru1d 29 күн бұрын

he's burning alive

@wandahoi_. 28 күн бұрын

just wait till you hear about Southeast Asians

@Kaytayye 28 күн бұрын

oh god yes. I had an American friend who told me the other day it was 68*C and i was like "uh.. wtf?"

@AvatarNeo 29 күн бұрын

Rick Rolling is a meme that will never give us up.

@imcringeanditstoolateforme4347 29 күн бұрын

Or let us down.

@x-rex7236 29 күн бұрын

It is culture, it is everything we pass threw. Expose someone to anger long enough, they learn how to hate

@BlahajOfficaI 29 күн бұрын

@@imcringeanditstoolateforme4347Or run around and desert us

@tommarnt 28 күн бұрын

Never gonna make us cry, never will gonna say goodbye

@EleanorQuestionMark 21 күн бұрын

@@tommarnt orr tell a lie and hurt us

@GirtheAlienGoldfish 29 күн бұрын

I've always said that at the very least, Never Gonna Give You Up is catchy enough to not be annoying.

@ImJCyo 29 күн бұрын

The way he says "AHH ghostface" is just... I dunno I find it really funny.

@harruri 28 күн бұрын

I get what u meannn

@aelahn 24 күн бұрын

it's pretty irritating to me

@SumdudeYT 29 күн бұрын

GIVE ME 1980S CULTURE

@frtzkng 29 күн бұрын

Rickrolling actually didn't work in Germany for some time because a local music licensing company, GEMA, and KZfaq took until 2016 to settle their dispute over music licensing fees. This actually made Germany the country with the most blocked KZfaq videos on Earth for a while, with 61% of the top 1,000 most popular videos unavailable because they contained music which GEMA held licences for. It was, however, very easy to circumvent this restriction with browser extensions.

@Leofwine 29 күн бұрын

I remember that, and it still makes my blood boil.

@magnesiafrost1863 28 күн бұрын

I somehow forgot this :)

@MickeyMousePark 28 күн бұрын

very interesting...

@FreakinSweet1987 29 күн бұрын

That Family Guy timeline being so close to the original RickRoll video really threw me for a loop. I could *swear* that they did it months or even a few years after RickRolling was already an established thing. I'd always assumed it was in response to the popularity, but given the timeframe it seems as though it just ended up being insanely coincidental in their favor. There's no way they would have managed to work it in so quickly no matter how simple and lazy the animation is.

@MrBelski 28 күн бұрын

When I make presentations for school, I always put a RickRoll at the last slide

@wallyhackenslacker 28 күн бұрын

Saying that we're as far away from the invention of rickrolling as rickrolling itself is from Never Gonna Give You Up made me age like 100 years in a second

@elanv 21 күн бұрын

Yeah, that really hurts.

@mattelelectronics 29 күн бұрын

rickrolling is so influential i even learned how to play the song on my clarinet. :)

@JamesR624 29 күн бұрын

Surprised you didn't mention when talking abou it leaking into real world culture how, the post-credits scene of Disney's Wreck it Ralph 2; there's supposedly a preview scene for Frozen 2.... It's actually Ralph taking Rick's place in the music video of Never Gonna Give You Up. Or how about when Apple's subtly Rick Roll'd people with the release of the 1st Gen Apple Watch? There was a screenshot of the circular "contacts page" button you'd get to pressing the side button. The initials of the contacts were "NE", "VE", "RG", "ON", "NA", "GI", "VE", "YU", and "UP",

@nousername8818 29 күн бұрын

And how apple Rick Roll'd people in that one episode of Ted Lasso

@zaneheaston8254 28 күн бұрын

The fact that people have been Rick Rolled over 1.5 billion times gives me hope

@balisongman07 28 күн бұрын

"F-15 location in GTA IV" was the only time it got me. And it was a feeling of "MOTHER FU- yeah well played..."

