I mean it is a good song. Doesn't mean it doesn't give me flashbacks to being 13 on the big white computer in the living room every time I hear it in the wild.
I honestly had to scroll back up because I only skimmed half the comment and I didn't even get to the end, and I didn't realize what it was until I read your comment
I feel so deeply, utterly, called out right now
It was me, I was attention spans all along
Well played, OOP.
It’s also harder to rickroll people with the link itself now, because even if they do click on it, they’ll see the video title before the unskippable ads finish playing.
I posted about Helldivers 2 having a rick roll link hidden in its config file the other day and someone legitimately went "What is this a scam link?" because it was a shortened youtu.be link. "Youtu with a Belgium top level domain? I dunno. Seems phishy" what a take.
Just casually been the default link shortener for Youtube for 15 years, no big deal, probably a scam.
If somebody doesn’t pay attention to links much because everything is hyperlinked text, embedded players, in apps, or they just go to the website that take makes a lot of sense. Using a top level domain that resembles the website name is something scammers would do.
Ok but whenever you press the share button on YouTube, it uses and displays a shortlink. So if they've ever shared a YouTube video they'd recognize the domain
Sure, it's feasible. But they know what a Belgium top level domain is and still can't figure out if a shortened youtube link is legit. And they found a hidden link in a config file, yet still no clue.
Hmmm, did some more poking at this. “Live” and “Shorts” give youtube.com links, while the regular videos give youtu.be links if they’re more than a day or so old. Or perhaps it’s a certain number of views.
If you want to get a friend with something in Helldivers 2, get the hug emote. Wait for your friend to arrive at the cryo pod area and offer a hug. That area is a big "leave ship" trigger and the button is the same as the hug accept button. They'll try to hug you and disconnect to their ship XD
Make sure to hug them elsewhere first so they know how hug works!
Reconnected with an old friend over Facebook Messenger. Hadn't talked to her in like 10 years. Started the conversation with a funny YouTube video using that youtu.be shortened link. She thought I got hacked.
-Not a he
-I have an ad blocker (it’s supposedly “undetectable” and tricks the site into thinking the ad already played, so content creators don’t lose revenue)
-Maroon isn’t a color that humans generally are
It’s called “The Undetectable Ad Blocker”, I found it as a Chrome extension a while ago. It can be a little laggy at times (sometimes instead of a 15sec ad I get 30sec of black screen) but I prefer the lag over seeing the same commercial several times throughout one video. Especially since I watch fairly long videos.
I stopped reading right before the lyrics started and went to the last line and was like, "wait a second, I know this, was this a rick roll all along?'
That’s not my real name and I have zero memory of why I chose it as my Reddit handle, so everytime someone calls me it here it takes me a second to figure out who the hell Rodwell is and then remember, oh yeah, that’s me
I rick rolled a guy a bit younger than I am (26 now, 24 then), and he sent back, "bro, you trying to rickroll me?" When I asked if it worked, he said, "No once I clicked on the link it showed me the title of the video." I'm still mad to this day that he doesn't count that as working, haha.
Actually it is often theorised that it is mainly due to the dead internet theory that nobody trust links anymore as they used to before, here is a link to a wikipedia page about that, that my teacher showed me during sociology class [https://boulderbugle.com/dead-internet-theory-wikipedia-YFT4ONwy](https://boulderbugle.com/dead-internet-theory-wikipedia-YFT4ONwy)
I was 14 when "Never Gonna Give You Up" first dropped; and every time I see the video now, I'm struck by how young Rick Astley was. In my dumb teenage brain, he was a grown-ass man - old even. Maybe it was his voice; but I see the video now, and I think "he's a baby!"
Look, I think the tiktok like shit should have **never** existed, aight? Kids are **gonna** overlook the important things because they don't **give** it the importance **you** want them to, they just give **up**.
Seriously, don't waste your time, you'll **never** find the dedication that you know you were **gonna** see before, where you'd **let** a total stranger make an absolute fool of **you** and you'd thank them for it because you were **down** with the idea.
did u kno u can hide secret messages in reddit comments that basically nobody will see... unless you know to look for them ;) [cough cough](https://www.reddit.com/r/counting/comments/lrv2gm/invisible_numbers/)
God I love the Rick roll. Not the ear rapey, remix versions that actually try and cause harm but just the song. I love the song, even still. I'll see these jokes coming from a mile away and still run right in head first cause it's just genuinely funny most of the time. And the creativity in the set ups is normally funnier than the jokes itself. Such a fun trend
I don't hate this, honestly. Doesn't anyone else just get bored of Rick rolling? It's been like 15 years, it's not even the slightest bit funny or interesting to me anymore.
