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A Hoax Mourning the Supposed End of the Rick Roll Era
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A Hoax Mourning the Supposed End of the Rick Roll Era

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A meme featuring a screenshot of the YouTube page for Rick Astley's song 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. The top of the image has a caption in bold, black text: 'YOTUBE FINALLY TOOK IT DOWN AFTER 10 YEARS RIP RICK ROLLS 😭'. The YouTube screenshot itself shows the video player area displaying an error message: 'Video unavailable. This video has been removed by the user.' However, below this error, the video's title, 'Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Video)', hashtags, and impressive stats (662M views, 4.9M likes) are clearly visible. This meme is a meta-joke, a hoax pretending that the internet's most enduring prank, the 'Rick Roll,' has come to an end. The humor comes from the false sense of finality and the dramatic mourning for a meme that is, in reality, still very much alive. For anyone who has been on the internet for more than a few years, the Rick Roll is a foundational piece of digital culture, a simple yet effective bait-and-switch prank that has become a shared historical touchstone for developers and tech enthusiasts alike

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Claiming the Rick Roll video is down is the ultimate 404 error: 'Meme Not Found.' Of course, the link is actually a 302 redirect to our collective nostalgia
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Claiming the Rick Roll video is down is the ultimate 404 error: 'Meme Not Found.' Of course, the link is actually a 302 redirect to our collective nostalgia

  2. Anonymous

    Memo to the SREs: our health-check URL was the Rickroll for a decade - YouTube just 404’d it, the cluster marked itself dead, and it turns out “never gonna give you up” wasn’t a legally binding SLA

  3. Anonymous

    After decades of null pointer exceptions, race conditions, and production outages, the one thing that truly never gave us up was Rick Astley - making him more reliable than our CI/CD pipeline and with better uptime than AWS us-east-1

  4. Anonymous

    The day YouTube removes the rickroll video is the day we'll finally achieve 100% test coverage, eliminate all technical debt, and have stakeholders who understand why 'just a small change' isn't actually small. In other words: never gonna happen. This video has survived more platform migrations, API deprecations, and corporate restructurings than most legacy codebases - it's basically the COBOL of internet culture, immortal and unexpectedly critical to infrastructure we didn't know depended on it

  5. Anonymous

    Turns out our most reliable chaos test had a single point of failure: a hardcoded YouTube rickroll with zero SLA - opening an RFC to migrate pranks for backward compatibility

  6. Anonymous

    The canonical rickroll finally 404’d; turns out “never gonna give you up” wasn’t in the SLA - mirror your memes like you mirror your artifacts

  7. Anonymous

    Rickroll API finally returns 410 Gone after 662M 200 OKs - no graceful migration docs provided

  8. Deleted Account 2y

    Nah

  9. @Obzzzerver 2y

    on no, for real.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

    1. @foxynhoz 2y

      why

    2. @foxynhoz 2y

      why did i clicked it

      1. @Obzzzerver 2y

        gotcha🥥

        1. @foxynhoz 2y

          bro set up a box and a stick trap and i felt for it

          1. dev_meme 2y

            You’re right! 😈 Alongside with deletion of a few comments spoiling the truth - trap has been setted up

    3. @qtsmolcat 2y

      Everyone getting mad because they got rock rolled while I'm just jamming out

  10. @giantplaceholder 2y

    reverse rickroll at its finest

  11. Deleted Account 2y

    Ебать, и правда!

    1. dev_meme 2y

      Please, follow the rules of the chat, we are keeping it English-only community 🥰

      1. Deleted Account 2y

        My bad.

      2. @Username65448 2y

        Why?

        1. dev_meme 2y

          Wdym

  12. @eddsakey 2y

    This looks sus, cause last time I saw this video got 1B views, but how it can get 1B => 662M?

    1. @paul_thunder 2y

      4 y.o. meme

      1. @eddsakey 2y

        Then I saw this video 4 years ago

  13. @mpolovnev 2y

    It works for me now. Was it a mistake? Or is it blocked in a few countries?

  14. @mpolovnev 2y

    Got it! This is the purest rickroll ever!

  15. @unknwnOlg 2y

    World biggest Rick Roll

  16. dev_meme 2y

    Precisely

  17. @Username65448 2y

    What?

    1. @qtsmolcat 2y

      Who

      1. @Username65448 2y

        Yes

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