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nigredo ([info]nigredo) wrote in [info]operation_mock,
@ 2008-03-19 13:38:00
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[Guardian UK] Taking the Rick
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Twenty years after Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley became an internet phenomenon - and an unlikely weapon against Scientology.

If the mainstream media uses it, has it become an old meme? :(

ETA: In the same vein: College Basketball Game Gets RickRolled.

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[info]anon_a_mouse
2008-03-19 01:58 pm UTC (link)
DAMMIT. The last link got me.

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[info]nigredo
2008-03-19 01:58 pm UTC (link)
It was a tinyurl. THE TRAP WAS OBVIOUS. D:

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[info]anon_a_mouse
2008-03-19 02:04 pm UTC (link)
GODDAMIT, BUT I WASN'T EXPECTING THE GUARDIAN TO PULL THAT KIND OF STUNT, SO I WASN'T LOOKING AT THE ADDRESS BAR THINGY. D:

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[info]t_boy
2008-03-19 03:20 pm UTC (link)
DAMNIT! Me too.

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[info]photosinensis
2008-03-19 08:06 pm UTC (link)
See, I clicked on it because I knew it was a Rickroll. Of course, that's what makes the Rickroll better than most other trolling techniques. Nobody wants to see Goatse, but Rickroll is genuinely amusing.

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[info]chaimonkey
2008-03-19 02:01 pm UTC (link)
I just got Rick-Rolled by The Guardian. Dude.

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[info]nigredo
2008-03-19 02:05 pm UTC (link)
You'll forever remember this moment.

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[info]bemysty
2008-03-19 02:03 pm UTC (link)
...are you lurking in #xenu? I could swear that link only came through like ten minutes ago *g*

Repost for brain-hand-failure.

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[info]nigredo
2008-03-19 02:06 pm UTC (link)
Nope, but I am keeping an eye on Enturb's Breaking News section among others. :|b

'sup Ela there be some German news articles out, I hear.

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[info]bemysty
2008-03-19 02:29 pm UTC (link)
See, I was gonna make a joke about the OSA being onto me, but I losted it

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[info]nigredo
2008-03-19 02:34 pm UTC (link)

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[info]bemysty
2008-03-19 02:44 pm UTC (link)
asdfghjkl

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[info]notjo
2008-03-19 06:14 pm UTC (link)
AAAAAAAA!

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[info]suziecroft
2008-03-19 06:46 pm UTC (link)
♥

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[info]sneer
2008-03-19 07:35 pm UTC (link)
+1 internet to you.

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[info]seiberwing
2008-03-20 03:22 am UTC (link)
I LOLed immensely.

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[info]aristaea
2008-03-21 02:38 am UTC (link)
WIN!

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[info]photosinensis
2008-03-19 07:49 pm UTC (link)
What server is #xenu on? I've totally got to get in on this action.

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[info]anon_a_mouse
2008-03-20 04:14 pm UTC (link)
you can go through irc.g00ns.net IIRC

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[info]lil_miss_stfu
2008-03-19 02:08 pm UTC (link)
...










But I like that song...

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dracothelizard
2008-03-19 03:52 pm UTC (link)
The first (and so far only) time that I got Rick-rolled I went 'Hey, thanks for reminding me I need to download that song!' and didn't quite get why it was so LOLarious. Bad 80s songs are wonderful :D

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[info]photosinensis
2008-03-19 07:49 pm UTC (link)
The song isn't that bad. The video, however, sucks balls in the worst possible way.

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[info]lil_miss_stfu
2008-03-20 02:17 am UTC (link)
Pretty much all videos from back then sucked.

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[info]puipui
2008-03-19 04:54 pm UTC (link)
I do too! I like to throw it into completely unrelated mix CD's and rickroll myself in the car.

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[info]cleolinda
2008-03-19 07:07 pm UTC (link)
... I don't know why that made me laugh so hard.

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[info]t_boy
2008-03-19 03:22 pm UTC (link)
Masterful play, Guardian. Very masterful.

I'll get you one day, you bastards!

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[info]ealusaid
2008-03-19 04:25 pm UTC (link)
That's brilliant.

