rickroll

ˈɹɪkɹəʊl

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#1·1d ago

(originally, Internet slang) To mislead (someone) into following a seemingly innocuous hyperlink, or sometimes a QR code, that leads to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up".

I try not to get rickrolled by sketchy YouTube links, but sometimes you let your guard down.

Origin: [[File:Rick Astley Macy Parade.jpg|thumb|Rick Astley (center) after rickrolling the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (sense 2.1) by unexpectedly appearing on the Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends float and performing his hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up” on November 27, 2008.]] The is a , combining the name of the British pop singer and songwriter Rick Astley (born 1966) with a reference to the duckroll prank on the website 4chan, in which users tricked into clicking on a hyperlink were led to an image of a duck on wheels. The word was (born 1987) who, under the handle “cotter548”, uploade. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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