Rickroll: A bait and switch gag in which the perpetrator promises a video/link of something awesome/relevant, and instead redirects to a video of Rick Astley's 1987 song Never Gonna Give You Up.
Pop Culture Immersion Index: 6 out of 10
Here's an example.
Congratulations! Your Rickroll cherry has been popped.
Popped hard
Unlike many washed-up celebrities whose stagnant careers were revived by an internet meme, Astley loved his restored fame, and even RickRolled the whole freakin' world when he showed up at the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Now, the bait and switch is nothing new
Trojan Horse: The original Rickroll
Being Rickrolled proves to be frustrating, as victims are generally expecting something good, not a mediocre 80s song detailing the vastness of Rick Astley's chivalry. Or laziness. It's sort of hard to tell.
Doing nothing doesn't bring home the bacon
This is the first, but definitely not last meme included in the dictionary. Because as everyone knows, on the internet, it's not who you know/blow that's important, it's how many people make terrible YouTube responses based on you.
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