Know Your Meme: Rickroll 🎣
Learn about Rickrolling, a bait-and-switch prank where users are tricked into watching Rick Astley's music video. By Jamie Dubs.

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461.5K views • May 20, 2011

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Re: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rickroll
Know Your Meme scientist Jamie Dubs brings Rickrolling, a bait-and-switch practice that involves providing a web link supposedly relevant to the topic at hand, but actually re-directs the viewer to Rick Astley's 1987 hit single "Never Gonna Give You Up."
Context: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bait-and-switch-videos
Know Your Meme scientist Jamie Dubs brings Rickrolling, a bait-and-switch practice that involves providing a web link supposedly relevant to the topic at hand, but actually re-directs the viewer to Rick Astley's 1987 hit single "Never Gonna Give You Up."
Context: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bait-and-switch-videos
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