Oh Rick Roll'n how we have come to love and loath you in equal measures. Over the last few days the original video used for Rick Roll'n was removed from Youtube. Thankfully this was seen as a mistake as the Youtube team suspended the user for spam, realising this mistake they lifted the ban and the video has been reinstated.
Rick Roll'n, I'm sure everyone here has been duped once? It involves the mischievous act of linking an innocent unsuspecting friend with a link, this link is usually masked in a different URL. The URL is usually one of curious standards and piques the friends interest, however after they click the link they will be quite peeved to see they have been Rick Roll'D. Rick Roll'n is basically the video to 1987 music video "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.
Rick Roll'n began as most internet viral phenomenons such as lolcats for example, on the infamous geeky anagogic internet image-board 4chan. It began with "Duck rolling" which involved linking a picture or thread to a trolling thread containing the picture of a duck with wheels. The user was then "Duckrolled".
The first known case however of Rick Rolled was again from 4chan when the supposed link for the first Grand Theft Auto IV trailer was a link to the Rick Roll video. Since 2008 however it has been a widespread internet phenomenon which has simply malevolently spread across the internet inflicting many of millions of people to the abominable sounds of Rick Astley.
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