Rickroll video hits a billion views on YouTube as Internet’s most popular prank:
The Internet’s most popular prank, Rickrolling, has driven the official video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up to the prestigious 1 billion views milestone. To celebrate the achievement, singer Astley pinned a comment on the video announcing the moment, thanking fans for the “amazing, crazy, wonderful” milestone.
Never Gonna Give You Up was uploaded by Rick Astley on YouTube in late 2009. The song soon became a popular prank that reached meme status, with Internet users alleging they’d linked to one thing when, in reality, the person who clicked the link would be taken to YouTube’s copy of the music video.
This is a notable achievement and milestone. Take a look, though, at Wikipedia's List of Most-Viewed Videos.
Also at The Verge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @04:47PM (4 children)
What’s funny about a youtube link? It is a good song though. I also don’t get Saturday Night Live comedy which seems mostly to be propaganda with a smirk.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @05:02PM (3 children)
You should look up the word "satire." A LOT of people really don't know what that means or can recognize it when they see it.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @05:49PM
They are funny sometimes, just not most of the time.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anti-aristarchus on Monday August 02 2021, @01:02AM (1 child)
Obviously needs more cowbell.
(What is it about conservatives that they cannot do humor, other than Runaway level fart jokes and anal sex? Asking for a grandparent poster. )
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 02 2021, @05:28AM
Conservatives, in a more general sense, are people who are uncomfortable with uncertainty and feel the need to categorize the world, including other internet users, into well defined groups.
Yes, I know I souldn't feed the troll, but I couldn't resist.