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(3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)On April 1, 2008 (April Fools’ Day) and the following weeks, numerous seemingly uncoordinated instances of rickrolling appeared on the internet, and news media. All of the featured videos on YouTube’s front page hyperlinked to the Rickroll. The prank began with international YouTube portals before appearing on the main site.[21]
Social blog Web site LiveJournal announced on the same day that they would be adding a new member to their Advisory Board, linking members to the journal “rickastley”, which contains a Rickroll.[22]
The website Fark featured a link to a video claiming to be a blooper reel for the Muppets but instead linked to a video of Beaker performing Rick Astley’s song (to a video of him originally performing “Feelings” on The Muppet Show).[23] Other social bookmarking sites such as Digg[24] and Reddit[25] subsequently joined in linking the video.
The online Web store ThinkGeek advertised on their front page a Betamax to HD DVD converter device. In the product page a demonstration video was linked which was, in actuality, a rickroll.[26]
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In connection with the online meme, “Never Gonna Give You Up” was played and performed at some of the Project Chanology February 2008 protests against the Church of Scientology.[8][9] At February 10, 2008 protests in New York City, Washington, D.C., London, and Seattle, protesters played the song through boomboxes and shouted the phrase “Never gonna let you down!”, in what The Guardian called “a live rick-rolling of the Church of Scientology”.[6] In response to a Web site created by Scientologists showing an anti-Anonymous video, Project Chanology participants created a website with a similar domain name with a video displaying the music video to “Never Gonna Give You Up.” [6]
