Talk:Rickrolling

Semi-protected edit request on 3 November 2023

The origin of Rickrolling started sometime around the year 1999 or 2002 as an Internet Email Prank where you would be treated to an email from a friend or a random message sent to you by an unknown sender. When you clicked on the link inside you would be sent to a new window where the video of Never gonna give you up would open and play the video. At the same time the lyrics of the video would appear and any attempt to click off the video would skip to the next sentence in the song until you got through the lyrics of the song before you were allowed to shut the video off, or just allowed for the whole song to play. Vasarto (talk) 16:00, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

That is my recollection also. I had this done to me many times, very funny. But I don't have any sources beyond my experience. How can we amend the record on this one? It was called Rickrolling at the time (late 90's) CharlieBear3D (talk) 23:58, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

 Not done. Your text is unsourced (and also incorrect, see the correct origins already documented in the article.) - MrOllie (talk)

Iasip involvement incorrect

The song was in iasip (Charlie has cancer) in 2005 which was before the first uses of the rick roll. The current article says it was in iasip in 2007. 98.14.97.228 (talk) 15:41, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 24 March 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – Hilst [talk] 13:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

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Rickrolling → Rickroll – Why is the title is the present tense? Coddlebean (talk) 09:47, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose - Its about the act, not an instance, so WP:GERUND with -ing is appropriate and commonly-used. -- Netoholic @ 11:37, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
• Strong oppose. This is about the act of rickrolling. O.N.R. ^(talk) 16:55, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose per above. And rickroll would actually be the present tense! -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:01, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:GERUND per above. Like, for example, while we COULD technically use the noun version ("a rickroll"), the current title is using the verb version (as in "to rickroll someone") — and because we're using the verb as the title, it should follow WP:GERUND. Paintspot Infez (talk) 03:29, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose why use the verb form when the WP:GERUND form is being used. A wikt:en:gerund is a noun. "To rickroll" verb form, WP:VERB we don't use verb forms in titles, since you seem to propose moving it to the verb form -- 65.92.247.66 (talk) 08:52, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Youtube URL structure

It might be worth noting that Rickrolling is only possible because Youtube is using a simple, outdated URL structure with just a random ID number as parameter, with no indication for the content of the page in the URL itself, as most websites today use. If the link URL were something like youtube.com/rick-astley-never-gonna-give-you-up.html, nobody could be fooled. 78.55.129.159 (talk) 20:08, 18 April 2024 (UTC) Hans

Rickroll (CHANGE REQUEST IF UNDER 1,600,000,000 VIEWS)

Please change '1.5' to 'under 1.6' 70.22.248.187 (talk) 22:40, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: "Under 1.6" is too vague to be useful; the current text, "over 1.5", is preferable. —C.Fred (talk) 22:46, 7 June 2024 (UTC)