The online phenomenon of Rickrolling has taken a place in the annals of web history. For those of you unfamiliar with the meme, Rickrolling is essentially a bait and switch where a person presents a web link seemingly relevant to the topic at hand. The link, however, leads to the 80's Rick Astley video, "Never Gonna Give You Up."
Apparently Rickrolling originates from the practice of "duckrolling," where a link would point to a peculiar picture of a duck with wheels. Earlier this year, I had read an article mentioning a poll that revealed that 18 million adults in the US had claimed to have been Rickrolled. Since the phenomenon has started, sporting events, radio and TV have Rickrolled unsuspecting spectators. With the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade being televised to millions of viewers this year, that number has multiplied exponentially, I'm sure.
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