TikTokers have adapted the age-old internet trend of “RickRolling” to maximize the joke for the platform. Rickrolling began in the early 2000s on 4chan when a link that was supposed to send users to a ...

The official music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" has hit a billion views on YouTube thanks to the viral Internet phenomenon of rickrolling. Astley's 1987 song hit YouTube on ...

In 1987, when Rick Astley filmed the video for his hit song Never Gonna Give You Up, he had no idea it would eventually become one of the most viewed videos of all time. By 2016, the video had been ...

Rick Astley, the artist most famous for the 1987 hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" and infamous for its internet popularity in the form of Rickrolling, has a new album out today. He retired in 1993, but ...

Rickrolling is Classic Internet, a universal method of dismantling an echo chamber, dispersing a too-serious debate, trolling, trolling trolls and smiting oft-repeated clickbait. But according to a ...

To the list of inexplicable web phenomena that spring up—only to disappear just as quickly—that includes severely grammar-impaired felines and some truly awful doings involving two girls and one cup, ...

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Rick Astley’s spent this early-October afternoon enjoying the unusually warm weather, doing “bits and bobs,” playing with his new guitar pedal — “geeky-boring” stuff — casually denying that he’s one ...

He knows his music – one song in particular – is the backdrop for many a viral video, and even if an undercurrent of mockery exists, at least people are still listening. Because Astley, 56, is so ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

For weeks, I’ve seen occasional mention of the Nats “Rickrolling” fans before home games, with a newish video that explains proper ballpark etiquette. (“Rickrolling,” if you really don’t know, is ...