![]() ![]() This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. INSKEEP: It's never going to say goodbye.Ĭopyright © 2021 NPR. RICK ASTLEY: (Singing) Never going to give you up, never going to let you down. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "NEVER GOING TO GIVE YOU UP") Now, you may think this is an old, old joke, but we're never going to give it up. Rick-rolling, for those who don't yet know, is when you prank people by sending them a link to that song, disguised as something else. ![]() His '80s hit, "Never Going To Give You Up," has passed 1 billion views on YouTube, many of them involuntary. I'm Steve Inskeep with congratulations to Rick Astley. Claire, AKA was RickRolling us.Good morning. The supposed screenshot of the video's description was faked. ![]() Though if you're still having doubts, feel free to check for yourself. There is no NFT agreement to look into, because there is no auction taking place, because that announcement wasn't real. Should the public value of art and culture really take a backseat to private ownership? Thankfully, it turns out that none of this is a real concern in the case of Rickrolling. The full album remains unreleased, even after the government siezed it from Shkreli upon his arrest for securities fraud - despite Ghostface Killah openly insulting Shkreli, and RZA saying that the group wants their music back. But what about Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the Wu-Tang Clan's $2 million, single-copy album that was sold to pharma-bro death-profiteer and physical embodiment of online trolldom Martin Shkreli? My Goons Will Take You Out!! | TMZ In the case of "Charlie Bit My Finger," the video remains available to the public more than two weeks after the auction closed - though the new owner may yet choose to delete it. Martin Shkreli - Shut Your Mouth Ghostface Killah. Would the music video itself be scrubbed from the Internet - including the lo-res 2007 "RickRoll'd" upload - or just Rick Astley's official version? Without knowing the details of the NFT agreement, it's hard to say exactly what would happen to the future of Rickrolling if such an auction went through. It was as if the whoopee cushion had been discontinued, and the fart noise itself was about to become some greedy weirdo's private intellectual property - if you wanted to stick your hand in your armpit, or press your palms against your mouth, you would have to pay royalties to some random dude who made $100 million investing in Dogecoin. It seemed like the frenzied rush to take advantage of the NFT hype before it dies down had claimed another piece of cultural history. Soon the tweet was being shared and liked by thousands of others, and spreading across Twitter, with users expressing their dismay. I didn’t believe it at first so I had to check for myself … - Justin Whang □ Whang □) Will rickrolling be the next victim of the NFT boom? At the very least, the fact that the official Rick Astley-approved upload of the video has accumulated nearly a billion views since 2009 must put it right up there with whoopee cushions as among the most popular pranks of all time.īut now there are mumblings of this iconic piece of shared culture being scrubbed from our shared Internet. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Video) The fact that the practice has survived nearly as long as YouTube has existed makes it a truly rare surviving specimen of modern culture - the Internet's answer to Beowulf, or the cave paintings at Lascaux. It has remained so popular through the years that in 2020 Astley's distinctive "dance moves" were added as an emote in Fortnite. ![]() While the 2000s were a time of chaotic link misdirects - with malicious practitioners sending people to some of the more vile NSFW shock sites of the early Internet - but the only example with real staying power is the wholesome version that takes you to Rick Astley's cornball singing and dancing. What makes it a Rickroll is that the link actually directs gullible users to the music video for Rick Astley's 1987 classic "Never Gonna Give You Up." The now classic prank involves posting a link that promises to deliver something truly exciting - the first known instance was posted to 4chan's videogame board in 2007, with the claim that it led to a sneak peak of Grand Theft Auto IV. But that's exactly what has happened with Rickrolling. ![]()
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