@aktenkoffer 28 күн бұрын

I remember this website where you can fake a News article and it just leads you to Never gonna give you up 😂

@UnknownFlyingPancake 29 күн бұрын

I think the most important thing people tend to forget is that it was easy to Rickroll people as back then posting a link wouldn't give a preview or thumbnail or anything, so unless you memorized the exact url for the video you wouldn't know what it was besides being a youtube video. It also being harmless also likely served as a sort of anti-screamer/shock content.

@ACatCalledSnow 29 күн бұрын

NS, please do the 80s culture video you mentioned. Thank you for the great video.

@SkylightCiel 27 күн бұрын

The fact that we're as far away from the RickRoll than people were to the actual release of the song back then hits so hard and makes me realize how weird it must've been for people who grew up in the 80's to see Rickroll become a thing.

@basil1964 29 күн бұрын

In my school, I like to slide my phone under the toilet stall to show the person next to me and just rickroll them

@Test_Tangent 29 күн бұрын

I got here in under an hour. That’s how much I like this guy’s work.

@alexanderveritas 27 күн бұрын

It think what makes *Rick Rolling* so beloved it’s that is a seriously good prank, imagine discovering this amazing song thanks to a joke. Many people discovered *Rick Astley* this way.

@k1773ns 29 күн бұрын

The turtleneck and hair is giving Get Back. Love it 👌🏻 nationsquid in his McBeardy era

@SendFoodz 29 күн бұрын

this dude's personality is so fun if he Rick Rolled me id just laugh with him

@fishingfan1500 29 күн бұрын

I remember the first time I got rick rolled, I completely did not understand it

@vizthex 29 күн бұрын

surprised you hadn't done this earlier, damn. great video as always.

@Lampe2020 28 күн бұрын

Well, once in school a teacher wanted to play a song and he assured us it wasn't a rickroll in advance, and it started with that exact same drum intro as Never Gonna Give YouUp, but after that was completely different. But everyone laughed and it felt like being rickrolled. And I just immediately do a palmface when I hear the first sounds of the rickroll XD

@TheAtomikku 29 күн бұрын

I can't believe he made a whole video just to Rick roll us

@ciach0_ 29 күн бұрын

0:38 No, you haven't gotten me, I found exactly what I was searching for Also, great video

@GenericYannick 28 күн бұрын

0:56 so i keep on waiting, waiting, waiting for half-life 3, so i keep on waiting, waiting, waiting for half-life 3 (something like waiting for a world to change, but i wait for half-life 3)

@KaneLivesInDeath 29 күн бұрын

Fun fact: Rick Astley was 21 years old when the song was first released! Yet he looked around sixteen? I hope Joseph Kucan has his eyes on Rick...

@chelseahindle3645 28 күн бұрын

I love the rickroll. I'm a mischievous person, but I hate upsetting people, and so many pranks seem cruel and mean. This one is just harmless, but slightly annoying.

@OiledLabia 28 күн бұрын

"I'm gonna meet Naomi Watts" >Restraining order from Naomi Watts Gold

@angleofsweetrevenge 28 күн бұрын

To me at least, the funny part is that it's THE rickroll. Not the fact that there's a silly song, but THE song. I wonder how it felt for people to get a rickroll for the first ever time

@cheyannekillin196 28 күн бұрын

My husband and I rick-rolled everyone at our wedding right after our ceremony. 🎉

@Stixil 28 күн бұрын

Now I wanna see a video on the lost SM64 screamer 👀

@isirlasplace91 29 күн бұрын

As someone who was a kid back when the song first came out and then remember when KZfaq pulled their April Fool's prank to make a bunch of their videos into Rickrolls, this was such an interesting video!!! Love the nostalgia!!

@ericcarabetta1161 28 күн бұрын

Getting Rick Rolled in the real world is like getting shittymorph’d on Reddit.

@ib-dw5gy 29 күн бұрын

i would watch a 1980s video 👍

@klocugh12 29 күн бұрын

Yes to deep dive into 80s culture!