Non-dialup is a new! shiny! thing! with me, and so is Youtube, so that's the first time I've been Rick-rolled. I feel like I've grown.

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[info]anon_a_mouse
2008-03-19 04:36 pm UTC (link)
Welcome to the brotherhood. Rick will very soon begin to haunt you. You will be rickrolled left and right.

(But hey, it's better than everything being linked to 2girls1cup.)

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[info]ealusaid
2008-03-20 01:51 am UTC (link)
I only learned about 2girls1cup because it was on this list. I feel so pleasantly sheltered.

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[info]thoms
2008-03-20 06:36 pm UTC (link)
A Broadway actor I like is in a sketch comedy troupe, and they did a sketch about 2girls1cup. Laughed my ass off I did. /pointless commentage

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[info]soupspooks
2008-03-19 04:26 pm UTC (link)
Despite reading the comments, and knowing it was coming, I clicked the link. I, fairly ambiguously, linked it to my 4chan-frequenting friend, who got entirely Rick-Rolled despite the fact he should have known better. My contribution to this post:

Photobucket
(not my photobucket)

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[info]criticalcricket
2008-03-19 05:53 pm UTC (link)
Now I'm curious to know what Rick Astley really thinks of all this.

Maybe someday we'll know. In the meantime, there's this, the ultimate Rick Roll:

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Offered without comment
[info]wonderfish
2008-03-19 06:17 pm UTC (link)

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[info]photosinensis
2008-03-19 07:47 pm UTC (link)
Yes. THAT'S the ultimate Rickroll right there.

It was at this moment that I realized that I was just a little gay for Randall Munroe.

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[info]hallidae
2008-03-19 09:56 pm UTC (link)
I'm ashamed to admit that, while I haven't actually fallen over, the music stopping has actually made me stop walking.

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[info]artimusdin
2008-03-19 10:34 pm UTC (link)
oh good, I'm glad it's not just me. And if I'm walking behind/next to someone? I'm totally in-step.

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[info]hallidae
2008-03-19 10:42 pm UTC (link)
E-yep. Same here. The only one I've never been able to do that with, even consciously, is my mother, because her legs are so much longer than mine.

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[info]artimusdin
2008-03-19 10:44 pm UTC (link)
I know the feeling. Thankfully though, I've trained myself out of the "OMG We're all out of step! *flail*" reaction when I'm in a group larger than me and someone else.

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[info]cleolinda
2008-03-19 07:10 pm UTC (link)

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[info]criticalcricket
2008-03-19 10:12 pm UTC (link)
Man, I loved that one. Might as well bring down the internet on your way out. XD

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[info]evilwillowgirl
2008-03-19 06:22 pm UTC (link)
well played, Guardian. Well played.

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[info]hallidae
2008-03-19 10:50 pm UTC (link)
Purposely clicked the video so I could LOL at all the youtube comments by people who'd gotten suckered by the Guardian.

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[info]kalika_maxwell
2008-03-20 01:14 am UTC (link)
I managed to avoid being rickrolled until I started lurking on the Anon boards. Now I fall for it like every day. The song is starting to grow on me too.

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[info]kahrohseh
2008-03-20 06:15 am UTC (link)
After the latest protest's rickrolling, I caved and downloaded the song for myself. Anonymous has turned it from cackling internet antics into an inspiring anthem.

On that note, may I pimp the footage a friend gathered from March 15th? I think it demonstrates rather succinctly why Anonymous won't be stopped: because they're having fun.

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[info]darksumomo
2008-03-20 07:23 am UTC (link)
1960s-style street theater protests have returned in the 21st Century. I love it!

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[info]thoms
2008-03-20 06:39 pm UTC (link)
Is it wrong that I "AWWWWW"'d at Magoo at the beginning?

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[info]kahrohseh
2008-03-20 08:04 pm UTC (link)
People at Enturb were positively squeeing about her accepting that cupcake. XD I doubt she and WBM had any idea they'd turn into idols because of this movement.

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[info]aristaea
2008-03-21 02:47 am UTC (link)
I love our memey songs! Rickroll, Bel-Air, Still Alive, Series of Tubes, all quite excellent. Also, Raidchan Radio FTW!

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