Outstanding move
meta rick’n’roll. well played sir.
Nice try nerd, I’ve been duckrolled into oblivion
It is hard to believe. I’m not going to believe you. I’m not falling for that trick.
Yes, never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down…
This thread did a great job showing which lemmy instance users can’t be taken seriously lol.
What? Why?
We all thought we were safe and then OP pulled one off again.
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.
Ren as in Kylo, MC, or “& Stimpy”?
Ren Gill.
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
And on that thread, Subways of your Mind by FEX. A group of West German friends who recorded music together but were never picked up had a recording of their song on the radio from the 80s become “The most mysterious song on the internet” which led to them getting back together and making new music in the 2020s.
Who knew. Cool.
Fallout Boy (or, specifically, Patrick Stump) also does the theme song for “Spidey and His Amazing Friends” and “Hot Wheels: Let’s Race!”
And almost nobody actually wanted to watch it.
I didn’t have the url in my browser history, but I just typed it from memory
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
It’s not the original though. The OG ended in RHA0.
XcQ is the only one I ever saw…
Yep.
XcQ - Link stays blue
afaik there were always a handful of different links out there
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
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.
Id rather never listen to music again than pay for that lmao
I don’t get YouTube ads. Between my Pihole and Ublock, I see nothing.
Good, just check it in on your health. Those things are invasive. Not even sure I trust a person that listens to ads on YouTube.
Or ublockOrigin
Or set your VPN to a country where they don’t monetise videos (Albania’s one)
Lol
