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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: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday August 01 2021, @07:14PM (3 children)
Ad blocker are so last decade.
Haven't you noticed? Nowadays content creators - and I don't just mean shite "influencers" and "10-best-something" channels, but also nice and interesting channels like Newmind, Veritasium or SmarterEveryDay - weave the commercial bullshit right into the content.
Some do it in a fairly subdued, predictable and easily-skippable way like Veritasium. Others are totally in-your-face and sneaky about it. Like, you're watching actual content, and slap-bam, before you have any chance to realize what's happening and hit the fast-forward button, they transition to the paid advertisement bullshit in exactly the same tone of voice, in the same setting. Sometimes they manage to trick you into thinking you're still watching the content just long enough to plug the shit they're paid to plug. Really annoying...
It's not working with me though. I have such a deep hatred of commercials than I subconsciously make a mental note of the advertiser's name so I never ever buy anything from them if humanly possible. In fact, the more you try to shove it down my throat, the more I'll avoid buying.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's been reverse-brainwashed into doing precisely the opposite of what advertisement is supposed to drive me to do by decades of constant, maddening mindless commercial crap.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @07:43PM
You're both severely autistic.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Monday August 02 2021, @05:33AM
This. Annoy me with your ad, and I will consciously avoid your product. I was taught this behavior BY annoying ads.
Conversely, if you make a pleasant, interesting, and honest ad, and don't deluge me with it, I might give you a second look.
Unfortunately, most ads nowadays are loud, stupid, overplayed, and obnoxious. So what am I to think about the company who paid for that ad? Apparently, nothing good.
I do appreciate one guy I watch, who switches to a sardonic voice and says, "and now I have to sell you something" before he launches into the ad. Fast-forward is not so difficult.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 02 2021, @08:00PM
I agree that the world should bend over backwards to give you what you want, when you want it, and all for free. Those channels exist solely to provide YOU information and entertainment and HOW DARE THEY try to have an ad revenue angle to it!