Rickrolling, tricking someone into clicking a link to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, was a 2007 4chan prank that by 2010 was the internet's most famous bait-and-switch. In 2010 the original video was briefly removed from YouTube (February) and restored, and the prank kept going.
- Type
- meme
- Origin
- 4chan, 2007
- Peak
- 2008, with a long tail through 2010
- Example
- "Click here for the leaked iPhone 4 photos" -> Never Gonna Give You Up.
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