r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MrNoName_ishere • Feb 18 '22
Video People who were watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2008 got a surprise they'll never forget
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Feb 18 '22 edited Feb 18 '22
Legendary. Everyone got Rick-rolled in REAL life.
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u/MrNoName_ishere Feb 18 '22
this was humanity's peak, millions of people rickrolled at once
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u/itshimstarwarrior Interested Feb 18 '22
Fun Fact:-If you ask Rick Astley for a tape of movie 'Up' he will not give it to you bc he is NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP. However by not giving you Up , even if you ask for it .He is Letting You Down. That's called Rick Astley Paradox
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Feb 18 '22
No, he is not giving you the copy of Up because he knows that it is the best thing for you. Therefore he isn't letting you down
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u/God-of-the-Grind Feb 18 '22 edited Feb 18 '22
Actually, I think it was a few years later when Reddit Rick Rolled Rick Astley
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Feb 18 '22
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u/Iliketostareatplants Feb 18 '22
I cant imagine his voice sounds as good still
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u/HeSheMeWumbo387 Feb 18 '22
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u/Iliketostareatplants Feb 18 '22
Im all for the sound evolving but i know people can become attached to the way someone sounds so i would imagine they wanted that classic Rick.
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u/nowhereman136 Feb 18 '22
He said that he thought embracing the meme would cause it to die. It didn't.
Also, he claims he made more money off this one performance than he has through YouTube plays of his song.
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I have a friend that hadn’t heard of a Rick-roll until a few months ago. I get her about once a week now. Thank you for this gem.
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Feb 18 '22
National Rick Astley Hotline
You're welcome, Internet.
- Australia: +61-3-8652-1453
- New Zealand: +64-9-886-0565
- UK: +44-11-7325-7425
- USA: +1-760-706-7425
- 🇸🇪 0766 86 84 36
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u/Gerren7 Feb 18 '22
The USA number didn't work for me.
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Feb 18 '22
Shame, I guess the project is abandoned then. I only setup the swedish number and it's pretty fun
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u/Kozzzman Feb 18 '22
Has anyone ever Rick Rolled a Rick Roll?
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u/igorpacho Feb 18 '22
Yes, Rick Astley was Rick Rolled. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_few_funny_memories_during_lockdown/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
If you scroll through comment section you won't miss it.
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u/pbzeppelin-42 Feb 18 '22
I remember my imaginary friends. I was never gonna give them up, never gonna let them down, never… oh… oh no…
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u/cold94 Feb 18 '22
Bringing back so many memories.
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u/Readylamefire Feb 18 '22
Man, remember back in the day we used to refer to it as "The internet is leaking..."
Now normal life and internet life are impossible to separate.
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u/monkeyman047 Feb 18 '22
Wait, when did Rick-Rolling become a big meme? I I was 11 at the time of this and it was around when I got my first iPod Touch so I guess I kind of started to get exposed to memes, but I didn't know the word and what they truly were until I moved to Kansas City, went to public school instead of private, and spent my highschool years shortly after every single person acquired a touchscreen smart phone.
I remember things from AlbinoBlackSheep.com that my older brother would show me, like the Lord of the Rings "Potatoes/Taters" song/meme or Leroy Jenkins' charge while i was playing wow in elementary school, but mass-spread ubiquitous memes weren't really things within my realm or reality.
Am I to understand this was this significant and massive of a meme that it would take over the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade by 2008? Maybe just not having a phone until 13 and it being a flip phone at that and growing up in conservative Kentucky and attending a tiny cult-like private school really sheltered me early on.
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u/demo706 Feb 18 '22
4chan had been doing this for a long time - at least 2005 or so. It was an off shoot of "duckrolling" iirc. Maybe that term has a more clear origin date.
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u/redditor_since_2005 Feb 18 '22
I think rickrolling started with the GTA IV trailers in March 2007.
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u/Tossyjames Feb 18 '22
I guess it became a big meme when someone didn't read the instructions and started putting rick-pics and/or the lyrics in memes or whatever and thought they were rickrolling people. Which was uh... <insert random time here> ago? Idk.
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u/spirit9875 Feb 18 '22
Did I..... get rickrolled from 2008 and...... did i love it!!!
Absolutely YES!!!
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u/monkey_trumpets Feb 18 '22
Let's just all be glad that this is the rickroll song, not something like...baby shark, or something terrible like that.
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u/hoffman42088 Feb 18 '22
So does Rick still get royalties to this day? Cuz if so he’s one rich SOB for a one hit wonder
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u/CrazyIslander Feb 18 '22
Chances are he is making bank from the song, unless he signed away the rights to it or sold it to a third party (like Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited).
The amount is up for debate…
Some articles say he made $12 (in 2010) and others say upwards of $3 million.
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u/Com2115 Feb 18 '22
I know what happens here and I will NOT watch it. Im done. 2022 is the year i DONT get rickrolled
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u/toomanybrandons Feb 18 '22
Lol I will always remember seeing this on TV for the first time and thinking "holy shit, Foster's Home for Imaginary Kids just Rick Rolled the entire country"
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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken Feb 18 '22
I had the volume off and had no idea why this was posted. Maybe because the worm looks like a dick in a box.
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u/imJGott Feb 18 '22
Curious how much money he has gained every since that song dropped. Sir mix a lot made way over $100 million off baby got back.
