The official music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" has hit a billion views on YouTube thanks to the viral Internet phenomenon of rickrolling. Astley's 1987 song hit YouTube on ...

TikTokers have adapted the age-old internet trend of “RickRolling” to maximize the joke for the platform. Rickrolling began in the early 2000s on 4chan when a link that was supposed to send users to a ...

If you’ve ever been “Rickrolled,” you know how annoying it can be. And chances are you laugh just the same. For the uninitiated, “Rickrolling” is an online prank in which the victim is tricked into ...

The Internet's most popular prank, Rickrolling, has driven the official video for Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up to the prestigious 1 billion views milestone. To celebrate the achievement, ...

Rick Astley may be cemented in music history for the viral “Rickrolling” prank, but he’s never actually pulled it himself. Two decades after the English singer’s iconic track “Never Gonna Give You Up” ...

Some trends and language patterns are so deeply embedded in the language and culture of the internet that even the most advanced language models struggle to fully extract or contextualize them. Humor, ...