Rickrolling (ID: 584)
Sector:
Media: New Media
Job Title:
Internet Phenomenon
Country:
United Kingdom
Total Nominations:
411
Nominations Today:
2
SOS (redemption votes):
7
SOS Today:
0
Global KFO Rank:
=169
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KFO Profile
Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song Never Gonna Give You Up. The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link that he or she claims is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been Rickrolled (also spelled Rickroll'd).
This profile uses content from Wikipedia. The original article on Rickrolling can be viewed here. The text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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