Rickroll Meaning?
8.0BRAINROT SCORERickroll Tricking someone into clicking a link disguised as something else, only to reveal Rick Astley's music video "Never Gonna Give You Up" — the internet's single most enduring bait-and-switch prank.
Origin:Emerged from 4chan around 2007 and spread far beyond its origin community into a genuinely global, recurring internet ritual repeated for nearly two decades.
First Seen:2007
Peak Era:2026 (Attention Manipulation)
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (Getting Rickrolled and Genuinely Laughing About It) / -2 Aura (Rickrolling Someone in a Context Where It's Genuinely Unwelcome)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"Clicked what looked like an important link and got rickrolled instead."
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