@yogibimbi: sometimes life offers more than Lcds and mp3 player. Take Rick Astley for example, he was here before both of them.

VakeroRokero

@yogibimbi: It's time to play Six Degrees to Gadgets for the sake of yogibimbi, though I don't even think this will take six steps.

Rickrolling occurs on a computer.

A computer is also a gadget.

Is I done?

Jamezspot

Cheese likes it apparently.

MosesMonster

Next year they're doing All Your Base.

Rususeruru

I thought Rick-Rolling was cool until my mom did it to me...

jiveabillion

I can only imagine the sound of the collective face palm...that is, of the people who actually knew what a rickroll was...

DigitalSciGuy

@Lite: Ditto. I look forward to the day I get to be rickrolled with millions of my fellow Americans...like say at a certain upcoming inauguration?,,,,

DigitalSciGuy

@[Dextr]: I think that was the point here. You didn't expect the parade to rickroll you.

Now, what would be totally sweet is if Obama did this in the middle of a national speech.

Lite

He was totally lip-syncing, check out the mic pullback on "looooove."

macegr

I think its time to retire this meme.

I mean, when the Macy's parade people are booking Astley to RickRoll their own parade, something has gone sour.

Now, if Astley just showed up at random events unannounced and did this, this shit is back on.

[Dextr]

...just minding its own business when...Rick Astley showed up and spoiled all the fun. Man, what's with that guy??

bosskev

eeeehm..... - gadgets?

yogibimbi

It's just to degraded to the point of lame and completely annoying.

Slayer166

Flippin sweet. I wonder if there was an internet vote for that.

pleasenopuffin

Does "rickrolled" mean that it was good?

J0hnP

@JPropaganda: Astley, not Asley. My bad.

JPropaganda

@J0hnP, @SewerShark: It was an internet meme before YouTube did it as its april fools joke.

Rickroll refers to when you send someone a link, telling them it is something cool, funny, etc, and instead it is the video for Rick Asley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"

JPropaganda

@DigitalSciGuy: It was as if millions of lulz cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

KiKadet

My friend called me this morning and was like "Dude, Macy's Day Parade just got Rickroll'd!"

I lol'd. Just when i thought it was dead, Rick Astley himself had to rustle some thanksgiving feathers.

P3nnst8r

This man totally owes his life to the internet.

Qu33f_Machine

@yogibimbi: eeeeehm..... - sense of humor?

SewerShark

@J0hnP: Rickrolled was the April's 1st joke on youtube.

Every video was linked to Rick Roll

SewerShark

@DigitalSciGuy: You have it backwards, we need to rickroll Obama at the inaguration ceremony.

Ender305

I bet Rick is enjoying all the extra attention lately. Good for him.

dead_red_eyes

"Rick Roll Phenom". I love it.

Curves

Was there a shark on that float? Did he jump it?

Brian Enigma

I hope they drove by to a Scientology-Center, just for the Fun of it.

Klappstuhl

Can we discuss just for a moment, how awesome a cartoon Fosters is?

Hiphopopotamus

@JPropaganda: Yeah...hmmm...what he said...

SewerShark

@macegr: Very sadly yes. I doubt he can still do that voice that well anymore...that is unless he practices it every morning in the mirror.

Mister Cow Pnoy

@Hiphopopotamus: We can. And it is.

92BuickLeSabre

Same exact audio as the video (ive seen it enough times to know, sadly) but still awesome.
Also, you know your late to the game when macys does it.

roflwaffles

@J0hnP: Usually it's done in some kind of forum, where two people are arguing, citing sources, and one person sends a link to the video.

rcast1986

I routinely listen to this song at home.

The Great Rodney McKay

oh man, even though it's old, I was singing along to the audio and literally busted a gut when that thing popped out and said you got rickrolled. I know I shouldn't have but it just made me laugh, hard.

melak

Is it wrong to love that song?

>_>

just out of curiosity, of course

DarkLinkinfinite

Rick Astley is shockingly well-preserved, isn't he.

Nunya B

Internet memes have officially jumped the shark.

meatee

@Hiphopopotamus: I like chocolate milk.

BlueWizard422

@DigitalSciGuy: Well my wife is visiting relatives and decided to call me and let me know. So I think i is fairly widespread.

devilonsteroids

@Hiphopopotamus: Yes we can. My favorite is Coco. Her expansive vocabulary covers every situation and range of emotion. She is amazing. If I had an imaginary friend, that would be the one. Well Coco or Beavis.

Curves

Still better then Yoko Ono.

HALO-32

@meatee: That's the most ironic thing I've read all week. Thank you.

MeanMF

This should be about as mainstream as it gets to officially kill a meme like the 'rickroll'. Up next will be talkshow hosts and news reporters talking in 'lol-speak'... that will solidify how retarded this has all become.

ChaoticInfinityX

@Slayer166: Get over yourself. Not everyone is as cool as you.

captain.obvious

I knew Rick Astley was imaginary, I knew it!

lstar28

Ughghhqwuhdiudfasf ewwwwwwwwww
Memes aren't supposed to AGE

yoyoiven

It's only a Rickroll if you weren't expecting something totally lame in the first place.

