Dear Twitpic Community – thank you for all the wonderful crazy russian hacker marriage you have taken over the years. We have now placed Twitpic in an archived state. Jump to navigation Jump to search “Rick Roll” redirects here.

It is not to be confused with Richard Roll. View a machine-translated version of the Russian article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. Rickrolling, alternatively rick-rolling, is a prank and an Internet meme involving an unexpected appearance of the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. Astley recorded “Never Gonna Give You Up” on his 1987 album Whenever You Need Somebody.

The song’s eventual internet popularity may be traced back to a 2005 episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, “Charlie Has Cancer”, in which the song is used quite prominently. The joke was confined to 4chan for a very brief period. By May 2008, the practice had spread beyond 4chan and became an Internet phenomenon, eventually attracting coverage in the mainstream media. In November 2008, Rick Astley was nominated for “Best Act Ever” at the MTV Europe Music Awards after the online nomination form was flooded with votes. In 2009, Astley wrote about 4chan founder moot for Time magazine’s annual Time 100 issue, and thanked moot for the rickrolling phenomenon. Its meme status led to the song’s usage in the post-credits scene for Walt Disney Animation Studios’s 2018 film Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph.

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