Want to Rickroll the New York Mets and fans for the rest of the year?
In what could only be described as genius and wonderful, a web user submitted the recent NY Mets song contest to Digg, asking Digg users to enter Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." The winning song will be played as a sing-a-long during the 8th inning of at the Shea stadium for the rest of the year.
During this year's April Fool's Day, YouTube "Rickrolled" -- as its called -- every user that clicked on a "Featured" video on its front page. Rickrolling refers to getting unsuspecting victims to watch or listen to "Never Gonna Give You Up." There were several efforts that linked to YouTube vidoes of the music video on April 1st, but getting a giant crowd to sing it on a regular basis for the rest of the year is... well, ridiculous. Here's to supporting ridiculousness.
Note: The dancing in the video is also ridiculous, and if you happen to need an extra identity (hey, some of us don't like being counted only once), the fake name generator is always good to go.
During this year's April Fool's Day, YouTube "Rickrolled" -- as its called -- every user that clicked on a "Featured" video on its front page. Rickrolling refers to getting unsuspecting victims to watch or listen to "Never Gonna Give You Up." There were several efforts that linked to YouTube vidoes of the music video on April 1st, but getting a giant crowd to sing it on a regular basis for the rest of the year is... well, ridiculous. Here's to supporting ridiculousness.
Note: The dancing in the video is also ridiculous, and if you happen to need an extra identity (hey, some of us don't like being counted only once), the fake name generator is always good to go.















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-04-2008 @ 10:39PM
Dave C said...
Brilliant, consider it done :)
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4-05-2008 @ 2:42AM
Bufsabre said...
being a yankees fan and despising the mets this seems great to me, done
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4-05-2008 @ 11:13AM
rasbill said...
as usual everyone must drag it out so its not funny to rick roll anyone anymore just annoying
to much of a good thing
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4-05-2008 @ 11:59PM
Joe said...
This may be true, but this would be a grand finale to the Rick Roll prank era :P
4-07-2008 @ 10:01AM
ronmoses said...
Really folks... was Rick Rolling ever funny? Seriously?
"Hey, check out this link to this awesome thing..."
"Um... I clicked it but it went to a Rick Astley video?!?"
"LOL! You've been RICK ROLLED!!!"
"Oh yeah? What's that then?"
"It's only the latest mass-approved arbitrary humor object, straight from the intarwebs! I've read at least three articles on Digg saying how funny it is. Duh, get with the meme!!!"
"Oh. Well I guess I get it then. Um... this is where I type LOL, right?"
Stay tuned next week when we all start texting each other "Guess what/That's what" messages. Comedy!!!
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4-07-2008 @ 3:33PM
TheAssailant6661 said...
F--- THE METS! GO YANKEES!!! Consider it done on multiple computers.
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4-08-2008 @ 8:57PM
Samir said...
Was at the mets game today, i'm a phillies fan, they actually played that song in the 8th inning today, found it pretty amusing.
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