April Fools From Youtube

Post by **ayu** » 01 Apr 2008, 02:15

All of the "featured" videos on the first page are Rick rolls ^^

http://www.youtube.com

Post by **bad_brain** » 01 Apr 2008, 04:44

Swan hacked youtube?

Swan · Post by **Swan** » 01 Apr 2008, 04:45

Swan hacked youtube?

Damn it....rumbled

Post by **alien100** » 01 Apr 2008, 09:27

Post by **DNR** » 01 Apr 2008, 10:45

I was posting google dorks in the IRC and I guess Swan liked the bogus link that stuck the visitor on the rickroll video.... Now it is indeed amazing that you tube picked up on that..

Todd Spangler
Rick-Rolled
March 7, 2008
Apparently, this phenomenon has been kicking around the Internet for months, if not years, but I don't hang out in massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) so it's escaped my notice until now.

The term of the day: "rick roll." This refers specifically to an online bait-and-switch prank wherein said prankster posts or e-mails a link promising a tantalizing video tidbit when in fact the link directs the hapless victim to a clip of 1980s schlock-popster Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up."

Example:

Dude chek out this awesome trailer of the new Batman movie with Heath Ledger !!! -

You've just been rick-rolled. Stupid? Yep. Funny? Oh, yes.

Note that rick-rolling has contributed millions of views to YouTube. This clip has been viewed more than 6.55 million times since user "YouGotRickRolled" posted it nine months ago.

Rickrolling is a descendant of an older Internet joke called duckrolling. A Web site or blog post would offer a link to something popular — say celebrity photos or video gaming news — that led unsuspecting viewers to a bizarre image of a duck on wheels.

For rickrolling, the duck was replaced with the 20-year-old Astley video, and in the last year it has become a hugely successful “meme,” the Internet’s word for an idea repeated across the Web. The video from yougotrickrolled.com has been viewed more than seven million times.

The “Never Gonna Give You Up” video has been watched over a million times on YouTube — not bad for a song that last had heavy radio play in 1988, when it spent two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart of the top-selling singles.

Rickrolling has also come to mean a disruptive blast of the Astley song in a variety of situations. Former Scientologists protesting against the church, for example, have been playing and singing the song this year outside Scientology offices in London, Washington, Seattle and other cities.

It is not clear what Mr. Astley himself thinks about rickrolling. He has not spoken publicly about the meme and efforts to reach him through his agent were unsuccessful. But it has surely renewed attention on his career at a beneficial time. He is planning a tour through England along with other ’80s pop stars.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/busin ... ref=slogin

DNR

TheKingOfHearts · Post by **TheKingOfHearts** » 09 Apr 2008, 14:41

speaking of whom, Swan got me 3 times in one day. >_<

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