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Rickrolling is an Internet meme〔 involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch; a person provides a hyperlink which is seemingly relevant to the topic at hand, but actually leads to Astley's video. The link can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true destination of the link without clicking. People led to the music video are said to have been ''rickrolled''. Rickrolling has extended beyond web links to playing the video or song disruptively in other situations, including public places, such as a live appearance of Astley himself in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. ==History== Astley recorded "Never Gonna Give You Up" on his 1987 album ''Whenever You Need Somebody''. The song, his solo debut single, was a number one hit on several international charts, including the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and UK Singles Chart. As a means of promoting the song, it was also made into Astley's first music video, which features him performing the song while dancing. Rickrolling is said to have begun as a variant of an earlier prank from the imageboard 4chan known as ''duckrolling'', in which a link to somewhere (such as a specific picture or news item) would instead lead to a thread or site containing an edited picture of a duck with wheels. The user at that point is said to have been "duckrolled". The first known instance of a rickroll occurred in May 2007 on /v/, 4chan's video game board, where a link to the Rick Astley video was claimed to be a mirror of the first trailer for ''Grand Theft Auto IV'' (which was unavailable due to heavy traffic). The joke was confined to 4chan for a very brief period.〔 By May 2008, the practice had spread beyond 4chan and became an Internet phenomenon, eventually attracting coverage in the mainstream media. An April 2008 poll by SurveyUSA estimated that at least 18 million American adults had been rickrolled. In September 2009, ''Wired'' magazine published a guide to modern hoaxes which listed rickrolling as one of the better known beginner-level hoaxes, alongside the fake e-mail chain letter. The term has been extended to simple hidden use of the song's lyrics. The original video on YouTube used for rickrolling was removed for terms of use violations in February 2010〔Silverman, Dwight. "(Rickroll'd no more: Internet meme takedown! )" ''Houston Chronicle''. 24 February 2010. Retrieved on 24 February 2010.〕 but was reposted within a day. It was taken down again on 18 July 2014. It has since been reposted again and has now gained over 70 million views. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rickrolling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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