@Novabom_ 29 күн бұрын

This is the most Rick rolled i have gotten this reminds me of 2019 😢

@jonbourgoin182 29 күн бұрын

Blink 182 is my favorite band of all time, and when they first reunited back in like 2011, fans of the band were trying to find a leak of the first new song...I found what I thought was a link to the unreleased song, but alas, that was the one and only time I ever got Rick Rolled. Even though it only happened to me once, it's still an anecdote worth telling lol

@Everything.Windows 28 күн бұрын

Rickroll is such a random joke that gives complete randomness, but it's still funny for a reason haha. Great video tho, damn you got me rickroll'd ;D

@mon5tre 26 күн бұрын

I was talking with this guy I liked on MSN Messenger back in 2007-2008 and he sent me some link which turned out to be my first Rickroll. I thought he was confessing his love to me. This song will forever be a banger though, I’m still not tired of it.

@finalbossoftheinternet6360 28 күн бұрын

It started with the 'duck roll' word substitution gag on /b/... ... P.S., 9gag stole our memes.

@RideOnTimePH 27 күн бұрын

Cotter548 basically got rick astley out of retirement

@blakedellinger5300 29 күн бұрын

Like to vote for a nation squid deep dive into 1980’s culture!

@OtakuUnitedStudio 28 күн бұрын

Being born in the 1980s and listening to this song frequently throughout my childhood in the early 90's, I genuinely enjoy it. Together Forever is better though.

@calebmezenberg137 29 күн бұрын

Okay the last one actually got me, well played

@glubtier 20 күн бұрын

My guy saying "rick ROLL" like a high school student trying to understand iambic pentameter. 😂

@freddievanfleet1706 29 күн бұрын

My high school sold singing telegrams for valentines day and someone put this song on the list of songs one could buy (which I hope someone got fired over) and someone bought a singing telegram of this song for every teacher in the school. Effectively rick rolling the entire school. We never found out who did it and they better hope I never do

@cameronbigley7483 22 күн бұрын

7:28 "... the first half of the third half..." I presume he meant first and last *third*. I had to double back and check if I heard that right. Also, damn you for using the ol' Scary Maze Game girl, that still just gets me a decade passed lol

@batznBlxxd 11 күн бұрын

"how many times did you get rickrolled today?" me: yes.

@davinp 28 күн бұрын

On FOX's 9-1-1: Lonestar in 2022 or 2023, the 911 dispatcher got rickrolled when she made a call

@MrVIPGuest 28 күн бұрын

I was very surprised with your restraint from showing footage of the Beatles when talking about the 60s lol

@Neutral_Mario 28 күн бұрын

Lol

@loggaming7505 28 күн бұрын

“you violated your restraining order” 0:57

@TheColinputer 28 күн бұрын

There def was a punishment aspect to some versions of it. While it started off as a harmless video link. People started making rickroll links that as well as playing the song hijacked your browser and made popups open that flashed around the screen. Often needing you to go to task manager and end task the browser. This was back in the internet explorer days afterall. I was a firefox user at the time and can remember actually having a plugin called "rick alert" or something that detected the links and would block them from opening.

@AidenRKrone 28 күн бұрын

Years ago, I had a CD of Rick Astley's greatest hits. "Never Gonna Give You Up" was, of course, in the tracklist, along with other boppin' tracks, like "It Would Take a Strong Strong Man", "Giving Up on Love", and "Hopelessly".

@AB-Prince 29 күн бұрын

I quite like rick astley's never gonna give you up, and I've always wanted to know how this song/music video in particular got to be 'the one' to prank people with.

@leet7489 29 күн бұрын

A lot of people born after the song came out, like myself, likely only know the song from rickroll which is wild. I mean unless they were fans of Rick Astley

@rcoder-dev 29 күн бұрын

I was born in 98. Surprisingly I only got Rickrolled once, then ending up liking the song during the early days of the pandemic, including other Rick Astley songs (old and new). I still check Rick's channel from time to time if there's new songs.

