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=== Rickrolling ===

"Never Gonna Give You Up" is the subject of an [[Internet meme]] known as "[[rickrolling]]" involving misleading links (commonly shortened URLs) redirecting to the song's music video.<ref>{{cite news |last=Phillips |first=Tom |date=27 March 2008 |title=Astley speaks on 'Rickrolling' web fad |url=http://metro.co.uk/2008/03/27/astley-speaks-on-rickrolling-web-fad-54862/ |url-status=live |access-date=1 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823122842/https://metro.co.uk/2008/03/27/astley-speaks-on-rickrolling-web-fad-54862/ |archive-date=23 August 2020}}</ref> Originally started by users on [[4chan]], by May 2007, the practice had achieved notoriety on the Internet, and it increased in popularity after its use as a 2008 [[April Fools' Day]] joke by various media companies and websites—including YouTube, which rickrolled all of its featured videos on that day—allowing people to easily rickroll their friends' devices.<ref>{{cite web |title=Send funny stuff to your friends' phones! |url=http://www.comedycalls.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812060302/https://www.comedycalls.com/ |archive-date=12 August 2020 |access-date=14 November 2011 |publisher=ComedyCalls.com}}</ref> "I think it's just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it", Astley told the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' in late March 2008, adding: "That's what's brilliant about the Internet."<ref>{{cite news |date=25 March 2008 |title=Web Scout: Spinning through online entertainment and connected culture |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/03/rick-astley-kin.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926194338/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/03/rick-astley-kin.html |archive-date=26 September 2011}}</ref>