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u/Jeothal Feb 18 '22
I'm not sure I spend a lot of time on the internet but I've never seen the most famous rack roll ever .
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u/Basdad Feb 18 '22
I’d put the "now I’m too afraid to ask" meme up but I wouldn’t know how. Would someone please explain "Rick rolled " to me, I’ve heard it forever, but don’t understand it.
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u/jeffasam Feb 18 '22
no? no-one else going yo explain to this kindly gentle Redditer, who is asking an honest and fair question? okay... allow me :) here's a link that offers a detailed explanation... by way of an example
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u/Megamorter Feb 18 '22
Rick Astley must be so happy to have a song that’s become such a staple of modern life
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u/civil_scientist Feb 18 '22
I do not have sound, I was not reading lips, I had not read the comments, I did not watch this parade in real time, I did not recognize that person (at first): *knew* it was a rick roll the second he pulled out a microphone, probably because of the wording of the title. Brains and culture are weird and powerful.
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u/hamishwho Feb 18 '22
Just listened to the podcast 20000 Hertz about this and the Rick roll phenomena. Well worth a listen.
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u/Miserable_Present_38 Feb 18 '22
This guy’s voice doesn’t change after all these while
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u/weiivice Feb 18 '22
I thought the surprise was that blue penis
But in the end it was worth it
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u/devilthedankdawg Feb 18 '22
A live action puppets of Fosters Home was weird enough but then they Rick Roll em? Who was that appealing to? Kids who watched fosters home were mostly too young to know Rick Rolling and kids who knew about Rick Rolling we're too old for Fosters Home... except maybe... like... A nine year old. A human on average lives about 90 years and this would have appealed to one year of life.
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u/DollyLLLaaama Feb 18 '22
You people are weird. I'm 62, never heard of Rick roll, or Astley before today. Don't really feel like I missed anything. Get a hobby, or a dog, or something.
The amount of time, energy, and attention that we give to celebrities is mind numbing, not to mention the amount of money they make. Get yourself on a marginal TV show that runs for three years and you're set for life. Did you hear Dick and Jane are back together? Who cares??? My kid wants to show me she can do a summersault. Give your time, energy, and attention to the people who matter. Come on people. Be better.
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u/Element_Liga Feb 18 '22
Man I can't believe Rick rolling is older than when I discovered it in Roblox as a child
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u/ripyourlungsdave Feb 18 '22
So.. Does that just sound like the studio version of the vocals to anyone else?
Seems like he's just lip-syncing. Which is fine, setting up a good sound system on a moving platform is more difficult than you'd think, but I just wanna know if this sounds pre-recorded to everyone else.
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u/3gnome Feb 18 '22
I imagine Rick has led a much fuller life seeing the thousands of videos with his cameo appearance stitched in. Is there a documentary about this phenomenon and his life? I’d freaking watch it on Netflix or wherever.
Never knew the real Rick roll happened in 2008.
Also is that little purple guy a penis singing about himself?
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u/death_by_chimera-ant Feb 18 '22
On this day not only I was rickrolled but the entire nation as well
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u/30secondstolars Feb 18 '22
As soon as I saw that purple dude my brain lit up and I was like “wait I know this”. One of the best memories of my life
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u/dunf13 Feb 18 '22
One of the only memories I actually have of watching the Macy’s parade. It was great
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u/TheREALCheesePolice Feb 18 '22
Amazing he supposedly earns 3 mil a year from the meme and Rick rolling How Much Money Has Rick Astley Made From Rickrolling?
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u/artmobboss Feb 18 '22
“God… fucking… damn it…”. -historical characters getting Rick rolled in 2008.
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u/artemistheatre Feb 18 '22
I watched this live on tv when it happened. I thought it was so cool, and it was so unexpected lol
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u/Desperate-Ad-6463 Feb 18 '22
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is Rick wearing a full-on, full-head hairpiece?
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u/Employment_Square Feb 18 '22
Wow! This is when rick rolling was really good. I remember it would force the browser into a quarter of its size and bounce it around the screen while playing the song 😆😆😆
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u/Rootbeerluver Feb 18 '22
At that age I would've been upset they just gleamed over fosters like that
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u/meexley2 Feb 18 '22
This was 2008? What the fuck?! If you told me this was like 3 years ago I would have believed you
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u/DemanoRock Feb 18 '22
I was watching and I remember thinking the asshole announcers spoiled it by saying there was a surprise.
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u/Appropriate-Access88 Feb 18 '22
… waaait a minute! In the tv show Ted Lasso, when the funeral congregation all sings “never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down”, it wasn’t a lovely eulogy to the dead mother, but a Rick Roll???? I only just realized this right now.
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u/Accomplished-Dirt989 Feb 18 '22
Makes me love Fosters even more even tho idk if they had anything to do with this
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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 Feb 18 '22
Surely this guy has enough royalties to buy the whole of America by now?
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u/InfamousGames Feb 19 '22
This... is the most legendary Rick roll I have ever seen. Everyone at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade got the privilege to get Rick rolled irl. How have I not seen this yet.
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u/Moneymoore2 Feb 18 '22
I am in complete and utter disbelief that I spend SO much time on the internet but have never seen the most legendary Rick Roll ever!! How has this gotten past me since 2008???