I still can’t believe he was 20 when he recorded that.
Saw an interview with him last night. They were totally unprepared to film that video, amateur hour. He was young and scared shitless, made up the dance on the spot. Guy doing backflips? “Hey guys! Watch what I can do!” In the video he went. There was a guy yelling out his apartment window for them the shut the fuck up down there. Wardrobe? Nope, those were his own clothes.
Rick Astley was Ren before Ren.
1.5 billion views. Who knew this song would reach such fame decades after its release.
Not nearly as big of a story but you should hear about BER - The Night Begins to Shine..
- Written in 2005 as an assignment to "create an 80s-style song for a music library’s
- In 2014, appeared in an episode of Teen Titans Go for fewer than 10s as a throwaway joke.
- Immediately Hit #23 in Billboard charts
- Inspired TTG to make followup miniseries with covers by bands like Fallout Boy and Ceelo Green
Who knew. Cool.
And almost nobody actually wanted to watch it.
Fool me once shame on you.
Fool me twice and “I just wanted to check how many views it had by now that’s all.”Still up, I checked
You got rickrolled in 2026. Congratulations!
It worked best when YT had banner ads instead of video ads. Today you get Wix rolled for a minute or two before you get to the Rick.
There are people who watch ads on Youtube?
You need more Revanced in your life
Or ublockOrigin
I watch YouTube on a TV, as the good lawd intended, not on a pocket screen.
Then God’s sake, pay the $13 a month. You get YouTube music included, which has damn near everything.
Don’t let your brain get destroyed.
I don’t get YouTube ads. Between my Pihole and Ublock, I see nothing.
It’s not the original though. The OG ended in RHA0.
XcQ is the only one I ever saw…
afaik there were always a handful of different links out there
I didn’t have the url in my browser history, but I just typed it from memory
He gave you up 😞
He let us down.
He ran around, and deserted us!!
He made us cry.
He said goodbye
No he never
No he never
No he never
But, XcQ!
XcQ!
This is next level shit. You made me Rick roll myself
Inconceivable!
Never start a land war in Asia?
Ah, the DataRiker maneuver
you can’t troll me, youtube is currently A/B testing me by banning my IP unless I login which I rarely do.
Just shuffle through a few vpn servers until it works. Always does the trick for me ¯\(ツ)/¯
Edit: same goes for commenting with a lemmy.world account
screw youtube. they are doing the same to me
Me too. Are we sure there even is a B in this A/B test?
A stands for Ass, B stands for Butt and since Asses and Butts are the same thing, you won’t notice the difference.
You can’t troll me, YouTube won’t autoplay on my machine!
No he never
Ha! Excellent try, but I know exactly what you’re doing.
Omg you are right, here check this, its gone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&t=1
See, I know what you’re doing, but imma click it anyway
Were you let down?
4k remaster! Even BIGGER, moar hi-def Rickrolls now!!!
PHWOAAAAAAARRRR!!
The true defence against evil.
Good to see the url XcQ still going strong.
thejokebutworse
The joke but easier.
Does t=1 mean the first second is missing ( where it autostarts from)?
yes
