• @samus12345
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    97 months ago

    If you remember anything specific, submit it here, because you’d be predating the earliest known usage.

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      7 months ago

      It was over ICQ, IRC or msn messenger back when all I had was dialup. A lot of modern internet culture seems to be appropriated from the kind of old web ne’er-do-wells I hung out with on IRC back in the day. Didn’t think to keep records tbh. The original ‘rickroll’ was goatse or lemon party (nsfw, tbh I would not google those if you don’t know what they are).

      I do remember getting Rick rolled with Never gonna give you up by a counter strike clan team member over ventrilo back in 2005. It must be 2004-05 because the clan I was in disbanded after Oct. 2005.

      • @samus12345
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        27 months ago

        Rickrolling itself doesn’t count, it has to be with that specific song. So your clan member was ahead of his time!

        • @1371113
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          27 months ago

          I mean, it’s still just a bait and switch. I never really got why doing it with Rick Astley was groundbreaking.

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            7 months ago

            I’m interested in the oldest still-used internet memes, regardless of their quality. Bait and switching itself has existed forever.

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              7 months ago

              Is linking a Rick roll a meme? I thought memes were reused images with text, guessing the definition is shifting. I saw someone calling numa numa a meme the other day.