DWes

@Qu33f_Machine: Unless you realize that he's still kinda famous in Britain, his home.

qwiggles

@macegr: If you watch the parade at all, everybody on it lip syncs. It probably is just easier for them to do that than worry about the sound issues that could occur on every different float.

riguitargod

@Hiphopopotamus: I'm a hot toe picker.

Mikethebike

@yogibimbi:
Im with you man!
Good by giz, I'm going back to engadget.

douchebagantics

@Curves: Same

MeoX9X

@Klappstuhl: If they did I would absolutely DIE of laughter.

MeoX9X

Haha, that just totally made my thanksgiving seeing that.. thanks Giz

MeoX9X

Anon, what hast thou wrought?

Gouki4u

I can't see it...damn video.

I work as a meth lab technician

@Rususeruru: All your floats are belong to macy's?

mattdawg8

@captain.obvious: pwn3d?

mattdawg8

Yeah, that was a highlight of the parade. I bet the NBC broadcast team were thinking, "Rick-what?" Good for Astley; hope they cut him a check to appear.

Convair 990A

Where'd the boyishly good looks go?

Quilt

this rickroll is symbolic of macy's itself...old, out of touch and about to go under

discounteggroll

@Slayer166:

Isn't that the point of it? To be annoying.

Suttin

@jiveabillion: lol

D.E.P.C.

@MeoX9X: Some of the people in my graduating class at my high school & I went to NY for a senior trip almost 2 years ago. And we stayed right next to a Scientology Center! My friend went over there and got a pamphlet. It's hilariously serious! I still don't know anyone personally that follows Scientology, or even takes it seriously! I just know some celebrities practice it: Tom Cruise, Isaac Hayes (RIP), and I think Will Smith does too, probably because he's buddies with Cruise.

But seriously, it's maybe 1/4 to half a mile to the side of Times Square, so the parade wouldn't directly pass by the place. If only it was in Broadway...

dawimp523

@majortom1029: I mean didnt really rick roll.

majortom1029

They did really rick roll. They announced in the begining that he was going to sing. You just didnt know when.

majortom1029

@Lite:

+ Watch video

infmom

I can't believe I missed this on TV! Did it come on after 11 pm EST? If it did, then I definitely missed it. I saw most of the parade up until then, when our family left to visit my mom's family an hour or so away. But that is incredibly funny (yet really creepy for the kids)! Unfortunately, now the Rickrolling phenomenon should die, especially now that everyone knows about it! :(

Every fad on the Internet eventually dies after a few months, or a year at the latest, but this one seems to have outlived most Internet fads!

BTW, Astley looks almost the same as he did back in the day, yet he no longer has his red hair! What's up with that? And Foster's should totally do a Rickrolling moment on their show where everyone just breaks out into that song! And maybe have Astley in that episode! That would be great!

dawimp523

@macegr: OMG, u really think so!?? Scandal at teh Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!! ZOMG I think other performers were lip-synching too!

This is a terrible tragedy... we've all been so maliciously deceived...

*eyeroll*
/sarcasm

BeautifulAgony

@infmom: PWNED (with love of course)

BeautifulAgony

@Qu33f_Machine: And that that song was actually the Billboard No. 1 hit for like, half of 1980. Which is fucked up.

bnsqueak

@devilonsteroids: When the song stopped short and didn't finish I knew that the nation had just been Rickrolled....I had to explain to my entire family (20 people who all watched it) what had just happened....I explained and only one person laughed....alas unless your a internet nerd you don't understand the proposterous rickroll that just happend...

I was honestly hoping that kotaku had picked up on this non-gaming related news and am glad to find out that it was news worthy... even the announcer was like rickrolled!!!!...

Ibramgaunt

@jiveabillion: Schweeeeet.

DigitalSciGuy

@Ibramgaunt: Yeah that's pretty much what I was assuming everyone who was in the know would be doing...Not everyone lives on the Internet and not everyone has Internet-meme-headache-inducing... friends, (un)fortunately.

DigitalSciGuy

@infmom: Can we rickroll him with the original video from this??? Pleaaaaase? Oh gods, if this happens we know the world is coming to an end. Either that or we have reached Singularity.

DigitalSciGuy

Good to see the internet put him back in some spotlight.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

@J0hnP: [en.wikipedia.org]

tartooob

This is AWESOME!!!

TezChi

@douchebagantics: See ya o/

SewerShark

If it's wrong if I actually like the song?
>_>

Rensato

@douchebagantics: You can only read one or the other?

elvisml2

Dude.. that has to be the #1 rick roll of all time!

KLanD

Looks like he's lip-synching. Nonetheless, rather awesome.

UniComp

@yogibimbi:
Just because he is the analog version doesn't mean he is not a gadget.

misterwho

@pleasenopuffin: ... and why I wasn't told about it.

unobservant

@Hiphopopotamus: Why, yes. yes it is.

orangesrhyme

@MosesMonster: Well, he likes chocolate milk, too, but that doesn't make it awesome. Although it is.

orangesrhyme

@JPropaganda: Meh. You spelled it how it sounds (phonetically?).

orangesrhyme

@dead_red_eyes: Absolutely. Looks like he has a good sense of humor about himself. Plenty of asshat has-beens would be whining about not getting the proper respect or whatever, but he was smart enough to realize that any publicity is good publicity is money in the bank.

clickable

@MeanMF: You're welcome!

meatee

@unobservant: Perhaps you weren't observant enough.

Calviin