Rick Astley did nothing wrong

Rolling with Rick - 27/10/2022 10:00

Today, I was getting my hair dyed in a salon and suddenly 'Never Gonna Give You Up' started playing in the background. Rickrolling isn't common where I live, so I just took some heavy psychic damage while everyone remained blissfully unaware. FML
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Anderling 32

This is the opposite of a rickroll, though. The entire joke in rickrolling is making someone expect something—a news article, a sewing tutorial, a pirated episode of a tv show—and then subverting their expectations by sending them to that video instead. While if you’re listening to a music station on the radio, music is the entire expectation you have of it, which was met entirely by playing the song.

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RichardPencil 30

Hearing the song doesn't mean you got Rickrolled. You have to be tricked into watching the cheesy video for it to count. Even Rick Astley himself got Rickrolled!

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Anderling 32

This is the opposite of a rickroll, though. The entire joke in rickrolling is making someone expect something—a news article, a sewing tutorial, a pirated episode of a tv show—and then subverting their expectations by sending them to that video instead. While if you’re listening to a music station on the radio, music is the entire expectation you have of it, which was met entirely by playing the song.

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RichardPencil 30

Hearing the song doesn't mean you got Rickrolled. You have to be tricked into watching the cheesy video for it to count. Even Rick Astley himself got Rickrolled!

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