Feb 22 2009
The RickRoll’d and The Ring Virus Phenomenon
“Never going to give up you up, never going to let you down, never gonna run around and desert you…” those are part of the popular lyrics of the internet phenomenon known as the RickRoll’d or Rickrolling if you were victim of Rick, but what is a RickRoll’d?. Well, there are many theories about the RickRoll, one of them can be traced up to the phenomenon duckrolled which it was picture that showed a duck in wheels or with Bel Air’d which it can be considered as antecessor of the RickRoll’d, but other theories and the most common one as well the most accepted can be traced to the forums of 4Chan.com where the meme started as a joke related to the video clip of Grand Theft Auto IV.
But the truth is that everyone loves to be RickRolled because when you are Rickrolled you want to do it to other person as well, is like a vicious cycle that would never end; although I prefer to compare it to the Ring Virus the only way to take out the curse is to pass it to someone else and thus the “curse” will never end because everyone at the end is going to be RickRolled sooner or later, and well… that is one partial truth, in YouTube almost 30 million people and counting had been RickRolled and because of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade almost 50 million people where massively RickRolled when Rick popped out of Foster carriage. So at the end what is going to happen?, everyone will be RickRolled.