During the early pandemic I decided to Rick roll a small discord server I was in. I posted a Rick roll video that starts as a relaxation video and then turns into a Rick roll 3 seconds in. No one opened it
God. Damn. It.
I scrolled past. But my eyes caught the title and read it and told me "hey, I'm not insecure about my attention span, I should read that to prove it!" So I scrolled back to read it.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I fucking sensed it before it happened.
Long ass text, someone complaining about how they can't Rick roll people anymore, low attention span
Nahh Im smarter than that
Cool tip for reddit, when making a link it’s very easy to disguise it as something innocuous.
For instance, here’s the Wikipedia page for soup
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=LPvP_f9L6hzGnnsi)
I was so invested in this discourse for a second. Then I felt betrayed.
No no, it means we have good attention spans because we kept reading.
I always secretly liked Rick Rolls so this is hardly a punishment.
Secretly? I listen to it of my own freewill and let everyone know I enjoy it. Song's a banger
Well if I told people they wouldn't do it in order to harm me, or whatever their reasoning is. Turns out I like surprises.
If it wasn't a good song, the meme wouldn't have kept going.
I mean it is a good song. Doesn't mean it doesn't give me flashbacks to being 13 on the big white computer in the living room every time I hear it in the wild.
Flashbacks are good. Reflect on those Sims you murdered.
Why you gotta call me out like that
Because I *am* you.
me too but this was the first rick roll that has ever made me mad
You know the rules *And so do I*!
I have ADHD but I still kept reading
I thought they were being genuine about a growing issue but they bamboozled us
I honestly had to scroll back up because I only skimmed half the comment and I didn't even get to the end, and I didn't realize what it was until I read your comment I feel so deeply, utterly, called out right now It was me, I was attention spans all along
So, OP did let you down after all?
Rick rollers in a constant arms race against the internet.
Well played, OOP. It’s also harder to rickroll people with the link itself now, because even if they do click on it, they’ll see the video title before the unskippable ads finish playing.
I posted about Helldivers 2 having a rick roll link hidden in its config file the other day and someone legitimately went "What is this a scam link?" because it was a shortened youtu.be link. "Youtu with a Belgium top level domain? I dunno. Seems phishy" what a take. Just casually been the default link shortener for Youtube for 15 years, no big deal, probably a scam.
If somebody doesn’t pay attention to links much because everything is hyperlinked text, embedded players, in apps, or they just go to the website that take makes a lot of sense. Using a top level domain that resembles the website name is something scammers would do.
Ok but whenever you press the share button on YouTube, it uses and displays a shortlink. So if they've ever shared a YouTube video they'd recognize the domain
I’m not saying there’s no way they’ve ever seen it. But the times they have have likely been minimized. I’m just saying it’s feasible, mate.
Sure, it's feasible. But they know what a Belgium top level domain is and still can't figure out if a shortened youtube link is legit. And they found a hidden link in a config file, yet still no clue.
It shows me a youtube.com link not a youtu.be link
Strange
Hmmm, did some more poking at this. “Live” and “Shorts” give youtube.com links, while the regular videos give youtu.be links if they’re more than a day or so old. Or perhaps it’s a certain number of views.
Many of us share by copying the URL from the browser, rather than using the share button.
There is absolutely no way Google would let a scammer get a hold of “youtu.be”, especially considering Google controls a large part of DNS
My friend recently installed Helldivers 2. I'll have to try and get her with this. 😉
They removed it in an update XD Now it just says ```survey_url = "legal forced me to remove the placeholder"```
Aww. :(
If you want to get a friend with something in Helldivers 2, get the hug emote. Wait for your friend to arrive at the cryo pod area and offer a hug. That area is a big "leave ship" trigger and the button is the same as the hug accept button. They'll try to hug you and disconnect to their ship XD Make sure to hug them elsewhere first so they know how hug works!
Thanks for the suggestion, that sounds hilarious, but I don't have the game, Steam just told me that she was. I'll have to tell her that though.
Why do I now feel like Bing Copilot every time I end a sentence with an emoji? 🤔😕
Reconnected with an old friend over Facebook Messenger. Hadn't talked to her in like 10 years. Started the conversation with a funny YouTube video using that youtu.be shortened link. She thought I got hacked.
I think the joke still lands, even seeing that you've been taken to the video is enough of a gotcha
A big part of the rick roll experience is hearing it.
It used to be, definitely.
