...why's it called "rickroll" anyway? I get that the singer's name is rick but what's it have to do with rolling

and why did that particular song end up being a meme anyway?

@Felthry the "rolled" part derives from an even earlier meme of tricking people into clicking a link to an image of a duck on wheels, which was known as "getting duckroll'd" (don't ask me where the duck on wheels came from)

i don't know why never gonna give you up in particular became the song to use for rickrolling, but i'd wager it's only so well known as a meme because rickrolling was a widespread practice back in the day

@typhlosion it's not exactly a good reason for your music to be popular, is it? i wonder what the singer thinks of the meme

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@monorail @Felthry he's at least in good humor about it, yeah

contrast with smash mouth, whose members absolutely hate that they're only known for all star these days

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