2007·Early YouTube
Rickrolling
The bait-and-switch that made a 1987 pop single the internet's longest-running joke.
You might remember it as Rickroll, Never Gonna Give You Up bait
A trend people joined in with
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What this was
It first appeared in 2007, during early YouTube.
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Related
Nothing related yet. Relationships are recorded where evidence supports them, not inferred from similarity.
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- When
- The sources below date the original to 2007-05-15. ViralWorld records this as a cited claim rather than an established publication date, because it holds no copy to check it against.