@leet7489 28 күн бұрын

@@rcoder-dev I was born a year before the song came out so technically I was around but I was a baby lol. I dont think it counts haha. I think I heard the song on Family Guy before rickroll but I could be wrong. I def remember when the prank started getting popular. I remember the scream ones more so. people would send email chains

@fandomcentralstation 27 күн бұрын

Never forget when the LEGO Batman Movie Rickrolled us all in the good year of our Lord 2017

@ofcrgry 27 күн бұрын

Ah, it has been a long time since NationSquid grace us with a good ol' screamer. Now **that** is what I call a blast from internet history.

@a-person100 28 күн бұрын

7:27 the third half?

@cucumbercaviar6261 29 күн бұрын

I knew it was coming but the screaming jumpscare just made me flinch

@Neutral_Mario 28 күн бұрын

At where?

@ChinchillaJimmy 29 күн бұрын

13:35 he actually got me here

@thaddcorbett2148 28 күн бұрын

I was definately Rick-Rolled before I knew what KZfaq was.

@xaiderg 29 күн бұрын

wake up babe, new NationSquid just dropped

@jonbourgoin182 29 күн бұрын

Please let this meme comment die. You are not clever or original, you are cringey and attention seeking.

@jonbourgoin182 29 күн бұрын

Stop. You are not clever, just cringey.

@itsaderm 29 күн бұрын

Absolutely we want a video on 1980s culture!

@aktenkoffer 28 күн бұрын

2:16 Yes, I do because I am sick rn and I can't stand up 😭

@EGSBiographies-om1wb 26 күн бұрын

This vid was worth my time to watch.

@user-zs6df9sb4i 29 күн бұрын

Should have opened with the rickroll, and called the video "A history of trolling"

@maxevocal 28 күн бұрын

Okay, you got me good with that last rickroll 😂

@Zk8er35 28 күн бұрын

I imagine it must be pretty humbling as an artist to see one of your creations (a debut song, no less) be a LOT bigger than what you initially thought. Rick Astley is such a good sport for embracing the internet culture and just laughing along with us.

@ABwebGamesFan 29 күн бұрын

ofc you drop a new video during the one time I'm busy lol. Looking forward to the video tho!

@Kyoobur9000 29 күн бұрын

I wonder if the fact that the song is very PG has anything to do with the success of RickRoll. Maybe it had an effect on more people because parents had no reason to protect their kids from it.

@kendalljenkins9938 28 күн бұрын

It works because the song is a certified banger, and Rick Astley has a voice that's as smooth as Jello.

@adrian_veidt 28 күн бұрын

I remember downloading an NSFW video waaaay back in 2009 and get Rick roll'd on the good part.

@Micah_YT 14 күн бұрын

3:38 THE SPONSOR!!! IT'S OVER

@RayvenLunaNite 27 күн бұрын

We all voluntarily Rick rolled ourselves watching this 😂 we knew what we were doing

@onemintyrose 29 күн бұрын

3:17 it's upside down lol Edit: yes please 1980s video

@Sarp1sthebest 29 күн бұрын

i wanna know teh culture of 1980s

@MinoltaCamera 29 күн бұрын

Mandela Effect: For me it always was Rick Ashley, not Rick Astley

@dancingwiththedogsdj 29 күн бұрын

That was plain good fun! 😁🌎❤️🕺🏻🐶

@ExploringNew1 28 күн бұрын

0:35 I unplugged my monitor

@WiiU_G4meP4d 29 күн бұрын

Just saying, this should have been uploaded on April fools May fools

@wandahoi_. 28 күн бұрын

i sacrificed my seven-month no rickroll streak for this one worth it

@Njsr 28 күн бұрын

When we will get a video about the troll meme and the rage comics?

@artman2oo3 28 күн бұрын

When posting a YT link to Facebook, you used to be able to edit/control the thumbnail shown and the caption. I did this once: posted a rickrool and was able to trick everybody into thinking it was something else. But, alas, you can no longer do this.