When you click a link anticipating certain content, but instead find a video of Rick Astley's one hit wonder "Never gonna give you up"
by madddskillz May 23, 2007
Popular forum prank started in 2007. Someone will post a link to a Rick Astley video from the 1980s (Astley is a gay-looking pop singer from the 80s), but disguise it as a link to something else. Victims of the prank are then said to have been "rickrolled".
prankster:
sup all, there's a new Harry Potter trailer! Check it out!
<insert disguised link to Rick Astley video here>
response:
wtf? where's the harry potter trailer?
prankster:
you just got rickrolled!!!11! lol
sup all, there's a new Harry Potter trailer! Check it out!
<insert disguised link to Rick Astley video here>
response:
wtf? where's the harry potter trailer?
prankster:
you just got rickrolled!!!11! lol
by rebel7254 May 20, 2007
Being tricked to watch "Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up" through a post on forums, the video usually leads to a youtube video
OMFG CHECK OUT THIS SKILL - (link video)
My new pvp video is really good, check it out (link video)
Rickrolled.
My new pvp video is really good, check it out (link video)
Rickrolled.
by Moond May 17, 2007
darky091: holy fuk, MILEY CYRUS SEX TAPES!
MileysBoy4evur: WUT TEH JESUS>??
MileysBoy4evur: links or it didnt happen!1
darky091:k hold on
darky091:http://www.thekickback.com/rickroll/rickroll.php
MileysBoy4evur:...
MileysBoy4evur: fucking cunt.
-MileysBoy4evur has left this conversation*
MileysBoy4evur: WUT TEH JESUS>??
MileysBoy4evur: links or it didnt happen!1
darky091:k hold on
darky091:http://www.thekickback.com/rickroll/rickroll.php
MileysBoy4evur:...
MileysBoy4evur: fucking cunt.
-MileysBoy4evur has left this conversation*
by this is the intrawebz August 11, 2008
You are given a link to something (say a video) but when you follow the link, you get something like a Rick Astley music video on Youtube - you've been rickrolled!
I finally found that Britney Spears water tub incident video but when I cliked for it I got 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. What a rickroll...
by Richard Weeks May 18, 2007
Opening a youtube link that is supposed to be something of great interest to a forum community,only to end up to the 80s Rick Astley hit "Never gonna give you up".
Forum thread title"starcraft universe mmo video leak"
Post 1 from the OP"OMG a video leaked from blizz hq,youtube link here"
Hiting the link gets you Rickrolled.
Post 1 from the OP"OMG a video leaked from blizz hq,youtube link here"
Hiting the link gets you Rickrolled.
by cowl May 19, 2007
To be tricked into a Rick Astley song as an internet prank
Mostly Never gonna give you up his most famous song
Mostly Never gonna give you up his most famous song
by Rick roll January 17, 2022