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@rbsaitama

26 күн бұрын

Ok

@Sarp1sthebest

26 күн бұрын

epic

@itisliamhfjone22

26 күн бұрын

i hate sleep though...

@saturnalis8813

26 күн бұрын

I thought I was gonna get rick rolled

@ExploringNew1

26 күн бұрын

You look like dream

I always find it funny how Rick Astley wrote both "Never Gonna Give You Up" AND "Giving Up on Love."

@AzraelStoneMusic

26 күн бұрын

That’s called range

@Novabom_

26 күн бұрын

He can't make up his mind i guess.

@user-id9ou2np8g

26 күн бұрын

Comparable to when Nestle owned Jenny Craig. Hit both sides of the market!

@jolo3118

26 күн бұрын

Something for everyone. Lol

@BleachDemon707

26 күн бұрын

I always find it funny when checkmarks think their opinions count 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙄

The tradition back in the day was that if you got rickrolled, especially by a friend who was there to see it happen, you had to listen to the entire song.

@Valsilene

26 күн бұрын

Me, pretending I’m a traditionalist, when I just wanna jam to Never Gonna Give You Up

@magnesiafrost1863

26 күн бұрын

Well, there're worse things, than having to listen to the entire song 🎶💃

@Crocogator

26 күн бұрын

@@magnesiafrost1863 never gonna give you **AAAAAHHH**

@Crocogator

26 күн бұрын

@@Valsilene Have you heard his more recent covers? Dude's still got it

@lainiwakura1776

25 күн бұрын

@@magnesiafrost1863 Than listening to a song I actually like.

Yes. I would love a whole decadeology deep-dive into 1980's culture. Maybe other decades as well like the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's 70's, 90's, 2000's, and 2010's. Make it a series. Maybe even just call it "Decade-ology".

@Azurethewolf168

26 күн бұрын

I don’t think we’re past the 2010s enough to recognize it as a separate thing from our current era. Since it’s just barely ended. Like the 2000s, we need another decade to really get how it’s so different and distinct as a lot of the stuff has carried over to today whereas very few of the stuff from the 2000s really does now. It would be like telling a person in 1990 to give an explanation of how the 80s were distinct.

@lainiwakura1776

25 күн бұрын

@@Azurethewolf168 >barely ended >it's the year 2024 okay

@Azurethewolf168

25 күн бұрын

@@lainiwakura1776 dude it’s only been like 5 years

@they_call_me_Koishi

24 күн бұрын

Reminded me that Russian KZreadr sndk has its own series where he talks about culture of different years. He already made videos on years 2000-2009 and recently also made video on 1990.

@OmegaRejectz

20 күн бұрын

@@lainiwakura1776how is not even half a decade a long time?

I literally have a script to Rick roll me when I open my laptop bc I like the song

@itisliamhfjone22

26 күн бұрын

🔥

@onemintyrose

26 күн бұрын

yooo that's actually really cool!

@Novabom_

26 күн бұрын

Yoo can I get that script.

@lemoneer7474

26 күн бұрын

And it also serves to Rick roll anyone who opens your laptop too :D

@polygonnnn

26 күн бұрын

stop the cap

"It is 80 degrees" Meanwhile I, an european: HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE

@Azurethewolf168

26 күн бұрын

Ah, Europeans!

@lvl90dru1d

26 күн бұрын

he's burning alive

@wandahoi_.

25 күн бұрын

just wait till you hear about Southeast Asians

@Kaytayye

25 күн бұрын

oh god yes. I had an American friend who told me the other day it was 68*C and i was like "uh.. wtf?"

*I love when NationSquid said "It's rickrollin' time!" and rickrolled all over the internet.*

@I-absolveyouofyoursins

26 күн бұрын

I love when Sonic The Weredog said "it's werehogin time" and werehoged all over the place

@ihaveagoddamnplanarthur

25 күн бұрын

i hate the internet

Rick Rolling is a meme that will never give us up.

@imcringeanditstoolateforme4347

26 күн бұрын

Or let us down.

@x-rex7236

26 күн бұрын

It is culture, it is everything we pass threw. Expose someone to anger long enough, they learn how to hate

@BlahajOfficaI

26 күн бұрын

@@imcringeanditstoolateforme4347Or run around and desert us

@tommarnt

25 күн бұрын

Never gonna make us cry, never will gonna say goodbye

@EleanorQuestionMark

18 күн бұрын

@@tommarnt orr tell a lie and hurt us

Can’t believe he called the 80s “gay but not the right gay.”

