The INTERNET.

Jaydee · Post by **Jaydee** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:28 am

I knew about the Zelda Prank, can't remember who told me about it, so I found a link to the "preview" and told my boyfriend.

It was the best thing I've ever seen watching him call up all of his friends, explaining they should prebook tickets and such.

It was also funny that he complained for the rest of the day, about the guy playing zelda, and how "his hair isn't even blonde, why wouldn't they just dye it at least??".

Yamid · Post by **Yamid** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:09 pm

mountainmage wrote: THIS however took the April Fools Cake. I actually thought it was real for a few minutes before I realized what day it was.

I don't get it.

cheez.wiz · Post by **cheez.wiz** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:12 pm

Youtube rickrolled everyone trying to use their featured video links.

Yamid · Post by **Yamid** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:03 pm

Does that mean tricking somebody into seeing Rick Astley?

mountainmage · Post by **mountainmage** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:54 pm

Yamid wrote:Does that mean tricking somebody into seeing Rick Astley?

Yes. That's exactly what it means.

Sahan · Post by **Sahan** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:01 pm

I'm going to have to remind myself to stop opening unspecified youtube links, at least until everyone forgets about this whole rickrolling thing. Which will be what, two weeks from now?

ruotwocone · Post by **ruotwocone** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:03 pm

Sahan wrote:I'm going to have to remind myself to stop opening unspecified youtube links, at least until everyone forgets about this whole rickrolling thing. Which will be what, two weeks from now?

i dunno... i've seen people get rick rolled for months now. i think it'll be at least another month or two before it totally goes away.

Lethal Interjection · Post by **Lethal Interjection** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:49 pm

I thought YouTube's April Fool's thing was that everything on the feature page was related to break dancing and "b-boys". I didn't click anything, so maybe those were all rickrolled? I'm not sure...

ruotwocone · Post by **ruotwocone** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:16 pm

Lethal Interjection wrote:I thought YouTube's April Fool's thing was that everything on the feature page was related to break dancing and "b-boys". I didn't click anything, so maybe those were all rickrolled? I'm not sure...

yeah, every one of the recommended videos on the main page rickrolled you

Lethal Interjection · Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:21 pm

ruotwocone wrote:
Lethal Interjection wrote:I thought YouTube's April Fool's thing was that everything on the feature page was related to break dancing and "b-boys". I didn't click anything, so maybe those were all rickrolled? I'm not sure...
yeah, every one of the recommended videos on the main page rickrolled you

Makes sense. Too bad I care so little about break dancing that I didn't even bother clicking, and thus no rickrolling for me.

Frostbite · Post by **Frostbite** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:29 am

What idiot started all the Rickrolling nonsense anyways? They need to be shot.

Lethal Interjection · Post by **Lethal Interjection** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:24 am

Frostbite wrote:What idiot started all the Rickrolling nonsense anyways? They need to be shot.

I think it is hilarious. I mean, it is much better than tubgirl which was the old rickroll.*
Rickrolling is so harmless** that I think it is great. I've actually never been rickrolled***, but I know it would make me smile.

Mind you, it is also kind of useless, because it isn't as if you have to see the whole video.

It would be even funnier to have one of those scare sites (focus really hard on a picture to see the secret, and then a ghost face and loud scream make you need to change your pants) have the scare be the Rick Astley vid. It probably exists already. I mean this is the internet.***

*Doesn't sound right, but you know what I mean.
**To the eyes.
*** I've seen part of the video twice. Once because of this thread, and once because of an XKCD comic, and I didn't know what it was. But neither time was I tricked into it. I do love how that particular rickroll on YouTube has nearly been hit 10 million times.
**** Last time I asked for something like this it was someone doing Guitar Hero and DDR at the same time. And I was subsequently linked to a video of such.

mountainmage · Post by **mountainmage** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:52 am

Seriously, compared to goatse, meatspin, tubgirl, 2girls1cup, hai2u, and lemonparty*, Rick Astley is easy on the eyes, and awesome on the ears!

*for my govt. class, we had to make a political party, so my friend and I called it the Lemon Party. We were pro-gay marriage, and pro-social security.

Frostbite · Post by **Frostbite** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:06 am

I have heard about this 2girls1cup, but never seen it. I hope I never have to.

Lethal Interjection · Post by **Lethal Interjection** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:45 am

I remember Lemon Party, though I never saw it. I've heard of goatse, but I don't think I've seen it. And I also, thanks to some friendly warnings, never saw the 2 girls 1 cup. Don't know of the others.
Tubgirl, on the other hand, I was subjected to multiple times. Mainly because it was generally a pic, and pics are easier to disguise than vids.*
Which is why rickrolling works better than 2g1c and other videos. Because with rickrolling, it is just as funny for the first few seconds of the video. With the others, if you saw it, you probably recognize it, and thus don't get to the nastiness. There is less chance for repeat viewings. Which is why rickrolling's novelty will take much longer to die.

*Almost worse than tubgirl, though, was the SomethingAwful "bandwidth stealing" pic. I don't know if they still have it, but it was of some disgusting, naked, tranny stipper. So if you posted an SA pic here, that is what would come up. Blegh.