From then on, whenever someone links the video to anyone, he will rickroll in his grave

I click the link to listen to the song intentionally. It's a great song!

I hope they play it on tv.

XcQ link stays blue

His tombstone had better have a QR code on it.

If Rick Astley dies on an April 1st Noone will believe it.

If it's not engraved, I promise you that someone's going to glue a laminated version to it.

This suggests that one day, Rick Astley would give us up. I've been personally reassured that he would never do that.

And somebody will then rickroll !aber_bitte_laminiert@feddit.org

But I click on rickrolls on purpose. Then I dance around the house for 3:35. Damn that's a really good pop song. Still not tired of it.

His headstone better have the YouTube link carved in the stone

"Rick Ashley: He never let us down. We never deserted him. dQw4w9WgXcQ"

They'll have to protect it from vandalism with protective glass or something, and someone will rick-roll the world with the news headline for it.

i just look for the w4w.

"XcQ, link stays blue" better be on there somewhere

Everyone who got Rick rolled will click on it. The view number will double from 1.5 billion currently to +3 billion views and YouTube will crash. All will celebrate the annual rick roll day henceforth, causing Never gonna give you up to become the most played song of all time ever with hundreds of billions of views in the year 2100. Trust me, never gonna lie.

!rickrolltactics@lemmy.world will be having a field day, when that happens.

EDIT: The animation is hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux0YNqhaw0I

(Link in the open to foster trust lol)

I know! It's the very best kind of prank... it's a gift. :D

God damn it

i will laminate it to the glass!

or just packing tape it that's good enough!

I absolutely will click that headline. Either it's a sad day and a hero has left us, or I get to watch one of my favorite videos again!

Oh! So there is a comminity for this!

I think it's wild (and honestly I love it) that Rick Astley went from being this massive pop star to entirely forgotten to punchline and now he's kind of a beloved guy. What a rollercoaster of a fucking life.

There aren't many realistic scenarios where this could be true, so I'm going to have to spray you in the face with a water mister for being bad because you should feel bad for posting a completely untrue lie.

My fiance got me this as a gift a while back, and I just kinda sat there, starting at it in wordless disbelief. She thought it was fucking hilarious.

One important tip from that community to be more successful:

Do not use the "original" link, but link a YouTube short. Why?

1. It's not the known link ("XcQ")
2. Shorts do autoplay
3. Shorts are ad free
4. Shorts are optimized for mobile and usually start playing quickly

Where as the original link will probably just dump you to 1-3 pre roll ads and the rickroll is only seeing the title and closing the tab/app...