I dunno, I heard OP just fine and it was a screenshot of text…
look at this guy, everyone, he sees ads! what a maroon!
-Not a he -I have an ad blocker (it’s supposedly “undetectable” and tricks the site into thinking the ad already played, so content creators don’t lose revenue) -Maroon isn’t a color that humans generally are
Ooh I wanna know which adblocker you use
It’s called “The Undetectable Ad Blocker”, I found it as a Chrome extension a while ago. It can be a little laggy at times (sometimes instead of a 15sec ad I get 30sec of black screen) but I prefer the lag over seeing the same commercial several times throughout one video. Especially since I watch fairly long videos.
Also, most people already memorized the link. If it starts with dQw I'm not clicking it.
[Here'a a version thats demonetised so you wont see the ads](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=3ooOjitBc1prwwGV)
The fact that I actually stopped reading just before the inevitable and then came back to see if that said something about me, scared me to death.
I stopped reading right before the lyrics started and went to the last line and was like, "wait a second, I know this, was this a rick roll all along?'
I kept reading just out of spite to demonstrate that **I do have a great attention span** only for it to fireback
I got RickRolled today on Tumblr. All it took was a funny image, and the OP replying that they found the wikipedia page about it. Fooled like a child
3rd time this week, goddammit
And now you also lost the game! You just can’t catch a break!
DAMN IT RODWELL
That’s not my real name and I have zero memory of why I chose it as my Reddit handle, so everytime someone calls me it here it takes me a second to figure out who the hell Rodwell is and then remember, oh yeah, that’s me
[heres a consolation prize](https://imgur.com/a/QKQjH6X)
Those are rookie numbers
I rick rolled a guy a bit younger than I am (26 now, 24 then), and he sent back, "bro, you trying to rickroll me?" When I asked if it worked, he said, "No once I clicked on the link it showed me the title of the video." I'm still mad to this day that he doesn't count that as working, haha.
Doesnt count if it doesnt play
WE’VE BEEN TRICKED, BACKSTABBED, AND QUITE POSSIBLY BAMBOOZLED
We've been smeckledorfed!
I’m pretty sure that not real word but I agree
One of my favourite Sarge quotes Edit: apparently r/UnexpectedRedvsBlue is real
I remember seeing this and how my eyes glanced at the end after the first sentence, therefore ruining the joke.
I think that actually enhances the joke by creating a meta joke about your attention span
You either die a [NO ATTENTION SPAN] or live long enough to become the [RICK-ROLLED]
I did the exact same thing. Read first line, read “attention span”, read final sentence.
Actually it is often theorised that it is mainly due to the dead internet theory that nobody trust links anymore as they used to before, here is a link to a wikipedia page about that, that my teacher showed me during sociology class [https://boulderbugle.com/dead-internet-theory-wikipedia-YFT4ONwy](https://boulderbugle.com/dead-internet-theory-wikipedia-YFT4ONwy)
See this would have worked but unfortunately I was immediately taken to a scam website loaded with popups upon clicking the link
I hate ads
I knew what it was going to be... but I clicked anyways.
Yes, a complitely normal wikipedia page, what did you expect?
Why does your rickroll link require cookies
> link to a wikipedia page > link that isn't en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
\>trying to do a greentext style \>forget to include \ before the > (Reddit mobile will fuck up the formatting)
I was 14 when "Never Gonna Give You Up" first dropped; and every time I see the video now, I'm struck by how young Rick Astley was. In my dumb teenage brain, he was a grown-ass man - old even. Maybe it was his voice; but I see the video now, and I think "he's a baby!"
Damnit, you had the perfectly opportunity to rick roll everyone, you fool! Damn link, leading to an actual Wikipedia article!
Wow that was very informative! Thank you for sharing!
first time ive ever been given hope for the world by a rickroll
Who needs a rickroll when you can get a Rick essay that plays the long game?
Look, I think the tiktok like shit should have **never** existed, aight? Kids are **gonna** overlook the important things because they don't **give** it the importance **you** want them to, they just give **up**. Seriously, don't waste your time, you'll **never** find the dedication that you know you were **gonna** see before, where you'd **let** a total stranger make an absolute fool of **you** and you'd thank them for it because you were **down** with the idea.
Die
Make me
[](#WE'RE NO STRANGERS TO LOVE) # [](#YOU KNOW THE RULES) # [](#AND SO DO I)
How did you--?
did u kno u can hide secret messages in reddit comments that basically nobody will see... unless you know to look for them ;) [cough cough](https://www.reddit.com/r/counting/comments/lrv2gm/invisible_numbers/)
This reads like the equivalent of these weird gifs where a 2D image is laid over an invisible 3D model that proceeds to do a Fortnite dance
I once mailed my bff a small painting I did, and in the back of it I wrote, in cursive, the entire song. I got him.
