Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to politics · 2 months agoHouse Judiciary Republicans slammed for 'morally bankrupt' Epstein 'Rickroll' prankwww.thepinknews.comexternal-linkmessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up1220arrow-down12
arrow-up1218arrow-down1external-linkHouse Judiciary Republicans slammed for 'morally bankrupt' Epstein 'Rickroll' prankwww.thepinknews.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to politics · 2 months agomessage-square24linkfedilink
minus-squarePlacebonicknamelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·2 months agoAm I the only one who thinks that getting rick rolled is something that should’ve been stopped in like the 90s??
minus-squarethallamabondlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 months agoYou mean before YouTube existed? Back when downloading a picture took minutes? A 90s Rick roll would have been someone putting the music video on VHS, then mislabeling it, then sharing it.
minus-squareRaiderkevlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months agoTbf, waiting a day n a half for a video to load, only for it to be a Rick roll would have been way funnier. Too bad the meme didn’t exist yet then.
minus-squarethallamabondlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoAnd that’s only after you found the right video codec, and replaced your sound card because yours was outdated.
minus-squaregruelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 months agoSigh… newbies have no appreciation of Internet culture. This is a “'90s Rickroll:” (According to knowyourmeme.com it’s actually from the mid-2000s; before that, bait-and-switch links weren’t really a thing.)
minus-squarethallamabondlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agohttps://web.archive.org/web/19990429035254/http://www.hamsterdance.com/
minus-squareFauxLivinglinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·2 months agoNo, in the 90s a rickroll was goatse, tubgirl, lemon party, blue waffle, pain Olympics, etc Google them at your own risk
minus-squarethallamabondlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 months agoNo, only goatse existed in the '90s, and that’s 1999. Everything else on your list was from the 2000s.
minus-squareNollij@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoImagine being the historian researching these for dates…
minus-squaregruelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoKnowyourmeme.com is the Rosetta Stone of our time. Not even joking about that.
minus-squareAfricanExpansionist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down7·2 months agoNobody likes a pedant
minus-squarexmunk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 months agoExcuse me, good sir, but your premise is incorrect. I do.
Am I the only one who thinks that getting rick rolled is something that should’ve been stopped in like the 90s??
You mean before YouTube existed? Back when downloading a picture took minutes?
A 90s Rick roll would have been someone putting the music video on VHS, then mislabeling it, then sharing it.
Tbf, waiting a day n a half for a video to load, only for it to be a Rick roll would have been way funnier. Too bad the meme didn’t exist yet then.
And that’s only after you found the right video codec, and replaced your sound card because yours was outdated.
Sigh… newbies have no appreciation of Internet culture.
This is a “'90s Rickroll:”
(According to knowyourmeme.com it’s actually from the mid-2000s; before that, bait-and-switch links weren’t really a thing.)
https://web.archive.org/web/19990429035254/http://www.hamsterdance.com/
No, in the 90s a rickroll was goatse, tubgirl, lemon party, blue waffle, pain Olympics, etc
Google them at your own risk
No, only goatse existed in the '90s, and that’s 1999. Everything else on your list was from the 2000s.
Imagine being the historian researching these for dates…
Knowyourmeme.com is the Rosetta Stone of our time.
Not even joking about that.
Wasn’t it a duck roll back then?
Nobody likes a pedant
Excuse me, good sir, but your premise is incorrect. I do.