@aelahn

21 күн бұрын

he was on spot though...I always noticed the same

@SnugWugs137

19 күн бұрын

@@aelahn that's homophobic.

@Polie10

13 күн бұрын

​@@SnugWugs137THATZ OFFENSIVE!1!!11!1!1

i'm always sad that ads kinda took this away from us because part of the charm was that the song would start immediately after u click the link. now, if u click the link and u dont have adblock, u go through 30 seconds of ads first and it ruins the element of surprise.

@Brick_One_A_Lego_Story

24 күн бұрын

It's even worse. Messenger (I don't know about other apps) shows the title and picture of the video below the link so you can't make any pranks :(

Always remember back to that time KZread asked for Cute Puppy videos and got Rick Rolled by some legend...

KZread on April 1st 2008 be like : "Hello ladies and gentlemen I am here to change the future"

Rick Astley credits this meme for reviving his career and still keeping him relevant all these years later. He's also one of the nicest and most down to earth (and well aging!) celebrities in the business.

I still can't believe nearly all of Britain got rickrolled 2024 new years eve. It was such a shock when Rick Astley started singing the song live on tele almost immediately after the countdown was over :,)

@rosaline2581

26 күн бұрын

Fr

@rosaline2581

26 күн бұрын

I saw it

I just commented on something else about this, and you said my exact sentiments: the appeal of the Rick Roll is that it's completely innocent fun. Harmless mischief. Everyone involved gets to enjoy it.

@Maria_745

26 күн бұрын

Yeah it's great because it's not making fun of him or the song which most people seem to actually like lol

@KarlaO711

13 күн бұрын

@@Maria_745 The best part of it is, that Rick Astley liked it too, that his song went that way :D That makes this whole story the fun about it etc. even better!

I've always said that at the very least, Never Gonna Give You Up is catchy enough to not be annoying.

The way he says "AHH ghostface" is just... I dunno I find it really funny.

@harruri

26 күн бұрын

I get what u meannn

@aelahn

21 күн бұрын

it's pretty irritating to me

When I make presentations for school, I always put a RickRoll at the last slide

GIVE ME 1980S CULTURE

That Family Guy timeline being so close to the original RickRoll video really threw me for a loop. I could *swear* that they did it months or even a few years after RickRolling was already an established thing. I'd always assumed it was in response to the popularity, but given the timeframe it seems as though it just ended up being insanely coincidental in their favor. There's no way they would have managed to work it in so quickly no matter how simple and lazy the animation is.

rickrolling is so influential i even learned how to play the song on my clarinet. :)

Saying that we're as far away from the invention of rickrolling as rickrolling itself is from Never Gonna Give You Up made me age like 100 years in a second

@elanv

18 күн бұрын

Yeah, that really hurts.

Rickrolling actually didn't work in Germany for some time because a local music licensing company, GEMA, and KZread took until 2016 to settle their dispute over music licensing fees. This actually made Germany the country with the most blocked KZread videos on Earth for a while, with 61% of the top 1,000 most popular videos unavailable because they contained music which GEMA held licences for. It was, however, very easy to circumvent this restriction with browser extensions.

@Leofwine

26 күн бұрын

I remember that, and it still makes my blood boil.

@magnesiafrost1863

26 күн бұрын

I somehow forgot this :)

@MickeyMousePark

25 күн бұрын

very interesting...

The fact that people have been Rick Rolled over 1.5 billion times gives me hope

Surprised you didn't mention when talking abou it leaking into real world culture how, the post-credits scene of Disney's Wreck it Ralph 2; there's supposedly a preview scene for Frozen 2.... It's actually Ralph taking Rick's place in the music video of Never Gonna Give You Up. Or how about when Apple's subtly Rick Roll'd people with the release of the 1st Gen Apple Watch? There was a screenshot of the circular "contacts page" button you'd get to pressing the side button. The initials of the contacts were "NE", "VE", "RG", "ON", "NA", "GI", "VE", "YU", and "UP",

@nousername8818

26 күн бұрын

And how apple Rick Roll'd people in that one episode of Ted Lasso

"F-15 location in GTA IV" was the only time it got me. And it was a feeling of "MOTHER FU- yeah well played..."

I remember this website where you can fake a News article and it just leads you to Never gonna give you up 😂

The fact that we're as far away from the RickRoll than people were to the actual release of the song back then hits so hard and makes me realize how weird it must've been for people who grew up in the 80's to see Rickroll become a thing.

