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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: 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.