Comment by llamageddon01 on 23/10/2021 at 22:43 UTC*

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Rickroll

Firstly, let me assure you that none of the links in this entry are Rickrolls in themselves; I have designated this a safe space because, quite frankly, Rickrolling you here would be too easy and a good Rickroll should never be predictable. However, I can’t answer for any links in the comments of any of the Reddit posts linked here, so be warned :)

This is the internet. If you don’t know what a Rickroll is by now[1], just where have you been? Catch up with an illustrated history here[2]. No doubt helped by this phenomenon, in 2021, *Never Gonna Give You Up* reached a total of 1 Billion views[3] on YouTube. Rickrolls have some particular significance when it comes to Reddit, as you will see.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

2: https://www.smoothradio.com/news/music/rick-roll-meme-link-video-rick-astley/

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/oj1wj4/rick_astley_never_gonna_give_you_up_pop_today/

**Rick Astley on Reddit**

Rick Astley is an active Redditor, and his latest posts and comments can be found at u/ReallyRickAstley. Notable posts include:

Rick Astley: Sith Lord[4].
Rick rekt a Redditor in 2016[5] to everyone’s delight.
Reddit’s most upvoted post of 2020 was a picture he posted from 1989[6], which itself became the number one of all the…

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/qhkm42/backstage_having_a_bit_of_fun_with_our_lighting/

5: https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/56cdgm/ama_im_really_rick_astley_i_swear_and_to/

6: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_few_funny_memories_during_lockdown/

**Notable Rickrolls on Reddit**

u/theMalleableDuck famously Rickrolls Rick Astley himself[7] and was subsequently featured in an article in *Time* magazine[8].
Reddit’s finest Rickroll[9].
The inventor of the Rickroll does an IAmA[10].
Learn the secrets of a great Rickroll[11].
Get Rickrolled by an unlikely combination[12] in a firm favourite of the whole genre.
People who were watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2008 got a surprise they'll never forget[13].

Keep up with the latest Redditing about Rick Astley at: https://www.reddit.com/t/rick_astley/[14].

7: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_few_funny_memories_during_lockdown/fv505w1/

8: https://web.archive.org/web/20220324022845/https://time.com/5855001/rick-roll-rick-astley/

9: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/bpevz/my_family_recently_found_two_songs_on_sheet_music/c0nx2uc

10: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mx53y/i_am_youtube_user_cotter548_aka_the_inventor_of/

11: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnUselessTalents/comments/5a9y88/how_to_rickroll_someone_on_reddit/

12: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/ptp3j8/what_a_beautiful_tune_wait_a_second/

13: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/svbi9p/people_who_were_watching_the_macys_thanksgiving/

14: https://www.reddit.com/t/rick_astley/

Finally, as you might know by now, Reddit loves debating logical fallacies and paradoxes[15] so let me introduce you to the “Astley Paradox”[16]. Formulated in 2020, it goes like this: If you ask Rick Astley for a DVD of the movie *Up*, he won't give it to you because he's never gonna give you Up. However, by not giving you Up like you asked, he's letting you down - something else he said he’d never do. Later that year, one intrepid Redditor worked out a solution[17] to this paradox in the unlikeliest of subreddits for this: r/conspiracytheories.

15: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hg1uax/what_is_your_favorite_paradox/

16: https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/comments/hg9ryx/astley_paradox/

17: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracytheories/comments/iuhb3l/i_found_a_solution_to_the_rick_astley_paradox/

*Because there is a Subreddit for everything:**

r/rickastley, r/rickroll, r/RickRolled, r/subtlerickroll, r/unexpectedrickroll

*See Also:**

AwardSpeechEdits[18] (encyclopaedia)
“Bait-and-Switch” or “The ole Reddit Bait-and-Switch”[19]
Famous Redditors[20]
IAmA[21] (encyclopaedia)
r/IAmA (subreddit)
Logical Fallacies[22]

Comment by llamageddon01 on 23/10/2021 at 22:43 UTC*

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