had a real "oh yeah I guess I am old" moment yesterday talking to a college-age friend of mine when "Never Gonna Give you Up" came on and I made a joke about how it was my favorite song and he was like "oh, is it really?"

and I realized there's some people for whom that song is like ... just a regular cheesy 80s song, not a whole dang meme, because they were like ... five years old when that happened?

@technomancy no joke, i've basically always thought it was a banger~

i learned about it because memes, but i was never really put out when i got rickrolled because it turns out, i actually just like rick astley, ahah

@technomancy it turns out that the guy is also pretty much one of the few examples of royal road being used outside of japan! which i learned turns anything into an instant "oh! i like this!" for me

youtu.be/6aezSL_GvZA

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