In my school, I like to slide my phone under the toilet stall to show the person next to me and just rickroll them

I think the most important thing people tend to forget is that it was easy to Rickroll people as back then posting a link wouldn't give a preview or thumbnail or anything, so unless you memorized the exact url for the video you wouldn't know what it was besides being a youtube video. It also being harmless also likely served as a sort of anti-screamer/shock content.

It think what makes *Rick Rolling* so beloved it’s that is a seriously good prank, imagine discovering this amazing song thanks to a joke. Many people discovered *Rick Astley* this way.

this dude's personality is so fun if he Rick Rolled me id just laugh with him

I got here in under an hour. That’s how much I like this guy’s work.

I remember the first time I got rick rolled, I completely did not understand it

I can't believe he made a whole video just to Rick roll us

Well, once in school a teacher wanted to play a song and he assured us it wasn't a rickroll in advance, and it started with that exact same drum intro as Never Gonna Give YouUp, but after that was completely different. But everyone laughed and it felt like being rickrolled. And I just immediately do a palmface when I hear the first sounds of the rickroll XD

The turtleneck and hair is giving Get Back. Love it 👌🏻 nationsquid in his McBeardy era

NS, please do the 80s culture video you mentioned. Thank you for the great video.

0:56 so i keep on waiting, waiting, waiting for half-life 3, so i keep on waiting, waiting, waiting for half-life 3 (something like waiting for a world to change, but i wait for half-life 3)

"I'm gonna meet Naomi Watts" >Restraining order from Naomi Watts Gold

I love the rickroll. I'm a mischievous person, but I hate upsetting people, and so many pranks seem cruel and mean. This one is just harmless, but slightly annoying.

surprised you hadn't done this earlier, damn. great video as always.

To me at least, the funny part is that it's THE rickroll. Not the fact that there's a silly song, but THE song. I wonder how it felt for people to get a rickroll for the first ever time

Fun fact: Rick Astley was 21 years old when the song was first released! Yet he looked around sixteen? I hope Joseph Kucan has his eyes on Rick...

0:38 No, you haven't gotten me, I found exactly what I was searching for Also, great video

My husband and I rick-rolled everyone at our wedding right after our ceremony. 🎉

i would watch a 1980s video 👍

Getting Rick Rolled in the real world is like getting shittymorph’d on Reddit.

As someone who was a kid back when the song first came out and then remember when KZread pulled their April Fool's prank to make a bunch of their videos into Rickrolls, this was such an interesting video!!! Love the nostalgia!!

Being born in the 1980s and listening to this song frequently throughout my childhood in the early 90's, I genuinely enjoy it. Together Forever is better though.

I was talking with this guy I liked on MSN Messenger back in 2007-2008 and he sent me some link which turned out to be my first Rickroll. I thought he was confessing his love to me. This song will forever be a banger though, I’m still not tired of it.

Blink 182 is my favorite band of all time, and when they first reunited back in like 2011, fans of the band were trying to find a leak of the first new song...I found what I thought was a link to the unreleased song, but alas, that was the one and only time I ever got Rick Rolled. Even though it only happened to me once, it's still an anecdote worth telling lol

This is the most Rick rolled i have gotten this reminds me of 2019 😢

Now I wanna see a video on the lost SM64 screamer 👀

"how many times did you get rickrolled today?" me: yes.

Cotter548 basically got rick astley out of retirement

It started with the 'duck roll' word substitution gag on /b/... ... P.S., 9gag stole our memes.

Rickroll is such a random joke that gives complete randomness, but it's still funny for a reason haha. Great video tho, damn you got me rickroll'd ;D

Yes to deep dive into 80s culture!

Like to vote for a nation squid deep dive into 1980’s culture!

Okay the last one actually got me, well played

I knew it was coming but the screaming jumpscare just made me flinch

@Neutral_Mario

25 күн бұрын

At where?

7:28 "... the first half of the third half..." I presume he meant first and last *third*. I had to double back and check if I heard that right. Also, damn you for using the ol' Scary Maze Game girl, that still just gets me a decade passed lol

A lot of people born after the song came out, like myself, likely only know the song from rickroll which is wild. I mean unless they were fans of Rick Astley

@rcoder-dev

26 күн бұрын

I was born in 98. Surprisingly I only got Rickrolled once, then ending up liking the song during the early days of the pandemic, including other Rick Astley songs (old and new). I still check Rick's channel from time to time if there's new songs.

