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 ...

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 ...

Rickrolling is a stately, venerated tradition. It’s an artifact of simpler times, when a solid internet meme could consist of simply tricking someone into accidentally opening up a video of a tidily ...

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shocked the crowd at a youth climate summit over the weekend when she revitalized a popular internet meme — Rickrolling. Rickrolling was a popular internet ...

YouTube has granted singer Rick Astley a big comeback. Over the past year or so, the singer’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” has been the subject of an internet joke: when internet users click on ...

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, ...

The well tread internet joke that Gawker once called the web equivalent of '80s bait "...NOT" should need no explanation by now. But if your mouse has had a sheltered existence, you can find a text ...

Some trends and language patterns are so deeply embedded in the language and culture of the internet that even the most advanced language models struggle to fully extract or contextualize them. Humor, ...

Are you sitting down? I have some horrible news for you. YouTube has removed the original “Rickrolling” video from its site due to a terms-of-use violation. Though there are other avenues in which to ...