Rickrolling originated on 15 May 2007, when 4chan user Shawn Cotter uploaded the "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video to YouTube and linked to it in place of the trailer for the video game Grand …

Dec 18, 2011 · Music video by Rick Astley performing Never Gonna Give You Up. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 2,573,462 (C) 1987 PWL. I do not take any credit for this music video .

Apr 1, 2026 · To Rickroll (or rickroll) someone is to trick them into hearing the song “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley, first released in 1987. Often this involves a sort of bait and switch whereby …

Rickrolling is an internet prank where a person is unexpectedly shown a music video of Rick Astley’s 1987 song Never Gonna Give You Up after being led to believe they were clicking something …

Mar 4, 2025 · Rickrolling remains one of the internet’s greatest and longest-running jokes. What started as a simple bait-and-switch prank turned into a cultural phenomenon, keeping Rick Astley’s hit song …

Nov 25, 2025 · If it makes you feel any better, even YouTube has been Rickrolled in the past, a platform where the actual video used for Rickrolling lives. “We want to know: this year, what videos did you …

Rickrolling is a bait-and-switch prank that involves posting a hyperlink that is supposedly relevant to the topic at hand in an online discussion, but re-directs the viewer to the music video of "Never Gonna …

Feb 2, 2016 · In short: It's an internet prank. A good one. Rick rolling started around 2007 on online bulletin boards like 4chan and Reddit, where users would post a link that unexpectedly directed other...

Mar 10, 2026 · The prank, called 'Rickrolling', involves tricking someone into clicking a link that unexpectedly leads to the song's video - a meme that has circulated online since the mid-2000s.

Sep 28, 2020 · RickRolling is an online prank and an Internet meme, which features an unexpected appearance of the music video for Rick Astley's song 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. The meme is …