Rickroll Meme destroyed by Copyright Complaints (Not a Rickroll)

The Rickroll phenomenon, whereby people are promised one thing but given “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley instead, has been ended by a copyright takedown request by AVG Technologies. Rickrolling is the...

Rick Astley Writing Movie Musical, Promises Never to Give You Up

Fresh from his 'live rickroll' performance at the Macy's Day Parade late last year, pop icon Rick Astley is rolling his way into a new project — writing the audacious movie musical "New York Cowboy". "Rick...

MTV Europe Music Awards: Obama Wins (Again)

The 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards were held Thursday evening in Liverpool. Big stars like Beyonce and Kanye West were in attendance at this year's EMAs, which included performances by Take That and The Wombats.But...

NY Mets Get Rickrolled

Usually MSM coverage kills an Internet meme (at least amongst the painfully hip), but the fine art of Rickrolling still had a bit of life left... in this case, the New York Mets have been running a contest in...

YouTube RickRolls Users

This is pretty amazing. It seems YouTube is never gonna give up Rickrolling...especially on April Fools' Day."If you aren’t familiar with RickRolling - it’s when someone puts a link on website to something,...

'Rickrolling': Rick Astley 2.0

Leave it to the campy irreverance of web nerds to not only revive Rick Astley's classic 80s pop smash "Never Gonna Give You Up" more than twenty years later, but also to evolve it into the bona fide internet...

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