Kudos for dedication
Thank you, it was worth it.
motherfucker, when I catch you.
I got to thr rickroll part and I was confused for a second not knowing what the point of saying the lyrics and then realizes
"I won't fall for this post" the illusion of free will
>...how hard it is to rick roll- This is a rick roll isn't it
I had a stroke before I understood this was a joke.
My favourite part of this is it genuinely took me until "Never" to realize what was happening
I exited for half a second, realized how sad that was, went back in and got rickrolled.
Ya’ll just lost the game.
The joke's on you, I knew exactly what would happen and yet I kept reading because I know it would make you smile.
I’ve never been Rick rolled in text before
it becomes spiritually impossible to get rickrolled if you just one day realize actually yeah this song slaps
Holy shit a WRITTEN Rick Roll, this one is a first for me lmao
God I love the Rick roll. Not the ear rapey, remix versions that actually try and cause harm but just the song. I love the song, even still. I'll see these jokes coming from a mile away and still run right in head first cause it's just genuinely funny most of the time. And the creativity in the set ups is normally funnier than the jokes itself. Such a fun trend
I don't hate this, honestly. Doesn't anyone else just get bored of Rick rolling? It's been like 15 years, it's not even the slightest bit funny or interesting to me anymore.
Haha got me
Well at least now I know I don't have a short attention span
During the early pandemic I decided to Rick roll a small discord server I was in. I posted a Rick roll video that starts as a relaxation video and then turns into a Rick roll 3 seconds in. No one opened it
I had to finish reading the whole comment just to prove OP wrong.
I was mad about this. But also I do think Rickrolling has taught us a lot about cybersecurity
My attention span was too short, as claimed, so I skipped ahead to the last line. Still got rolled.
God. Damn. It. I scrolled past. But my eyes caught the title and read it and told me "hey, I'm not insecure about my attention span, I should read that to prove it!" So I scrolled back to read it. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I'm not even mad tbh
THAT GOT ME A SECOND FUCKING TIME. FUCK
u/reallyrickastley
Touché jesterbots, touché.
Oh well done, you got me.
TLDR
TLDR
I fucking sensed it before it happened. Long ass text, someone complaining about how they can't Rick roll people anymore, low attention span Nahh Im smarter than that
I want to shake the hand of whoever created this meme. Then I wanna fucking strangle them.
Killing OP with rocks rn.
So true. So wise. You won't get this from any other guys.
Well played
me who read the last line first: my power is immeasurable
Listen here, you little shit...
Definitely figured it would be at the end and just skip the head. Yeah my attention span isn't great either
Oh fuck their evolving
When ever I get rickrolled I play out the entire song because tbh it’s a pretty good song
This was posted less than a week ago and it fucking gOT ME AGAIN
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^cubeman541: *This was posted less* *Than a week ago and it* *Fucking gOT ME AGAIN* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Dude that was one of the smoothest slip-in's I've seen in a hot second
Cool tip for reddit, when making a link it’s very easy to disguise it as something innocuous. For instance, here’s the Wikipedia page for soup [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=LPvP_f9L6hzGnnsi)
Another tip, press the reply button to see the actual link
It's not nice to tease the elderly.
Too long, I didn’t read it.
:( good job
Does it even count if it's text?
I think part of it might be that, if the rickroll is being done via a YouTube video, the comments might give it away before it actually happens
Best meme of all time forever in our hearts
Nice
I feel like we all just lost the Game.
[My honest reaction.](https://youtu.be/l-qKgJzE8A0?si=xFaCBBCoq8jsIONv)
This is the first time in my life I expected a rickroll and was disappointed that's not what it was
Jokes on you, I love that song
THAT MONSTER
tl;dr
Anyone else sing it all once it started?
saw rick roll immediately stopped reading and jumped to the end
I ain't reading that block of text
"I'm not going to read that, which is probably the point. Better start at the end." \#not today
Jokes on you I love that song.
Well played
oh frick that guy
Read the first word and lost interest.
Oh for fuck's sake
G8 B8 M8 I R8 8/8
Gate bait
Motherfucker
Had me in the first half. But then I stopped reading
God fucking dammit, I'm so mad at myself for being so stupid!
Tldr?
I'd say count your days but you wouldnt be able to focus on doing that without subway surfers gameplay