Valleywag
April 1, 2008: The day a meme died. Go to YouTube. Click on any of the Featured Videos entries. Every one of them redirects to the same Rick Astley clip. The gag is called "rickrolling," a variant of duckrolling. I'm sure a thousand April Foolsters planned to rickroll you today. But thanks to YouTube, we can all move on.
YouTube kills rickrolling once and for all
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10:08 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Paul Boutin
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Meh. Proof that Google is, in fact, evil.
It had to be done. It's just 28 minutes early for April 1, that's all.
Thats hilarious. I guessed this was going to happen but right on the front page? Awesome.
i heard yahoo is meatspinning peeps.
@andyfox1979: Yeah but they've been doing that to stock holders for years , nothing new.
Rick roll..psh...old
I was half expecting to click this story, only to be rickrolled, myself, but I guess not even Paul would stoop that low.
An actually funny April Fools prank on the Internet. Who could have guessed that was still possible?
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I don't get April's Fools day. All the "jokes" are lame. I would leave comedy to the comedians
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