MetaFilter posts tagged with rickroll

Whenever You Need Some Politician

WCityMike — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:51:32 -0800

BarackRoll'd (SYLT). Sometimes, the simple pleasures are best.

He let them down. He ran around and hurt them.

lysistrata — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:07:55 -0800

A few days ago a post appeared on the Something Awful forums noting a curious website called Notes to Mary. The notes are a series of threatening letters from a high schooler named Robert to his crush, Mary. The goons figured out pretty quickly that they had an ARG on their hands and went to work on solving the puzzle. Several other forums picked up on the game. Robert began interacting with players, sending them strange messages and several series of numbers that appeared to be some sort of code. A Flickr pool was started. Players even created an IRC channel to swap clues and information in real time. The Notes to Mary site offered a link to a login. All effort was made to crack the user/pass combo. Finally, several days after the game began, users were finally able to log in. The game was solved. The players would be rewarded for their hard work. Where did the login lead? Here. "Robert" had just pulled off the most epic rickroll in intertubes history. The author of the game had never really intended for it to be a game at all. He just thought it would be funny to put up some creepy notes and see what sort of attention they got. When SA goons decided it must be an ARG he decided to play along. The numerical "codes" he sent out? Random numbers and dates plucked out of the air. Three hours before the solution was to be revealed he set up the redirect to the rickroll video. Some background on how all this came to be is here. You can also view some of the email he received as the "game" progressed. To see the rickroll in action log in to the Notes to Mary site (the question mark in the upper right corner is the login link) with the user name "mary" and the password "dies".

Never gonna let you exceed reasonable character length limits in email and other message systems

ardgedee — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:59:30 -0800

Rickroll everybody! Rickroll everything! rickroll.it!

It doesnt have any kind of weight behind it, as such. But maybe thats the irony of it.

flatluigi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:40:53 -0800

An interview with the artist behind one of the most linked-to videos on the internet.

Yes, I'm going to give you up, let you down, run around and desert you. I'm going to make you cry, say goodbye, and tell a lie and hurt you.

WCityMike — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:49:33 -0800

Finally, eliminate the rickroll from your online life. I know, you're hesitant to click on that because you think that in moments, you'll find yourself on a YouTube page seeing Rick Astley doing the white-boy-80s-groove dance. (Have no idea what a rickroll is? First, consider yourself lucky, and then wiki it, or, more amusingly, Rocketboom.) But thanks to Adblock Plus, subscription filters, and collaborative flagging, you can banish Astley back to the '80s where he belongs.

Never Gonna Make You Cry

amyms — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:12:45 -0800

RickRolling the Baby. [YouTube, 30 secs.] Via.