Tag: RICKASTLEY

After years of torturing innumerable unsuspecting web surfers, YouTube has finally pulled the plug on the original Rickroll video. The reason: it's simply one of the most horrible abuses of the music video medium ever perpetrated. Ok, not really, it was pulled due to terms-of-use violations -- which probably won't come as a shock to most of our readers. User-uploaded music videos have always ...

In what could only be described as genius and wonderful, a web user submitted the recent NY Mets song contest to Digg, asking Digg users to enter Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." The winning song will be played as a sing-a-long during the 8th inning of at the Shea stadium for the rest of the year. During this year's April Fool's Day, YouTube "Rickrolled" -- as its called -- every user ...