how did ''never gonna give you up'' become a meme?

Origin. "Never Gonna Give You Up" appeared on Astley's 1987 debut album Whenever You Need Somebody. ... Several users helped to post mirrors of the video on different sites, but one user on 4chan had linked to the "Never Gonna Give You Up" video claiming to be the trailer, tricking numerous readers into the bait-and-switch.

well, wikipedia exists?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

@infinite2009 said in #2:
> well, wikipedia exists?
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

I made it simple to read

It was first called a duckroll a gif of a duck dancing then it led to 'accidently' putting ricks video Then it was a rickroll an ongoing internet meme involving to trick someone into clicking rick astley's music video

My guess for origin would be Reddit, one of the oldest (modern) social media platforms

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k?
Because some guy spammed it and now time for RICKROLL

@BKrivi09 said in #6:
> don't scroll below or
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> Because some guy spammed it and now time for RICKROLL
too late. I scrolled all the way down
AND YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR LETTING ME SEEING THIS MESSAGE

@DeadlyGambits said in #7:
> too late. I scrolled all the way down
> AND YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR LETTING ME SEEING THIS MESSAGE
I warned you

Time for (@) shadow1414 to ans in this forum

Pavlovian experiment