The Cast of Mad Men 'Sing' Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'
Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" is a timeless classic, no doubt about that. But the song's music video is a bit, shall we say, overexposed.
What To Do If You Become an Internet Meme
A girl who posted pics of her "epic boobs" and inadvertently became an Internet meme lost a lawsuit against the outlet that made her a star. It raises the question: If you become an internet meme, what should you do?
There Is Definitely Not a Rick Astley Music Video Contained Anywhere In This Post
There seriously isn't, you guys. Because Sony took down the original Rick Astley video because of a terms of use violation. Sorry internet, no more Rick Rolls for anybody. Truly a sad day for memes.
Rick Astley is Not Dead Yet
So in the last couple of hours the internet has been buzzing with false rumors that Rick Astley was found dead in a Berlin hotel room. ASSME's Steve Huff thinks this was the work of those dastardly 4Chan people. [ASSME]
Nancy Pelosi, Crazy Internet Cat Lady
The internet took over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, and her Youtube account, and the video evidence (cats! everywhere!) will shock you.
No costume? No problem
Some readers have told us
our Halloween masks were a little too frightening. If you're still scrambling to pull together a costume, here are four options that are more treat than trick. Best of all, you'll be able to get what you need from your own closet. Khaki jacket and black turtleneck Rick Astley Memorize…
MTV Music too little, too late — except for one thing
Click to view Imagine a website where you can view every music video known to man. Yes, that's what MTV.com should have been 10 years ago. Now that MTVmusic.com exists, what is it good for? Oh yes: A whole new way to .
Barack Obama rickrolls John McCain and the Republican National Convention
With its joke-killing April Fool's prank, YouTube
took all the fun out of rickrolling forever. But someone has successfully revived the gag, where you trick someone into clicking on a link to Rick Astley's '80s one-hit wonder, "Never Gonna Give You Up." YouTube users Hugh Atkin and Alastair Corrigall edited together…
Been rickrolled? Maybe you'd like to buy Astley's album
The crooner who's never gonna give you up is having his greatest hits collection rereleased by Sony BMG. Rick Astley: The Ultimate Collection will be out at the end of Aprill, which should make for some fun rickrolling gifts. Grand Theft Auto IV comes out around the same time. I can't be the only one with this idea to…
Rick Astley Making Bank Off YouTube Prank
Rick Astley's greatest hits collection is back in print thanks to the Rickroll phenomenon. When YouTube used the video for their April Fool's Day prank, they linked to an mp3 version of the album on Amazon. And Pepsi bought an ad on the Amazon page for the album. Winners: BMG, Astley, YouTube, Pepsi. Losers: You.
The Inventors Of The Rickroll Respond To The Joke's Popularization
Today all the "featured video" links on YouTube's front page actually link to this video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," and thus the Internet's weakest prank (OMG I sent you a blank music video instead of what you wanted) dies its thousandth death. I checked 4chan, birthplace of the Rickroll, to see how…
Who Rickrolls the Rickrollers?
The New York Times recently investigated the internet phenomenon known as Rickrolling—the fun-for-all-ages game of tricking people into clicking on a link that takes them to a Youtube clip of unlikely pop star Rick Astley singing his greatest hit, "Never Gonna Give You Up"—but they didn't do a very thorough job,…
'80s pop star plans to Rickroll England in eight arena gigs
Yes, Rick Astley, the reclusive British pop star responsible for "Never Gonna Give You Up," has himself been Rickrolled. But it's all been within the last six months, he told the Los Angeles Times. In fact, Astley didn't know about Rickrolling — the act of labeling a link to a YouTube video of his one hit song as…
Rick Astley Most Likeable Singer With Most Annoying Song
Singer Rick Astley finally commented on the stupidest prank on the Internet, Rickrolling. In an L.A. Times interview he says the song is lightweight, the trend is cute, and he's old and uncool. The man is determined to avoid any backlash whatsoever, as if he might be blamed for a million instances of minor annoyance.…
Happy 20th birthday, the Internet's favorite song! [WSJ]
Behind Every Internet Meme Is A Better One You Never Saw
As I've mentioned, LOLcats is just a cuter version of Caturday, an old forum tradition of posting cat pictures with captions in broken English on Saturdays. Caturday itself is just a more formal version of the image macros that have floated around ever since the Internet found pictures. Every popular Internet meme is…