@leet7489

25 күн бұрын

@@rcoder-dev I was born a year before the song came out so technically I was around but I was a baby lol. I dont think it counts haha. I think I heard the song on Family Guy before rickroll but I could be wrong. I def remember when the prank started getting popular. I remember the scream ones more so. people would send email chains

13:35 he actually got me here

My guy saying "rick ROLL" like a high school student trying to understand iambic pentameter. 😂

“you violated your restraining order” 0:57

Years ago, I had a CD of Rick Astley's greatest hits. "Never Gonna Give You Up" was, of course, in the tracklist, along with other boppin' tracks, like "It Would Take a Strong Strong Man", "Giving Up on Love", and "Hopelessly".

I was definately Rick-Rolled before I knew what KZread was.

I quite like rick astley's never gonna give you up, and I've always wanted to know how this song/music video in particular got to be 'the one' to prank people with.

Never forget when the LEGO Batman Movie Rickrolled us all in the good year of our Lord 2017

On FOX's 9-1-1: Lonestar in 2022 or 2023, the 911 dispatcher got rickrolled when she made a call

My high school sold singing telegrams for valentines day and someone put this song on the list of songs one could buy (which I hope someone got fired over) and someone bought a singing telegram of this song for every teacher in the school. Effectively rick rolling the entire school. We never found out who did it and they better hope I never do

I was very surprised with your restraint from showing footage of the Beatles when talking about the 60s lol

@Neutral_Mario

25 күн бұрын

Lol

There def was a punishment aspect to some versions of it. While it started off as a harmless video link. People started making rickroll links that as well as playing the song hijacked your browser and made popups open that flashed around the screen. Often needing you to go to task manager and end task the browser. This was back in the internet explorer days afterall. I was a firefox user at the time and can remember actually having a plugin called "rick alert" or something that detected the links and would block them from opening.

3:38 THE SPONSOR!!! IT'S OVER

I wonder if the fact that the song is very PG has anything to do with the success of RickRoll. Maybe it had an effect on more people because parents had no reason to protect their kids from it.

3:17 it's upside down lol Edit: yes please 1980s video

Ah, it has been a long time since NationSquid grace us with a good ol' screamer. Now **that** is what I call a blast from internet history.

I imagine it must be pretty humbling as an artist to see one of your creations (a debut song, no less) be a LOT bigger than what you initially thought. Rick Astley is such a good sport for embracing the internet culture and just laughing along with us.

It works because the song is a certified banger, and Rick Astley has a voice that's as smooth as Jello.

7:27 the third half?

2:16 Yes, I do because I am sick rn and I can't stand up 😭

Should have opened with the rickroll, and called the video "A history of trolling"

Absolutely we want a video on 1980s culture!

i wanna know teh culture of 1980s

Okay, you got me good with that last rickroll 😂

We all voluntarily Rick rolled ourselves watching this 😂 we knew what we were doing

I was born in the 80s and I think it's still the most interesting decade for entertainment. To me the 60s are ancient history, the 70s feel really weird and confusing, the 90s are nihilistic (not in a bad way though), and the 2000s are depressing. It would be interesting if others my age feel the same, I have no idea.

Mandela Effect: For me it always was Rick Ashley, not Rick Astley

tbh I could probably whip up an anti-Rick Chrome extension pretty quickly, but the hacking frenzy that would ensue in response might put me at risk professionally.

@Dman25

26 күн бұрын

Hear me out, what if instead, you made an only Rick chrome extension? Perfect for catching yourself off guard whenever you try to watch a KZread video lol. Or maybe it just has a random chance on changing any link you click into a Rick roll without warning. Installing that on someone’s computer would make for a pretty effective prank lol

@andythedishwasher1117

25 күн бұрын

@@Dman25 I like the way you think. Watch out, office on Monday.

0:35 I unplugged my monitor

Just saying, this should have been uploaded on April fools May fools

"It is just a prank, brother."

"You violated your restraining order?"

Memes aside, IMO "Never gonna give you up" is one of the greatest pop songs ever created.

I remember downloading an NSFW video waaaay back in 2009 and get Rick roll'd on the good part.

That was plain good fun! 😁🌎❤️🕺🏻🐶

5:03 I better not leave a comment then...

@nationsquid

25 күн бұрын

Too late!

When posting a YT link to Facebook, you used to be able to edit/control the thumbnail shown and the caption. I did this once: posted a rickrool and was able to trick everybody into thinking it was something else. But, alas, you can no longer do this.